Happy Thanksgiving!

We spent this Thanksgiving with my family and my dad's friend Benard who is visiting for the month of November from Chicago at our new house. Everyone braved the snow to make the trek to our house and my mom and I spent the morning cooking. We enjoyed spending time with friends and family and of course eating yummy foods and pumpkin pie.

We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Seattle Snow

Even though winter is still officially a month away, Seattle got it a little early with 4 inches of snow at our house as proof. We both worked from home yesterday and stayed bundled up and warm while the dogs decided that they wanted to play in it. For Loki this was his first time seeing snow so he wasn't so sure about it at first but a little pushing from Odin and they were off playing.

Happy Friday!

This week has been a hectic one with getting the house ready for Thanksgiving next week, repairing the newly completed fence that a deer decided to remove, craziness with work,getting over a nasty cold and of course getting the boys ready for the shows this weekend. Wish us luck as we debut the puppy in his first show tomorrow!

1. My Thanksgiving plans this year will include eating copious amounts of food at my new house with my family, grandfather and my dad's friend who is visiting from Chicago.

2. My favorite Thanksgiving was the first time I spent it with my husband's family at his grandparents and the rest of the extended family joined. It was great to see all of the extended family spending time with each other and even better that everyone got along for the most part.

3. My signature Thanksgiving dish is corn pudding. It's one of the few times a year that I make it but everyone requests it to be made and usually there is no left overs which must mean it is a crowd pleaser.
4. My favorite Thanksgiving food is mashed potatoes and gravy. Since Ben doesn't really like potatoes we don't have them very often at our house so I enjoy getting them covered in gravy during the holidays.
5. Thanksgiving free association! turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce.  with the lines on it, thankfulness, family time.

6. Thanksgiving is  a time to stop and pause to be thankful for the things that I have .

7. I am thankful for a best friend who is also a husband, two silly dogs, for family in general, our health and happiness and much more.

Deer-1, Fence- 0

We have been working on getting a fence put up around the smaller yard for the past 3 weeks that we have been in our new house and were within a day of being finished and having a space for the boys to run free until yesterday morning. Somewhere between the time that the boys were initially let out to potty and were let out again before going into the kennel for the day a deer came through and decided he didn't agree with where we put the fence.

Guess were back to work on the fence this weekend. Deer-1, Fence-0

It's Friday!

What a week! It was very long and productive one both on the work and home front. As usual, here is today's Fill in the Blank Friday...link up here to play along!

1. The most spontaneous thing I've ever done was a trip with ten other people (including Ben) packed into a SUV designed to carry six people and headed to a club in the middle of the night in a foreign country and we barely knew how to get home at the end of the night.

2. The best gift I've ever received was a strand of pearls that belonged to my grandmother for my wedding.
3. A time that I was truly and genuinely surprised was when Ben proposed. I was completely unaware he was even proposing since his line came across more like a joke than a proposal.

4. I can't leave the house without my cell phone, chapstick and GPS if driving.

5. My favorite day of the week is Saturday because I get to sleep in late and set my own agenda for the day -- whatever that may be.

6. Something that can always make me laugh is Odin and Loki. They are always doing something that will make you laugh.

7. My perfect day would include sleeping in 'til 10. Doing something with Ben and the boys- Odin and Loki and hanging out with friends in the evening.