By request, we uploaded a couple more videos and pics of the new dog. The last few days have helped me realize what it will take to be a parent just a little bit more. By no means am I saying that its like having a baby, but Dilly is a handful to say the least. She makes us laugh a lot, but it seems like I am the disciplinarian with her more often than I would like. She loves crotches, and sleeping on my head when I am lying down, and she loves to wake up at 6am after staying up and bothering us most of the night. She has been pouting ever since we put a collar on her for the first time, and she jumps around like a wild bronco when I use the leash. Every time she sees a kid she'll run to them, it's wierd, she just loves kids and babies. The potty training is slow, but its getting better, especially since we took down the tree. All I am hoping is that she can handle me being back in school because right now she is spoiled as ever with me around her all day. We put her in her kennel a couple hours a day to get her used to it.

Okay, I am boring myself. Christmas was fun and interesting being alone with Joni. We watched a few episodes of Lost during the day. That show just makes me mad sometimes, I don't know if there are too many writers that don't tie things up or what, but Joni loves it. I guess nothing will be like 24 to me, I love that show. We now have all 3 seasons of the Office, so we are happy about that too. I have considered getting into Heroes, but we'll see if the time allows. Joni loves Greys Anatomy, but doesn't every girl? How did I go from puppy to television shows? So Christmas was fun, we made a nice dinner and relaxed a lot. We got a lot of cool and fun presents, thank you for helping our first Christmas alone be as good as it could have been.

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The newest member of our family is Dilly...I know, wierd name that has no meaning, but who are we trying to impress anyways? We were thinking about Deely...not that that is much different or meaningful either. It's hard to name a girl dog. I was thinking since we took her away from her mom and brothers and sisters she was pretty traumitized, and I told Joni "it was probably because she was still sucking on her mom's dealy"...so that's where that name came from. Good thing I didn't say "nipple" or we'd have some worse name ideas on our list. So why a dog you ask? We have been thinking about it for a couple of years now, and we actually had our names on an adoption list at the humane society. I kept shooting the idea down when I thought too much about it. When my mom and family were here we went into this store called the Puppy Store. The store is kinda sad but fun to go into, I held a little rat terrier that I fell in love with, but there was no way I was going to shell out 360 bones for it (that's not dog talk, I mean $360). So we left, but I told Joni about it and she had to see it. We stopped by after church just to see if he was still there and hold him. Right when we got there, another couple was buying him. You should have seen the look on Joni's face when she saw it and realized it was being purchased. I'm not usually a sucker for those kind of looks but this was different. So that night I did my research on the internet, read all about rat terriers and how to take care of them, and I found a lady who breeds them and sells them for $150 here in Bryan. When I went out there I was sold on the littlest girl in the litter who stumbled right over my feet and looked up at me. When I surprised Joni she just about pooped her pants. I have always loved dogs, and I can't think of a better companion for Joni when I am away this summer. She is an 8 week old Rat Terrier, she'll get to be the size of a large cat.

Despite the fact that she is completely adorable, she is the weaniest, whiniest little thing right now. I am constantly babysitting. She woke up at 5:30am this morning and had no intentions of letting me sleep any longer. We figure we'll give her a week to be like this because of what she's been through, but then we are hoping to socialize her as much as possible. Thanks for the warm bottle idea in her cage mom, that worked for a little while. So my break is not so much a break anymore, except for when she is sleeping. Any suggestions on raising and/or training a puppy I am all ears.

Do you ever hear an old song or a group and it totally warps you back into a different decade? I was driving home with the window down and 75 degrees outside (after it was 40's and raining the whole week family was here), and Van Halen came on...I warped back into High School with my buddies driving up to ski at Bogus Basin after school every other day. It felt good, then the song "I'm just a girl" by No Doubt came on, which isn't a bad song either, but it was then that I realized this little "girl dog" has me by the...okay, so you get the point. I am nominating myself for the husband and pet owner of the year award.

Pictures are worth a thousand...

I thought these two pictures were funny...girls just want to have fun, and guys...just want to stick their hands in their pockets and watch.

We had a fun Thanksgiving. Spent some time with friends here, and then went to our friend's the Christenson's for the weekend. Plenty of turkey to go around at both places. We love thier little girls, they have another one as of last week.

The week of my finals Joni's mom and sister came and we had a great time. We left our camera at the Christenson's so no pics were taken, but we had a blast. I was stuck at the library most of the time but I still got some time in with them. They are probably three of the most unique women I know when they get together, I just sit back and enjoy the show. The day after they left, my mom, two brothers, and Erin (Joel's girlfriend) came into town. For some reason they decided to fly into two different airports in Houston, so by the time we all met and got home it was 3am. We went to the Broncos-Texans game Thursday night, and although the Broncos didn't play so well, we had a blast. We met some nutty people who we almost got in a fight with in the first quarter, but then we were friends for the rest of the game. I think by their 15th beer they started to warm up to us a bit. I got harrassed quite a bit in my orange Elway jersey the whole time. We were in a pretty rowdy section and we stood up the whole game....AWESOME seats right by the field.

Joni couldn't resist taking pictures of all the interesting outfits, like Santa's hot little helper. I don't know what goes through some people's minds when they come out in public like this.

Mom and Elvis...the older version of Elvis I'm guessing.

Don't know what this guy was, but he was super nice and a little bit stinky.

Our awesome seats. We saw Deion Sanders, Marshall Faulk, and some other announcers right up close. Plus, all the Broncos warmed up in the end zone right in front of us. We were yelling stuff at them and they were waving at us. One of the recievers was playing catch with some fans in the stands and Glen caught the ball but couldn't keep it of course. Two of my buddies Josh and Clint came with us. You can tell in the picture below I was more concerned with setting the car alarm than smiling. Everyone looks so happy...props to Joni for the pants.

So now we are going through people withdrawls. I am officially done with school for a month, and we have no visitors. We are going to do everything we can to make sure this Christmas isn't lonely. We had so much fun the last couple of weeks and we are thankful to have people we care about and who care about us. Thanks for coming to see us, for those of you who can't, that's why we blog. Have a great week!