Welcome to the Becker Bear Den! : August 2022

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Missing Mom and Dad

When mom and dad take the puptaxi without the pups… complete come apart… 🤦‍♀️

Also you know Lucy is ticked when she hasn’t eaten the dog biscuit in her crate…

PS that small pile is a pair of socks in case you were wondering…

Sunday, August 28, 2022

National Rainbow Bridge Day

In honor of our rainbow bridge fur babies!

Brody 2005-2013

Cali adopted 2007-2014 (birthday unknown)

Lily 2010-2019 (adopted 2013)

Jade 2010-2018 (adopted 2014)

Brody and Cali

Cali

Jade

Brody

Lily

Lily and Jade

Lily, Charlie, and Jade

Lily

Saturday, August 20, 2022

Late Sunday afternoon as my mom and I were driving home from a baby shower in Springville, UT. I said to my mom. "Mom, I am trying to take time off this coming week, do you want to go on a small trip to like Sundance or someplace?" " I assume you don't want to drive all the way to Jackson Hole..." Her initial response was "Oh, I don't want something that expensive..." Then moments later she says, "What if we went to Houston?" LOL! Literally within 24 hours I had booked our plane tickets, hotel, and rental car, and we were headed to Houston on Tuesday afternoon and we stayed until Saturday.

We had a wonderful time driving around to our old stomping grounds and houses, eating at our favorite restaurants, and seeing old friends. It was even fun to stay at the Marriott hotel at the airport and see the flights come in and out.

Favorite Restaurants we went to: Pappasito's, La Madeline, Hillstone (Houstons), Cliffs(a bit of a bust), and Fuddruckers (the power went out and I got locked out of the restaurant, but the food was still yummy!)

On Wednesday while my mom was visiting her friend in The Woodlands, I went to the movies and saw "Where the Crawdad's Sing". I loved the book. The movie was ok, but it was just fun to kind of be a kid by myself enjoying the theater that had only like two other people in it.

Then of course this was the day of the purse fiasco. First, on the way to The Woodlands, my mom thought she had left her purse in the hotel lobby so we had to pull over on the freeway to make sure it was in the back seat. Then she ended up leaving it at her friends house later but her friend had already left the house and even after calling a hundred times was unable to get ahold of her. So we ended up going to dinner at Hillstones and then driving all the way back to the Woodlands to retrieve my mom's purse that night. I also almost left my credit card in several places. We really are a pair.

I also enjoyed spending time each morning on the sunny days at the hotel pool. Where I even made a new friend from Canada who was headed off on a cruise. We sat there talking for so long in the sun, that I got a tan line from my heart necklace.

It was also fun to hear lots of stories from my mom where her and my dad first lived in Houston, and we even passed by their first house. Let's just say they have come a long way!

My mom and I always have such a blast traveling together. So grateful for our wonderful friendship and mother daughter relationship.

As a thank you, my mom sent these gorgeous flowers to my work that I brought home and put on my dinning table.

My Texas breakfast at the hotel. Loved that cute Texas waffle!

And Cliff's where the "Chicken Porsche" was just not the same...But the the company was great!

Going to the Movies by Myself

Pool Time

View from our room

Old House in Kingwood

We flew home on an Airbus 220 which was interesting because Hen had been doing training on those planes for the last two weeks.

My mom took the above picture and sent it to Hen before we took off.

Had to post these pictures. After we landed I went and picked up the rental car and my mom took all of our bags to the hotel using the train, but unfortunately wasn't allowed to take the luggage cart on the train so had a heck of time dealing with all of the bags. Then I had to laugh Friday night when I returned the car to the rental place and took her same path to discover someone else decided the rules didn't apply to them and brought a cart all the way through the train.

My mom was kind of enough to take this sleeping photo of me on the airplane. Clearly I love purple these days...

Friday, August 19, 2022

The Pups- while mom was out of town

When Dad leaves for work and moms been gone for days… poor Oscar.

So grateful for our two dog sitters that would come and spend an hour with them each day while Hen was at work!

Below is a picture of Hollye dwarfed by Lucy on the couch.

Charlie is totally obsessed with Schyler she is so kind to let him sit with her.

Below are pictures Schyler took while she was there with them.

Tails, Tug, and Tag

I literally had just walked out the door to the airport and she had already busted out of her crate. Good Luck Charlie and Oscar keeping your sister from driving you crazy…