Riley kitty

This past Saturday was a very hard day for Deb. After many, many poop and pee dilemmas with Riley kitty we had to take him to the Humane Society and hope someone can adopt him. He has not adjusted well these last two years since we've brought home a new baby and dog. All he does is hide under the bed all day than poop and pee in crazy places just to let us know how ticked off he is. I've had him since he was just a new kitten and it was hard to make the final decision. I hope the Human Society can match him up with someone who had no other animals or kids, he is much better off being the center of attention.

Christmas Cookies

The finished product
So much mess to be made:)
Uncle Craig and Ash
Deb's brother came over and had Ashley help him make and frost some sugar cookies for Christmas. She had lots of fun and even took time to rearrange some of Mom's cabinets while she was sitting on the counter! She was very proud to eat her final product..however she was unable to finish it due to all the frosting/cookie dough dipping that took place during the process.

I'm a big girl now!

Here is a picture of Ashley sleeping in her new big girl bed. We put her down for a nap and that was it! She doesn't try to get out of bed and she is sleeping through the night. Now if I can just kick the binkie habit.......

Thanksgiving weekend

We enjoyed a very nice dinner at Deb's parents house with her brother Craig and his boyfriend Ian. Ian lives in London...so he flew a long way for my Dad's famous mesquite smoked turkey! On Friday Dave braved the Black Friday rush and went to Best Buy to purchase a new laptop computer for $350. He entered the line at 4:15am and it was already a few hundred people long. The store opened at 5am and Dave managed to get the computer he wanted, then waited another hour and a half to pay for it. Deb and Ash slept at home peacefully during all the madness. It is definitely worth losing some sleep for a laptop that is half price off, however Dave pointed out that people in general are so pushy and rude trying to get every last thing they want. It definitely ruins the spirit of Christmas:( Deb shopped off and on the rest of the weekend and we also managed to get Christmas lights up before the snow falls. Deb set up all the decorations inside and Ash took them down as quickly as she could reach them. Needless to say our tree this year has only 2 boxes of shatterproof ornaments, which are all clustered on the bottom right side of the tree right where Ash "help" put them. It's definitely not an entry for the Festival of Trees however it was fun having Ash help and you can't help but laugh every time you look at the tree!