Stellar Voyages Family & Friends Cruise

Join us on Royal Caribbean's Sovereign of the Seas for a 4-Night Bahamas Cruise leaving May 1st 2006.

We are personally inviting all of our family & friends. If you know of others who would like to join us they are welcome too.

The more the merrier!

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Renee Zellweger & Kenny Chesney splitting up?

Renee Zellweger's marriage to Kenny Chesney is said to be in crisis - after a string of arguments.

Friends say chances of the pair - who married after a whirlwind four month romance - making their first anniversary is virtually non existence.

The beautiful actress is reportedly worried Kenny is too controlling and has told pals they were "practically strangers" on their wedding day.

A source revealed: "Renee had never even see him lose his temper before the wedding, but now they're married he seems to think he can tell her what to do.

"He doesn't like her hanging out with friends and wants to get her away from LA. "When she tried to redecorate their new home in Connecticut he put his foot down and said it was too expensive and a waste of money.".

The 'Bridget Jones' actress is now so worried about their failing romance she is begging Kenny to go to marriage counselling. .

The friend added in an interview with Britain's Grazia magazine: "She just didn't realise how different they were until after the wedding Renee is going toask Kenny to try marriage counselling before throwing in the towel.

"If that doesn't work, she'll start divorce proceedings She says she can't go onlike this for much longer."

Oh No They Didn't

Vegas get's the Toy as usual! 

Check the Size Difference! Vegas does not have long and he will be bigger then Brissy! 

Vegas giving a Smile!  

Furry Bristol  

Brissy & Vegas @ Play 

Rob & Abby-Major Dan's Retirement

Rob & Abby-Major Dan's Retirement 2005
Originally uploaded by shee_rah77.

Yeah you would think I would have some pics of the guy retiring! Hopefully I will soon. We left our cam in the car so I am depending on people to email their pics.

Rob, Paula, & Abby-Major Dan's Retirement

Rob, Paula, & Abby-Major Dan's Retirement 2005
Originally uploaded by shee_rah77.

Rob & I drove over to Patrick AFB for Major Dan's Retirement from the US Air Force. He was in for 22 whole years! It was a very nice ceremony and we were happy to see everyone from our old unit. Here we are with our friend Paula. We wish we could have hung out with everyone longer but everyone had to get back to drill.

Find Your Spot

Ok, I took the quiz and here are my top spots.
Here are my top 3. Funny I always say I want to live in Charleston.

1.) Norfolk, Virginia Heart of the Hampton Roads
This spot was the only American city completely destroyed and rebuilt in the Revolutionary War; a British cannonball in St. Paul's Church wall is a reminder…

Population: 1,551,000 | Average Home Price: $132,000 | Precipitation: 45" | Snow: 7"

2.) Charlotte, North Carolina The Queen City
Home to First Union and Bank of America, this spot is renowned as a financial center…

Population: 1,335,000 | Average Home Price: $232,000 | Precipitation: 43" | Snow: 6"

3.) Charleston, South Carolina Cosmopolitan Southern City
Fort Sumter, the scene of the first shots of the Civil War, overlooks this city's harbor...

Population: 549,000 | Average Home Price: $230,000 | Precipitation: 52" | Snow: 0"


Actually, Tampa was on my list at Number 19 out of 24.
Tampa, Florida Paradise on the Bay
This Florida town's annual Gasparilla Pirate Fest includes a parade, an arts festival, and a "pirate invasion"…

Population: 2,500,000 | Average Home Price: $204,000 | Precipitation: 49" | Snow: 0"

Take the quiz yourself at www.findyourspot.com. It's a website for people who want to find a place to live that really fits them.

It's really pretty interesting. You just fill out a quiz about what you like, and you instantly get a tailored list of great places that fit your unique interests and lifestyle.

Anna Tommy & their Doggies!

Anna Tommy & the boys
Originally uploaded by shee_rah77.

Anna sent me this pic so I thought I would share.

On His Leash

On_his_Leash
Originally uploaded by shee_rah77.

Out in the grass where he goes potty all day at the shop. He is not a fan of walking out to this spot since it is so hot on the black top on his little paws. Once he get's to the grassy area he will just lay down in the shade.

Jumping Up On My Knee

On_My_Knee
Originally uploaded by shee_rah77.

I try to keep him from jumping up since he is going to be such a large dog.

Resting Under My Desk

Good_One_2
Originally uploaded by shee_rah77.

With his new toy I bought for him today. It makes noise sounds like slot machines and talk about rolling sevens. He barks & growls at it when it talks to him.

Introducing My New Puppy Vegas

Good_One
Originally uploaded by shee_rah77.

