Chris has been busy...

Wow. He's taken the interior of the house from stark white everywhere (which is preferable when one is selling their house), to this:

2009

Welcome 2009. My personal "me" goals for this year are to grow my billing business by advertising in the Colorado Bar newsletter - not just the BCBA newsletter - and perhaps getting some sort of mailing/marketing plan, as well. I plan to be the kick-assingest employee at the place where I just started full-time last Monday (legal secretary, Denver, GREAT firm), and I hope to become involved in racing again.

Susan and Brett and Gavan came over New Years Eve, and we had dinner (Papa John's) and drank (sangria, and Chris made yummy Malibu x OJ stuff), and ate chips and dip, and watched Hancock (cute!) and the truck flip/motorcycle jump thing in Vegas. Good times.

On a sad note, my mom had to put down her heart-horse, Gilly. He was 30. She got the call Tuesday night that they thought something was wrong at dinner time. Turns out it was colic (he's not prone to it, but with his age...) and she didn't want him to suffer. He crossed the bridge at around 10:30 that night. My heart breaks for her. I can't imagine the void now - 21 years with him.

Skyler Rides a 2 Wheeler for the First Time

New...a Few Weeks Ago...

My new Custom Glaze from Horsing Around:


Finished after this horse I saw at BreyerFest 2008:

Our New Neighborhood...

...is the schiznizzle. First, the week we were moving in, the neighbors on the main street, a couple houses down, came over to borrow our can opener. Last Saturday, when we were having our house party, the wife came over with a tin of freshly-baked cookies - like KILLER YUMMY cookies - the kind you can sit down with a book and eat the whole tin. Today, we got home from helping Peggy move some stuff - and the neighbor directly across from us came over with a tin full of assorted Christmas cookies. HOW SWEET is that? I really have to get with it. We love this stuff!! We knew we loved the location - how close it is to the elementary and middle school, and everything else we love (*cough* Super Target *cough* *cough*) but who knew the PEOPLE totally rock, too? I didn't know people actually did this stuff any more!!!

So, long story short - I'm going to have to figure out how to bake stuff that's actually edible, outside my very tolerant family.

Woohoo!

House Party, and Embarassed Dog

We had our house party yesterday - and wow, did we have a great turnout of wonderful friends! We had close to 20 people in the house at once, for most of the time.



Cassie brought her Boxer, Browdie, and he did awesome with our two, plus Chad and Renee's Sadie.

The temperature was in the 50s yesterday - and right now, it's -1*. Ugh.

Today, I tried to warm up Sierra for her trip outdoors - Cooper has a Lands' End coat, but Sierra doesn't have anything yet:



She looks real pleased, huh?