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Saturday, February 9, 2008
Finally, a new post
Apparently we've been really busy...at least that is what you would think since we haven't posted anything in the last 5 months! Oops...
Nothing too crazy happened last fall - aside from our colossal failure at trying to grow grass in our back yard. Hopefully Spring will provide better results! We did put in a fence and gate on the side of our house, so now we can leave Baxter out back during the day instead of just in his kennel. As if he wasn't spoiled enough already!
In November Dan started working on the mud room. That will be the best room in the house once it is complete! Our garage is really long (I think it is actually called an 'oversized one-car garage') so we took the front 4 feet of it and framed it out into a small room where we can put all of our shoes and coats instead of walking directly into the dining room w/ dirty, wet shoes.
We weren't going to go home for Thanksgiving, but changed our minds at the last minute because Terry was at Mom & Dad's and Dan found out he got the Friday after Thanksgiving off. Dan did some hunting with my Dad and Terry; and Baxter decided to join them too...pretty sure that is his last hunting trip. He didn't really like the gun, especially when my cousing Luke started shooting at rabits! We also got to see our new nephew Tyson. He was born on Nov 7th, so he was just tiny at Thanksgiving.
We were also back in NE for Christmas. Jeremiah and his girlfriend were there, so it was great to see them and hear how life in LA is going. After a few days at the farm we headed down to Pleasanton to see Dan's family and some friends. Then on to Grandpa Don's house and back to Minnesota. All total we were gone for about 10 days...sounds like a long time but it's never quite long enough!
Since the holidays, the only interesting thing that has happened (other than the continuing work on the mudroom) is Baxter's frizbee competition! Last weekend Dan entered him in a competition in Plymouth, MN; it was great fun to watch, a little cold since it took place on a lake (yes, ON a lake), but still a lot of fun. And Baxter came in 4th! Which is really good for a dog in it's very first competition. Now Dan has been bitten by the competitive bug and is talking about another competition in April, our chances at Districts...he's even talking about Nationals in Indianapolis! I only got two pictures of the competition b/c the battery in my camera died, but you can check those pictures out in Baxter's photo album in the photo gallery.
Sorry for the long post - and sorry for not posting more frequently. I'll try to do better in the future!
posted by Rachelle @ 2:07 PM
