Merry Christmas

Wishing each and every one of you the most blessed of days. Jesus truly is the reason we celebrate. No, he probably was not actually born on this very day, but this is the day set aside to celebrate His birth so he could come to this earth for us. For God so loved the world (thats us) He gave his Son....................Merry Christmas from Bob and I.

Christmas Eve

Our Christmas tree before all the packages got under it. It was so fun. Everyone got a couple of packages and had fun. A fun Christmas Eve. Bob's prayer before dinner was a sermon but that's OK. We all needed to hear it.

Our sweet granddaughter in law and our great grandson that is due in about 10 days. Heather is so uncomfortable. Sorry her eyes are closed but wanted the tummy anyway. She is such a tiny little thing. When she and Joel got married about 4 years ago she had a size 0 wedding dress and they had to take it in. they both look young. When she had their first baby they talked around both she and Joel. They thought they were still teens. They weren't.

Their daughter Lilianna. She wore out by dinner. She was bound all those packages were for her.

Isn't this what ones riding arena is for. Ice Skating. Well not with skates. Ryan Seth and Sheya got heely shoes (shoes with wheels in the heels) and they were using their heelys on the ice. The picture is of Seth and Sheya. A while later Ryan fell and cut his chin but just a lot of blood but not a big cut.

This is the latest addition to Toms family. It is Christy's Maximus Max AKA as Max. He is an AKC registered poodle - seven weeks old. He weighed 1 #5 Oz when they got him this past week. He fits in the palm of your hand. He is so cute. He should be about the same size as Skeeter. Skeeter weighs exactly 10#.

We had a wonderful day. We will leave in the morning for Nikki's. I will post a Christmas greeting if I can. May blessings fill your day.

Christmas Eve Eve

Wishing each and everyone of you a very Merry Christmas. May your day be filled with peach and love and God's blessing in all that you do.

This tree is in Riverpark Square downtown Spokane, Washington.It is a beautiful tree and the Christmas music playing was wonderful. Bob and I had a "date night" this evening. We went down town and looked at store windows, Christmas trees, listened to music, held hands and walked along the sidewalk until we looked at each other and said "its cold out here" and went back to the car. All that was missing was snowflakes falling. But it was fun and we had a good time.

Ole Santa here is in front of O'Dougherty's bar. We didn't go in, just took his picture as kept walking. After we shivered back to the car, we drove around looking at the Christmas lights. Then we went back to the edge of downtown to Frank's Diner and had breakfast for supper. It is a railroad car made into a diner. They serve really good food at a reasonable price. Bob had his all time favorite, biscuits and gravy and I had bacon, eggs and hash browns. We were both stuffed but it was fun.

Now we are home, Bob is watching his usual old western movie on TV and me and my book are headed for bed. The kids will start arriving by 10 or 11 I would imagine. No snow for a sleigh ride as in some years. (I have a sleigh and a pony that pulls it) but we will find something fun to do. We are having lasagna, salad, garlic bread and cookies for dessert. No big stressing out over a fancy dinner.

Your gift to me is being my blogger friends. Thank you each of you.

Thankful Tuesday

Have you ever been hugged by a donkey. I have ,today. I went out to take some pictures this afternoon and Chemmy came up to me. He wanted me to to love on him. I petted and put my arm over his neck and Chemmy turned his head around and just hugged me. He let me rub his ears, his nose and just hug him back. He is so sweet. Aren't those wonderful ears.

And isn't this a sweet nose? I tried to take his picture and he kept trying to touch the camera so that is all I got That sweet soft nose. This wonderful little donkey is my Thankful Tuesday. I really needed a hug today and he gave it to me.

And this is Yuma. I think he was a little jealous but he wouldn't let me hug him. I did pet his face and that was OK. He just was a little stand offish today. He is a sweet boy too, just not in a huggy mood today.

My two donks. They were glad to get out of that mud pit. I did not blame them a single little bit.

These two guys in the mud pit. They were getting ready to go in to eat. This is Cody and Rusty. I love Rusty' mane.

This was our view on the way to church last Sunday. We had just come out from being in the fog to under it Usually there are deer or turkeys in the field but not that morning. I thought it was kind of an austere picture.

Have a wonderful Wednesday.

Monday

It rain all day. I mean rain like out of a bucket. The round pen is flooded, the arena is flooded, the donkeys pen is flooded. Cody and Rusty are standing in water. I will let them all out into a pasture first thing in the morning. This is terrible.

I could not go to sleep last night until sometime after 3 this morning and then had to get up at 7 so I am really sleepy and tired. I am going to bed in just a few minutes and no one had better wake me up until I feel like waking up tomorrow.

Had good news first thing this AM. My grand nephew came through his surgery fine this morning. He has a seizure disorder so even a tonsillectomy is difficult on top of his CP and all that is with that. This was good, he seems to never be able to get a good good report on anything and this was a good report.

Tomorrow will be a better day.

Foggy Sunday

We went to church this morning in pea soup fog. It was ugly. Glad I didn't have to drive. When we did get down more towards town, we got under it and then it just looked grey but clear. We live in an area that gets fog when no where else in the state does. And guess what. We are 15 minutes from the airport. Right in the middle of the fog plain.

Bob cleaned the stalls good and bedded one. We are out of bedding. We can not seem to find any shavings other than buying it by the bale and that is pretty expensive. We need to get some straw. Bob has a couple of ideas of where to get it. Amelia went in for him this evening. That was a surprise.

I was really lazy. I curled up on the sofa and with my polar fleece blanket and read the better part of a book. That makes me sleepy but I do have things to accomplish this evening.

Kind of boring reading today huh?

A Nice Saturday

My sweet friend Kim and her husband came through this morning on their way to Seattle for Christmas. We sat and talked a long time. Paul and she took us to breakfast at a restaurant in Airway Heights called The Rusty Moose. They have lots of cute things around their restaurant both outside and inside.

Kim and the bear, It was so good to see her so soon again.

The old Rusty Moose. He is about half the size of a real moose. Maybe not even half the size.

Kind of cute laying there in the snow. If it had not been raining I would have sat on him and had my picture taken.

Father Christmas by the fireplace all dressed in fur. I would have loved to have had his boots. They look so warm and snugly.

The inside moose. They also have a large life size head on the wall above the door that talks to you when you come in. He tells you welcome.

Just more decorations. It is a good place to eat. Not the cheapest but really good food and you get huge portions. They could charge less and smaller portions and most people would be happy. Bob just got biscuits and gravy because he knew I could not eat all my Denver Omelet and hash browns and biscuit. So I ate half the hash browns, 1/3 of the omelet and the biscuit and Bob ate the rest of it for me. Paul ate the last half of Kim's too.

Tonight I helped Bob with the chores. It is so funny. I have no problem putting the horses in the barn in the evenings. Bob on the other hand can not get Amelia to go in. She just snubs her nose at him and won't come out, nor will she get caught. I just open the gate and call her and out she comes. He just grumbles at her when she does that. We have got to do stalls tomorrow. Its not so bad when its frozen and they don't get done but when its warm like it is now, they get gross. I guess Amelia likes me best. Hahahahahahahaha.

Another day of rain and now fog. You can not even see the road in front of our house. Hope it leaves by morning. I hate driving in the fog.I won't be driving but Bob hates it worse than I.

My Merry Christmas today to you all. I love this Santa. He used to be motion censored and say MERRY CHRISTMAS very loud. I have never replaced the battery. It used to make Bob jump and I would laugh. Ugly aren't I? LOL