January 2014!

Hope all had a happy New Year!  We had a nice quiet evening.  Our friend Peggy came over and we went to the Campground New Years Eve dinner.  There was a lot of people and the meal was okay!  Then we went for a ride to our friend's, Bill and Jany Staley.  They had totally decorated their front yard with Christmas lights and decorations so the three of us stopped by for a visit!  Peggy and I worked with Bill at the CPA firm and I have kept in touch with him.  We had a fun visit with Bill, Jany, their two dogs and cat, and their yard looked beautiful!

On New Year's Day we visited our friend Sally in Rainbow along with some other friends for Hopping John!  I never heard it called that before but being from the south we always had black-eyed peas on New Year's for good luck.  Unfortunately Sally's was a little spicy so hopefully Ted will have enough good luck for both of us!  Several of us went out for dinner in the little community of Rainbow and it was a lot of fun!

We took Sophie to get a bath on Saturday and to sign her up for a training class.  She's signed up for a basic class for six weeks starting at the end of the month.  While there we noticed they had a play class for puppies 4 months old.  Sophie is a little old (8 months), but there was only a 3 month old Dobie signed up so they agreed to have her come too.  

So on Sunday after watching the Chargers win their play off game (YAY), we took off for Petsmart.  The Dobie was a little shy and really wasn't ready to play with Sophie, and then Bear joined the group. Bear was a little dog of 5 months old with a ton of energy!  Bear and Sophie were playing until Bear started barking at Sophie.  She tried to come to mom and dad but we told her it was okay and eventually she walked around the little room, while Bear got the Dobie to play with him.  They really played hard and Sophie kept watching and then as they tired a little, she started joining in with them.  After the hour they were all pretty exhausted and we headed home.  Sophie slept the whole way and for awhile after we got home.  Sophie is already doing a little better outside when she hears barking dogs that she can't see!  Hopefully the classes will help her not be so afraid!

Tomorrow we will got up to Julian for our week out of Thousand Trails.  We normally go up to Wilderness Lakes, especially in the winter months, but they were fully booked so we are off to KQ.   We are hoping it won't be too cold up there but we have good heating so will be fine!  The good news is I think I remember that we will have at least some phone service/internet up there...YAY!  It will be fun and we already have some friends coming to visit Julian while we are there.

Julian in the winter..."Ain't Life Grand!"