Merry Christmas!

Barbie with Ollie & Charlotte -- two cute little kiddos!

 

Charlotte enjoyed helping Oliver open his gifts!  Isn't he the perfect Christmas elf???

Oliver got new shoes!!!

Charlotte was threatening me with a feather duster wearing her dad's new hat!!!

Oliver's favorite thing to say was 'dog' and he's checking out a box with dogs all over it! 

Gotta love this little boy.

I got a new TV.  Wow!  What a great gift!

Petey, Odie, Jim, Charlotte, Oliver & Mandy.  Not the greatest picture, but it's the whole family minus Boomer & Milo!  What a Christmas!

Mandy with her gift card to Penney's from Barbie!!  She's one happy shopper!

Grandma got Charlotte a new wii game with the princesses!!!

Mandy with her precious baby boy!

My new TV and fireplace.  Barb got me the fireplace, what a cool gift!

Look what you got Oliver!!!

I got a snowman vest from Barb!  How appropriate as I dearly love snowmen!!

Merry Christmas all!  In more ways than one!  As I sit here creating this particular blog it's snowing and blowing outside.  Fortunately for me, it's nice and warm here inside!  According to the news, we are experiencing blizzard conditions.  Got a call this morning (before 6 a.m.) from my boss telling me we were closing the offices and Head Start centers for today.  I called the local radio stations and gave them the information so my job is completed for the day.  From my patio doors it doesn't look that bad out there and one of the guys I talked to at one of the radio stations said he didn't think it was that bad out . . . he had driven in from Platteville and it wasn't bad.  But it does sound like the winds will be picking up and there will be lots of drifting and more snow coming!  Welcome to winter Iowa!!!  In town it doesn't look as bad as if you are out in the country.  They are giving a road condition report right now and the map looks pretty sick!  For those of you that have to go out, be careful out there driving. 

We celebrated our family Christmas last weekend.  What fun!  It was my turn to host the gathering.  My children and grandchildren came Friday night.  What a joy to spend some time with my grandchildren.  We decided to open gifts from my immediate family on Friday night after they all arrived here.  Jim and Mandy brought their dogs (Odie and Petey) along too.  Odie had an accident earlier in the week and their dogsitter backed out on them.  Plus Jim wasn't sure anyone else would be able to give Odie his meds.  Odie had been run over by a car earlier in the week.  He didn't look real healthy when they got here.  Petey was ready to go!!  But Petey is always ready to go.  What an active dog!  We got everything upstairs and the dogs settled down nicely and joined us for gift opening. 

Time out from gift opening to read a story.

Open your gift Daddy!

What do you want? 

The Davis Family, minus Odie.  Petey is one big dog!!!

This should not surprise anyone, but when putting these pictures on I, as usual, put them in the wrong order, etc. so finally decided to just put them on as you see them and call this a collage of our family Christmas.  We had a great time.  Petey and Odie were wonderful.  They were so well behaved.  Jim may not agree with me as on Friday night he had an awful time getting Odie to take his medicine but eventually he got it down his throat.  There was a marked difference in Odie's health from the time they arrived to when they went home.  I'm happy to report that Odie is doing great and back to his normal self.  (1.21.13).  I'm a little late in getting these finished but here they are!!!!

More to follow on the next edition.  The rest of the family . . . .