Christmas is over...

Christmas is over but the memories are here to stay... Bella did really well for her first Christmas Eve get together... She wore her pretty collar all night and had very good manners, though she was not into loving on anyone, just hanging out and wandering through to see what everyone was doing... I was really proud of her! This really is one spoiled, lucky pup...

Our 2009 Christmas tree... It really isn't leaning like this; I haven't any idea how I was able to take this picture... Hmmm, talent I guess! LoL

Our new sofa... I love it! It is so comfortable... I can't get used to the design and now I need to do something different with the wall, but man is it nice to lay on... The really nice thing though is that there was room for everyone to sit at our party... It is also nice to have furniture in both rooms since we haven't had furniture in the living room since Cody moved home... And just to let you know... Bella is NOT allowed on the new sofa! This was her first and last time on the new sofa!

I hope everyone had a great weekend, Shann @}----

Merry Christmas from Us to YoU...

Merry Christmas from My Family to Yours!!! I have been so busy I haven't had time to mail out Christmas cards, but they are on my list to do... So I thought since I was running out of time I would at least put them on my blog to let YoU all know I am thinking of you and wishing YoU all a Very Merry Christmas! As you can see I couldn't get the humans in the family to stand in one place long enough to get a picture, but these little darlings don't have a chance because I chase them around until they wear out and then get my picture whether they like it or not! Ha! Though as you can see the little snausage at the end loves his picture being taken, the other two I don't think they like it so much... LoL... The three amigos keep us entertained and we love them to pieces... They are three very lucky pound puppies!

Merry Christmas Everyone, Shann @}----

The tree is almost done...

The tree is in the house and almost fully decorated... I still have the top of the tree to put ornaments on and of course the tree topper and tree skirt... It is so wonderful to have a puppy under our tree this year! She likes having a pretty water dish right in the family room... I had to break down and buy new lights this year for the tree... Steve sat and tried to fix the lights for over an hour, they have to be the most frustrating things to fix...

Tomorrow will be spent trying to get all of your gifts sent off to Alaska and Ohio... I am sure I won't be the only one in line at the post office, it is sure to be a busy day for the mail service... After that I am going to try to talk Chelsea into helping me paint the living room... Wish me luck on that one!

I hope everyone has had a great weekend and has a great Christmas week! Shann @}----

What's up...

• Not much going on, just wishing this work week was over...
• The sewer is flowing like a dream!! Ha!
• I am still exhausted from being sick last week and still haven't whethered the whole croup thing... I don't like being tired and when I was tired, I really wasn't...
• I have all of my Christmas shopping done!!!!! Whoop,Whoop!! (Thanks Chels)
• We still don't have the Christmas tree up, but will be starting tonight! (Thanks Jack & Debbie)
• This is Bella's 1st Christmas!!! She has a new rhinestone collar and wreath to wear for Christmas Eve! and an angels halo (ahhhh)
• I don't feel like I have all my ducks in a row in life at home or at work... I feel really disorganized; my feng shui is off kilter! You know this is true when your doing your hair in the morning and you are thinking about how to file and clean your filing cabinet!!!
• I have to paint the living room...
• I want / need a sofa for the living room... Hmmmm I think I will look on Craig's List...
• I need to give Grandma her Christmas tree too! I will decorate it tonight while decorating mine..
• I love, love, love my husband for bringing my dog to work with him and not giving up on her neurotic behavior, he truly is my soul mate!
• Back to work for JustMe; HighHo!

Life is never boring...

First, look at all the snow that accumulated next door! Large clumps of pure white snow... The dogs were having a great time romping in it, there was snow everywhere and it was 42' outside, just like a blizzard it was! They never live a boring life over there!
Yesterday the utility guys came out and dug out our driveway to see if our sewer plug problem was on their side and after them working for two hours we found out it was indeed on our side and our problem to find the issue and fix it... So needless to say Steve dug his heart out today looking for the root of the problem, found it and fixed it like the night in shinning armor he is... It ended up being a 10 ft ditch, replacing the pipe and finding a 3 ft long snag of roots in the pipe...
Here are some of the arsenal of tools Steve used to dig this huge ditch and fix out problem... That jack hammer was worth every dollar we spent on it today! Best find we've gotten this year and thankful that we ran across it after all of today's work...We put a Skyy bottle in the ditch when we were done with a message in the bottle reading "12.2009, Merry Christmas the shitters full! I hope it gives someone a laugh in the future! Made me laugh while putting it together... LoL

Hope everyone had a great day, Shann @}----

Baby it's cold outside...

