Christmas '07

We do not have a lot of pictures from this Christmas, so not everyone is represented here even. We spent the 22nd and 23rd in Beaver Falls with my parents and extended family (25 people and 2 dogs). Doug worked 11-11 all week, so we had a few hours Christmas morning at our house with the Graham Fam. Doug missed Christmas Eve church and dinner and Christmas dinner, so his mom and sisters delivered some food to him in the ER. We are going to his parents' this weekend to see Dawn and Nate a little more since DOug only saw them for 2 hours of their week on the East coast.

Daru prefers staples

After a traumatic encounter with something in the woods (an inanimate object), Daru made her first trip to her new vet this morning. She probably should have gone yesterday when it happened, but I couldn't tell how bad the laceration on her metacarpal pad was until Doug came home from work at 11 to help. It was pretty bad. It took the vet 6 staples to close it. She hobbles around pretty pathetically and is still groggy from the drugs they gave her. Here she is looking outside and thinking about how good life was before her injury.

The Big 3-0!

In the midst of our move and not having the internet for awhile, I failed to make a big deal on the blog about Doug's birthday! I couldn't find our camera the day after we moved, which was the big day, so I don't even have any pictures of Doug on that day so you could see all his gray hair =)! I think some family members got some pictures, so maybe in the future, I will have a picture of the actual day. This is from our old house....

Oh Deer!

Outside our new house, we frequently see several of these critters- up to 6 at a time. They are cute, but I think they can be a nuisance; we just haven't dealt with that aspect yet. They walk in the middle of the road, down the sidewalks, and run up and down the ravines around the house. Daru loves them even more than squirrels I think. Today when we all went walking in the woods she got to chase one...not even close to catching it but she had fun.

Tree Cutting

Doug had the privilege of cutting the tree down- I helped a little. Of course we found the right tree a zillion feet away from any path and across a creek, so we got to carry it long distance. They did have carts at Wilbert's, but we abandoned ours too early to go off the beaten path and decided it wasn't worth going to go get another one.

Our first Christmas tree

After 6 years of marriage, we finally are going to be in the same state where we live for Christmas so we got our own Charistmas tree! I was very excited to go and cut it; Doug kept telling me it was too big, but it was not. I was amazed by how many ornaments we had- we almost filled the tree even though it is a 9 foot tree!