Our new dog and Chrsitmas!

Below the writing I put some photos of some of the things I talked about in the this blog.

So Blackie, the new dog, was a a neighbors dog down the street from us. When we would take Chloe on walks we would always see here and they would play forever together. She was the sweetest dog to us and to Chloe. So everyday we would hope to see Blackie out of her fence so Chloe could play with her. We kept seeing her for about a month or so and as we started to get to know her we would pet her and get kisses from her. We realized that she had a ton of ticks on her and was really timid. So she followed us home one day and I though, "since your here I will get some of those ticks off of you." She was soo nice the whole time. So then we finally got the courage to talk to the owners and ask them if they wanted there dog. They obviously didn't really care about it so we wanted to help her. We talked to them and they didn't want her so we took her in. She is at the vet today and she is very healthy. Just a few hook worms which clear up quickly. So for now have two dogs until we decided if we are going to find a good home for her or keep her. It actually makes life a little less stressful with two because Chloe always has someone around to play with. It doesn't make house work less stressful but oh well. We'll see what we decide.


Christmas was fun! The Sunday night before Christmas Eve our cousins Wil and Jarrod slept over. We made cookies, pulled taffy, watched movies and just played around. It was a great great night. We were all laughing til we cried. There is a pic. of the boys and I pulling taffy. Then Christmas Eve morning we went out to do some last min. shopping with the boys and then back home they went.

Christmas Eve was a quite one. Scott and I and the dogs just stayed home and had a fire out back and watched a few Christmas movies. Scott was sweet and made a simple dinner but by candle light. There is a picture of that also. For lunch that day we made homemade tuna tar tar and seared tuna. It was SO yummy!

Christmas morning was good. We woke up around 8:30ish and Santa had come to leave presents!!! Scott got me concert tickets to the Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood concert and a digital frame. We might turn in the digital frame for a new digital camera though cause mine is not doing so good. Scott got a big remote control airplane and an ipod! He was pretty excited. We got other gifts from family that were so fun and we were so grateful that we had something from them. It made us feel like we were home. Scott then made Sticky buns for us and our family. They were tasty. For dinner we went over to my uncles to have a mixture of things for dinner; pulled pork, fish, potatoes, veggies and of course dessert! Then we played guitar hero for about two hours and some of their other games Wil and Jarrod got for Christmas. My uncle tried playing guitar hero but it didn't work out so good. I guess old folks just don't got it in them any more!! Ha Ha! One of my aunt's best friends and their family came over there as well and they all had Nerf gun wars. It was fun to watch them all run around like crazy! To end the night the boys and Scott and I watched part of It's a Wonderful Life by the fire and then home sweet home we went!

With all the events leading up to this Christmas seemed like it was going to be a little sad but it was a very good and happy holiday anyways.

The New Bathroom!

Last time I put up pictures of our bathroom it was torn apart. Now we have a put together cute bathroom that we are proud of. We still have the little details to finish up but you guys can't see that in the pictures....he he! Here it is!!!




It is nice having a bathroom again!

My Aunt Brenda's Passing

On November 29th my aunt Brenda passed away from breast cancer. She was the reason I came to Florida in the first place. It was a very bitter sweet moment when it all happened. Although my Brenda was young and still had a lot of life to live, it was time for her to go back "home." She battled cancer for about 5 years with about a year off when she was in remission. She pretty much seemed like she didn't have cancer until 6 months before she passed. She would have energy and do about a million things a day, plus be a great mom to her twin boys, Wil and Jarrod, who are 11. She was in a lot of pain for about 5 months and then was in severe pain the last week or so before her passing.

I had the chance to sit with her in the hospital for about 5 hours and just hold her hand 2 days before she passed. Before that we had a great Thanksgiving with her and her family and just enjoyed the holiday.

I have to say that Scott and I were somewhat prepared for this moment. We new that something was going to happen and that we needed to emotionally be ready for it. Her husband and boys are doing awesome. There isn't a better way to handle all this than how those three boys are handling it. We have all had great peace with all of this which is nice.

We know with out a doubt that Brenda is up in heaven preparing for eternity. She is happy and is in no more pain!! Yeah! We love her dearly and miss her greatly!