This is what the three amigos look like when it is "cold" outside; hey let us in! Can you see the sadness on Rosea the queen of I should be in front of the firelplace eyes... LoL

This was taken at 3:30 am on Monday morning... Those white things are snow and yes it is pathetic unless you live where there is no snow! To me it was reason to wake my children from a sound sleep to be overly excited in there sleepy lethargic non excited ears...

My elephant ear are all gone now, shrivelled up from last nights 27' degrees... Summer is officially gone from my backyard...

There was actually ice hanging off my elephant ear by the pond... Very pretty, but not pretty enough for me to get my feet wet in the morning cold...

It was very neat to drive to work with snow on my windshield, there was actually still snow on it when I came out at 11:30 to have lunch... So this was the excitement of the week...

I stayed home sick with a cold... I have the itchiest chest and a huge deep cough that came out of no where... I hate being sick and I doubt I will get much sleep tonight... I know I am whining, but my body hurts from coughing so hard... Tea, honey and lemon are a life savor, just wish it would last longer...

Hope you are all having a great week, Shann @}----

Had to share this....

MERRY CHRISTMAS

the Shit'ters still FULL!!!

Ding Dong the Clog is GONE!!! 1:00 pm :)

The culprits are redwood roots...

Our days are never easy...

My day started like most Saturdays, getting up and starting the laundry after Steve leaves for work... I went over to help Chelsea get ready for her new roommate to move in this morning... That is done now and it looks like they will all get along just fine... As you can see I had the dogs most of the day... The above picture is of them all eating their own bullysticks... And the lower pictures show how irritated Rosea can be when the other two play and annoy her... She has Old Lady hate for the younger ones in her eyes... The girls next door have the house all decorated and cleaned up which is nice and all is good on their home front...

I got a lot done today, the yard is raked, the pond is cleaned out and getting repaired, the laundry is done, the house vacuumed and the wood stove is burning, and all done with the help of these three...

Everything was grand until I did the last load of laundry tonight and the washer water starting backing up into the sinks and tubs... Another words our sewer is clogged... Steve worked on it with the hand snake tonight and we found tree roots, so needless to say we are going to need something that can chew them up tomorrow... No Poop'in in this house until it is fixed and no showers either... Three toilets and not one of them are serviceable... Good thing we have a child next door that has two poopers... Life is never boring and these kind of things always happen at night and in December!

Well enough complaining tonight....

Tomorrow is going to be another day of work and Steve & Shannon adventure...

Have a great night, Shann @}----

Jessie & Levi...

I am finally getting to blog Jessie and Levi's school pictures... Jessie is in 2nd grade and Levi is in kindergarten this year, both are doing very well... I can't believe how fast they are growing!

I miss you two! Love Auntie Shann <3

Tug of War...

Every night there is a little tug of war going on in my familyroom... These two go at it; Steve calling her a tough girl, whatchya got in you, show me your whos tough! She growls a prissy princess growl when he growls at her... Yes, he growls at her!!

Look he is white knuckling it! LoL

Do you think she could bring a smaller toy or rag to tug with??? Honestly she loves fabric...

Nose to nose! LoL... Can you hear the sweet nothings! I don't know about you, but I think he likes this dog... Silly man - Silly pup...

I hope everyone is having a great week, Shann @}----

Girls Fieldtrip to Oakdale...

Girls Field Trip to Oakdale to the Cowboy Festival... It all started with Monica watching the morning TV show telling all of the places to be on a Saturday morning... Chelsea collects cowboy & cowgirl attire for her house... Needless to say I get a call and lets go to the festival and I am always willing to go on a field trip... So off we went to go to a little podunk festival, it was little but very nice and we had a good time finding a few treasures to bring home...

Monica with one of their treasures!

The girls in front of the Cowboy Museum and in the background the old Hershey's Factory...

We had to go to a couple of antique shops where Chelsea found an OUTHOUSE she just had to have! Only my daughter could fall in love with an outhouse! She now lives in a 3 bedroom, two bath with an outhouse!!! LoL

The outhouse being strolled across Main Street! It barely fit in the truck which was sort of comical in it's self...

