Christmafacation at the Walfwalth house! That's really how Jamie's last name was spelled one time. It's now a common joke around here how many times our name gets misspelled!

This is our new trick....

Whoo hoo Mama, check me out!

Oh the injustice....

Hope she doesn't get any crazy ideas with that shotgun right there!! LOL LOL

Please, can you get me outta here?

The Beasts..aka Mocha and Dutch

These two animals are free..if you want 'em. I'm still angry with them from their little "escapade" from Firday morning. I'll share it with you. First of all, they do have electric collars on. Mocha's is usually the one that runs down. When hers does, we ALWAYS hear a very annoying beeping to let us know about it. Well. Evidently Dutch's went down Friday morning without so much as a warning. Had no idea. No clue. I had just finished feeding Rubye Ann and DAvis was playing. We were all still in our jammies. Afterall, Fridays are usually jammie days around here. So anyway, I'm talking to a friend and I happen to walk by the back door and there is this man standing there. I've only seen him a handful of times and I was pretty sure who he was, but I was still freaked out nonetheless. He obviously doesn't come around much b/c he rang the doorbell. Our doorbell doesn't work, never has. No telling how long the poor guy had been standing there before I walked by. I opened the door and the conversation goes like this:

Man: You have two big brown dogs don't you?
Me: Yes.
Man: Well, I just saw them chasing a runner down Tech Drive. You might want to go get them.
Me: But they have on their collars.....
Man: Like I said, You better go get them before they get too far....
Me: (still in disbelief walks outside to see if they are in the dog room....they weren't)

My friend is on the line hearing all of this, I think I told her bye, not really sure. Anyway, I grabbed Rubye ann and told Davis to go get buckled in b/c we had to find the dogs. I called Jamie and told him to help me look for them. Oh yeah, it was 35 degrees outside. So I got the two kids I had with me loaded up and we set off. I saw them right away. They were on Tech campus just frolicking away without a care in the world. The runner was gone. Poor girl. When I drove up, they stopped their frolicking and looked at me with what appeared to be great big doggy smiles and wagged their tails so hard their backends were wagging too. It was almost like they were saying, "Yippee, Mamas here to join the fun." Well, they got the first part right...Mama's here..but not to join the fun....
I slammed the car into park and jumped out. Please remember...jammie day. So I jump out grab Mocha first and pull her to the back of Sweetness. (That's our minivan). Picture it....Mocha basically sitting down, me pulling her by the collar, her rearend is draggin on the groundb/c she will not stand. She knew she was in trouble. I pulled her up off the ground and pushed her in the very back. As I started to close the back of the van, she would jump out and I'd have to start all over again. The back does that automatic close thing . It seemed to move REALLY slow that morning. It also has a feature that if something gets in the way of it closing, it will re-open. Well, it works JUST FINE!!! Finally, I got her in. Then I went for Dutch. He was scared by this point and was NOT MOVING. Dutch is considerably heavier that Mocha. I pulled him around the the passenger side and opened the door. At that moment Dutch became DEAD WEIGHT. Again, picture it....35 degrees, me in jammies. Big blue ones with a big fluffy bed jacket(those things like a robe only shorter) and slippers with holes in them.... I've wrapped my arms around Dutch under his front legs and am trying to lift him up to get him in the van. He would take his legs and spread them out so they would not go in...almost like a cat does when you try to put them in a sink of water, ever tried that? Yeah, well don't. Everytime he did that I would drop him b/c he was so heavy and the whole process would start over. At one point I mamaged to get his legs in the van and then I went to push his backend in, as soon as i did that he turned around and jumped out again. This happened several times. I was FURIOUS, in my blue jammies and slippers! I finally got the bright idea to get in first and pull him in. So I did just that, I pulled him in. After another struggle I was able to get him in, I leaned over and closed the van door. There I was hunched over the stupid dog in the middle of the van. I was forced to crawl over the seat to get to the front. I have no idea what the kids faces looked like. When I finally sat down I was sweating and my lungs were burning from all the cold air I had sucked in. I called Jamie and said I had them. I told him he needed to come on home and get them out of the van b/c if he didn't I was going to kill them on the spot!!!

Jamie got them out and saw that Dutch's collar had gone down and Mocha's was fine. Apparently, when Dutch saw the runner girl and began chasing her, Mocha took off with him and busted through the electric fence. I hope it was worth it for her!!

I'm still mad!!!!! Oh yeah, all of this was happening right in front of a row of rent houses that are occupied by college students. No doubt there was one or two peeking out at the crazy lady in her jammies trying to get two huge dogs in minivan! Classic.

So last night was the Christmas Parade. WE FROZE!!!! Here's the crew.....please realize that I am wearing a hat. I don't normally look that goofy. I hope.

Davis is a firm believer of "eat the candy as soon as you can". That piece never even saw the bottom of his bag. It's laying on the ground next to him empty.
Later today he's gonna get upset when he sees that Cooper's bag has more candy than his. Then I'll explain (again) that Cooper didn't eat most of it as soon as he picked it up!!! HA HA HA

Checkin' out the stash...

Can you see 'em? There's two of 'em..and they are S-H-A-R-P!

That's all I got for today. Sorry! I hope to have some better pics tomorrow....our town Christmas parade is tonight...WHOO HOOO!!!!!

When we go to PB, Davis loves to look in Daddy's old medical bag and play with all the "doctor tools". He found these glasses and had a great time.

Fa la la la la, la la la....

All I can say about this one is cute!

One day Rubye Ann seemed to be having trouble falling asleep for her nap. When I walked in to check on her, I found her like this...I can see where that could interefere with falling asleep!

I bet you didn't know that Batman was really a pilgrim who liked to draw!

Speaking of drawing....that has become a favorite pastime in our house lately. Two weekends ago when were in PB I walked into the living room and Cooper was drawing. I asked him what he was drawing. He said "the United States Mama". So I leaned over to see this....

WOW. Umm, yeah, that's it alright. He has a US puzzle that he does at home all the time. Folks, he drew this from memory. He didn't have a map, or a book, or a picture when he did this. He had a box of crayons, and paper. I'm still amazed. When I showed it to Jamie he said..."I don't think I could do that.." You can clearly pick out the states...Idaho, Texas, California, Oklahoma......and for those of you wondering...yes it will be framed!