Happy 8th Birthday Tommy!

We hosted Tommy's birthday party on Saturday and had lots of family over. Eric's parents came over early because they were on their way to Manti and brought their dog, Max. When Max came in the house Eric's cat, Dutch, wigged out. We put Dutch in Syrena's room but didn't tell her why... well when she went in there and tried to pet Dutch, this is what happened:

He just went crazy on her! Her whole head was covered with scratches, you'd move her hair around to look at her scalp and they were just everywhere. There was so much blood, poor little thing! I have got to start saving towards a "Declaw Dutch" account or something because this was bad, not to mention the fact that he gleefully claws all the furniture in the house multiple times a day.

After Tommy's party (unfortunately, I forgot to take any pictures.... all the usual suspects were there and he had a great time.) Sasha, my cousin, cut Eric's hair - he looks so very extra handsome now.

On Sunday we put up all the Christmas stuff.... and Eric and I got into a fight. Over what you ask? Well, what else? The Bears and Broncos were playing at the same time.....

Here's our little mini tree in the entry way....

Then I found two stray dogs wandering the neighborhood. I thought that after all the millions of times Peanut got loose and strangers were kind enough to pick her up and call us, it would only be right to do it for someone else. Well the one dog came easily enough, but the lab was scared to death... of course the lab was the only one with any kind of tag on its collar too. I finally got close enough to check it out, but it was just a spay/neuter tag with the vet's number on it. We called the vet, left a message and waited to hear back. He called us and looked up the number from the tag, but the dog was taken in by No More Homeless Pets so he gave us that number. We tried calling them, but they were closed. So we took to just wandering aimlessly about the neighborhood asking if people recognized the dogs. Bit by bit we got closer and closer, people pointing us this way and that... finally we got to the next door neighbor's house. We went to the right house and our task was complete. I'm glad we have accurate phone numbers and everything on our dogs because that was a pain in the butt and I'm sure most people wouldn't have gone through all of that. And the lady said that they get loose from time to time and has already had to pay $400 to get them out of the pound... duh!! Go spend $10 to get them tags and that won't happen anymore! Anyway....

So I have a busy rest of the month ahead of me... We are going to GWAR tonight (so freakin' excited), Wednesday we have the kids, Friday we are going to the "theater room" at Secelia's apartments to watch "Across the Universe," Saturday we are going to the U of U vs. BYU game, Sunday is Eric's birthday and then super crazy early next Thursday morning, we are leaving for Vegas..... yay!

Here is the Christmas version of "Where's Waldo?" except it's "Where's Kitten?"