Ten on Tuesday

1. We got so much snow the sunday and monday before christmas, that it took Dave a good 40 minutes to dig my car out of the driveway so I could make it to work on tuesday. And since the weather reports said that it would be snowing the rest of the week I was sure we would never make it to California.

2. Wednesday morning I piled all the animals in the car so that I could leave them at work while we were gone. Just think of the fun, 2 cats and three dogs all on the backseat of my car!

3. Dave and I opened our presents Christmas Eve, since we were traveling early the next morning. My present from Dave hadn't arrived yet. He bought me a saddle!!! It arrived yesterday and I love it. I got Dave Guitar Hero world tour, so we spent a couple hours playing before calling it a night.

4.Thursday morning we headed to the Idaho Falls airport with Daniel and Heather. Our plane was already at the airport but our flight was delayed. They had to wait for permission to take off because it was snowing so bad. Finally they had us board the airplane but then we had to wait for them to plow the runway and deice the plane. It took them a little longer because the truck with the deicer ran out of fluids so they had to borrow some from another airline. We finally left Idaho Falls 40 minutes late and just missed our connection in Salt lake by a couple minutes. We were able to get a new flight a couple hrs later and finally arrived in California at around 3:00.

5. We stopped at Grandma and Grandpa Dickson's place for a short visit, before heading over to Dave's Family for Christmas Dinner. We had Filet Mignon, yummy! After opening a few gifts and visiting for a while we headed over to my family where we would be spending the night.

6. Got up Friday morning for some family pictures with the Griffiths. For the first time in a few years everyone was around for christmas.

7. Went with Kerri to visit Kirstin and had a great time. Lia was so cute and not very shy.

8. Saturday my mom, Kerri, Adam and I went to Gilroy for a little shopping and Panda express(yum) while Dave went dirt bike riding the Dennis and family.

9. We left for Reno late that afternoon in my parents Saturn. With Daniel, Heather, and Kyle in the back set it made for a tight ride. We spent the night at Circus Circus before continuing our trip back to Idaho Sunday morning.

10. Stopped in Idaho Falls on our way back to Rexburg to pick up all the animals. They sure were happy to see us!

Update on Chief

Chief's leg bandaged around the pins.

Back to acting like a puppy!

Playing with his new favorite toy.

Ten on Tuesday

1. So today was not a good day. Today I broke Chief's leg, and I have been in a emotional guilt stricken state ever since it happened.

2. The plan this morning was to bring Chief to work with me, since he was due for some vaccines. Unfortunately it has been snowing like crazy for the past for days. And last night a fresh layer of snow left the front steps nice and icy.

3. So I got all me gear together and put the lease on Chief so I could walk him out to the car. As I reached the bottom step Chief came down the steps and some how in my attempt to not step on him I slipped on the step and fell. And although I tried really hard not to fall on him it just happened so fast. As I landed all I heard was his bone snap and his screaming. I sure you can just imagine the state I was in by the time I arrived at work.

4. I am so grateful that I work for veterinarians and that they are able to do orthopedic surgeries. They took some xrays after he was given some pain meds and he had a broken tibia. luckily everything else was ok. Dr Francis decided to do his surgery today and after he opened up his leg he decided the best way to stabilize the fracture was to put on an external fixature. Basically that means he has some pins in his bone that are held in place by two metal rods on the outside. hopefully in 6 weeks he will be all healed up.

5. I brought him home tonight and He is still pretty drugged up. I think that I will bring with me to work for the rest of the week.

6. Despite the bad weather I did get the chance to finish my christmas shopping Saturday, yeah!

7. Dave and I went to my work christmas party saturday night. It is always fun. Dr Francis cooked some Prime rib for dinner, yum!

8. Driving in this weather is really no fun. the roads don't get plowed all that well and since they don't put down any deicer the packed down snow makes for a nice ice layer.

9. I guess I only got a short break, because I am back to feeling sick all the time. It is not quite as bad, but now it comes with head aches.

10. I think that Dave may have the dreaded strep throat that has been going around in the area.

Ten for the week

1. Although Chief is already getting bigger than Frodo, they still enjoy a little tug-o-war.

2.I pretty much spent all day Saturday sleeping. I was so tired that even after sleeping all afternoon I was ready for bed by 9:30 that night.

3.by monday I was feeling much better. for the past three days I haven't been nauseous at all and am once again enjoying eating. hopefully this will last.

4. I had another doctors appointment today and I was excited to hear the baby's heart beat. I tend to get all worried and it is nice to know everything is still going good. Next visit is the ultrasound, hopefully we will find out if we are having a boy or girl!

5.Took Barney to work last Wednesday to get his thyroid rechecked and clean his teeth. His breath smelled so bad and when I was feeling sick it was enough to make me puke. It is much better now!

6. Dave and I have started watching the John Adams miniseries from HBO. It is very good. Just got the second disc from netflix today.

7. A couple techs went on vacation this past week so I worked yesterday and had today off instead. Also one tech is moving away so we are going to be short staffed for a while. It makes my job a little more stressful so hopefully they will try to find someone new soon. The good thing is that Cindy and I will now be rotating thursday and fridays off, so everyother week I will have a three day weekend!

8.Went visiting teaching right after work last thursday. It is always nice to visit, but I really payed for not eating later that night.

9.Finally got the boat back from the body repair shop. We had some warranty work done on the gel coat and it looks great! now it is safely stored in our garage for the winter.

10. Can't seem to get any meat onto Chief.maybe it is because he is growing so fast, but he often leaves food behind in his bowl. eventually he won't look so skinny.

Ten on Tuesday

1. I have been slacking on posting recently and I don't really have any good excuses.

2.I did make it to see Twilight a couple Saturdays ago. I was afraid no one would go with me so I bought a ticket for Dave and he agreed to sit through the movie with me. I don't think he expected a romance movie so he was a little bored, but I enjoyed watching it.

3. Spent the entire day last tuesday cleaning my house so that it was ready for thursday when everyone was coming over.

4. Thursday I cooked my first Turkey for thanksgiving dinner. All the directions I had said it would take about 3-4hrs for the size I had bought. It actually ended up taking 5 hrs so we ate dinner later then I had planned. I was happy that the turkey stayed moist.

5. Brad and Jolene, Daniel and Heather, and Brianna all came over for Thanksgiving. It was nice to have everyone bring a few of the dishes over so no one got overwhelmed with preparing the whole meal.

6. Went to see Australia thursday night with Brianna. I really enjoyed the movie.

7. Friday morning I went out with Jolene for a little black friday shopping. We didn't leave until 9 so luckily we missed all the crazy people. I was very happy to finally get some christmas shopping done.

8. Dave decided that we should get a Dane sized crate for Chief since he is quickly growing out of Barney's old kennel.

9. We also went and got our christmas tree at a lot in Idaho falls set up by the boy scouts. It smells so good!

10. spent the rest of weekend putting up the few decorations that I have. Merry Christmas!!!!