We ate at this wonderful little dinner that had the absolute BEST food... These are the brownies and below you will see a half of Monica's pastrami sandwich... It would be worth the drive to go to just this little dinner... Gosh it was good!

Look Cows!!! Moooooooooooooo

Monica being bored in the back seat and Chelsea being bored with the camera...

Rancho Seco Sunset...

My find was the Elk iron cutout...

The outhouse and I bought Chelsea a stagecoach iron cutout...

We had a great time on our little Saturday jaunt... I hope you all had a great Saturday too!

----{@ Shann @}----

Best Man at his Best...

Thought I would share some pictures from a few weeks ago... Cody was Brian's Best Man in his wedding... Handsome Guy isn't he; I just love this picture!

Their all a bunch of HANDSOME guys!

In the picture is Cody, Brian, Drake and Brian's two younger groomsmen...

Happy Day, Shann @}----

The trio quading at Foresthill...

Look Dad, I rolled the quad down the hill and I'm not hurt!

This is the first time that both kids went quading at the same time together...

I love this picture of my three favorite people in the whole wide world...

Say Cheese!

Peace!

Got Mud??

The three had a great time riding the day away in Foresthill... The first time they have gone all together and the first time in Foresthill in the last three years... Looks like they had a great time and made memories to hold on to!

Happy almost Thanksgiving, Shann @}----

I had a great day today...

I had a great day today...

I got to go visit with a Friend I haven't seen in 23 years, she was my math and biology teacher in 9th grade... She was one of those teachers you would never forget, one that made learning fun... She was loud, excepting and could bring any project to life... She had a wild sense of humor and still does, she gave me a love for animals that preyed on the love I had already had... She also had the love for dead animals that I loved too, having animals of all kinds in formaldehyde, skeletons of snakes, chickens and skulls; real science that you could touch and get up close too...

We both had a love for dogs, hers being her beloved Irish Wolfhounds which happen to be the size of a horse and her only being maybe 5' 2" was fun to be around... We had many adventures of showing dogs and I even got a chance to show her black sheep in the Butte County Fair... We have kept in touch off and on through the years but with having the kids, a job and life going so fast I had never had a chance to go up the hill and see her... We have one of those friendships that when you get a chance to talk to one another, catch up on life that it is like you haven't skipped a heart beat... She called yesterday and I jumped at the chance to go see her, she is 72 years old now and I can't keep putting people aside until I have time to go see them, so I went up for a visit today and had a hard time leaving... She is still the crazy full of life person that I remember from being a kid, still has her love for dogs & horses, still has a house of them... We talked and talked, cackled and cackled, and talked some more... It really was so darn nice to see her, to give her a hug and enjoy that cackle of a laugh that I used to love hearing...

It is amazing how people don't really change... I pulled up and she was standing there with this gorgeous long wavy gray hair going every which way, a furry leopard coat and boots on! I tell you if I could look that good at 72 I will be a happy camper, to hell with the purple I want the twinkling eyes and leopard coat! We enjoyed the day, and we went to lunch and a little bakery that had the best soup and chicken salad... What a nice day it was and one that I will hold dear to my heart for quit some time...

2nd Saturday in November...

There is a story in the picture as you can imagine... Yesterday it was a cool 40' or so degrees in the morning.. I have learned that if you leave blankets for this pup she drags them in the middle of the yard where she freezes to bits instead of leaving them in her house where she can cuddle and stay warm... So on this particular morning I throw a couple of old huge towels in her house and call it that as the sun was coming up and she would warm up soon any how... But Steve on the other hand felt pitty on this pup (Mr. she's a dog and I didn't want one!) and decided to put her dog bed that she sleeps on next to our bed out in her house so she could stay cuddly warm! As you can see he came home to the green swiss alps; stuffing every where and the bed on the side of the house with needless to say NO stuffing left in the bed.... Do you think she had fun... I think she had a hay day! The funny thing is she is my dog and I got to clean it up! What is wrong with that picture! LoL

This is the porch that Steve has been building on this beautiful fall day over at the girls house to keep the rain from hitting the french doors... It should have been built a long time ago, but now is as good as never... It looks great and just needs to be roofed tomorrow, the sheeting is down and it is as strong as a barn... It is going to be great next summer as the dogs will have a great place to get out of the hot sun and relax...

