Happy New Year!!!!

We had a great start to the New Year! Party at Scott and Philip's house, Edwardo's Pizza and a little "shootin' on the range"...

DeAnn and Me at Philip's New Year's Eve Party. We ate, we sang, we danced...

...and Tim worked...

But he did get a chance to dance with the rest of us to the Wii Dance game. It was fun! And quite the workout!

Dancing Queens...

After a few precious few hours of sleep, we went to shoot Scot and DeAnn's gun. I will load some pictures of Tim shooting next week, but this was my first time to shoot a gun...

I shot DeAnn's 38. Of course getting proper instruction from Mr. Astin first was my first priority.

...going for the gold...

Make My Day...
Hope every one had a great Happy, Safe New Year! Here's to an awesome 2010!

Happy New Year

No pictures this week. Still busy cleaning up after the holidays! Stay tuned and I will have some new pictures up this weekend hopefully. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and I wish everyone a Happy New Year!!

The Cats and Me

I don't normally post pictures of me on my blog, however today was the day that a couple of our resident felines decided to cooperate with us and allow us to take some pictures by the tree. Here I am with Pixie, but I think I need to change my camera setting!

Here I am with Pixie again. She is the newest member to our family and is fitting in just fine. She and Emmett are big buddies right now, getting into all KINDS of feline mischief.

Emmett was being a good boy for about five minuets here. "Quick Tim, snap the picture"!


Here I am with my baby Maverick. He only barely tolerated picture time, but I couldn't resist my most amazing cat. I love him dearly...


Here Tim is playing with one of his new toys, his new BC. Apparently it has a leak and he's gonna have to exchange it. (Sorry Timmy, but we will get it fixed)!


Here Maija is giving us her most honest "ba humbug" face...well, maybe not ba humbug, but it's close!

Hope every one has a great week! Merry Christmas!

Christmas time again...

It's time to put my Department 56 homes up...I wasn't able to put them all up this year, Tim and I got some new furniture and I don't have the shelf space, however, Tim made me a bigger fireplace mantle so I could put a few of them up!!

It was also time to add Emmett and Pixie to the ever growing number of stocking over our fireplace. Makes me wonder how much weight that mantle can hold!

Maverick and Pixie took some time for a cat nap while Tim and I finished decorating. Maverick makes for the most perfect big brother!

I don't recall there being a huge feline in the Nativity Scene...however Bendi has ideas of her own...

Again, Maverick taking a cat nap. Only this time he was napping with Emmett..."we were ASLEEP mommy"!

Voila, the finished product!!

Hope everyone has a great week!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!!!

And so it begins.....

We get out the Christmas Tree and attempt our decorating for the season. Only now we have 8 cats to worry about climbing the tree!!! Yes, Tim and I are crazy for having 8 cats, but they are all special and we love them!

This is the first Christmas for both Emmett and Pixie, so they were really excited about the strange goings on at the Dahl household last night...."what are all these boxes for daddy?"

Tim played with Emmett in the hopes it would satisfy his curiosity about things. It' didn't really work!

Then of course Pixie had to try playing with the garland...

Jessie and Maverick are the quintessential felines...resting under the tree...and thankfully not climbing it! Sammy did that earlier in the decorating process.

Pixie found a new friend...The Grinch!

Bendi made friends with Santa...

Maverick just fell asleep under a beautifully decorated tree!

Hope everyone has a great week and gets into the Christmas spirit by decorating and baking!!