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My Favorite Christmas Decoration

Well it's Friday again, so it's time for my favorite on Friday post. Since it is the last weekend before Christmas I decided to make it about my favorite Christmas decoration, which also happens to be my oldest decoration. No one knows for sure when he came to live with us but apparently he is older than I am, and he was on a Christmas present from my Great Aunt. When I was little I would always play with Elfie, I always made sure he was in the tree near a light, because I didn't want him to be scared :) I used to talk to him and tell him what I wanted for Christmas and he always made me happy with his cute little Elf smile. I also used to move him around in the tree so he didn't get bored and he had other friends he liked to be around on the tree. :) When I left home I "kidnapped" my little Elfie, because without him it just isn't Christmas!!! So we have been taking pictures of him in the tree, but normally he sits on a shelf with some of my angels (one of them is his best friend!!) I will have to make sure to get the perfect picture of him so we can frame it, so in case a day ever comes that something tragic happens to my little Elfie, he will always be with me for Christmas!!

WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!

The Colt's WON!!!! They are now guaranteed a playoff spot!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!! Now I am gonna be too excited to sleep!!! Way to go Colts!! :)

thankful thursday

No matter how my day has gone I always try to find at least one thing to be thankful for. Some days it is easier than others, especially with all the bad news these days with the economy and all that it affects. But there is definitely always SOMETHING to be thankful for. This week I think the thing I am very thankful for is my new digital camera, actually it's MY first digital camera!!! I am so excited that I don't have to wait to borrow one of the girls!! It's an early Christmas present from Santa Claus. It will be very nice for when Todd is in Korea and I am working on things at the house and I want to show him or get his opinion, it will make him more involved while he is away and I can send him lots of pics of family and friends. It's a nice fuji finepix S1000 fd. I have been reading the manual and playing with it off and on tonight when I get the chance. Dawn is thankful for her new Macbook and tissues, Chels is thankful for her Nintendo DS, Meg is thankful for rice shapers, and Todd is thankful we can watch the Colt's even if they are losing right now!! I hope everyone can always find something to be thankful for!!

Favorites on Friday

I decided to do a regular Friday posting titled "favorites on friday" or Friday favorites however it ends up :) Well I was going to start with my favorite Christmas decoration, well if you read my previous post you know my tree isn't up and that's where I want to take the picture of my favorite little guy. So we will go with my favorite breed of dog this week and she is also the only animal in the house who isn't irritating me!!

My favorite breed of doggies are American Eskimos, aka eskies. The first one I had the pleasure of having in my life was when I was in elementary school. She followed my cousins home and long story short she ended up living at our house, she let me put my doll clothes on her and she was very attached to my Daddy. Her name was Candy and she passed away in 1990 when Todd and I were living in Florida.

I had always wanted another eskie, so in June of 2000 I put a deposit on this sweet little girl who loved to lay on top of Hannah's kennel and look out the window. Her name was Jasmine and she was my baby girl, when I was sick or upset she never left my side, but that was the only time she was really willing to cuddle. She was attacked by a neighbors shar pei, and was never the same after that. She started to become very aggressive toward Hannah and the cats, then she decided it was ok to bite me. I talked to trainers and rescue groups and at the time didn't have any other option and we had to have my precious baby girl put to sleep.



Needless to say I am meant to have an eskie in my life. This is my sweet Lily Belle. I got her in May of 2006 and she is truly my heart dog. She is cuddly all the time and very loving and just a true gift. I can't imagine life without her.

I love the white fluff, even when it is all over my clothes and floor, I love the eskie smile, I love that they love snow just as much as I do, and I love the way their tails curl over their backs, and I love how sweet they are!!!

