this week

This has been a HARD week. Of course adjusting to having a dog again and teaching her things like not to go potty in the house is time consuming. Four out of 5 of my kids this week decided to get sick, and not with a fast flu, but with a 3-5 day flu that had fevers, throwing up, sore throats, red scratchy eyes. It was so miserable. During the same time as I am tending to sick kids my dog shows signs of Kennel cough. They told us they show signs about 3-10 day after you take animal home. On day 5 she stated giving signs, at her checkup with the vet she was fine but 2 days later is so awful and having trouble breathing and is coughing and throwing up on my carpet. I wanted a healthy playful dog, not one I needed to watch and clean up after and force feed and eye dropper water into her mouth, and give antibiotics by force. She is so weak and just wants to sleep, refuses to eat or drink. The kids are sad cause she isn't playful like she was, and has no desire to run and play. We really love Layla and hope she gets better soon, it is hard to start loving her and then see her suffer. We hope she gets better soon and will be her happy self again. This has been a hard week, and glad all the kids are well again, and hopefully I can get Layla well soon.

Layla

We adopted a dog yesterday. The idea was to take the kids to the Humae society and JUST LOOK, HAHAHAHAHA. We saw several cute dogs but we decided on Layla for several reasons. She is 10 months old so still a puppy, she is super cute and active and wants to play. The kids love her. She is a German Shepherd mix. We are not sure what she is mixed with, but she is smaller then a normal german shepherd, which I like since we don't ahve a huge yard. So far she has been a joy.

vacation to Arizona

Christmas morning we left and headed to Spring Valley to Ed's parents house. We had Christmas dinner there and played games with his brothers and family. On Sunday we had dinner with another brother and his family and played games, was so good to see all of them again. Monday We went to Bonnie's parents and while we were there the kids had a silly string fight at the park, we played at the park. Kids loved playing circle ball in grandpas backyard. One day he took them to get Thirfty's ice cream which was my favorite growing up. We also went bowling one day and Bonnie went to lunch with some High School friends one day. We did a lot of things and it was a lot of fun. We also drove by the house I grew up in, we moved there when I was 10 months old and my parents lived there till after I was married. Looks about the same, the yard is a bit overgrown and makes it hard to see. OH the memories.
We went back up to Spring Valley on New Years eve and spent it at Ed's brother Bruce's house playing games. We came home on New Years day, it was a great trip. We are so lucky to have such a great family to belong to.

Christmas

We had a nice Christmas as a family. We acted out the Story of Jesus' birth and then each kid opened a present (slippers this year). We then opened the presents we were giving to eachother since we were getting up early to leave for Arizona and would only ahve time for Santa presents. We had a nice time and was fun to go to Arizona and be with Ed's parents and brothers for Christmas dinner.

new ring

While we were in CA in October Bonnie lost the diamond out of her wedding ring. Later we ended up losing the whole ring,(we think it fell out of her purse while we were on vacation). So after Thanksgiving Ed decided it was time to get her a new ring. We went shopping and found one we liked. Bonnie is happy to have a ring again and grateful for the love they share.

Alycia's first tooth

Alycia lost her first tooth on Dec. 13, 2010 , she was so excited. She loved finding money under her pillow the next morning.

Thanksgiving

We stayed at home in Colorado for Thanksgiving, and enjoyed a nice day as a family. Ed took the boys to play football that morning, while Alycia and Bonnie made some food. We then enjoyed playing the WII and relaxing most of the day.