The weeks before Christmas

Last weekend we discovered that our littlest family members, the kittens, were sick. *graphic kitty sickness alert*  when ryan came home from work on thursday night little dexter puked on the kitchen floor.  Being the ever inquizitive man that he his, ryan decided to poke around in it to find out what made him sick.  He found a piece of really pretty green ribbon and a really nasty, still alive, WORM!!  Glad i was sound asleep for the discovery.  We called the vet first thing friday morning and had to take the poor dude in.  Apparently cats get worms all the time and because these two kittens were outside in a garage when they were born until we took them home the vet seems to think they have had worms the whole time!  GROSS. anyways, the nice vet lady showed us how to use the pill giver thing that shoves the pill down their throat so they can't spit it out. We had to treat both cats so they don't keep passing it back and forth.  

Once we got back home and had given stella her medication i decided that both cats needed a bath. they were smelly and shedding a ton and dexter had a bad case of dandruf.  so into the kitchen sink they went.
You probably think im crazy for bathing 1 cat let alone 2, but the aftermath and having to very clean kittnes was so worth the bath ryan and i got attempting this.  Here are some pictures of our poor kittens gettin a bath.

We fnally got our christmas tree up and lights on it. it only took us a little more than a week. Ryan's mom and dad gave us a bunch of boxes from ryan's childhood full of handmade school ornaments and it was fun to go through them with ry. We picked our favorites and we put them up on the tree.

We ran out of green clear twinkly lights about 2/3rds of the way up the tree, so redneck as my husband is we decided to have a snow topped christmas tree and used white lights for the top.  its silly i know, but I love it. Its Our first tree and i couldn't be happier.

Ryan's nephew Dawson turned 5 on saturday Dec 12 and we had a little family party for him at Players Bowling.  Grandparents from both sides and stacey's whole family and us were there. It was a lot of fun. I hate to admit it, but it turns out that i am the worst bowler in the family. Even compared to the 5 year old.  we had a blast and Dawson got a ton of cool things for his birthday. here are some pictures of our adventures at Players

Dawson showing off his game card for his birthday.

Ryan, Nanna and Pappa and baby Nixon

Pappa showing Dawson which ball to pick

Cowboy Ryan, to bad you can't see the super awesome bowling shoes

Dawson opening his presents

Cant wait for christmas, lots of last minute shopping and a good stand in line at the UPS store to mail them all home. hope you have a great week before christmas!