Merry Christmas!

This Christmas greeting is a little late, but better late than never. We were invited to a friends house for Christmas dinner. It was wonderful to eat, drink, and be merry with another wonderful family. They have a large family with 7 children ranging in ages from 1 to 17. Their youngest boy is a year younger than Avery and was on the wrestling team with him. Their two middle boys I know very well from working with them in junior high classes and robotics. It is their 17 year old daughter who I was talking about running the dog team in a recent post. She said that she would take me out with her on a run with the dogs and I'm totally pumped about that. I cant wait. Anyway, when we got there, they had some gifts for Avery which was a really nice surprise and Avery was excited about opening something on Christmas since we had already had our Christmas early. We took a birthday cake that said Happy Birthday Jesus on it. There were a couple of other families that came over, most of which had children that I know from school, and we ate a huge Christmas feast. They even had shrimp and cocktail sauce which is what we traditionally eat in my family on Christmas eve, so that was nice because I was missing it. After dinner, all of the kids(and there were quite a few) played guitar hero and the adults sat around talking. Oh, so nice to have adults to talk to. Anyway, we had a great time and felt blessed to be included in their Christmas celebration. I totally forgot my camera or i would have some pics to post.

Here are a few more really cute puppy pics. I know they're probably getting old, but she's the one thing keeping us busy right now. Taboo is not too happy about her, but tolerates her just enough.
Here are the two dogs all cuddled up with me. Taboo likes her much better when she's sleeping.
We've been putting Bailey in a box to sleep in for now while she is still small. She wakes us up at all hours of the night. It's kinda like having a baby.
And she plays alot too. She loves this little stuffed, squeaky elephant that she got for Christmas. She plays with it all the time and sometimes falls asleep with it too.
Taboo is still trying to figure it all out. And she's not too sure about Taboo either. She regularly checks his belly for titties to milk from and you can imagine what she finds instead!
She peed in the little box we have set up for her in the house for the first time by herself tonight. She is pretty regular...she sleeps, eats, plays, then sleeps, eats, and plays again. It's a continuous cycle. Now, if we could only get her to sleep through the night we'd be golden.

Merry Christmas!