Elfin' Fun!

You have to check out Darwin in his new routine...Can he get a Tony for this????

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1634082893

Enjoy!

Mulan's First Christmas

Mulan is all ready for her first Christmas with us! She gets to wear the jingle collar every other night (alternating with Mickey, of course). Mulan even has her very own stocking, which seems to be made for her. On one side, it says "Dear Santa, I've been good." On the other side, for the off days, it says "Dear Santa, I can explain." We have to flip it around, depending on the day.

I sure hope it says good when Santa shows up...



Mulan's first Christmas tree! It's a live one-she has been carefully studying it, trying to figure out how she can dig this one up, like the other plants in the backyard...

It smells wonderful in the house with a real tree, and it even came with a surprise! A giant wasp. I carefully assessed the situation when I saw the wasp, decided I did not need to determine what kind of flying insect it was, and took shelter in the bathroom until Darwin and the dogs properly disposed of it outside.

We also put the tree in the living room this year, so all of our neighbors could see our beautiful tree!





My beautiful puppies are just counting down the days until Santa comes to visit them. When I open the door to the room where I am keeping all of the presents, they somehow make a bee-line straight for the bags that are holding their gifts. Dogs are incredibly perceptive in that manner.

In case it's another month before we post again, Merry Christmas to all!

Getting Ready for Christmas

Here's my happy family in front of the tree at Lolo and Lola's house. How good lookin' are they?











Our first Christmas pic with our new nephew.












First family photo with Elliott (who almost got cut out of the pic!) Who's the photographer???

Better yet-where are my babies!










Patiently waiting for their turn to be in the family photo... :(












The proud new parents.

Happy (belated) Thanksgiving!

Okay, okay, I admit it...we've been terrible bloggers. Weekends have been so crazy, and there never seems to be time after work...alright-enough with the excuses. To make up for our lack of posts, here are some great pictures from Thanksgiving when Elliott made his big San Diego debut!




Here's my sneaking some time with Elliott (it was hard-there were so many people clamoring to hold him!)











Here's Elliott with his first girlfriend, Emily.












Uncle Handsome with Elliott (he's going to be so mad that I put up a pic with Elliott crying in his arms...)