Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas!

Santa came, and brought Emily a fully furnished Doll House with and SUV. She had a stocking stuffed with goodies and lots of presents. She got a new guitar & keyboard. The two noisy butts in the picture below received a stocking full of bones and two new stuffed pigs. They were only interested in Emily's presents. She had a big Christmas, and ate some of Grandma's spaghetti. ( For those of you who are not aware, Jill makes the best spaghetti that I have ever eaten in my entire life!) Unfortunately I did not get to eat with them because we had just left my moms house and I had to go and cook a casserole for my grandmothers house. Emily wanted to eat at Grandma's and who can blame her.





Emily got lots of things that she is very proud of. She has been checking everything out from Laney and Lilley running to me typing with her Hot Wheel Radar Gun that her Granddaddy gave her.





She also got new puppy named Patch that she is taking care of. Her Grandma gave Patch to her and she has been very good about feeding him.

I videoed her playing her guitar and she has requested that I not place the video on the website. But she was having fun! We finished our night by reading the first two chapters of Charlotte's Web. She received the book from our neighbors Harry & Carol last weekend. She and I wanted to keep reading but it was getting late so we had to stop reading. So far Wilbur (the pig) was born a runt and Fern has taken him in and raised him. He had to be sold to the Zuckerman's, Fern's aunt and uncle down the street.

Well we are starving and going to get something to eat. We all slept in until 10am or later today. So we are getting a late start.

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas & We Love You!

PRESENTS!

Early presents, man they are GREAT! This was one of Emily's early Christmas presents a Doodle Dino that she name Scalemon. He is really fun and has been lots of places with us. He joined us today for some Mexican at La Hacienda in town. We then went to my Gramps' and my Mom and Dads. My mom wrote I love you on his back, I put some lips on his cheek, some bugars hanging from his nose, and Chance drew him a six pack of abs. Emily has painted his toes and fingers, given him a heart, and colored his teeth. I am sure that Scaley will be joining us for a lot more outings, so be on the lookout, you may meet a new friend.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Santa's Helper's

Laney Belle

Lilley Blossom

Laney & Lilley are ready for Christmas. Since I have been working at Bemis the girls have been GREAT. We have been able to allow both of them to have the run of the house while I was at work, coming home at lunch to let them out daily. Well, in the last couple of days Lilley has decided that she would help out by opening and destroying everyone's presents for them. At first she was only tearing into mine and Brian's. She has since gotten Chance's, Jordan's, Emily's, and my Daddy's.

So far she has gotten into a total of six presents and we have had to replace two of them. She knows she is doing wrong because she ducks her head and her ears go back and she cannot get outside fast enough when I arrive at the house. We thought at first that she was trying to get her basket of treats that are wrapped under the tree but strangely enough she has never touched them. Obviously she knows they are hers and wants something to open on Christmas morning. So rather than get into her own she has decided to help everyone else with theirs.

Brian thanked her as he ended up getting all three Matrix DVD's early. Chance on the other hand would be furious if he only knew what she destroyed, but hopefully the replacement will be here before Christmas. We gave them these HUGE bones in hopes that they would be pacified, unfortunately we have had to resort to putting Lilley back in the cage while we are at work. I hate to do it, but like I said she knows that she is in the wrong, and we can't afford to replace all the Christmas presents under the tree because she wants to be so helpful to everyone.

Three more days!!! I cannot wait!!!

Love you all!

"I have regained my throne!"

Brian's comment tonight after finishing the game. "And I have regained my throne!" Three nights in a row we have played. When I got home we had supper and then I said go get the puzzle. He informs me that he has already counted out the Monopoly money because he just figured that I would want to play. Obviously he just could not stand the fact that I was the Champ two games in a row last night.

I love it!!

I am the Monopoly Princess!!!!

Just wanted to make a note that I am now the Monopoly Princess. All the money, houses, and hotels on the board are MINE. Brian is OUT!!! Not only did this happen once tonight but TWICE!!! So this is for Emily, I beat him two times and he was the one left with no money!!! The second game I had all hotels and Brian had to buy back all his houses and hotels to pay me for landing on one of my spaces with a hotel. OH YEAH, I AM A ROCKSTAR - BABY!

Puzzled??

Well, in case you were wondering how we spent our weekend, this is it. Emily asked Friday night if we could get a 3D puzzle from Wal-Mart. We bought the puzzle after we finished eating Chinese. We started working Saturday morning and here we are. The puzzle is really pretty and Brian and I found shortly after that we were the only ones working on it. Emily did a really good job and got a lot of things put together and then of course Brian did the rest. I call myself the finisher, because I would look and look and then I would find the LAST piece to complete a fish and I would finish them up. HAHAHA! Where would Brian be without me.

We let Emily have one of her presents early on Saturday because it is tradition in my house to open one present early. Emily got Monopoly from Laney and Lilley. So we started playing not realizing how long the game was. So our entire weekend was spend playing Monopoly and working on the puzzle it seemed. We all had a ball and just so everyone knows Brian is the KING OF MONOPOLY!

Emily liked Monopoly in the beginning and bought all the properties that she could. She did a really good job and was learning about money. I don't believe that we ever finished one game because it seemed to go on forever and she and I would get bored with it.

The weather is so warm that I am having a hard time getting into the Holiday Spirit. I am praying for a cold front to rush through and possibly some snow. Can't wait to see everyone!

Love you all.

Laney Belle

Laney Belle after one of many nightly Belly Checks to see how much she has broken out that day to report back to the vet.

Well, as most of you know we have had MAJOR problems with Ms. Laney and her allergies. There is no telling how much money we have spent on medicine, hypo-allergenic foods, and treats for her. We have been in and out of the vet for more than a a year and received prescription after prescription. We are going to bite the bullet in January and have her allergy tested, so that we can determine exactly what she is allergic to.

They will take her blood and send it off to a lab and they will test for everything, I have been told. We are very excited to finally find out what it is. They really hate to start her on allergy shots at her young age but if it will keep her comfortable and from scratching and chewing on her paws I am all for it. For the past 3 months she has been on predezone shots, and hopefully we will get lucky and determine what she is allergic to without having to start her on monthly allergy shots. They have told me that if we have to start her so young she will have to change her medicine over and over. The more we change the meds the more expensive they get.

She has been doing really well since we have gotten Lilley and now goes outside and plays for a while. In the past she would go outside and handle her business and dart for the door to come back inside. She spends the majority of her time chewing and scratching. She even misses out on play time with her Daddy. She does not seem to be nearly as uncomfortable as she used to be but if we can get her to a point where there is not itching and breaking out I will be so happy and I am sure she will be as well.