Our Christmas Surprise!

Merry Christmas...a couple of days late! We have had a few fun days playing with new gadgets, (still figuring them all out), visiting with family, and eating lots of yummy food. However, the few days before Christmas found myself and Madi in bed very sick! But thanks to our favorite Dr. and some prayers we were able to roll out of bed and make it to our Christmas Eve service at church. By Christmas morning we were much better.
This Christmas was special for a few reasons, one, it is the last Christmas we will spend in this house (hopefully), and it was our first Christmas without Cocoa in 5 years. So as you can imagine the girls (and Dean and I) were pretty emotional when the girls opened a box filled with a green leash, collar, and a book about Labs. At first they weren't sure what to think, but then we explained that a couple of weeks ago we had picked out a black male lab puppy for our family. He isn't quite ready to come live with us yet, but very soon, maybe by this weekend or early next week. So yesterday we headed out and visited our new puppy for the first time. When we arrived at the owner's home they had just let the puppies (all 11 of them) outside for their first time ever! We spent about an hour playing with our new puppy and his siblings and visiting with the owners. Merrill was able to capture some video of our visit on her new flip video recorder, and she made this movie earlier today, very cool!! Now we just have to decide on a NAME!!!