~Christmas Extravaganza!~

I hope you all out there in Blogland had an AMAZING Christmas with your friends, loved ones and family!

We sure did!

It was a crazy whirlwind of fun, parties, gatherings, food, treats, coffee meetings, and gifts.

Soooooo fun!

If I went through each event and gift received, etc. it would take toooo long and I'd bore, but here are some highlights:

Gift exchange and coffee with work girlies

Holiday work luncheon

Family Christmas Extravaganza downtown Seattle!

Gingerbread House made out of rice crispies!

Happy Hour and yum drinks at the Georgian

My name's on the good list, yayy!

The fam!

Our 2nd year visiting Curley and Moe and reindeer

Christmas Eve at the In-laws

Friend gift exchange at Editt's (thank girly!)

Christmas at our place . . . Here's my niece Keilani (future Sounder's fan!)

Soooo excited for my scarf!

My cute lil nephew Henry:-)

Keilani likes to climb in boxes, she's so cute!

Lol my sister's gift box for me, silly!

So that's a few of our holiday adventures,

I'll post on all the amazing gifts I scored tomorrow, I got spoiled rotten for sure!!!

How was your Christmas?!

What was your fave gift you received?

Gave?

I can't believe its over, on to a new year sooon!!!

Pssst . . . mid-Jan is my 1 year blog anniversary!

Can't believe it's already been so long!!!

I'm hosting a $40 Memory Bean Designs Giveaway over at Kitchen Belleicious, chk it out!

~We Adopted!!!~

Yup it's the best thing we've done together (besides getting married!)

Some of you may remember my blog post

 "To Westie or Not to Westie?"

(If not chk it out here)

Wayyy back.  So we've been considering it for a while . . .

And now we did it!

Introducing . . .  Lu Lu!!!

She's the sweetest, most timid little thing.

Her story broke our hearts. 

They think Lu Lu  is seven years old. 

She was a puppy mill breeder, and treated very badly.  She ended up in a high kill shelter in California, and was saved by the amazing Oregon Dog Rescue.

When she got to Oregon Dog Rescue her skin was in bad condition, hair was all matted, and her teeth were rotten.

She had to get seven teeth pulled, her hair all shaved off, and a growth removed from her ear.

(Why am I getting all teary eyed writing this?!)

I can't even imagine how her life was, it totally shocks me how people can be so cruel to something sooo sweet?!

So this is why we had to rescue her.

We packed our 2 pups up (Toby and Capri) and set out for a 3 hour drive down to Portland.

Not knowing what would heppen. 

Would they get along?

Would she like us?

How emotionally damaged is she?

When our little family got there and met her . . . things just clicked and seemed perfect.  Although she is not used to just being a dog, she truly is a huge blessing for us. She acts uper shy and cowers when we try to pick her up.

We're giving her crazy love all day every day (ok it's only been 1 so far, but we will!), without ignoring our other 2 westies.

 (is this how it is with kids, treating them all fairly with time love and attention?)

I hope that she can forget all about her sad past and enjoy life. 

 I know that she is a truly amazingly special dog and deserves to be treated so.

(grrrr stop crying! Lol)

Anywho I am soooo excited for this new chapter of our life.  My lovely blog readers will be seeing a lot more of her cute little toothless face:-)

And I hope that we continue to see more fire and life from her . . .

I know it's in there and will just take time:-)

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think UBER cute cupcake liners and part fun!