2 posts tagged “puppies”
Show us a puppy.
Our puppy Oliver is such a cute handful though our senior dog Maddie will always be our puppy too.
Hello all my lovelies.
Look, I think I might actually be getting back in my vox groove. Poor you. Yay me!
Yesterday was a very busy day. It was my little sister's 8th birthday! I think this was the first time that it really hit me how fast she's growing. It's kind of blowing my mind. I remember holding her as a newborn. I even remember running around with my mom while she was pregnant going to all the ultrasounds and everything. It's quite an experience. I think she's taught me a lot of things that I'm just now starting to figure out. Anyways, as you can tell, she's the apple of everyone's eye.
Rain and I had her birthday party over at our house. I probably would've been a little more excited to start with if our house still didn't have all kinds of boxes in it that morning. You see, I think it was last week that I woke up to find my diningroom filled with boxes. I wasn't so much mortified that they had been brought in while I was dead to the world (happens quite a bit) but that my diningroom was filled with boxes! I can't think when things are in such disarray.
But Rain and I pulled ourselves together, worked all day on it, and by the time my sister came over to help decorate the tree, it looked pretty damn great. Here's a couple pictures. If you wanna see more to really see how far the house has come go check out Project Oh My. I should have a post there of some sort.
It was a lot of fun to decorate the tree with my sister. It was also very weird since like most of the stuff in our house, we inherited it from my parents. So, all of the ornaments and decorations were there from growing up which is really nice and has all kinds of memories attached to them, but I know we have them because my parents lost so much. It was very bittersweet.
It's strange because I really was not looking forward to decorating the house. I never do. I guess it's because I always fear the decorations are going to take over and I prefer for the holidays to compliment, not take over. But after everything was up, it made me smile and feel much more in the holiday spirit. I didn't even mind Rain's godawful Christmas music in the background.
Here's a pic of the tree and lights from the background later that evening. We have it in the front window so it can be enjoyed inside and out. (BTW, it's a fake tree.)
The party was great fun. There was a good amount of people but not so much that it was chaos. I think sis was happy with it. I was happy with it, especially because I got to spend some time with my father which I haven't been able to do in a long time. I think he was happy because he and mom got my sis exactly what she had been wanting. And who doesn't love getting a kid the gift s/he had been wanting so badly?
Maddie loved having everyone there. Perhaps a little too much. So we had to put her out at certain times. But she matches the christmas decorations beautifully. It's the getting her to hold still for a picture part that is hard. Here's a couple though. (And I'm going to go through in edit and add one I took a moment ago of her but cannot upload right this moment. Edit: Now added)
There's a particularly funny picture where I was laying on the floor and Maddie had jumped on the livingroom couch (a no-no) and while she was jumping down, I took a pic and the christmas tree was in lights behind her. And I realized when you flipped it on its side it looked like she was shoot fire out of her eyes.
Snape's Girl got back from college for Xmas vacation yesterday. Unfortunately, we weren't able to see her but we will be seeing her today hopefully. I really look forward to having her back for whatever amount of time it is before she abandones us again. She hasn't been in our house yet so that should be fun. And we of course have to plan our Xmas tea party! I really look forward to that!
So that's what's been going on the last couple of days. And if you're wondering where the mistletoe is, it was supposed to represent Christmas, you spoilsport. Getting all literal on me. Sheesh.
