One hurdle down one to go

I am currently preparing for my 2nd Degree Black Belt test. The test itself is April 24th but the other weekend I made it past the first hurdle. I had my pass/fail test on all the 1st Degree curiculum. Now I just need to keep working on my 2nd Degree stuff and be ready for that test.

I am not "officially" old but getting close

Well, over the weekend the puppies decided to eat my glasses. :( I was due for a new exam anyway but was not planning on it now. So today I went in for my exam and my perscription did not change too much. I do not have to wear bi-focals so I am not "officially" old but he did suggest reading glasses of +1 if I find it is hard to read the computer or books. So I am only kinda old.

Side trip to the Sundial Bridge

Stephanie had posted about a trip her family made to the Sundial Bridge in Redding. When I remembered that when we picked up Alice and Jasper I had to call them and check where the bridge was at. It was about 10 minutes from where we got the puppies so we made the side trip. It was a really cool bridge. Too bad it was not sunny to be able to use it as a sundial. There is a neat museum and nature center that we are planning to come back to another day.

Dolly's Merry Happy Christmas Birthday

This year for Dolly's Birthday and Christmas she got some money to use on either a new computer or a pug puppy. After much thought she decided she wanted the puppy so the search began. She called and emailed on many ad's and only one had replied but they wanted too much for the puppy. Then this morning we got a call back from someone in Redding that had an ad. The price was half what others were asking. When she talked to him he said it was the last two of the litter and asked if we would like both for $50 more. We jumped in the truck and took the almost 3 hour drive to Redding. As you can see she fell in love with them so they both came home with us. She has named them Alice and Jasper. The kids loved holding them on the way home.

The Christmas Elves deliver

Our long standing Family tradition continues through the generations. Santa's Elves made an early delivery today. Everyone got some new PJ's. Even Mom and Dad got some this year! No modeling of those but the kids were very eager to get the new PJ's on and model them. As soon as T had his on he said "I am getting sleepy". This was at 6:30 PM :).



Merry Christmas Eve to everyone.

It burns us!

Today is Dolly's Birthday! December is an expensive month with three birthdays and Christmas.

I appreciate all the Dolly does and am a lucky guy. The kids were waiting all day long to be able to sing Happy Birthday to Mom. I kept asking what she wanted for her Birthday dinner and she just wanted hamburgers and hot dogs so we had a very casual dinner at home tonight.

Birthday lunch for the twins

On Monday we went out to Red Robbin for lunch for the twins Birthday. We stopped at Stephanie's on the way to pick up the cards my Mom had left with her and Stephanie had some extra coupons for a free kids meal so they got a free meal and a free sundae!