Yay! I am finally caught up on my posts! I have even got everything for this year in before tomorrow.
So another funny thing Cash does is act like a Parrot. He loves to sit on my shoulder. I will often put him on my lap at which point he crawls up me and sits on my shoulder. Every time he does it Jake calls him a parrot.
Since Alicia was in town for Christmas we decided all us sisters would go to the Temple for the first time together. Since I got endowed we haven’t been able to get everyone together and someone to watch the kids long enough for use to go to the Temple. We planned it in advanced and made sure the dad’s watched the kids.
Mom, Andrea, Alicia and I went to dinner first then we picked up everyone and went to Jordan River. After the temple we went to Amanda’s house and made a silly video. That’s also where we got the group photo. It was a fun and spiritual night.
This Christmas was good one even though Jake had to go through some scary things in order to be home. Originally Jake was supposed to work over Christmas. However, when at work the medical person on site saw some strange things with his heart and sent him to Fairbanks to get a better opinion. Well in Fairbanks they gave him an EKG which they thought showed WPW (Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome) and wanted him to see a cardiologist. It turns out that he did so Jake had to have microscopic heart surgery and with the recovery time allowed him to be home for Christmas. We had a little extra money this year so we had some nice presents and were able to spoil each other. Jake got me a Nook which I am loving. I got Jake an office chair, a watch and some clothes.
Since Christmas was on Sunday we went to Church and 9:00 so we could make it to my Grandma’s traditional Christmas morning breakfast. Since Jake and I are not morning people we decided to open our presents Christmas eve. We went to Church at Shelly and Jason’s, partly because it was at 9:00 and also because Jason was speaking. It was a great talk. Abby was funny during it, Shelly lifted her up so she could see Daddy and she kept saying Daddy loud enough so Jason would hear her. She kept saying it over and over again so Jason finally responded. “Hey baby girl” it was too cute. When he was done Shelly let Abby go and she ran up to daddy who was sitting up on the chairs behind the podium.
After church we went to Grandma’s for breakfast. Jake’s parents were not in town so we hung out at Grandma Burns’ for awhile then went home and relaxed the rest of the day.
Happy 1 year Anniversary to me and Jake. Yes I know it was a month and 1/2 ago, but I still wanted to say it. Jake was actually in Alaska on the actual Anniversary date, but we still celebrated. We ended up going to the Desert Star dinner Theater. They were playing It’s a Wonderful Life in the normal Desert Star way, a spoof on the real It’s a Wonderful Life. It was pretty good. The dinner was good as well. Although I had expected that we would eat and watch the show at the same time, but it turns out that you eat then once everyone has finished eating they will start the play.
So I have learned the Cash is a sunbather. He loves to lay in the area where the sun is shining. He even moves with the sun.
In early November I went to Hot Springs Arkansas for business. Xerox corporation bought out ACS and we are combining some of Xerox’s F&A clients into the ACS F&A division. Hot Springs is where their Mailroom is located. The project manager thought it would be good for me to visit the mailroom to get a better idea of what was going on. It was an interesting trip. I went by myself so it was kind of boring. I hate going out to eat by myself so I ate at the hotel mostly. Plus I was only there for 4 days. Not much time to do stuff. However, one night I thought I would walk around. It turns out that Hot Springs was the first declared resort. It was once a neutral place between the Native Americans who would come to the healing waters during war. Then in the early 1900s people would build houses over the springs can have bath houses, the first spas. It was interesting.
This is a picture of downtown, about 10 minute walk from my hotel.
This is the beginning of bath house row. There were probably 10 to 15 buildings like this in a row. I didn’t finish the entire walk.
In keeping with the tone of health, they had a promenade walk behind the bath houses.
When Jake I got Cash we knew that I would have to train him. I started watching videos and reading books, but was getting frustrated because I had a lot of questions that the a video couldn’t answer. Also almost every video said that puppy classes were good because it also got the dog used to other dogs and people. With that in mind Jake and I decided to have me do puppy class with Cash. I actually loved the classes. There were three other puppies there, the same ones came every week. I enjoyed talking with them and training my dog. I was not good at doing what I was supposed to during the week so he wasn’t as strong as he could have been, but Cash became a good puppy. After the 8 weeks of training they did a puppy graduation. We played a gamed called my puppy can do that where you would pick a card and then see if you dog can do it. The cards I got were hard, things we hadn’t taught our dogs yet like have your dog run around a stool 6 feet away and come back. It was still fun. Then the dogs got some dog ice cream which Cash loved. He was the first one to finish his. It actually worried me because he ate so fast that he was shaking from the cold, but he wouldn’t stop. He even ate faster than the blood hound who was 4 times the size of Cash. Then we took pictures which I had a hard time keeping cash to remain still.
This is the entire class although I only remember the puppy names. We never really said owner names. From left to right: Rosco, a blood hound, Bentley, a mix, but I forget what, Teddy, a Shih Tzu, and Cash.
These are pictures of Teddy and Cash playing. Teddy was Cash’s best friend in the class.
