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The top ten highlights of our April:

  • Gorgeous weather most of the month.
  • We got a head start planting our veggies in the garden and flowers throughout the yard.
  • We had a great Easter, we celebrated in St. Louis, and enjoyed our niece and nephews.  We also celebrated Doug’s birthday with my family. 
  • Our nephew Nathan turned two and we celebrated with a Mickey party!
  • We went to the Supercross Motorcycle event at the Ed Jones Dome, my first time at motorcycle races, oh the things I do since I met Doug!  :)
  • Went morel mushroom hunting…Jaime=3, Doug=0
  • The antics of our crazy pets…see the next post!
  • We sold Doug’s truck and in the process of buying a new one.
  • We made updates to the bathrooms, and adding a new shower to the master bath….gotta love drywall dust throughout the house.
  • We have 5 months to wedding, and we are so excited to countdown to the day!

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So, April was a busy month for our two four legged friends.  Griffey, although 9 years old, one would never guess and think he may still be a puppy.  He loves that we have four kids in the family under the age of 7 who walk around with snacks in their hands that he helps himself too.  This Easter, the lovable, gentle giant helped himself to the Easter Egg hunt in my parents backyard.  Plastic eggs with candy were hidden all over the yard, and Griffey with his high-powered nose, found some before the kids did, chewed open the eggs, then ate the candy!  Chasing him around the backyard so the kids could have their eggs, was how we spent the egg hunt!

Then, Griffey, the hunter, didn’t disappoint with his newly acquired hunting skills.  In four days, he managed to find three baby bunnies in our backyard.  Whenever he is outside longer than 10 minutes, we know something is up.  As we went to check on him, we find him IN the garden (which is fenced off) with a bunny in his mouth.  As Doug goes out to save the bunny, Griffey the Proud, trots around the backyard with bunny in mouth.  Sadly, the baby bunny didn’t make it…now repeat this process three times.  Me….very sad by all this, poor, cute, little baby bunnies….Doug, however, was a little proud of his hunting dog.  So, a week later, after we thought the bunny drama had ended, we were planting veggies in the garden and uncovered a fourth baby bunny, buried in the garden.  Yep, this time he took it upon himself to bury it!  Lovely surprise for us!

Now, Ali, the playful, lovable, friendly cat has a personality all of her own.  Her favorite past-time is pushing EVERYTHING off the kitchen counter…we can handle this silliness.  However, one evening, after a bad storm, we came home to find three, yes three, cell phone cords chewed in half…completely in half….and they were plugged in.  Doug suspects she received a jolt, but it didn’t stop her from chewing through three of them!  But it is hard to get mad at either of these adorable creatures!

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Here are recent and random pictures of Griffey and Ali.  We are still amazed that they have come so far from their first meeting.  When we introduced them for the first time, it was an all out war!  And the war continued for about a month.  Now, however, they have learned to tolerate each other and have even been spotted sleeping in the bed at the same time.  Alice turned 2 and Griffey turned 9 in January.  My favorite pics are of them each sleeping on the leather sofa…the one place they are not allowed….well, you can see how well that goes over!  I also love the pic of Doug in his camo with Griffey and the duck….the only duck Griffey will actually retrieve is a stuffed one!  To Doug’s dismay, his hunting dog is just not gonna hunt!

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We had a great Christmas this year!  We celebrated Christmas with Jaime’s family the Saturday before Christmas with a party and dinner at our house, then on Sunday we had Christmas with each other and our pets…then on Dec. 23, after work, we headed to Chicago to spend Christmas with the Ludwigs.  We had a great time in Chicago, spending time with Doug’s family, we had a snowy, white Christmas and spent some time in downtown Chicago.  Doug’s dad dressed like Santa on Christmas Eve and we took some cute family photos.  We watched movies, played games, cooked and ate a lot of great meals.

Our day in the city was fabulous….we went to the Museum of Science and Industry, then over to see the Bean, the headed to a local bar called Tavern at the Park to have a few drinks and warm up, then headed over to Macy’s for some shopping before having dinner at Navy Pier.  It was a perfect day and had a steady snow fall most of the day.

Then, on Sunday, before we headed home, we celebrated Doug’s niece April’s 18th birthday!  Here are some of our photos…

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We celebrated Christmas with the Powers side the weekend before Christmas since we were heading to Chicago for the holiday….we had a great time with dinner and a party at our house.  Jaime’s two nephews and niece had a great time opening their gifts and we played Rob Your Neighbor with some pretty goofy gag gifts.  We were very glad that Jaime’s Grandma was able to join us, as she hasn’t been in the greatest of health lately, but she joined us and had a great night.

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Well…needless to say Griffey and Alice (Ali) were spoiled this Christmas!  Santa Paws came and brought them each gifts.  Griffey, who is finally on the mend, received a huge bone and Miss Ali Cat got a kitty tunnel….both are pleased with their gifts.  We love the picture of the two of them with their gifts…mainly beacuse of how close they are…a huge difference – and progress – from when we first brought Ali home.  It was complete chaos for about a month…they were both terrified of each other and we had to keep them seperated….and now, they have learned to tolerate each other…we have even caught them sleeping in the same bed at the same time.  We are not sure they will ever be best of friends…but it is peaceful in the house now.

Griffey, who had been suffering from an infected hot spot, is finally healing…after four trips to the vet, 6 rounds of meds and just about every over the counter health aid we could find…we finally have it under control.  Poor guy, he was pretty miserable for awhile…now he is back to his usual antics…like stealing our socks!

So, the pets are doing great, and my only complaint now is that both of them follow their daddy around wherever he goes…I am the odd man out here!

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Our November is summed up by two words…hunting and Thanksgiving!

Doug went on his annual 10-day hunting trip with the guys, on the hunt for a buck and doe…this year the weather did not cooperate, and there will not be a fresh supply of venison in our freezer.  But, he still had a great time outdoors and hanging with the guys.

Thanksgiving was in St. Louis this year, and all of Doug’s family were in town.  We had Thanksgiving at his sister Racheal’s new house and had a delicious meal…minus the turkey…long story and I am afraid Doug still may feel it is too soon to joke about yet…let’s just say it was a turkey fryer malfunction.  I told him he has a year to master it before next Thanksgiving.

While Doug’s parents were in town for the holiday, we had dinner at the restaurant where we will have the rehearsal dinner…appropriately named Mother In Law House on Historic Main Street St. Charles. http://www.historicstcharles.com/visitors.aspx and http://www.motherinlawhouse.com/

And, lastly over Thanksgiving weekend, our golden Griffey developed a hot spot that led us to an unexpected trip to the vet…this is the first one he has had in his almost 9 years…and we are still working to treat it so it will heal.  Poor guy he is a bit miserable.

Overall, we had a great November and are now in full Christmas mode!

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