Here he finally is live and in the flesh. He is 10 weeks old now. I bring him to my office everyday. He does well up there but I think he misses Bristol all day. Bristol I am sure is not missing him!

ELEPHANT'S REVENGE DEATH BY DOODY

Notorious ivory poacher found buried under pile of elephant poop

CRUEL ivory poacher went to meet his Maker the hard way when an angry elephant backed him against a tree, squatted like a collie -- and buried him alive under a Toyota- sized mound of stinky pachyderm poo. "I'm sure there must be worse ways to die -- I just can't think of them," says Marshall Klein, a wildlife officer in Nairobi, Kenya. "Basically the poacher suffocated in a pile of elephant ca-ca. "It must have been like falling in a tar pit. That stuff is very sticky. If you step in it by accident, it'll pull the shoes right off your feet. And the smell, good God! Think Porta-Potty on steroids." Nobody can say for sure exactly what happened after twice-convicted poacher Sean Kennerman, 48, illegally entered a protected wildlife preserve in the middle of the night. But a large ivory tusk strapped to his backpack, says Klein, "proves he was up to no good." "These poachers are slaughtering elephants into extinction -- and Klein was one of the worst. He's been arrested at least 15 times with ivory, and he's done hard time in jail twice. "But here he was again back in the preserve, up to his old tricks. Except this time he faced something he didn't count on -- the back side of a bull elephant." The poacher's body was found by tour guide Jennifer Marcus, who stumbled on the still-steaming pile shortly after daybreak and spotted a single hand clawing the air like a zombie emerging from a grave. "I wasn't sure if it was real or one of those rubber hands people put in salads and try to scare you with at Halloween," she says. "But I wasn't about to take chances. So I called the police and told them, 'You better get out here.'" Cops armed with shovels and pitchforks and wearing gas masks extricated Klein's body from the approximate 750-pound "load" he was buried under. "His face was frozen in a grotesque mask of agony," says one policeman. "It's hard to say how long he had been there. "The pile was still warm to the touch, so it couldn't have been more than a few hours." News of the poacher's "death by doody" traveled fast and elicited an outpouring of grief, not for the dead poacher -- but for the elephants that are being killed for their tusks. "I wish the elephants would 'sit and s---' on every poacher," says one animal lover. "Those slimeballs deserve the WORST the animal kingdom can give them."

10 LINES TO GET REPUBLICAN GALS -- LIKE ANN COULTER -- INTO BED

THE RESULTS of an exciting new survey reveal the 10 best opening lines most effective in convincing a Republican woman to offer a man a night of bed-pounding, backscratching, hot monkey love! The survey appears in Political Psychology Today magazine, and was led by Dr. Jedediah Leland. "In addition to the opening lines, we discovered a number of surprising insights," reveals Dr. Leland. "For instance, three times as many Democrat men as Republicans want to sleep with Republican women. "When we asked them why, the Democrats responded that they had a strong urge to do to these women what the Republican party is doing to the country." Here are the survey's 10 best opening lines to get Republican women in bed: 1 You know, in this light you look like you could be Laura Bush's younger, more desirable sister. 2 Sorry if I seem aggravated -- I'm still upset about that world-class jerk, Michael Moore. 3 Allow me to buy you a drink. After all, thanks to our beloved President, the economy has never been better! 4 I'd love to hang out with you, but I can't make it a late night -- I'm shipping out to Falluja in the morning. 5 The tattoo on my manhood spells "RAN." But when I get excited, it spells "REPUBLICAN." 6 To see you naked, I would turn in my own mother to the Department of Homeland Security. 7 If I had to choose between having a Republican President in the White House for the rest of this century, or never being able to see your cleavage again, I'd be stumped. 8 I'm all for No Child Left Behind. I'm even more for your child-like behind. 9 Just as the Republican Party boldly confronts big challenges, nothing would please me more than you confronting the big challenge rapidly growing right now in my pants. 10 Because of President Bush's leadership, we are strong; because of his vision, we will be even stronger; and because I can't stop thinking about your ass, I haven't been able to stand up for the last half hour.

