Merry Christmas to Us!!

She is already a hunter!!! Gary is thrilled!! She loves her duck and loves fetching it.

She loves Gary

We got her very early on Saurday morning!! Notice the bags under the eyes and the tired face. She is so sweet and cuddley.

So we got an unplanned surprise for Christmas!! This is Mya, she is a golden retriever/poodle mix they call them goldendoodle. We got an email last Tuesday from a breeder that we had talked to last summer saying that they had a surprise litter. They gave us an excellent price in hopes to find good homes for the puppies for Christmas. Gary really wanted a big dog, but I wanted a dog that would not shed so a poodle mix was our only option. She is a very mellow dog and loves Toby, she really likes to follow him around the house. Toby is handling her really well and tries to avoid her at all costs. She is already doing really well with potty training and is showing such progresses, she is so smart. Puppy training here we come!!

Deck the Halls!!

Gary did an excellent job hanging up our lights outside our house.

We are a little behind. We really decorated our house at the first of December. Christmas is definitely our favorite time of the year. We really like our house best when it is decorated for Christmas, it makes our home feel so much more warm and cozy. Here are a few of our decorations.

Happy Anniversary

Happy Anniversary Honey!! I can't believe it has already been 4 yrs. I just want you to know that I love you and I am so grateful for you. I couldn't have asked for a better person and a better match for me. You are such a wonderful person and are a constant example to me. I appreciate you working so hard to provide for our family. I LOVE YOU and I look forward to many many more anniversaries!!

Our Yearly Gingerbread House

This is our gingerbread house for this year. Gary and I have made a gingerbread house each year since we have been married. This is by far our best yet. We both decided that they definitely work out better if you decorate the sides and the roof before you put them together. We are both perfectionists so this decorating was a long process. This is definitely one of my favorite traditions!!

Pictures at Wheeler Farm

Every year we get pictures taken around Christmas time. We are too cheap to get them professionally done every year, besides I think this is much more fun!! Last year we decided to include our complete little family with Toby and really liked the way they turned out, so we invited him again this year! Despite being a cute little ball of fur, it was very hard to get him to look at the camera because of all the ducks, geese, and pigeons around. I don't think he was interested in chasing them at all, I think he was more worried they where going to turn on him. Toby is very much a chicken when he is outside his territory!

Here are a few of our fav's that turned out this year. Great thanks to Michael who manned the camera and Michelle for entertaining Toby and getting him to look where he was supposed to (this was not an easy task I am sure).