Our Christmas Pup

For those of you that regularly read my blog you will remember that on December 17th Jared and I said good bye to our faithful fur baby Sandee. While we knew another dog could never replace her (not that would we ever want to replace her) we knew that another fury friend would help ease the pain and fill the void she left in our hearts.
So on December 19th 2009 this little 1/2 Miniature Schnauzer 1/2 Chihuahua or Chizer for short joined our family

We chose the name Pixie for her and so Pixie-Doodle it is

A girl had to accessories now doesn't she. This is only the beginning of the wardrobe purchases.

Santa's other reindeer

Posing with the Santa Bears

Aw she is such an obedient puppy.

We have really had a lot of fun with her for the week and half that we have had her. She is so full of energy and Chloe just loves her. They are always play fighting. Chloe won't quite let her cuddle up next to her but I imagine that will happen sooner or later. I wanted to get the two of them matching Christmas dresses but Jared wouldn't let me. I did manage to get her a dress though and she was the hit of the Christmas festivities.

Welcome to our home Pixie-Doodle.

Happy Birthday Brian!

Brian turned 40 on the 17th of December. We got together on the 19th to celebrate with brownies and Ice cream

~Happy Birthday old man~

Jared and I got him a gift card to one of his favorite woodcrafting store

I hope that he had a great birthday.

The Elves

On December 19th my mom and decided to go to Gardner Village to find all the elves. It wasn't really cold and it was fun walking around and going in all the shops

Candy Cart

A piano playing elf

Ice skating elves

He fall down go boom

An elf trying to light up the Christmas tree

The two elves trying to hold up the elf putting on the lights

An elfish camp

Snorin' away

Bubble bathing elf

A barber elf

Trimmin' the tree

Ropin' elf

Elves hunting trees

Merry Christmas elf

Elf selling candy canes

Elfish band

decorating elves

Just Gardner Village

Gathering letters

Mistletoe elf

Sledding elf

Spectator elf

Announcer elf

Score!!!

We missed seeing the elf with the airplane so I had to go back. This picture was taken with my cell phone.

I like all of the decorations that they have at Gardner Village and it is fun to just walk around, especially during the holidays

Gingerbread houses

Every year the kids come over and we put together gingerbread houses. We hav been doing this for a few years now and the kids really enjoy it and I do as well.

Jared got involved this year by helping the kids put the houses together.

Cheyenne really got into it this year

The final results are in

Kaitlyn displays her finished product

Cheyenne and I worked on this together

Eryk's house

I think they ate more candy than the put on their houses