Santa's treat

Santa left a nice note for Naomi to thank her for the milk and cookie, and the apple slices for his reindeer. The reindeer left only a few slices and the apple core, yet strangely, the dogs' breath smells of apples, and Dave's smells of cookie...

Not quite so Merry after all

We get to experience the often preached but rarely practiced art of celebrating the holidays without an excess of materialism. We very luckily procrastinated this year on buying big gifts. We were eying a new Pivot XC race bike for me (the Mach 4) and a flat screen TV for Dave. We did our research Sunday and were all set to buy my bike, when Dave and the rest of the software division, along with half the rest of the company, were laid off Monday. Dave will land a new job soon, we hope, but in the meantime, frugality is called for.

Merry Holidays and a Happy 2009

Dave and I survived another year of kid-rearing, full time jobbery and being owned by multiple dogs. Barely.

New dog Susie, a 16 month old rescue lab, and insane fan of fetch and tug, has been added to the family.

As you can see from the Naomi pix, she is about as girly as you'd expect from my spawn. She was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle for Halloween and yes, I am still stuck in the 80's.Naomi started Kindergarten this year and is having a blast. A week before school started, she cut off the back of her hair. Hair Cuttery fixed it as well as they could.
She cut off the front of her hair a week before school pictures.
Not much to be done with that! It is growing out, finally.