Feliz Navidad! I love Christmas and this year it was especially spectacular due to our large and ever growing family. My two oldest brothers and their better halves each have lab puppies. Teddy is actually a yellow lab/retriever mix and is absolutely adorable and then Fenway is a chocolate lab who looks like a male model; I'm serious he is BEAUTIFUL and not in a pretty boy kind of way he is absolutely regal looking, perfect posture, perfect boxy features, you get the idea. And then there's our Montana who is our family yellow lab who is 11 years old and is very spoiled and sometimes acts like a crabby old man and really doesn't know that he's a dog. So that scenario right there was enough entertainment to last me the week but there was much more in store for us all......
Scotty, the second one down in the line of Bleiler's, decided to ask his long time girlfriend, Wendy, to marry him on Christmas morning in front of a room full of 10 people. He put the ring in her stocking! But the catch was, we all knew he was going to do it! So as Wendy started opening her stalking the riotous room grew quite and then everyone started pulling out their camera's and videoing each other…..hmmmm? At one point Wendy asked Chris (my Chris) if he was videoing her?! Smooth right? Welcome to the crazy family Wendy!!!
Then there was the sledding....
and the presents and the nice, very expensive dinner at Szygy THANKS MOM, the very crowded 4pm on Christmas Eve mass, the 5 straight days of face shots and hiking The Wall, Christmas dinner at my Mom and Step-Dad, Jim's, house which looks like a beautiful gingerbread house with all of it’s lights and decorations...
CFL’s, let’s not forget about the compact flourecent light bulbs! I gave everyone a CFL as an addition to their Christmas present. Check out this fact:
If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.
Pretty heavy right?! How great would it be if everyone who reads this blog would go out and replace 3 regular light bulbs with CFL’s?! Imagine the possibilities and eco friendliness!