Mistrial Declared in Notorious B.I.G. Case

A federal judge on Wednesday declared a mistrial in the Notorious B.I.G. wrongful death case, setting the stage for the rap star's family to file a new lawsuit seeking to link his unsolved 1997 killing to a Los Angles Police Department corruption scandal.
Judge Florence-Marie Cooper's ruling came after she expressed concern at a hearing Tuesday that the LAPD had deliberately withheld evidence. Her clerk and attorneys on both sides confirmed the ruling; a written order was to be issued Thursday.
There were only three days of testimony in the trial, which began June 21. It was interrupted when an anonymous tip led to the discovery of large numbers of LAPD documents that hadn't been turned over to family attorneys.
B.I.G., born Christopher Wallace, was 24 when he was gunned down in 1997 while leaving a crowded late-night party at a Los Angeles museum. The rotund New York rapper also known as Biggie Smalls was one of the most influential hip-hop artists of the 1990s. His albums "Ready To Die" and the posthumously released "Life After Death" are regularly listed among the best in the genre.
His family's lawsuit against the city and LAPD claimed corrupt LAPD officer David Mack arranged to have Wallace killed at the behest of Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight, and that LAPD officials covered up Mack's involvement.
Family attorneys, who had requested either a mistrial or default, plan to refile the suit with new allegations against the LAPD and Mack's one-time partner Rafael Perez.
The city had previously asked the judge to continue with the trial, arguing that any new documents largely revolved around hearsay. Assistant City Attorney Don Vincent said Wednesday he would still like "to try the case on the merits."
Family attorney Perry Sanders Jr. said the family — including Wallace's mother Voletta and widow R&B singer Faith Evans — didn't want to have to go through another trial but would do so. He said the case would now delve into a corruption scandal in the LAPD's Rampart division dating to the 1990s.
"We're about to get to the bottom of Rampart," Sanders said. "We're about to peel the onion back to its rotten core."
Perez was a central figure in the scandal, which involved alleged misconduct or brutality by corrupt officers in an anti-gang unit. More than 100 criminal convictions possibly tainted by police misconduct were reversed. Perez alleged wrongdoing by others after he was found to have stolen cocaine from an evidence room.
Perez was the focus of most of the recently discovered documents, which had been sitting in an LAPD detective's desk drawer until late last month. The detective said he forgot about them, a claim Cooper called "absolutely incredible" during Tuesday's hearing.
The documents show in part that Kenny Boagni, who became friends with Perez in prison, told police in 2000 and 2001 that Perez acknowledged working security for Death Row on the night Wallace was killed. Boagni, who on Tuesday refused to be deposed without his attorney present, also told police that Perez said he called Mack on his cell phone before the shooting.
Death Row was embroiled in a rivalry at the time with Wallace's Bad Boy Entertainment label, led by Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. Death Row's star artist Tupac Shakur — who had traded insults with Wallace on various songs — was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip six months earlier. That killing also remains unsolved.
The rivalry was central to the theory advanced in the Wallace suit, which sought unspecified damages. But all evidence presented at trial was circumstantial, with witnesses linking Mack only peripherally to Death Row events.

Jacko and the "Chocolate Factory"

The longish black hair. The pale skin. The ornate suit jacket. The--how should we say?--less than traditional adult male speaking voice.
That is fabled candymaker Willy Wonka as embodied by Johnny Depp in director Tim Burton's new take on the children's classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
One problem: "I think the casual viewer is going to see Michael Jackson."
So says Patrick Lee, news editor of online's Sci Fi Wire. And chances are the casual viewer wouldn't disagree.
"It's very scary," laughs Houston-based blogger Laurence Simon.
Like other moviegoers, Simon made the Depp-Jackson-Wonka connection almost instantly when he saw the Chocolate Factory trailer. An offhanded remark last month on his blog, This Blog Is Full of Crap (IsFullofCrap.com), about how much he wasn't looking forward to Burton's film led one commentator to crack, "What's the problem...? Don't have the stomach for Michael Jackson and the Chocolate Factory?"
The properly titled Charlie and the Chocolate Factory opens July 15. In a summer dominated by bad buzz about the less than blockbuster box office, it is one of Warner Bros.' brightest hopes, along with Batman Begins and The Dukes of Hazzard.
Having one of its prized properties--much less, a PG-rated kids' fantasy--linked to a fallen pop star with longish black hair, pale skin, a whisper for a speaking voice, a penchant for military garb and a recent acquittal on child-molestation charges is likely not what the Hollywood studio had in mind when it turned Burton and company loose on author Roald Dahl's beloved, if preternaturally creepy, tale.
And, according to Depp, who openly copped to stealing riffs from rocker Keith Richards for his turn as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, it is absolutely not what the actor had in mind when he was conjuring the eccentric first brought to the big screen by Gene Wilder in 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Children-show hosts like Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers, these are the innocuous sorts who inspired Depp's Wonka, he has said.
"Everyone is entitled to think what they want," Depp said last week in a news conference in Nassau, Bahamas, "even while being violently wrong."
Wrong or no, the suspicions abound. At that press conference, Lee says the Jackson question came up "a lot."
Lee, for one, is more willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the filmmakers, perhaps because he's seen the movie in its entirety. "The nature of the character Willy Wonka is not Michael Jackson," he says. "Willy Wonka hates children--that there sets him apart from Michael Jackson."
Box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian also has seen the film. Depp's Wonka, he says, "comes off more as Mr. Rogers than Michael Jackson."
If the trailer is creeping out audiences, says Dergarabedian, president of Exhibitor Relations Co., then that might not be such a bad thing for the film's box office. Dahl's tale of gluttony, greed and Oompa Loompas, after all, has never been confused for a Disney fairy tale. As such, the trippier the trailer, the potentially more intrigued the audience.
"They have come to expect the unexpected with Johnny Depp," says Dergarabedian. "Were it another actor, maybe it wouldn't come off as well."
The last time Depp arguably veered into Jackson territory, in Finding Neverland, the 2004 biopic about big-kid-at-heart Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie, the actor earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination.
As long as Depp doesn't earn sustained unwanted comparisons to Jackson in Chocolate Factory, the Oompa Loompas likely will go along their merry, vaguely unsettling way.

