Thanksgiving

I wasn't as organized as I wanted to be over the holiday. I meant to take a bunch of pictures, but I didn't. I also forgot Nathan's video game and a picture for my dad. Those two I can blame on 4 a.m. brain, but the pictures were just pure laziness.
The drive was pretty quick, only about 5 hours which now feels like nothing. The dogs were kenneled for a few days which made us a little nervous, but they seemed fine when we picked them up. Enzo's bark was a little hoarse, I'm sure he drove everyone crazy while we were gone. The trip was a nice little break. The food was good, the company was good, overall a success. We'll probably plan to split Thanksgiving and Christmas this way as long as we're down here. I promise that over Christmas (and hopefully before then) I'll take good pictures. It's been a while since I posted any.

Twisters?

A new natural disaster that we need to be on the lookout for is tornadoes. We were on a tornado watch last night and apparently a few of them touched down not too far from us in Rock Hill, SC and other northern South Carolina counties. We're fine, but it's one more thing to get used to. The fun never ends!!

'Tis the season

For delicious cookies! I have spent most of the day today looking for new recipes for baked treats for Thanksgiving and Christmas. If anyone has any requests or suggestions, I'd be happy to take them into consideration. Just send me an email or a comment and I'll see what I can do.
We're getting REAL football games today because the Panthers are on a bye-week. I wish they were on bye all the time. Right now we're watching the Jets/Bills, which isn't pretty but it's better than what we usually get. I was supposed to get the Redskins game, but they changed it to the Saints at the last minute. I was hoping to get a look at Nathan on TV, preferably doing something stupid that I could laugh at him about. Oh well!

Also!

For those of you that haven't heard our holiday plans, they are as follows. For Thanksgiving we will be in Virginia. We'll be in the Arlington area Wednesday morning to Thursday afternoon, and in the Fredericksburg area Thursday evening to Friday. For Christmas we will be back in Connecticut. We'll be driving up on Dec 21st and driving back on the 28th, which gives us Wednesday to Wednesday. Hope to see you all at one point or another!

In case I ever tell you I don't hate my dogs,

Call me a liar. Seriously. Every time we're gonna take them to the park, it starts raining. I'm not talking a little drizzle, I'm talking a few days of steady downpours. Because our whole place is carpeted, we don't want to bring muddy paws and bodies into the mix. Well, the pups are going stir crazy. Yesterday was not a good day in terms of my dogs. They almost died, because I almost killed them. We went out early in the day and came home to this:

Yup, that's a hole in the wall that we need to fix. Not only was there this hole, but there was plaster and junk all over the floor. So while I was taking the jerks out to pee, Donald set about the task of vacuuming up said mess. Then we went out again to buy them food (see, starving them would take too long) and came home to this:

That would be a chewed up vacuum cord. It wasn't plugged in so they didn't get zapped. Maybe next time? Today we bought them the biggest rawhide bones we could find. They go through those things like water. One is still on the floor, we think the other one was already finished. At least there aren't any more holes in the wall.

Rain, rain, go away!!