Christmas 2008 Recap

I got a lot of alone time this last week. My cousin Hunter was in town with his family for Christmas.

As a result, my people spent a lot of time at Grandma and Grandpa Stewarts house while I enjoyed the quiet house. The week started off with all of them going to a "photo shoot" so they could get a nice family picture. I hear it went well. We'll see as soon as the proofs are available.

On Christmas Eve, my people went to the Christmas Eve service at Grandpa Dean's church. Then they came home to wait for Santa Claus. Lily had a lot of fun opening her presents Christmas morning. Here's a picture of my bald person helping her open some Sesame Street DVDs.


After opening presents, we all watched part of the Disney Christmas Parade on TV. Lily waved back at everyone and danced along to the music. Then we all got cleaned up and headed to Grandma and Grandpa Wagner's house for their annual Christmas gathering. Santa had also stopped by there. The first present Lily opened was a Mizzou cup with a wind-up Tiger on top. She loved it.


Once they finished there, they stopped back by the house to let me out and give me dinner (thank goodness!) and then headed to Grandma and Grandpa Stewart's house. Santa had stopped by there too! Here's Lily opening "My First Purse". She thought she was hot stuff.


She got to spend a lot of time running around with her cousins from South Carolina. Once they started to get tuckered out, they put on their new PJs and actually stopped to pose for a picture on the stairs! That's Sam up top, Ben in the middle and Lily in front of him.


Hunter and his family headed home the next day. Now we're just relaxing and enjoying my bald person's time off. He doesn't go back to work until January 5. My tall girl person and Lily will be heading to North Carolina at the end of this week to see my cousin Winston and his family. My bald person and I will have the house to ourselves for a week or so. It should be great.

Oh, Santa didn't forget me either. He brought me a nice bone.


My people forgot to take a picture of Lily in her Christmas dress, so here's a little video of her "flying" a toy plane that gives you a view of it.