Bad Mom

Last night, David didn't get home from work until 9pm. We watched TV for an hour and then we went to bed...I was exhausted after a day of doing nothing except a couple loads of laundry, cleaning the kitchen, and making an awesome strawberry-blueberry cobbler. Well, Stella for the last couple of days has been licking one of her paws. We figures she might of cut her paw on a bush outside with thorns. No big deal. That heals. David and I, with Moose and Stella, crawl into bed and I quickly fall asleep within 15 minutes. I wake up around 12:30 hearing David go, "baby girl? you ok?" I'm thinking, of course I'm ok. I was asleep. But he was talking to Stella. Somehow, in the middle of the night Stella did something to her paw and she won't use it. David started calling her tripod...which for some family members might remind you of the little dog on Dauphine Island, and I giggled a little. But, apparently, I'm a bad dog mom because I said she is fine. She most likely sprained it and jumping out of bed and landed on it wrong. That was not what David wanted to hear and he most likely wanted me to get out of bed and try to look at her paw and be all lovely dovey....which at 12:30 in the morning was not happening. I jumped out of bed and picked Stella up and put her back in bed...since her paw was hurting...and said, honey, if your paw is still hurting tomorrow, I'll put an ace bandage on it. At this point David was pissed at me because I was not taking this serious. But all in al, Stella, is still limping, I'm not putting an ace bandage on her, and I'm going to have another relaxing day while David is at work.

Photos

I was given a challenge yesterday to take pictures everyday and post my favorite picture. I thought it was a great idea. My second blog for my favorite photo of the day is at
http://kdunnphoto.blogspot.com/
Now I may not get to it everyday...but I hope I do.

Enjoy!

Cake Pops

This Saturday, I was on a baking spree, or a little one. I made these things called Cake Pops!
They are so cute. My friend made some for her husband and sons birthday back in November and I have been wanting to make them since. They were a huge hit at the party and they were so yummy! Well, it took me about 3 to 4 hours on Saturday, but I could have probably had them done in 2 hours. They really don't take that long and the few people I gave them to at work today, we only had 3 left this morning, loved them. I am making more this weekend to give to the rest of my co-workers for a happy holidays gift. I will post better pictures of my second batch. I'm sure they will look even better!

This is the website if you want to check it out
http://bakerella.blogspot.com/2008/04/make-your-cupcakes-pop.html

Christmas

This Christmas was a simple but good. Being away from family is always hard, but we have a family of friends. We were well fed as you will read. Christmas eve, we went to one of my co-workers house who lives with her family. It was a full house because they had company in town, but we had good laughs and stayed late hanging out. Christmas morning, we were surprised by a call from family in Japan. It was nice, they were getting ready for bed, because it was midnight in Japan and saw that I was online and called. I woke David up and was so happy to talk to his cousin. We had a wonderful turkey and ham for lunch at David's co-workers house and awesome brisket at one of my co-workers house for dinner! We are blessed to have so many friends.

Merry Christmas!

Cake

David's mom got me a cake decorating kit for my birthday. I love it! I've already made on cake...as you can see below, and I'm making a cake for a friend tomorrow. I'm putting it to good use already!

Christmas Party

My friend Katie and I



My Friend Leslie & I with our husbands



David the Nutcracker



Me on our way to the party


We had it at a VFW - so we got our sodas free
We had yummy food, good music, and good company.
I had a lot of fun with my date and friends!

Birthday

A few weeks ago it was my birthday. We had gone out the previous weekend to PF Changs and had great food! I love that place. On my birthday, a few friends came over and had cake with us.


Also that day, my friends from work took me out for lunch at Olive Garden. It was a blast and we got back to work late...the server forgot our soup, and it was just perfect!