February

I can't believe how fast February went. I am making a goal this year to document our life with photos since I got a great new camera for Christmas. Let's start off with photos of my 3 boys. They really are my whole world.

Bo and Sam. The look of "What are we gonna do now mom?"

Sam loves to go out and play, and knows if he goes to the door I'll let him out so he can go potty. I love this pic of him. Shows how much he is growing.

Sam always wants to play. Bo not so much.

I love this pic of the 3 of them. Bo's look of "This kid is driving me nuts" and Sam's look of "Can we play some more?"

The first Saturday in February I took the 2 boys down to the river because it was a GORGEOUS day. They had so much fun playing in the water and running around.

This was Sam's first time with this kind of water. At first he wasn't sure what to think.

Running along the bank.

I love this pic I took. 

Valentines Day was a lot of fun and full of surprises. Jared bought me flowers the weekend before and then surprised me with a home cooked meal. He made Cajun Chicken Pasta and it was FANTASTIC. We had dinner and enjoyed a night at home together.

Dinner. YUM!

I tried to look nice for my Valentine...

Can I just say how much I love this goof ball. He is so good to me. He pulls me up when I am down. He works very hard for our family. I am so glad he is mine.

We really are so good together. Wouldn't trade our life together for anything.

This month Sam got an abscess and had to go to the vet to get it drained out and get some medication. He came home with a cone, a tube and medication. He healed SUPER fast and all that yucky stuff got out just fine. Here he is the day of...

Towards the end of the month we got hit hard with snow. SO much snow that we had a "Snow Day" and when it melted off we had a "Mud Day" because the buses couldn't make it through the roads here. So 2 less days of school, but we're making up for it by not getting an Easter Break.

 The boys LOVE the snow. They love playing in it and eating it. Silly boys. Sam would get TONS of snow stuck in his "cone of shame."

This may not look like a lot of snow, but they never get THIS much snow here in Mussi.

March is tomorrow. We have lots of things planned for March. Spring Break in California. DisneyLand. 4th Anniversary. It should be a lot of fun.

And then there were 4...

It's about time that this little guy makes his official blog debut. We decided in December that we would add another 4 legged member to our family. Remember those cute puppies??? Well we (ok more like I) fell in love with them especially this one. Meet Sam...

This picture was taken about a month ago. He's much bigger now and his cute sweater wont even go over his head. He's growing really fast.

We were worried about how Bo would handle having a new brother, but he has done well for the most part in adjusting. Bo does get annoyed with his little brother and he's gotten into fights with Sam when he's had enough of this energy full pup. But Bo will play with Sam and he is usually nice to him.
We are planning on taking him into the vet in the next week or so to get the rest of his shots and get checked out by a real veterinarian. We are also going to be starting on doing some formal training thanks to a book I bought on Amazon (thank goodness for Amazon or I'd be lost here in Mussi).
Sam will get these spurts of energy and then runs all over the place as fast as he can. He loves to chew (he destroyed my favorite pair of flip flops) and likes to get into the bathroom garbages (not too thrilled about that one). He's still learning how to let me know when he needs to go potty, but his accidents are minimum. Overall he is a really good puppy.

Christmas 2014

I can't believe how fast Christmas came and went this year. And now it's already in February! We had an interesting Christmas this year. We had 7 little puppies with us this year, and it is an experience we won't every forget (or do again for that matter). Anyway we stayed at home in Mussi this year and enjoyed our time together as a small family.  Onto a photo explosion...

Here are some photos of our home decorated for Christmas...

 We got a new Nativity this year. I absolutely love it!

 We got a new Christmas Tree this year. (It was time to retire the really cheap one that wasn't much taller than Jared.) We love this tree.

We don't have a fireplace/mantle so our bookshelf held our stockings.

Christmas Eve we had our Traditional Christmas Eve Dinner. We had ham, funeral potatoes, salad, rolls, cider, and egg nog. We always pull out the nice tablecloth and the nicer plates, and we added place-mats, REAL napkins with napkin holders and we got some holiday plates. We also had some fancy centerpieces.

I REALLY like these plates (we got the plates with the holly on it at Dollar Tree).

 Jared was very thrilled with our dinner. He says I am the best cook.

We never forget about the dog(s) at Christmas. This year they got special cookies to have on Christmas Eve. Bo also had some tasty wet food (a special treat).

Now onto Christmas Day...

We were very spoiled this year. We got movies, books, and games. The big presents this year were a new tablet (it's mostly Jared's) and a new camera (it's mostly mine). 

We hope you all had a great holiday...