Dogs

Originally, we just had a bed for Stella in our family room.  But, after seeing that Atticus wanted a bed in there as well, we did some rearranging and added his bed in there as well.  I think he's just a little too big for Stella's bed.  I think they are the ones in charge of our house!

More silly pictures of my house

Sorry everybody.  Here's more pictures of my house.  

Ralph Offeret

I'm not sure how to start this post.  But, Dustin's grandfather Ralph Offeret passed away last night.  Dustin was extremely close with him.  He was a great great man.  He helped raise Dustin, and did a mighty fine job at that.  We loved sitting and listening to his stories of when he was a young kid and teenager.  I gather that he was a troublemaker though.  He shared 56 years with his wife, Betty, and had three lovely children.  He was a strong man that served our country and received a purple heart.  He will be missed...

We love you, Ralph.

Progressive Dinner

Every Christmas my family puts together a progressive dinner.  This way we can see everyone's house all decorated for the holidays.  We start at my house for appetizers.  Travel to Sean and Ashley's for a salad, my mom's for the main course, and finally to Megan and Seth's for dessert.  Good food and good times.

Obviously, Dustin had a good time.

Halloween

I love to decorate my house.  I don't know how so I just throw stuff together and hope that it works.  I didn't have a reason to have anyone over this year around Halloween but I decorated anyway.  Now that I have a blog at least I can still share the pictures.

Captain Patrick

Some of you have had the opportunity to meet my friend Captain Patrick.  He is the captain of the Starship Enterprise and I am one of his commanding officers.  Last week our salon went and had our pictures taken.  Captain Patrick was invited to be in the picture as he folds our towels on Wednesday afternoons and Friday afternoons.  We were told to wear black and white for our picture and naturally that meant renting a tux to Patrick.  I arrived just as he was leaving and he let me take his picture.  He was so proud of himself in the tux and that he was in the picture.  For those of you that have met him you know that he is not a tall man.  That being said, I guess that the tux rental place had to do A LOT of alterations to make the tux fit him.  So many in fact that they just gave him the tux after that.  

I am grateful to Patrick for reminding me how simple and wonderful life is.  For someone to be excited about folding our crap towels at work reminds me to seek out the little things in life.  He's a great man and I am honored to work on the Starship Enterprise with him.

My niece Emily has requested more pictures of the dogs.  Here's one for her.  Don't mind that the beds not made.