So Joelle's hair has been a 'sticking up' point lately. We have her comb it, etc and it never would lay down right. Eventually we had to do something about it! So Doreen looked around and found a haircut that would accent her face.
She really loves it and we do too! What a precious little girl!!!
Friday we got our new family member. Mocha, 5 1/2 weeks old, came home! 
The mother was a mixture of Jack Russel and Beagle and the dad was Heinz 57. So she is a pure mutt, but precious! Very, VERY precious!
She loves to cuddle with us and more importantly loves ALL of us as a family! Awsome!!!! Look for more pics of our expanded family later! :)
I love it when we get things accomplished around the house. Of course, sometimes the hardest thing is to either find the time or the energy (And the money) to do all the projects we have to do. I remember our first place in S. Illinois - we had a whiteboard on the wall in the laundry room with a list of everything we needed to do around the house. It seemed like everytime we got it whittled down - we'd start adding to it again.
Well, we've been getting things done around this house and yet the list still grows! :) When we moved in, we stuffed things into the hall closets. Lately it's been bugging me. So we took everything out of the two closets, whittled down what we don't need, or use, then added more shelves and put everything back and it is SOOOO much better! 
As we've done some projects around the house, I've occassionally had to cut/trim/paint/stain stuff in the garage and I don't have a workbench out there with it being a one car garage. We do have a little space at the back, but that is used up with storage. So what to do? Yesterday, Doreen and I built a fold away work bench.
It's actually pretty cool. It's up out of the way for us to park the car in the garage, and then when we need to get some things done, out goes the car, down goes the workbench and off we go!
Geocaching.com has these things called Travel Bugs. They're basically Dog Tags with a tracking number that as the Travel Bug (TB) is moved from cache to cache one can keep up with its travels.
GC.com has come up with a promotion for the United Nations cause against Diabetes. They're sending out all these TB's to encourage people to learn about diabetes.
My brother-in-law, Scott and I got a couple of these TBs.
The plan is for him to start on in Colorado, and I'm going to start one in Tennessee. We'll see which one gets to the others home first. 
It's 1552 miles from TN to Colorado. Driving it would take around 24 hours.
I guess we'll see how long it takes for these TB's to make it - that is if they don't get ripped off, lost or misplaced.
So keep an eye on these Travel Bugs, see where they travel and which one arrives first. 
The search is over. We've finally found our newest family memeber. She is still too young to leave where she currently lives, but by the end of Jan, 1st of Feb we'll have a new addition to the Pester Family!
After Geocaching since 2004, we finally put out 4 hides. I've been wanting too for a very, VERY long time, just haven't ever gotten 'around to it.' I've had the containers and the the SWAG to in the containers and stuff, just haven't ever done it.
#3 GeoTrucker - Fast Travel
Last week Natalie had her 4 year old well child check. She's growing 'on schedule.' Like a little weed! Anyway, at the same visit we had the doctor look at what turned out to be a bad sinus infection she had.
My last couple of trips out it has worked out that I've been doing most of the driving in the middle of the night. Of course the toughest time for me is between 3:30a and sunrise. That's always brutal. Sometimes I get so sleepy. However, chewing ice, gum drinking coffee, Vault or just listening to different stuff on my Sirius radio really helps.
It is now time to crown this years champion of the Nelson/Pester Annual Pigskin Pick'em family challenge.
The Nelson/Pester Pigskin Pick'em Family challenge winner is, Tim. Tim, we salute you. "Salute." Be a good champion! Enjoy your reign! Bask in the glow of knowing you outpicked the rest of us. Then know we will ALL be after you next year!!! :)
2007 has had a sad beginning for the Denver Broncos!
For starters, they could have been in this years playoffs. All they had to win was one game against the San Francisco 49ers, a team with a sad losing record. They didn't, they lost and lost bad. So the season is suddenly over. Boooo hooo hoooooooo!
Secondly, and even sadder, one of the bright stars of the Denver Broncos Defense, Darrent Williams was shot and killed in a drive by shooting. How sad is that. This young man was 24 and a rising star in the NFL. 
His life and career has been brought to a screeching halt by some thugs who think they're big men. Unfortunatly this is an awful indictment of today's society!