I hope everyone is having a great weekend, Shann @}----

Whats happening...

• This dog (Tucker) got over being an idiot and now gets along with Bella! They played and the played and they played... Bella is tired to the bone because her and Tuck ran all over both yards all day long... It is wonderful that he came to his senses finally!
• The weekend was busy!!!
• Friday was a morning appointment, then to Costco, Sportsman's Warehouse and then up to visit with Joe, Susan and the kids... You can not believe how tall the kids are getting! It was really good to see Susan and get to visit with them all... Cody was busy being Brian's Best Man as he was getting married and starting a new life... I haven't got to see Cody in his tux but bet he was one handsome dude... I hear he did a great toast too and even took a date! and had a great time...
• Saturday was a trip to the camera shop to see if I could get my camera and lens fixed... The good news is yes for the camera and possibly for the lens; it gets to get sent back to Nikon... Then we were off to Wild Sports, Wild Bills, the Gun Store and the Douglas Range where the need to be in the range and fire at clays ran through our minds... I think I need the feel and smell of a little burnt powder...
• Sunday was a morning of laundry, mowing the lawns at both houses, the Michael Jackson Movie and coming home to help Steve start building the back porch next door...

This weekend was a great weekend as far as spending time with Steve and Bella... Life really is good in my neighborhood...

The next two days will be days filled with computer training; another new program to take on... I am hoping this one is everything we need it to be with the support that we are paying for... I am looking forward to learning and making this program everything we need it to be as I love learning and the program we had before limited us so... So hears to hoping my braincells are willing to expand...

I hope everyone has had a great weekend, Shann @}----

Alaskan Trick or Treaters

GHOST LEVI
BAT JESSIE

HAPPY BAT & GHOST READY TO TRICK OR TREAT!

Angie made their costumes from scratch... I love them both and I am sure they had lots of fun... Just wish they could have visited my front porch and the Christmas porch next door...

Happy Day, Shann @}---

116 tricker treaters...

Trick or Treat...

Happy Halloween Everyone... I am sitting on the porch tonight handing out candy to the kiddies... I am going to have dry ice witches brew, lights and music... fun stuff!

Here I am...

• Yes with my amusement this makes me laugh! I feel like this sometimes! LoL
• I have been a "bad" blogger... I am going to try to be better...
• I haven't been taking pictures lately... I am still pouting about breaking my wide angle Len's in Mandalay Bays bathroom! I miss my wide angel and nothing is like it... I am going to try to send it off to be fixed but there is not much hope! boohoo
• Steve is working on a job and his back hurts... I hate when he hurts all the time makes for a sad wife... Poor guy! Getting old sucks! ex specially when you have been so hard on your body when you were a young buck...
• I am decorating for Halloween and it is so much fun! reminds me of pirates of the Caribbean... I am dressing up as a witch for work and for Halloween I am going to sit on my decorated porch with dry ice and a witches brew... fun stuff
• The girls next door are decorating their house for Christmas and handing out candy canes, playing Christmas tunes and dressing as elves... They will probably be the talk of the block!
• I love my scentsy jars! I have a nightlight jar at work and everyone loves the smell of home...
• Work is work... Work is work... Work is work...
• My Bella is a spoiled brat! and I am not kidding... I am reading the Dog Whisper and she has to learn who I am "the Leader of her Pack"... She thinks she is Queen now and that is a jump up from Princess! The little girl needs an attitude adjustment letting her know that I am indeed the Queen! I love her with all my might though... the little punk
• My bills are paid... Life is good... I am blessed when it comes to life!
• I really love the fact that my daughter is unhappy and disappointed with a C on a test! Makes me smile inside! She is a hard worker and would get straight A's if she didn't have to work and go to school... The kid is so much better at life than me at that age!
• The wind is gone, the sun is out but it is still cold outside...
• I saw a picture on FoxNews this morning that is still bothering me... I need to get over it!
• I had lunch with my daughter today and loved every minute of it... :)
• Wish I could twitch my nose and be back east with my Sis to celebrate Fall! 2000 miles is just to many miles in my book!
• I get to go get rid of my grey tonight... This is a good thing as I am not ready for being silver in any way...
• blah,blah,blah

Happy almost Friday Everyone, Shann @}----