Beautiful Day!

The weather was great today...it almost hit 60 degrees!! Dalton and I spent a lot of time playing in the yard... Jackson didn't get to go out, he was napping!!

A few fun pics... Jackson had the best time getting into this little box. It was so funny though because he'd step into it, and then he couldn't quite lift his feet high enough to step out and just stood there FOREVER!

Jackson admiring all the presents...

And here, he was determined to beat the snot out of this semi truck with a spatula!

"Here, Mom, you do it! It's fun!"

So while Jackson napped today, Dalton and I went out to play (well, Dalton played. I, unfortunately, spent most of my time scooping poop!). These are our newest foster dogs, Joe and Cooper. We've had them almost two months already, but most of that time they were being treated for a ton of different intestinal parasites, ear mites, etc, so today was the first day that Dalton really got to spend any real time with them.

Aren't they adorable?!? They are brothers, about a year old. They do almost everything together, and groom each other and sleep together. It's funny because sometimes they are like synchronized dogs...they wag their tails at the same time, the same direction, stretch at the same time, so on and so forth. This is Cooper below... (Cooper is a little lighter colored than Joe).

They followed Dalton ALL OVER the yard. They did so well with him, and I was kind of surprised really. Joe has a bad habit of jumping up on me (Cooper does so much better, he will sit down when gets in front of you), but neither one ever tried to jump on Dalton or knock him down. They just followed him around wanting to be petted and give kisses.

See what I mean about synchronized dogs? Their tails are wagging in the same direction, same time! They really are SO cute...you know, when they aren't chewing on something they shouldn't be!

So really just a great day... they are saying that we might get some snow on Christmas Eve (just a dusting, but hey, it's still a white Christmas, right?!?). Christmas dinner is at our house this year, although not all of my local family will be here.

Dalton has this giant Santa head with a long 4 ft beard that counts down the days til Christmas. He moves the candy cane each day, and each morning the first words out of his mouth are "Six days to Christmas!" "Five days to Christmas!" and today it was "Four days to Christmas, just like me, I'm four, only FOUR DAYS!" He's just beside himself with excitement!