Well December has come and gone and I have no clue where it went to! I knew that the holiday'a are always busy, but really time does start flying! Here is a little recap of December up thru the latest news:
12/6: Chloe turned 1 year old! We have a tradition that on the dogs first birthday(or after we have had it a year) they get a cupcake. Yes, a real cupcake with icing! Please don't go calling PETA on me. Its just the one time and it is tradition we started with my parents dog, Josh. Chloe had a vanilla cupcake with pink icing and she LOVED it....
12/7: I started a new job! I am still with the same company but I moved divisions and departments. I LOVE my team! I feel like I have 4 mom's and 2 big brothers at work! The mom's are fun to talk with and the big brothers do a great job of picking on me! After a couple of weeks of playing freecell (shh don't tell the boss!) I am finally starting to learn what it is I do! It is not so much a financial position, which honestly I do miss a little. But it is a position that I can learn a lot in and grow a lot more with! I am very excited to see where this will lead!
12/12: Classic Christmas at Church. This was a fun event. Mom and Dad had nothing planned so I suggested heading to church this night. The church puts on a little musical with all the classic Christmas songs...from Walking in a Winter Wonderland to O Holy Night to Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You! Yes folks, I go to a modern church where secular music is sung! (Even last week during the service we sand Kris Allen's latest single!)
12/19: A friend of my parents had her annual Christmas party. Each year we play "Dirty Santa" and there are some funny gifts that get passed around. This year we took A bagel slicer and a Transformers Rubik's Cube. (Sorry to whoever ended up with it!) I stole a very nice bird feeder from someone and then it was stolen from me. I had settled on winning Dad a popcorn bucket with different cheese flavors and popcorns in it. In the end I ended up trading the popcorn bucket for the bird feeder! I must say it looks very nice sitting on my fireplace! Dad was disappointed that he didn't get his popcorn bucket!
12/23: I had the girls come over for dinner! Girl time is ALWAYS fun! But, we had a little man join us this time! Bekah had Eli on December 4th so she brought him so we could all ooo and ahhh over him! He is a CUTIE!!!
12/24: Ah, Christmas Eve. I had to work and was a little disappointed that I did not get to be Santa's elf at the nursing home this year. I spent the night with my parents. We had our usual grilled cheese sandwiches, soup, and clam dip for dinner. I know that must sound like a random dinner but we have it every Christmas Eve. It all started with Dad. He always made the clam dip. Then about 10 or so years ago my grandmother (Dad's mom) spent the night with us. When we asked Nanny what she wanted to eat she told us to keep it simple because we were cooking such a big meal the next day. Nanny wanted a grilled cheese and vegetable soup. From that year forward we have always had our traditional grilled cheese, soup, and clam dip. We do change the soup up...this year we had potato. And boy was it yummy!
12/25: When I spend the night at my parents, Chloe does sleep with me. The only problem with this is that she wants out of the room when she hears my Dad get up. With that said I felt like a little kid on Christmas morning! I was up at 6! While Dad took the girls out I started separating the gifts. We finally decided to wake Mom up and Christmas was in full swing! I received way to many gifts! But I am very thankful for them all. I did get a crock pot and under the counter radio! I also received TWO snuggies, a deep fryer, 2 pairs of boots, a cookie jar, and some other favorite items! I must say I LOVE LOVE LOVE my snuggies! I took one to work and get made fun of daily! (Apparently heels do not go with a snuggie!) After Mom headed off to work, Dad and I loaded the car and headed to my Aunts house. (Mom came down after she got off.) We had a great dinner and enjoyed spending time with the family!
12/31-1/1: New Years was pretty quiet. I had no plans so I spent the night again with Mom and Dad. We stayed up and watched the ball drop. I learned how to cook collard greens.
1/7 : The "blizzard" of 2010 hit! HA! It did snow and the roads were a little bad with ice but I made it in to work just fine last Friday morning. Mom had me spend the night with them...yes this make 3 Thursdays in a row. I think she just wanted to make sure I was safe with the bad weather that we were supposed to get. It actually was a good thing I did spend the night though. I saw that part of my road was shut down because of the bad ice so I would not have been able to get out.
1/11: A new member of the family came home to join me. I have been looking for a few weeks at getting another dog as a playmate for Chloe. She loves to play with Sophie and Suzi (Mom and Dad's dog's) but when she is at my house she is all alone. Our groomer had recommended that I get a submissive male dog to help chill her out some. I just happened to be killing some time at work waiting on reports to run and was looking at petfinder.com. I knew I did not want a huge dog or an older dog. I had also decided that two things were going to happen for me to find the right dog. A - he would come at the right time and I was not going to rush it and B - I was not going to spend a ton of money on this dog. There are to many dogs in the shelters that need a good home. I decided to check out the local county humane societies and found what I was looking for at the same shelter that Suzi came from. "Cocoa" was still listed as active but that doesn't mean a whole lot on the website. I called the shelter and found out that he was still available, his owner had surrendered him, and he had been there since Jan 4th. I was told that he would not last long that there had been interest in him. I immediately emailed Mom a picture and called her. All I heard on the other end of the phone was "GO! If you want him, GO!" I took off! He is such a sweet guy! I adopted him yesterday and took him to meet Sophie and Suzi first. Dad watched him yesterday afternoon and is in love with him too! He is a chocolate and white "roan" pure bread Cocker Spaniel. He has been very well taken care of and I even have his registration papers and previous vet info. I have changed his name to Hershey. (I always wanted a chocolate Cocker Spaniel called Hershey.) Chloe is adjusting. She was very timid and scared last night but is starting to settle down. It is just going to take some time before we become one big happy family!
I will post some pictures in the next few days!
