Zoe

We headed to Houston, TX, the Friday after Thanksgiving to pick up our new family addition... 8 week old smooth fox terrier pup, Zoe! We contacted the same breeder where we got our beloved Chewee. Now we have two dogs. I never would have thought I'd enjoy animals, but these little pups are just precious. They make us laugh, give us love, & sometimes make us frustrated... especially with housetraining a puppy and yard training a dog. Chewee now has a special underground fence in the backyard that allows him to run and play, but not run off into the neighbors' yards anymore. Erin is like a little "momma" with them so having the dogs isn't a huge burden on me & WD.

Christmas Furniture

You know you've crossed over from girl to all-grown-up when getting furniture for Christmas is absolutely thrilling. WD has always been very creative and surprising with Christmas and birthday gifts; this year is no different except the "surprise" part. He priced out a set of diamond earrings for me and nixed that idea after thinking about how I would feel if he spent that kind of money... his thinking was, "If I got these earrings for Paula and she found out I spent over $2000 on them, she would have a fit. To think that she could have a brand new Apple computer for the money I spent on these earrings!" He was dead on! So no earrings, and no new computer yet, but he is getting me furniture for our office/scrapbook room! We can't afford to do it all at once, but because the furniture is modular and from Pottery Barn (where I can order pieces offline if I need to) we are doing it a piece or two at a time. Here is what some of it will look like.... I'm going with the white finish since my walls in the office are red... I can't wait!!!

New Music

WD ran by the store before coming home from work the other day. He picked up a couple of newly released CDs that he knew I was buzzing about... David Cook's & Nickelback's! I was so excited to have the CDs, especially since it was the first day of their release. David Cook's CD has his American Idol hit, "The Time of My Life" which is still one of my favorites, but I think my favorite off his self-titled CD is "Lie". Listen to all of them on David Cook's website. I wanted the new Nickelback CD for one song, "Gotta Be Somebody". When I started listening to the other tracks, I was surprised that some of the lyrics were "adult-themed". I really like the rock-out feel of the CD as a whole, but I have to skip over a couple of songs if the kids are in the car with me.

Christmas Tree Shopping

Last year our pre-lit, fiber-optic tree which we've had for probably 5 years finally had it. The lights stopped working, the fiber-optic box melted, and the tree limbs themselves sagged. Today I headed to Hobby Lobby with my 40% off coupon to shop for a tree. Since I was getting a new one, I wanted to upgrade to a taller one since we've never had one touch the ceiling in our current home. Well I was bowled over by how expensive they were! I found 9 foot trees which will be the right height but they were between $470 & $560. I think I even saw one that was over $700! All said, I found a beautiful tree and saved a bundle with my coupon making it more affordable. As soon as I get it set up and decorated, I'll try to post a photo here.

Halloween 2008

We had a great time dressing up and celebrating this year with some of our friends and family! WD didn't join in the costume fun, but we'll get him next year. Erin & her friends were "berry" girls. Dylan was Batman. I had fun dressing as "Raggedy Ann" although most of the young kids thought I was a clown because they don't know who "Raggedy Ann & Andy" were. Chewee was the best of all... a little devil. It was great!