Cate in the morning...

He's no Seabiscuit...

Meet Teeko.

Umm...We live in Texas, right?

I didn't sign up for this...

Top 10 Things That I Hope Happen in 2010

1. To have a happy and healthy family.

2. To see my Utah and Las Vegas family.

3. To take a vacation that doesn't involve going to visit family.

4. For Mom and Dad to move into the Lake House and love it.

5. For a canine addition to join our family. I want a Cocker Spaniel or Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Opinions?

6. For Connor to become less aggressive toward his peers.

7. For Caleb to enter Kindergarten with minimal tear-shedding.

8. The Dodd household to be diaper free!

9. To actually win one of Pioneer Woman's contests.

10. To be more positive!!

Warning...May Contain Images Not Suitable for Young Children...

From garbage can to tied to a tree.

To dinner plate.

...

What's under the blanket??


Well, I'm glad you asked!


It's a dead wild pig, of course!!

Oh yeah, it's already been gutted and liberated from its head.


Now it's stuffed in a trash can packed on ice sitting in my garage.


This is what happens when Dodd boys converge.

Lewis Carroll was wrong?

I never particularly loved Alice in Wonderland, but I happened upon this book in the library and thought I'd take a chance.

I'm glad I did.

Classified as Young Adult, this book occupied my spare time the entire weekend. Here's the synopsis:

You know the myth...

A little girl named Alice tumbled down a rabbit hole and proceeded to have a charming adventure in the delightful, made-up world of Wonderland...

Now discover the truth... Wonderland Exists!

Alyss Heart, heir to the Wonderland throne, was forced to flee through the Pool of Tears after a bloody palace coup staged by the murderous Redd. Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life only to see it published as the nonsensical Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alyss had trusted Lewis Carroll to tell the truth so that someone, somewhere would find her and bring her home. But Carroll had gotten it all wrong. He even misspelled her name! If not for royal bodyguard Hatter Madigan's nonstop search to locate the lost princess, Alyss may have become just another society woman sipping tea in a too-tight corset instead of returning to Wonderland to fight Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.

Meet the heroic, passionate, monstrous, vengeful denizens of this parallel world as they battle each other with AD-52's and orb generators, navigate the Crystal Continuum, bet on jabberwock fights and travel across the Chessboard Desert.

The Looking Glass Wars unabashedly challenges our Wonderland assumptions of mad tea parties, sleepy dormice, and a curious little blonde girl to reveal an epic battle in the endless war for Imagination.

Just beware, this is the first book in a trilogy. Luckily all are published, though I haven't read them yet. Hopefully they're as good as the first...