Bush Involved in Bike Crash in Scotland

President Bush collided with a local police officer and fell during a bike ride on the grounds of the Gleneagles golf resort while attending a meeting of world leaders Wednesday.
Bush suffered "mild to moderate" scrapes on his hands and arms that required bandages by the White House physician, said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. The accident occurred on asphalt, McClellan said. It was raining lightly at the time, and Bush was wearing a helmet.
Police said the officer suffered a "very minor" ankle injury.
The officer was on a security detail. He is a member of the police department of Strathclyde, McClellan said.
The president talked with the officer to make sure he was all right, and also asked White House physician Richard Tubb to monitor the officer's condition at the hospital.
The presidential bike suffered some damage, McClellan said, so Bush rode back to the hotel in a Secret Service vehicle.
The fall did not affect the president's schedule. Dressed in a tuxedo, he attended a dinner hosted by Queen Elizabeth at the annual Group of Eight economic summit. He showed no signs of distress.
A year ago, Bush was cut and bruised when he sailed over the handlebars while riding a mountain bike at his Texas ranch.
In 2003, he tried out a Segway, the standup, motorized scooter at the family's seaside estate in Maine. It went down on his first attempt, but he stayed on his feet with a flying leap over the machine. Undeterred, he got on again and cruised around the driveway with his father.

The Sterners

The Sterners

Well Tim should be in Idaho now. He left just in time for Mack to catch another stomach virus or something that caused him to throw up for 2 hours and then stop... get better and play. Very weird, that kid.

Just going to head out to the base and get a little taste of America. They have a small overpriced carnival with cotton candy, rides and games. And just when we think we are really in America someone will speak to us in German and ruin it all. But, that is ok. We are enjoying Germany.

There are so many differences that happen to me daily that I thought to my self, "I must write these things down." So I decided to blog it for all to read.

For instance......A friend from church had a stroke this past weekend and his wife can only come visit between the hours of 2-7pm in the German hospital. While the husband might enjoy the extra quiet, I as a wife would have a hard time with someone telling me that I cannot stay with him and visit him when I wanted to. Now I know in America there are some visiting hours somewhat regulated but I think we have a little more of a window. I don't guess there is such a thing as private rooms either.

Its the little things that make you miss the states.

......Grocery shopping. Carts that have no direction, and better remember your bag or else you'll have to buy it...My kids and I went into Aldi to look for some salad dressing. They didn't have what I was looking for but could you get out of the store without buying anything??? No! So stupid me is standing is a line with nothing to buy just waiting to get out.
Very embarrassing to just walk right by the cashier. I suppose I am too cheap to buy a candy bar just to save face but with the exchange rate these days I have become such a penny pincher.

Something cool! Where in america could you park in a field, pay the amount due (on the honor system) and pick the flowers of your choice, cutting them to the right length to fit in the vase and then ta-da just in time for church. Did not have to wait for a store to be open and did not have to bother anyone or worry about skills (or lack of) speaking German language. Sydney loved it and picked everyone out just to her liking.

Baby girl is a tribute to her deceased daddy

Former NASCAR driver/owner Ricky Hendrick, 24, was killed in a plane crash last October that took the lives of employees and friends of the Hendrick's Motorsports team, owned by Ricky's father. However, yesterday morning, Ricky's fiancee Emily gave birth to the daughter that she discovered she was pregnant with weeks after the crash. Josephine Riddick Hendrick was given the female version of Ricky's full name, and will be called "Ricki".

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