Oh Christmas Day

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care

Santa delivered

Presents were opened

Gotta love bed hair

Waiting for lunch...with a leg up

Poor Rachel was so sick...even with her coat on and sitting by the fire she was freezing.

And finally, the feast!

We all ate ourselves silly. Why do we do that?

Twas The Night Before Christmas.....

And all anxiously waited....

The food was delicious, and tummies were sated....

Games were then played....

And owwies displayed.... (gross!)

While mom learned the rules to the shiny new game....

Dad took a picture with Robin the lame....

Oh Brittany and Robin they are quite a pair....

And Linds with her tongue out as usual did bare....

The night was great fun for all who attended....

We all were quite sad when it finally ended!

Jail Bait

Sorry!....how many of us have received this picture in an email? Cute? Do NOT let it fool you! Sorry? I hardly think so!
When a beagle grows up, this is where they end up!

Pepper the very bad beagle.....

Beagles have a very strong sense of smell and an instinct to eat anything and everything they smell. Candy hiding in a leather brief case hidden in a closet? Hah! Cat food way up high where only the cat can reach it? Whatever! A metal garbage can with a lid on it? Nothing will stop Pepper! She knows she's not supposed to get in the garbage, or the cat box, or your bedroom, or any of the hundreds of other places there might be food....but she just can't help herself. The temptation of food overcomes all sense of right of and wrong. It's an instinct she simply cannot control. I swear she would eat herself to death if left to her own volition. Of course, this little fact was not known until after said beagle was lovingly taken home. She is like having a one year old in the house who cannot be left alone for one minute. The minute you turn your back she is off on a search and destroy (by destroy I mean EAT) mission. We try to "pepper proof" the house, but you just can't think of everything! I have a neighbor who had a beagle with this very same problem. He drove her crazy! He finally grew old an died. So what did she do? She went out and bought another beagle! Is she crazy???