interesting week

Well this was one of those weird weeks that we have every so often. But I guess for the most part it was a good week. The paperwork we were waiting on to withdraw Meg and I from an Army program was FINALLY finished today, we needed that taken care of so they could put Todd on assignment to Korea. It was only supposed to take at the most 3 weeks and it was turned in on 4 November! But when you have a Major who doesn't seem to know how to do her job and she contradicts herself and changes her story every time she opens her mouth, and she is the one in charge of things...well let's just say it takes a little longer, oh and she lost my packet of paperwork too. But it is done now so I feel better.
It has been a bad behavioral week for 3 of the animals in our little zoo here. Hannah has decided she doesn't have to listen to anybody about anything, Holly finds it fun to climb on everything and torment the other animals as well as the people, and Reggie is stressed and has taken to pooping right beside the litterbox. Right now Lily and the fish are the only good ones!!! I'm sure it will all pass eventually, but not soon enough :)
I still don't have all of my Christmas decorating done. The tree is in the house at least, but it's still in the box...maybe tomorrow?? Once I get that up there will be some new pics on here and some regular posting that I wanted to start this week, but well it didn't work out either!!
As you can tell this week had some things that worked out and some that didn't. But the best part of the week was the time Todd and I got to spend together reconnecting and working some things out and having some much needed alone time. I think I love him more and I didn't even know that was possible!!!
I hope everyone else had a semi-normal week, whatever that is, and has a wonderful weekend!!

what day is it??

Ok, I really do know what day it is, but with the way things are going I thought we might be having an extra Monday! First of all my head cold is much better :) Yesterday morning Meg woke me up and said she was really tired and her stomach hurt, she had actually been awake from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m., so she stayed home. This morning Todd had a P.T. test and had to leave shortly after 6. Well Meg comes in our room BEFORE 6 (when I am still pretty much dead to the world) and tells me that Chels has a really bad stomach ache. So I get up check on Buggie probably about 5 times between then and when Meg leaves for school around 6:50ish. I had just gone back to sleep (since Buggies tummy was a little better) and at 7:06 the house phone rings, scares me half to death, and Todd says his First Sgt. heard there were firetrucks all around the high school and that the school was closed. I called Miss Meg's phone and she says no we are all out here waiting to get in like usual, but she heard that a gas line broke over by the elementary school. Of course I call Todd back and say no, not the high school. I try to go back to sleep, the phone rings again and Meg says yes it's us too. Of course the high school has 2 main entrances, one on the civilian side and one on the military side, and most of the time the military side doesn't know what is going on. So needless to say they were sent home because of the gas line break and no heat. Now of course since I was up way to early for me and just general lack of brain function lately, I didn't even think about the gas main affecting us!!! :) Now our housing area is between the elementary school and the high school (both were closed as well as the middle school by the high school), DUH CHRISTY!!!!! So when I did make it downstairs, my brain kicked in when I heard the furnace trying to kick on and it couldn't!!! So Chels is in bed sleeping, Meg is working on a school project, and I sit here wondering how long it will be until the gas line is fixed, and wondering if my brain will function the rest of the day or not. Thank goodness we are up to 41 now, much warmer than yesterday. Oh and by the way Todd did pass his P.T. test and he has lost some more weight. With a few other minor things thrown in, this will be an interesting week to say the least!!! I hope everyone has heat and that their brains are doing better than mine this lovely Mon, no Tuesday morning!! :)

Stupid Head Colds...

I did manage to get some things changed on here, but I sure haven't felt like taking any pictures. My head cold decided to take over way to early this morning around 4:00! I woke up couldn't breath and felt just horrible, I was up until after 6:30, by that time Todd was up and getting ready to go in to the Brigade for staff duty, YUCK!! I did go back to sleep and slept until around 11ish. Todd was so sweet and took a lunch break to get me some cold medicine and Sierra Mist. Meg and I watched Elf early this evening, ok she watched it all and slept through half of it :) I am feeling better, but Miss Lily Belle isn't helping much because we have some snow on the ground, which is her favorite thing to play in, and wants me to go out and play with her about every 15 minutes or so!!! Needless to say I didn't do anything I really needed to do today, like laundry and some other cleaning so we can decorate for Christmas, maybe tomorrow....we shall see. Anyway I hope everyone is feeling better than me, I have some different pics on the side and I will be changing more when I feel better :)

stuff :)

I know, I know, I still haven't been posting on here like I said I would. Shame on me!! :) I do have some plans for this boring blog of mine though. I will be taking some pictures of various things and creatures starting today, and also scanning in some older pics over the weekend, so that by Sunday (hopefully) my blog will have a new look and a partial schedule of regular posting!! So keep checking in and see how it's going. I hope everyone has an awesome weekend!!!