The New Man In My Life....

Introducing Jacques Francois Costeau!

I call him "Frankie" for short.  He is a 29lb French Bulldog and was a rescue dog.  I have always wanted a French Bulldog but didn't want to buy one from a breeder.  So, I told my friend that if a French Bulldog ever came up for adoption to give me a call.  However, they are very rarely up for adoption with rescue groups so it wasn't until four years later I got an email from her saying "check him out!"  That was on Friday February 8th.  On Saturday February 9th Frankie came home!  It happened very fast, but luckily I have a great sister who helped me out and brought some stuff with her like a collar and leash.  He has his first V-E-T appointment today and hopefully the Doc will say everything looks good.  The poor guy was neutered on Friday, then flown on a plane from Kansas to Omaha, NE, and then left at some strange lady's place (who was mean because she made him go out and potty in the rain).  The little guy had a rough weekend.  To top it off, Frankie has ear mites :(   I am super excited to open my home to this little guy and can't wait for the fun adventures that lie ahead!

A trip to Kansas

I have been friends with a group of girls since we were in grade school.  We still get together for supper club almost every month.  However, it has been a while since it was just us girls (minus the husbands and kids!).  So when a member of the group moved to Kansas we decided to take a trip for the weekend and visit her.  Needless to say we drank way too much, ate way too much, and laughed way way too much :)

Belated Merry Christmas

My mom had major surgery on her ankle this October and was still restricted to no weight bearing at Christmas time.  So instead of trusting her daughter to pick out a Christmas tree she decided we would go low key and so this is what we got for a tree....

So even though we had one of the smallest trees we got one of the biggest presents.....my sister and her husband are pregnant with their first!!!  So that means I need to get t-shirt #10!  I should explain, last year our theme for Christmas was "pajamas".  I should explain some more, every Christmas we chose a theme and then you have to buy presents related to that theme.  We have done "as seen on TV", "make your gift" and many more.  So I bought everybody pajama pants and then had special t-shirts made that had numbers on the back along with the person's name.  Their number corresponds to the order in which the entered the family.  So my Dad is #1, Mom is #2, Danielle (oldest sibling) is #3 and so on down the line until the latest person to join the family was my nephew, Mackson, who is #9.  So now I need to get baby Kleber a t-shirt with the #10!

This last picture I included just because I thought it was cute :)   It is of my Dad wearing my nephew's hat...