Christmas 2008

This Christmas was wonderful. Michael spent Christmas Eve with his side of the family over at his Aunt & Uncle's and had a good time seeing everyone. Michael and I spent Christmas day with my family. My grandparents on my mom's side haven't came down for 2 years in a row. There was a big storm coming and they were afraid of not being able to get home. So it was disappointing that they weren't here. But we still had a great xmas. We went to my parent's house at 8:30am and opened presents. Mike & I got a lot of baby stuff, which is awesome. My mom and dad ordered me a big diaper pin that hangs on the wall with hooks. I wanted it really bad for the nursery but couldn't afford it. So I am super excited about it. My parents also got me a Hobo wallet. It's this awesome wallet that they sell at Takken's and it's amazing!! Michael got a lot of cool labrador stuff. We finally have art to hang in our living room. This year Mike and I decided not to buy each other anything because we are trying to save for the baby and pay stuff off. I made some homemade gifts this year. Lindsey and I made vinyl letter signs. They were really fun to make. Everyone seemed to like them.

We went home in the afternoon and took a nap. When we went back up to my parents for dinner we took the dogs with us. That was a mistake, lol. My dad usually deep fries the turkey every year however the wind was so bad this year that my mom baked it. Well he had all of the turkey grease set out from Thanksgiving and we forgot about it. The dogs found it out in the yard and went crazy. Zakk rolled in it and they all drank a bunch of it. We didn't realize until right before we left. When Mike got home, Zoey wanted to go to bed in her crate. Later that night we were getting ready for bed and there was a HUGE pile of vomit on the carpet right in front of her crate. It was full of turkey grease. We shampooed it twice and it won't come out. We have a large grease stain on our carpet now. I felt so bad for her. Lessoned learned, they won't be going to grandma's for a while. They get into too much trouble and chase my mom's cats.

My brother Thomas and I Michael opening presents
Me, Zakk and Zoey riding down to my parent's house on Christmas day

My brother Bobby always takes my camera when I'm not looking and takes crazy pics of himself

17 Weeks Update

Mike and I went to the doctor on Friday and the doctor couldn't find the heartbeat so they did an ultrasound. Everything is fine, the baby was in an awkward position. In the picture he/she is looking straight at us and his hand and arm are up by his head waving. The baby is so cute, I can't wait to kiss it. I still haven't gained any weight which the doctor is happy about. We are going to find out next month what we are having at our big ultrasound. Then tonight I found this hilarious website that combines our photos to show us what our child could look like. Let's hope we have a boy because if we have a girl, it will be scary looking!!

Naughty Dogs

The other day we had a major rain fall so our back yard was pretty much mud. We both had to leave for work and didn't know what to do with the dogs. Our back yard had no covering and they would have been soaked all day and cold. So we decided to lock them in the laundry room area which also leads to our stairs. I went up stairs and closed all of the bedroom doors so they couldn't get into the rooms. We still haven't unpacked our boxes upstairs. And now we are going to start planning our nursery so we haven't touched the upstairs. So we leave for work. We both had to work late and I had a feeling I was going to come home to some sort of disaster. They were locked in the house for about 10 hours. So I knew for sure I would be cleaning up pee which was fine because we have a spotbot that works miracles. I get home and I walk into the house they were going crazy against the laundry room door. I of course right away smelt urine. I went up the stairs and I'm almost positive it was Zakk that pushed open the door to our office. This is what I found...

This is Zoey. I could tell she felt really guilty. She kept following me around, staring at me with her sweet face.

This is Mike's dancing gopher from Caddy Shack. They tore all of the stuffing out of his head and ate his left eye. Mike was so upset.

This was a brand new in the wrapper Pier 1 candle that they dug out of the box and chewed up.

I of course couldn't be mad because we are the ones who left them inside for 10 hours with no break. I had to just laugh about it and it took me about 2 hours to clean it up. In the mean time, I found a lot of stuff that I forgot we had since we moved in.