There are a lot more photos of Tommy, but the camera hasn't been downloaded, and again...that lazy factor I spoke of.
Work is going well. The hours take some getting used to, but I get to wake Tommy up in the morning and I help put him to bed each night, and that's nice.
On to all the news to try and catch everyone up. We have year-long passes to Happy Hollow (the local petty zoo/park) and Tommy gets to go usually a couple of times a month or more. So, of course I had to put some pictures of that in the blog.
Christmas was fun, as always. We got too many gifts, and are really lucky to live so close family.
We had a bit of a problem with our Christmas tree this year. Every year we go up to Skyline and chop a tree down and bring it home. This year Tommy was running out of patience with us, or he could have just been cold, but long story short, I chopped down a tree that Kathryn dubbed the "devil's tree." It was soooo spiny that I couldn't even handle it with leather gloves on. Once we brought it home, Kathryn thought she would be able to tame it, and decorate it.
Nope.
We ended up having to sneak over to a tree lot and get a replacement.
How embarrassing.
The bad news of our new year is that Porkchop tore his ACL. (Yes, pigs...I mean dogs, have them too.) This means a very costly, unexpected surgery. If he was anyone else's dog, I would say just let him be, or take him to the back 40...and...you know...
But, it's Porkchop and we love him, and he wouldn't be the same if he couldn't play ball for the rest of his 8-10 years of life. So, we have to suck it up and find the cash for it.
Enough depressing stuff though... here are a bunch of pictures. Enjoy!
