An oldie.

I found this old pic when I was updating my external hard drive today:

I just about squealed! Isn't this the most adorable dog ever? I just want to snuggle with this puppy!!

Too bad he looks nothing like that now...

..A face only a mother could love....who knows how many types of microscopic organisms exist on that face!

But I do love that face. I just don't want to snuggle with it.

That was a quick post! Now I'm off to yoga class!

"Lacey-proof"

The act of "Lacey-proofing" something, is what Seth does to prevent me from eating his food.

I've started to notice this over the 3 years we've been married. It's pretty funny.

When we first got married, he was nice and let me eat his food [after I had finished mine, of course], but now he has found ways to keep me away! Kind of like how companies keep birds from perching on their buildings by putting spiky guards on the edge:

An example is Diet Coke. I loooove Diet Coke! In order to prevent me from drinking his Diet Coke, he will get the Diet Coke Lime flavor, which I think tastes like some sort of detergent. It works....when he leaves one in the fridge...I never touch it.

Another one is ketchup! This is Seth's best weapon. I detest ketchup. If Seth wants me to stay away from his food, he will douse it in ketchup! Ewwww. He does this all the time on his french fries. If he ever gets some fries I know I have a limited amount of time to snag some before he finds the ketchup.

His last weapon of defense: mayonnaise. uggggghhh. Gross. Seth doesn't really care for mayonnaise, but he will put it on his sandwich if he is hungry and doesn't want me to eat any of it!

The bottom line is that Seth has evolved to eat foods that I don't like so he is sure that he can finish it without me picking at it like a hungry vulture.

Isn't it sad that things have resorted to this? haha. Its a pretty funny joke between us, and Seth has now coined the phrase "Lacey-proofing the food."

I guess I could just solve the problem by not eating his food [in addition to my food]. I can't help it...I'm a hungry gal!

The Dog Whisperer.

No, I'm not talking about Cesar Millan.

Meet my littlest sister Jordan. The dogs just flock to her.

[Baloo looks creeeeeepy in this pic]

Christmas--a little late?

Ok, on to the next "Catch-up" post!

Christmas.

We spent Christmas morning at my house in Murrieta. Claude was with us, so you can imagine the fun that we had!

He started out the event with a hula dance, and borrowed my mom's ipu. Baloo didn't like the noise that it was making and attacked Claude during his dance. The funniest thing, was that while Baloo was barking and jumping and getting all crazy on him, Claude still kept dancing! It kept us laughing for a while.

Claude then thought it would be a good idea to eat some hot wings.

Consequence:

Spicy? haha.

Opening presents was fun! We all got some pretty sweet stuff. I took pictures, but I don't think my family would want me to post pictures of what they look like at 8am. hehe. Oh, except for this one---- this was my favorite. It totally captures the moment:

Paaahahaa it makes me laugh everytime! My dad had a mountain-man-christmas. This was him getting a hiking GPS from all of us. My dad loves to go on long hikes and this portable GPS lets him know where he is going. Here's him with all of his hiking stuff, including a new hiking hat and a bunch of other little tools and gadgets:

**and check out Harley, my mom's little crony, all curled up on her lap! That dog is so spoiled.

The dogs also had a bunch of fun tromping all over the wrapping paper and bows:

And Claude got a new shirt:

After that, Seth and I packed up and headed to the Parmas for Christmas dinner.

The whole extended family was there and we got to see them open up their presents! My favorite was uncle Mike's, who posed for a picture in it:

Little Luci checking out the action. I remember when he was Nonnie's christmas present!

And who could forget Sam's crazy hula hooping? haha.

Dinner was delicious. Tamales!

Little Sofi asked me to take a picture of her, and I told her to give me a nice smile. This is what I got:

Sadly I don't have any pictures of Seth and myself. I guess I just never asked anyone to take one for me! Oh well. I kind of did that a lot this vacation. I'll have to remember to squeeze some ones of us in next time.

Anyway, Christmas was great! We had such a fun time with our families [and Claude of course!]. I hope everyone else had a Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Fatty!

Fatty got some new rings for Christmas.

Check out the action. I think he likes them.