Dogs and babies

This is really for Anna or Sarah who brought this subject up at T-giving, not sure who did.
The question was how do you take a dog out to do his business when you have a baby? I have an answer. Today I had the pleasure of having Abby at my house all day. She hates Patches because he barks or whatever. And when I would change Abby's diaper in the living room, Patches would do his business on the kitchen floor. This happened just about every time so no need to take the dog out at all really. So it's very simple, buy a good mop.
It is like having twins. I rocked Abby and Patches at the same time because then she wouldn't cry. When Abby went to sleep, I put Patches in my bed where he usually naps, but had to lie down with him until he fell asleep so he would not wake Abby for a half an hour.
So a dog and a baby at the same time -- just like twins.

And here is Samantha

Hi all -

I am happy to say that Samantha and family (not pictured) are doing very well & will be returning home on Saturday.

Ocean City Pics

I'm sending you all a link to Snapfish for the rest of the pics. Here is one of the takes from the Gmom and P lunch @ Dr. Unk's. In this pic, Ben's head is kind of hidden. I have two better shots, but my computer has been randomly choosing which pictures it will let me load up into Snapfish. I don't know what is going on. I will work on the problem tonight and hopefully have the better versions over to you tomorrow. The ones @ the Dunes actually turned out really well with everyone, but it's not letting me load those either. BAH!!!!

I'd also like to direct your attention back down to my post prior to Joe's hilarious one. The link should be working now.

I did it again!

After some initial confusion, here I am! I agree with everyone that Thanksgiving was great. We did miss Kenny and Matt, though. Hope Joe's arm is feeling a little better. What did the Dr. have to say-- are you in a hard cast now? Glad we heard from Matt on both the phone and blog -- after all, he is the reason that we are all here. I am sure that the blog will live long after Matt's return. Take care, everyone, and get ready for winter to roll in...Emily -- keep up posted on your snow count up there!

Message from Joe....

Instead of creating my own account, I have decided to use Anna's. The last thing that I want to do is bother some computer guy for help.

There have been several questions about the status of my arm, so I have decided to post an update on the blog. First, I have posted a scanned X-Ray of my arm after the emergency surgery. Please keep in mind that the pins appear to be more painful than they actually are:


















Later, Anna thought she would be funny by taking an X-Ray of herself. In the X-Ray below, she decided to wave to the X-Ray machine while wearing her biking helmet. Anna really likes to 'be careful' when she rides. That's one thing that I really love about her.















All joking aside, my elbow is fine. I am more embarrassed that I fractured it playing nerf baseball. Who does that, really? I didn't even fall.

On a different note, I would like to thank everyone for another fun Thanksgiving.
Hope all is well,
Joe

I thought maybe Uncle John could help this guy out...

Click on the link below:

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For those of you who don't know Craigslist is a place where you can find anything for sale, worldwide. It's great when searching for apartments (that's how I found mine) or furniture (it's where I got my coffee table). But, it's full of other random posts as shown in this example

Hey Super Cool Family!!!

So, I wonder if we are going to have more bloggers, since it seemed to be the topic of a lot of conversations at Thanksgiving. I do not recommend working the Sunday after Thanksgiving, it is a big drag! But I do have to be thankful that I had no delays either way!

I want to give a shout out to Calvin's Christmas Cd, I like the first song the best! I listened to it on my way to work which is a twenty minute drive, so I got to listen to a couple of times. It was in my head all day, it is really catchy!!!! Good job Calvin!

Abby - Stop being so cute, I miss you already!!!!

Joe, how is the ole' radial?!?!?!? This at least gives you an excuse to sit on the couch and watch TV all night.

Hope everyone else made it home safe. I think it was an awesome weekend and I can not wait till next time we are all together!!!

Love,
Em