December has arrived....

I've been less than a good blogger as of late - it's just been easier to add things to Facebook, but I realize that I won't have my own little Chronicle of Life if I don't add things here too....  

It's December, which gives me yet another reason to embarrass my kids :)  

 And the stockings were hung by the......  well.....  they were hung with care.  :)  We all have matching stockings this year.  I got the 'big dogs' theirs at the After Christmas sales last year, and picked up the ones for the puppies a couple of weeks ago.  There was no D when I went shopping last year, so K it was for Kota :)  They have pretty little rhinestones on the letters as well... they're quite pretty actually.  :)

It's been raining off and on today so I didn't get the lights hung outside.  That's on the list for tomorrow, I hope.  I'll get my tree after my birthday.

Happy December :)

Merry Christmas 2010

The day after Christmas.....

You'd think the kids were on tryptophan highs or something... they were lazy daisies the day after Christmas, which makes for easy photo shooting ;-)

Sedona being her normal princess - can't lay on the floor ;-) Kota on the other hand, LIKES laying on the ground - it's cooler!
Mister Pants and his pretty colors being lazy near his sister and brother (see Kota's foot in the upper right corner)
lazy Kota - starting to show his age..
Piperdog being lazy in another part of the living room
I've always loved taking photos of Chance - his coloring and markings are so striking and make for good photos :)
the face of an angel (who occasionally wears horns ;-) )
my pretty pretty princess - *swoon*
Sedona trotting up to me to play...
and proceeding to roll on her back and make Corgi noises...
I think this is Piper's nose who ruined my picture of Chance playing ;-)
this is a good angle of Kota's ear... weird, huh? :) He's getting better, but still not 100%....
That night I went to the Nutcracker with my friend and her daughter. This was the scene from the balcony - one of the dancers was reading the story to the kids down in the main floor.
I accosted a stranger and asked him to take a picture of us together... Rachel and I went to school together since we were in 7th grade - and her daughter is now a sophomore in high school!
This was our view from our seats to see The Nutcracker.
We had a good night - despite there not being a live orchestra, which there was supposed to be... Rachel and her daughter said that they didn't enjoy it as much as they had in years past, but since I'd never seen it before, I enjoyed myself and had nothing to compare it against. I will see it again.

Christmas Eve & Christmas 2009

We had a nice lazy Christmas Eve.... :) Sedona relaxes in her favorite place in the house...

See how sweet and innocent Piper looks?? If only you knew what she was DOING to the poor Mallard just before I snapped this picture ;-)
Piper Puppy with her very first Christmas tree... Merry Christmas, Piper puppy!!!
Christmas morning.... I took the stockings down from the wall and prepared to give the kids their presents.... Piper was VERY into investigating this morning.
Chancey and his stocking
Piper with hers....
Sissy with hers....
and Kody with his... he is showing his age, poor kid.
The crew and their stockings... :)
and the merriment begins!
Kota stole away with a toy and took it to the "safe zone" ;-)
and Chance, enjoying a new toy also...
Gramma sent the kids rawhide stars for all of the kids... here is Piper enjoying hers....
and Sedona enjoying her star
Kota, as always, was the first to finish his and dig into the stuffed center... :)
Chance ate the weaving around his rawhide star... weirdo ;-)
this is what was inside of the rawhide stars... more rawhide star! :)
Kota wrapped up in one of the Christmas toys - a snake with a squeeky in each green section! We love squeeky toys here!
All four heathens watching mom prepare her Christmas breakfast (Piper broke her stay JUST as I was snapping the picture! LOL)
This is the most common view of Piper... at my feet, looking up at me anxiously....
My Christmas breakfast... a cinnamon roll and coffee.... mmmm :)
Mom included this in our Christmas package... she said she used it as stuffing, but it's something I've remembered from my childhood - so a piece of "old" Christmas rejoined me this year... :) Very special :) It's one of those old latch hooks... We used to do them together, and we had a bunch at one time - not sure if she still has the others, but it was cool to see this one pop up in my Christmas package.
I hope you all have a wonderful and Merry Christmas with your families wherever you may be... I will be travelling across the valley to have dinner with my cousins daughter, her husband, his family, and my aunt and uncle who are in Arizona for the winter (snow birds ;-)).

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Christmas gift from work....

How cool is that, huh? :) My first "teacher" like thing! I love it. It's a fleecy blanket with a satin edge... :)

Santa Claus comes to Speech too??

Yes Virginia, Santa DOES come to speech too!

I had the kids all color stockings for me last week (well not all - MOST, I should say) and I hung them on the white board on Monday morning for the kids to see... They've all enjoyed "finding" their stocking...
And for your artistic pleasure..... closer shots of the "art" I had the kids do for me... I just love it!


And tonight Santa has come to drop goodies off for the good little boys and girls who go to speech...
They're going to FREAK when they see all the stockings with the goodies....
In each stocking was a candy cane, a Christmas straw, and 4 Hershey's kisses... doesn't sound like much, but it was a lot of work to put this all together for all the munchkins who come to speech on a regular basis! Whew!

I just love kids at Christmas time - despite them all behaving like heathens! ;-) 2 full days and a half day and we're off for two weeks! Hallelujah! :)

as always - catching up...

Jingle dogs, jingle dogs, jingle all the way.... (Chance is too doofy to care much, Piper was not pleased, and Kota is OH so proud to be jingling (and actually asked to have it put back on when I took it off)).
The none-so-pleased Piper with the Jingle Dogs collar on... she didn't move until I took it off. Little baby!

This video was taken one day during a barking fit... normally Piper is the barker, but she is the only one who DIDN'T join in on the barking... let's see how many of YOUR dogs join in the barking fun! ;-)
The entrance to Casa de Corgi all decked out in Christmas attire...
and without the flash... I love Christmas lights!
from across the street - there was not a single chance I was going to put lights up on the 2nd story... no desire to die, thanks.
Ahhh I wish I could leave Christmas lights up all year :) They make me smile!