I'm still brewing the rest of my previous story....me and the Holy Spirit.
Busy, busy, busy around here. I want to get up all my Christmas decorations, but I've been so busy, I haven't even been able to bring them in the house yet. Maybe I should think about making it a priority since I'm hosting a brunch here on Saturday to do Christmasy things??
This last weekend was so fun!! On Saturday we dropped off the new (to us) Yukon to get detailed and then headed to Visalia to look at a litter of chocolate labs. We fell.in.love. This guy lives in a mansion out in the almond trees and has a zoo in his backyard. Tons of litters of all different kinds of dogs, horses, chickens...you name it. I think we even saw a pig lying around. Anyway, he had a 3-week old litter of chocolate labs that were ca-ute. We saw the dad before we saw the puppies and he wasn't very tall, but he was one of the stalkiest labs I've ever seen. He was very attentive, but wasn't barking at us like the other dogs. He just stood there wagging his tail with his ears up, looking intently at us. His head is HUGE and looks like a bull mastiff head. Then the man took us to the puppies and showed us the male puppy he saved for us to see. He was so adorable. No neck. Just huge. Already looked like his dad at 3 weeks old. He was ours right away.
We used to have the best chocolate lab in the world and his name was Gauge. He died, unexpectedly, at 3 years old. We decided to honor Gauge by naming this chocolate lab after him....Gauge Holliday Reloaded. He'll be Reload for short. We put a deposit down on Reload and we'll be picking him up the first weekend in January.....ffffooorrreeevvveeerrrr away.
After we let Rusten see the horses, which was all he wanted to do anyway, we left and headed towards Porterville. We drove up to the Hot Springs and had some lunch. It was freezing there!! We drove around and enjoyed the beauty and the drive. Then we came home to brown Bakersfield. Blgh.
Well, as I mentioned, I have a brunch to get ready for, and I only have 3 days left to turn this...
into this sparkling winter wonderland...
******DISCLAIMER: The messy picture isn't really my house. I'm getting hives just looking at it, and if my house DID look like that, I'm pretty sure you'd find my suicide note somewhere in there. Mkay?
