Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everybody!
Charley's first Christmas!

Our beautiful tree full of presents underneath!

Our kitties got a new cat bed! We noticed that they enjoyed laying on a smashed down Dick's box. It didn't look very nice in our living room, so we gave them an upgrade! After a little sprinkle of catnip, they settled right in!

Charley got a new chewing mint flavored rope that he loves!

Chester snuggled into the bed too! It's right by the heater vent, so they just love their warm spot!

Charley

Introducing our new little one, Charley!

Today, Charley is 14 weeks old! He's been home with us about 8 weeks, and continues to bring a lot of happiness to our family. Charley came to us from a breeder in the Columbus area. His father, Seymore is a standard chocolate poodle, and mom Fergie is a labradoodle! This makes our little Charley 75% poodle, and 25% lab. Charley has a chocolate coat which will lighten as he grows to a silvery coffee with cream color, and Koby (white) toes! He has beautiful hazel brown eyes, and very sweet personality.

Charley sleeping with Daddy

Baby Charley already loves sticks! He's going to be a good camping dog!

He was SO much smaller than Rugby! In his mind, he'll always stay this way!

Sideways Charley!

Charley's mouth goes crazy sometimes!!

Charley playing sticks with his first little boy, Braden!

Too little to go down stairs all by myself!

Charley getting his first Christmas tree!

Mommy and Charley with our fresh cut tree!

Passed out in the middle of playing!First trip to the park! He loved it!

Charley now, growing so big!

And of course, Charley making "friends" with Chester!

Charley's dad, Seymore

Charley's mom, Fergie

Charley has adjusted very well to his new home. He's figured out that the orange one (Rugby) is the boss of everybody, and that Chester is his pal. He now sleeps in our bed, and sleeps soundly through the night until about 8:30 in the morning. Charley loves to run around his yard, and is a natural at chewing sticks. He is VERY bouncy, and can jump straight up in the air. (Poodle legs) Our little boy is now 20 pounds, and seems to keep growing all the time before our eyes! I just want him to stay little for longer, but he's determined to grow up fast! Charley has already begun to learn to sit, lay down, and give his paw. He has the super smart poodle brain, and we know that he'll be able to learn a lot of fun tricks!

We love our little Charley so much, and are so glad he's here with us!

Introducing...

Kayla Reese! (from beginning of August) And also when it was 90*! :o)

July 27th, I got a picture text of a baby, from Jill saying, "She's here! We have quite the story!" I honestly thought that it was a joke, maybe this was her way of saying that she was at the hospital, in labor or something. I was sure that Jill would call me when she started labor, just like she did with Braden. Well, I called her right away, and this was no joke! Kayla Reese had been born! She literally didn't have time to call me, as she went in to labor in the middle of the night, quickly took a shower, and then she was in full fledged labor! Just like that Brad was driving her to the hospital, and Jill hoped to make it, as she really felt like she would deliver in the car! Not but about 5-10 minutes from getting to the hospital, Jill delivered Kayla in her street clothes! No wonder she didn't have time to call!

The following week, I went to Dayton to do my "nanny" duty to help out with Kayla (and Braden :o)

I'm just going to do a really long post of Kayla pictures, otherwise, I'll never catch up with everything. It is now December, so I really need to get going... So enjoy this sweet little girl!
Me and KaylaSleepingWith her name blanketBeautiful mama with her beautiful baby!What a cute little dress!Jill looking at here baby so sweetThe whole familyCloser up with Braden's "cheese" smile. I love it!Look at the adoring look on Jill's face for her kids! She is such a great mom!
Kayla in her swing Aunt Carisa found for her!
Braden is such a good big brother! Here he is holding his sister in about to give her a kiss!
Kayle about to punch us for giving her this bath!!
Cute baby toes!

And that's enough pictures for today people! Photo shoot officially done!

Christmas 2010

Flourish Elegance Christmas 5x7 folded card

Shutterfly Christmas cards

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Christmas Cards

We usually don't send out Christmas cards, but this year, we may change that. I do love to receive them, and hang the cards all around our living room door way. I like to get the photo cards of kids and families, and have wanted to make them myself. When browsing around on blogs, I stumbled across Shutterfly. I'd been using other photo creating websites to do projects for years, but thought about giving this a try for Christmas Cards. Stacy uses Shutterfly to show pictures of her son, Aidan, which always post really nice. In the past, I've created a mug and a calendar from photo websites, and love the personalized items that you can create. This year, I don't know what picture to put on the cards, but we have several to choose from, including our new fuzzy bundle of joy (and teeth)! (More to come on him soon.)

Aren't these photo cards cute? Of course, I don't have the cute kids to add, but may just add my own "fuzzy" kids.

In addition to these cute cards, Shutterfly is offering a nice deal to those in the blog world! Check it out here!

So, we'll see, maybe this year will be the first edition of sending our Christmas cards.