First things first! Joslyn turned 6 months old this last week! It still amazing to me how quickly time flies. So, here is our sweet Baby J!
EARLY DECEMBER
December was really a whirlwind for us. The first week of the month, we hosted our friend Mono at the new house--our first official out-of-town visitor!
Then, I was headed back to Salt Lake for one final work meeting, so we decided to take advantage and travel back as a family to see every one. It was great to spend time with all of our friends there. It was a wonderful week staying with our friends Marsha and JeanLuc, packed with good food, good company, and Joslyn's first experience with real snow! Check out the slideshow below!
Then, we headed back to Roswell for five days--just long enough to do laundry and get packed--before hitting the road back to good ole Wisco for the Christmas holiday. Crazy, perhaps, but we'd decided that we (Pete, Joslyn, Odessa and I!) would drive from GA to WI. It is after all much closer than Utah--a mere 14 hours from Roswell to Colby vs 24 hour epic from SLC to Menasha! The real concern was the weather systems moving across the Midwest. Somehow, though, we completely lucked out and managed to dodge between the weather systems ripping through--following about four hours behind the ice storms through IL and then about an hour ahead of the big snow in WI. So we had clear roads and smooth sailing all the way home. And, Joslyn was great. We left GA at about 6 pm and drove through the night--she slept soundly or sat quietly for the whole trip, minus about 45 minutes at the end. Not too bad! Odessa, as always, was a wonderful traveller. Papa Pete did have to dig out her little fleecy turtle-neck sweater though, as apparently, our dog is as wimpy as we are! The further north we went, the colder it got and the less willing she was to hop out of the car for potty stops. Hmmmm.... oddly enough that sounds like me too! :)
WI was wonderful. I can't even explain how great it was to finally bring Joslyn home to meet the rest of her family and our good friends. It was a great, exciting two weeks. To sum it all up:
1) Joslyn met her cousins--Ashley, Jaxson, and Mickala and here with Uncle Ryan and Papa Pete is Iylee (who is just 3 months younger!)
2) Lots of time with the grandparents, family, and friends! It was nice to have a white Christmas (seeing as it was 62 when we left GA for WI), but the -10 the first week up in Colby with the 8-12 of snow was a bit of a rude re-introduction to real winters! You'll see a picture of Pete in the slide show below out shoveling--notice the ice crystals on his eyelashes!
3) Odessa--our favorite mischievous redhead-- got up on the kitchen counter and devoured about 4 dozen decadently yummy homemade chocolate chip cookies at the Mahoney house. It's not hard to imagine, but the pound of chocolate chips, cup of butter and cup of sugar they contained wreaks havoc on a dog's system. So, Miss Odessa spent 2.5 days in the hospital for that little stunt. When we arrived at the pet ER, the initial concern was a possible heart arrhythmia because of her elevated heart rate (240 when we arrived vs the normal 80-160) as a result of the chocolate toxicity. Then, the concern became pancreantitis (inflamation and malfunction of the digestive pancreas) because of the super high sugar and fat content of the cookies. Because Odessa doesn't eat "people food", the consumption of such gross amounts of bad stuff all at once posed a real threat of causing her pancreas to basically malfunction and begin to digest itself. So, needless to say, we decided to postpone our departure back to GA to make sure she had enough time on the IV to help flush her system and make sure she was going to be ok. She was one sad pup! But, luckily, after a week, she was pretty much recovered back to normal. Here she is, post cookie-capade!
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