It’s not quite January 2008, so I think I can still post Christmas pictures. We have had a wonderful, but very tiring Christmas. Poor Zoey and Servo have been asleep for five days straight! Too much holiday cheer for them. Going back to work on Wednesday is going to be a challenge.

Here are some of our Christmas highlights!

Mmmm, the food. Most important part of the holiday! I come from a family of great cooks, too bad that gene didn’t get passed on to me! That is my adorable Meemaw in the background, the grand cook extraordinaire!

Next you have the Burrow family, with the family burro! That is my brother, father and mother. We all think we are pretty darn funny.

Then there is the entire Burrow, Wilson, Sagowitz family. This is my mom’s side of the family. If we get any bigger we are going to have to rent a hall to have Christmas in!

Servo the lap dog and his daddy who spoils him. Please don’t tell Servo he weighs 50 pounds and is too big to be sitting in your lap! He might go into a deep depressive state.

Atleast he is a patient dog! I don’t think there has ever been a Christmas where a dog didn’t get covered in bows.

And finally, a better picture of our tree. I love having our Christmas tree up! It’s going to be sad to take down tomorrow. Think people would judge me if I decorated it for Valentine’s Day and left it up another month?

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season! Good luck trying to get back into a normal routine. I plan to get back into a normal blogging routine as well. And, I promise to quit talking about Christmas and posting Christmas pictures!

Before we head out tomorrow, Zoey and Servo wanted to say something…

Merry Christmas!

Woot!  (Oh don’t judge me, Merriam-Webster named that the word of the year so I am using it!)  The end is near.   Today is my last day of work until 2008.  I am so excited.  I love the last day.  Nobody is really working.  Most people are milling around munching on all the goodies that have been brought in.  I feel like it’s the last day of school all over again.  The only thing missing is a Christmas movie.

Tomorrow, B and I will head down to my parents house.  I love Christmas on the farm.  B gets a little anxious because he knows it means dial-up internet.  Scary thought I know.  If you don’t hear from me for a couple days it’s just because I am to impatient to try and use the internet.  About the time I get a page to load, I am already bored and ready to shut down the computer.

I got to open my first Christmas present last night!  B is a big kid around Christmas and he can’t wait to open gifts!  I saw one of my gifts under the tree and it was obvious what it was.  B doesn’t realize that James Avery’s wrapping paper is very distinctive, even if he tried to hide it by using a big bow.  So B made me open the gift since I had figured it out anyway.  It was a beautiful necklace with the letter M.  I am so excited!  I was just saying the other day how I never wear necklaces and I wish I did.

What are everyone’s plans for the holidays?  I hope you get a long break!  I am off work until January 2!

I am not sure what happened to me this year, but I was bitten by the bug.  The Christmas Bug.  There are eight days until Christmas and I am not even sick of Christmas music yet.  Normally I have to stop listening to the radio on November 30.  I am not complaining though, it has been kind of fun.

 My latest Christmas project was baking.  I don’t bake.  Heck, I barely cook.  Making cookies from scratch seemed like an impossible task, but I took it on.  And all by myself.  I think B was worried I would burn the house down.

I made two kinds of cookies this weekend.  Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter and Chocolate Buried Cherries.  The buried cherry cookies are DIVINE!  (Don’t worry, I used a new jar of cherries.)  The peanut butter cookies are decent, but I think I used too much flour.  They aren’t as moist as I would like.

The cherry cookies were also more fun to make!  I might try these again since they are almost gone.

The best part of the cookies is the yummy chocolate frosting! 

Here is the final product.

Looks yummy right!  And just so I don’t snub the peanut butter cookies, here is a picture of them.

I also made Texas Trash this weekend.  It’s kind of like Chex Mix, but oh so much better.  Just to emphasize how bitten by the bug I am, I skipped a sushi dinner to stay home and make the Texas Trash.  Sushi!  Yummy, wonderful sushi that I have not had in weeks.  Someone better call a shrink.  I think Martha Stewart is trying to get me to join some kind of cult.

In case you hadn’t figured it out yet, I am obsessed with my dogs. They are my babies. I talk to them and honestly think they can understand me. I share this obsession with a large community of other dog freaks on Woof! A Boston Terrier Board (an online message board).

Every Christmas, the board does a gift swap for the dogs. Zoey and Servo got their package yesterday. I had hours of entertainment just watching the dogs play with their new toys. It truly was like a little kid on Christmas.

Servo being the curious hound he is, gave the box a through inspection, including a taste test.

After Zoey and Servo pushed the box around the living room a few times, I stepped in and opened the box for them.

Servo was the first to pick his prize. He even got the package open all by himself.

Then Zoey found her favorite (the package of balls wasn’t open yet, she would have picked that one had she known all the glory inside).

Check out the loot! These are some spoiled puppies!

After it was all over, B and I enjoyed our quiet evening. Two tired, bone-chewing puppies and a living room litered with toys.

And a final thought. I recently realized that I get my crazy dog thing from my mother. Today she tried to tell me that my dogs can count, they know how many days it is until Christmas, and shame on me for not moving my snowflake countdown calendar for the dogs. Yep, it’s not just me. I come from a whole family of crazy.

I was able to talk hubby B into decorating the house last night.  It looks so festive this morning!  He even turned on the tree lights before I got up this morning.  What a sweetie.  We don’t have a ton of decorations to put up, but the living room looks great!

Here is the tree:

And the fireplace:

Festive right?  Too bad it’s freezing and windy outside today.  The outside light will have to wait.

Tonight is the Big 12 Championship, OU vs. Missouri.  We will of course be routing for OU.  B’s Dad called this morning to say he will be routing for OU as well.  If Missouri loses then his team will be going to the National Championship.  Should be a good game.  Boomer Sooner!