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Monday, January 3, 2011

The Happy Christmas Memories

This Christmas was exciting because Miss C is starting to understand a guy named Santa is going to bring her gifts and that she has to be good. We put cookies out for Santa and reindeer food for the deer. I think my mom's Labrador H thought he was a reindeer, heck he is a big as one!

We had all our family together, Grandparents, Parents, Aunts, X-Uncles, Cousins, Dogs lot's of dogs!

You just can't beat that! Miss. C was spoiled rotten. It took us two car loads back to Austin to get it all home! We love a country Christmas. Mr.T's phone does not pick up reception and he loves that! He eats Pop's cooking, drinks beer and watches coma inducting amounts of football. A "man coma"

Minus the stress of the 26 hrs of lost Lucy it was a wonderful Christmas and we are very blessed!

I'm blushing! You just saw me in my night gown!

Got to love it when the grandparents TOTALLY over shadow all the gifts you bought with this!

Now that Lucy is home safe I can look back on Miss C's 4th Christmas with fond memories, Woo Hoo!

Generations of the Elf on the shelf

Remember when I posted about our very trendy mom thing to do called the Elf on the Shelf? Well if no then click Here. I talked about how my grandmother has actually had an Elf on the shelf since before she can remember! Turns out her little elves belonged to her mother, Big Mama, who FYI was never even close to big! So it turns out the Santa has been sending little elves to my family for generations!

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Looking back: Miss C in 2010

Miss C in 2010

January

February

March (Miss C's 2nd birthday)

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

A few Miss C stats:

29.6 lbs

2 years 9 months old

Your obsessed with "Bear Milk" (pedisure)

You will not touch red meat

You adore all animals

You hate to go poop more than anything else in life

Your favorite shows are all on Nick Jr Dora, Diego, Olivia, Yo Gabba Gabba

You were awesome and easy when it came to potty training by 24 months are you were completely trained

Your very polite and sensitive to feelings and emotions

Your not crazy about strangers

You LOVE to dance and you like fast music (Beyonce Single Ladies)

Your favorite color is pink

You have all your teeth and you don't like to brush them

You will have a stand off with me until you get what you want. You know what you want when you want it!

You have only had 3 sick visits to the Dr. since you were born

Your a girly girl and never leave home with out a bow.

You always prefer to be outside over inside

You have never been a biter

Your perfect a school and have never had a tantrum at school. Can't say the same for at home

Your a Mama's girl!

You have grown so much this year. Your such a little person. You get more fun every day and I can't wait to see what 2011 will bring our little Collins Clan!

Love you more than you will ever know (just remember that when your a teenager and hate me ! )

Here are some 2010 fun facts!
iTunes Most Popular Songs:
1. Hey Soul Sister -- Train
2. California Gurls -- Katy Perry
3. Love the Way You Lie -- Eminem
4. Airplanes -- B.o.B.
5. Dynamite -- Taio Cruz (My #2!)
6. OMG -- Usher
7. Break Your Heart -- Taio Cruz
8. Tik Tok -- Ke$ha
9. Need You Now -- Lady Antebellum
10. Not Afraid -- Eminem

Top Box Office Champs:
1. Toy Story 3
2. Alice in Wonderland
3. Inception
4. Shrek Forever After
5. The Twilight Sage: Eclipse
6. Iron Man 2
7. Despicable Me
8. How to Train Your Dragon
9. Clash of the Titans
19. The Karate Kid

Most followed on Twitter
1. Lady Gaga
2. Britney Spears
3. Justin Bieber
4. Ashton Kutcher
5. Barack Obama

What can over shadow Christmas? Loosing your dog on on Christmas morning thats what!

It started off just as I had hoped, actually later than I imagined because Miss. C slept till 10:45! She woke up and ran down the hall and her eyes light up over all the goodies that Santa had brought. We called all the other family members and they drove over to watch Miss. C open gifts. I imagined watching her open each and every gift I had so excitedly purchased and wrapped.

Here is Mr T's blair witch video skills!

All was going well till Ganny (my mom) asked where Lucy (the four legged one) was. Much to everyones surprise we could not find her. This was very strange because usually Lucy is right under our feet. She loves her humans. We immediately started a search party. This was at 12:30pm. Our search party of 9 looked for three hours. It seemed she just vanished. Remember now that we are out on my parents ranch; lots of wide open space, woods and wildlife. Sounds beautiful right? Not if your a 6 year old slightly over weight Caviler King Charles Spaniel that has spent very little time outside.! I'll try to make a long sad story short her. I cried and cried and cried some more! I was sick to my stomach. We all knew once night fall came her chances of survival were slim to none. The coyotes are really bad there. We went on with Christmas activities but it was very somber. I drowned my sorrows in red wine which only caused more tears. I bawled at the thought of Miss C when realized that Lucy was missing. My favorite childhood pet Zeus died on Christmas eve about 9 years ago. Really did that happen again, loosing our dog on Christmas morning? Yes!

What a shitty Christmas!

BUT!

Miracles do happen!

The next day as we are packing up to head back to Austin our neighbor pull up in front of the house. To tell us she has spotted Lucy! What happened was my Aunt Lucy posted a Lost/ reward poster on her Facebook for for Our 4 legged Lucy. Leah the neighbor saw the post while having diner at her sisters house and called to tell us she had spotted Lucy in her paster on Christmas day about 12:30. So again we went on a search party in the area she was spotted. Out hopes were so slim since she had been gone 20 hours and it was below freezing that night and the nasty coyote problem. We had no Luck.

Leah the neighbor felt so bad for us that she decided to ride her horses in the woods that afternoon a look for Lucy. SHE FOUND HER! Leah came and got me and I did a mad dash to the woods were she spotted Lucy. Lucy had burrowed down at the base tree where she was hidden in briers and covered in leaves. Scared to death but alive!