Number 4 tag

I got tagged. This is the fourth photo in the fourth picture folder on my computer. This is one of the paintings Stephen has done. I actually think Steve said that he isn't finished with this one. He has painted a couple others so I will put pictures of them up for you to see sometime.

I tag Lisa, Shawn, Emily, and Brian.

A trip to the vet and irritated eyes.

Last Friday Stephen and I took Mandy to the vet to get her vaccinations and to get her teeth cleaned. Mandy's breath had been smelling so bad so I decided to take a look at her teeth and they were definetely in bad Shape! They had brown and yellow crap on them and even a little bit of black on some of the small front ones! Now her teeth are all cleaned off and healthy again and she just had a couple of realy tiny teeth pulled. I am going to buy dog toothpaste and be dedicated to brushing her teeth because I don't want them to get that bad again.

After Steve and I picked Mandy up from the vet we noticed that her eyes were bothering her, she could absolutely not keep them open. It seemed like her eyes were stinging and burning or something , and she couldn't sit still she was just so uncomfortable. Her eyes didn't get better till the next day. I felt so bad not knowing how to help her out with her eyes, it was awful! I tried wiping down her face with a wet rag because I thought there might be something on her face irritating her eyes ( I didn't know what else to do ) but it didn't work. Stephen and I think it happened when Mandy was sitting in the kennel right outside the vet office ( she was there when we went to pick her up ) . The wind was blowing fairly hard and we think something in the air was irritating her eyes. We know the vet didn't do it because he is a great vet! In fact when we got home it seemed like Stinker's eyes were bothering him a little bit too.

The picture I posted of Mandy is one of me and Stephen's favorites of her. The thing she is holding in her mouth is a chew treat. It's such a cute picture of her, I love it!

Chili explosion

Yesterday I had to eat dinner alone because Stephen had to work late, so I decided to heat up a cup of Dinty Moore Chili. Well I put it into the microwave and set it for 2 minutes, like the instuctions said. As it was heating up I went to go get an elastic for my hair and when I came back to get my Chili, I saw that it had exploded in the microwave! Steve reminded me later that our microwave has a much higher wattage than alot of microwaves so you cook things in it for a much shorter amount of time. It was quite a mess to clean up!

Wrestling!

I just wanted to share these video's because I think they are fun. On the day that I recorded the one with Steve and Mandy, Mandy had been wrestling with Steve. I got the camera to record the wrestling but unfortunately she kind of stopped. I Still put it on here because even though she isn't wrestling she is still fun to watch and it's fun to listen to her growl. The one with Mandy and Stinker is realy funny and entertaining, they love playing together!

alot of Christmas fun

Last week was full of Christmas like fun. On Thursday Steve and I got our Christmas tree and had alot of fun decorating it. We didn't buy enough garland for the tree so it looks realy silly, but we are keeping it on there because it adds sparkle. We actually didn't think we were going to have a Christmas tree this year because we were having a hard time finding the time to go cut one down and we didn't feel like spending a bunch of money on a fake one. We were actually going to get a bunch of antlers that Stephen and I have found in the mountains and tie them together to look like an antler Christmas tree, ( I think that's a cool idea, Steve came up with it ) but then we found out that my sister in law's parents went and cut down a Christmas tree for us! My sister inlaw Cami had asked her parents to get one for us, because she knew we didn't have one.

On Friday we went to Stephen's work Christmas party. The party was kind of fun, but near the end of it everyone decided to play Guitar hero and that didn't sound fun to Stephen and I so that's when we decided to leave the party and go home.

On Saturday we went to the Holt family Christmas party. At the party there was a dinner and then everyone opened white elephant gifts. We had alot of fun at that party. The white elephant gifts that Steve and I got are a box of Cordial cherries milk chocolate's, a box of little candy canes, a little nativity scene, and a small stuffed Santa. I hung the candy canes on the Christmas tree today.

Flink family Christmas party

Last saturday, Steve and I finally went to the Flink family Christmas party. I am realy happy that we went because I think it has been four years ( or something like that ) since I have been to it and its the first time Stephen has gone to it. We talked to people, children sat on Santa's knee, and we ate yummy food. My absolute favorite food there was some peanut butter bars Jana and Aaron brought, those are the most amazing peanut butter bars I have ever had! Ha ha Steve ate alot of them!

Steve and I talked to grandpa alot, which is realy great because we hardly ever get to see him and we were both realy looking forward to seeing him again. I have never talked to grandpa that much ever, and it made me realy happy to be able too. He told us this story about how he got pneumonia when he was seventeen years old. He recieved a blessing and got better and says he hasn't been sick since then. I was shocked to hear that he hasn't been sick since then, Thats amazing!

Air swimming

Stinker always flexes his feet like this when he is enjoying being scratched or petted, but when his legs ar hanging in the air like this it looks like he is swimming. It is just so funny and cute! He was actually uncomfortable with the way Steve was holding him and moved himself into this strange position.