The end of 2009

Christmas certainly was exciting and different this year. Instead of spending the day with family, Josh and I spent a quiet day at home by ourselves since we were in the middle of a blizzard. We were extremely thankful for a warm house, food to eat (even though they were leftovers!), and time to celebrate Christ's birth. We even caught up on some cleaning! We will be postponing our Christmas gathering until tomorrow, pending the arrival of my parents. Here are some pictures of our holiday excitement the last few days.

Big rawhide.

Kobi jumping the huge drifts.

Josh is excited to start scooping.

New tunnel for the piggies.

Romeo was in mouse heaven.

Fall is here.

I keep getting worse and worse about blogging on here! Sorry about that.
Well, summer is officially over and my first REAL semester of graduate school has begun. This is my biggest semester and I feel it already. The homework never stops but I am still enjoying it so far. Things are always interesting. Josh also moved stores and is now working in a different area of the store. This means we (when I say we that really mostly means Josh :) ) have been getting up earlier. Josh has to be to work around 3:30 AM.

This past weekend we had the opportunity to go to Kansas City to hang out with two of my good friends from high school (Lisa and Lindsey) and their families. They both have new little, cute, adorable babies so it was fun to play with them too. We also took Kobi and he had a fun time playing with Lisa's dog Rev.

Today I plan to clean, decorate our house for fall, and finishing reaping the last of our garden harvest. We'll see if I accomplish it all! I should be doing homework but since it's my day off...

So cute!!!

Aw, they're friends already.

Tired boy.

Another tired boy.

Kobi did not want to stay.

Animals!

Since I feel I should be fair and not just talk about Kobi all the time :) here are some pics of other awesome animals we've spent time with lately!

Aww. Romeo hiding from the camera.
Bella was really excited about the hay I gave them.



Josh petting the billy goat.

I caught a feather-legged chicken!

Super Retriever Series: Superfly

I realize I've been seriously slacking on the blogging so I'll try to catch up. These are only from last weekend...only a week late right?


Last weekend we had the opportunity to enter Kobi in a dock jumping competition! It was sponsored by Scheel's but the event occurs at several places all over the country. Kobi competed in the amateur series since he'd never jumped before. There were around 40 dogs that competed! The first place winner then got an automatic spot into "The Pros"! Since Kobi absolutely loooves water and we taught him to jump off the dock at Okoboji a few weeks ago, we thought he might do alright. Well he did better than just alright and ended up getting 4th place with a personal best jump of 17 feet, 1 inch! He just missed getting a medal. We were so proud of our puppy! :) You can check out the SRS website here for more information and pics.

Saturday's daily deals

My sister and I decided to go shopping at No Frills yesterday since there was several really good deals.
Here's what I got for $30.96:

10 Kraft Macaroni & Cheese .29 each after $2 coupon when you buy 10
4 Ragu $1.13 each after 2 .75 coupons off 2
2 pasta FREE when you buy 2 Ragu
Skippy PB .73 each after 2 .75 coupons off 2
2 loaves bread FREE when you buy 2 Skippy PB
4 Canned corn .50 each
5 Shredded cheese .98 each
4 Lipton Rice/Pasta sides .73 each after 2 .50 coupons off

Approx. 7 lb. 93% ground beef (can't really see in pic) at $1.88 per lb

Okoboji Trip

Mini-golfing session. I got last but it was fun!

Roasting marshmallows and making hobo pies over the campfire.

This picture is to prove the guys were helping the women with the food work! Haha just kidding boys! You did a great job.

We had lots of fun on the boat (hint hint to you Bob!), especially Kobi who tried to jump out at every chance he got.

Even Kobi went tubing!

Kobi learned how to jump off the dock to retrieve his ball.

Kobi wasn't cooperating very well during the family picture but oh well, everyone still looks good!

Birthday Shopping (Thank you!)

Since I had gotten a gift card from Josh's family to the mall for my birthday (thanks Bob, Merry, & Ann!), I decided to do some shopping yesterday and today. I was pretty excited about my clothing finds since I will need dress clothes for school. My sister and I went yesterday and I found 2 pairs of dress pants at JC Penney. They were marked down to $10 and then 20% off that. $8 each! Also, I found a nice brown purse originally $42 and with the mark downs it ended up being $16. Next, we went to the Limited (a store I always want to shop at but usually don't because it's a little pricey). However, they actually had a large section of clearance. I found a nice pair of khaki pants that fit me really well but were still marked $25 (over my price range). I thought I would ask them to check the price (you never know!) just in case. They were still $25 but the cashier said she'd let me in a secret that all of their clearance would be an additional 50% the next day. Woo hoo! So I put them on hold. Today Josh and I went back to get them and I ended up finding three nice shirts for $5 and a suit jacket (originally $168!!) for $15. And I still have money left!