Driving to see the family

I was so excited!

 My human and me, in front of the family Christmas tree

 I like to hang out under tables.

 I probably wasn't allowed on this chair, but I took a nap on it anyway.

 My cousin Beren and I are watching my human eat breakfast.  Sometimes Beren gives me dirty looks, but I know he likes me.

On the drive home after a fun few days.  I got a stuffed "moose" for Christmas.  It will make a good friend for my Chicken.

About a week and a half ago (in human time), Elise and Brandon brought a tree from outside, inside!  I don't know what this is all about.  I vaguely remember something like this last year, but the tree smelled like plastic.  Once they propped it up, they put sparkly things on it, and hung some little toys all over.  I learned quickly that I'm not supposed to touch the toys, so I am still trying to figure out what the purpose of this is.  Boxes in pretty paper (I do remember shredding paper like this last year) started appearing under the tree this week.  I wonder if there's a new Nylabone in one of them.  Mine is finally falling apart.  I like to sit in the living room, by the tree, because it smells like outside.  Well...that, and I want to keep an eye on it.  You never know when I might need to bark at it.

It was pretty rainy here this weekend (as it probably will be until July).  I don't really mind, but my human sure whines about it a lot when we're out getting our morning exercise.  We usually snuggle/nap for a while in the afternoon, after she gets a middle of the day meal.  I don't know if the chair was meant for two, but I squished my way in there for some quality snuggling.

My favorite part about our new house, is the yard.  It's big enough for me to run laps in.  It has a playground for me.  It has trees that I can chase squirrels up.  Sometimes in the morning I like to stand by the sliding glass door and just stare at it.  Usually I am counting how many birds and squirrels are running around, so I know what I'm up against when one of my humans let me out.

I apologize for the quality of this picture.  My human Elise has a crappy phone.  I think she should ask Santa for a new one for Christmas.  What's going on here is I am staring at this gaping hole in my human's ceiling!  Sometimes there is a pitter-patter that seems to hit the hole in the ceiling and I do not like that at all.  Does that mean the hole is going to attack?!!!  I make sure to stand guard, and growl at it until it the pitter-patter sound subsides and I have determined the hole is backing down.  My human Brandon was helping me this time too.

I will stare at my humans while they eat.  I will stand right behind them in the kitchen while they "cook," just waiting for something to drop.  Rarely do I actually enjoy what they drop though, so I don't really know what drives me to do this.  I think it's the hope that they might happen to be making dog treats for dinner.  Anyways, the other night my human dropped this slice of "zucchini."  WTF?  I carried it into the living room to examine it a little more closely.  I licked it.  I smelled it.  Nope.  I determined it was not edible.

Normally I get invited to get up on the couch only, and only if it has a blanket on it.  I think this has something to do with the amount of fur I leave everywhere, or so I've been told.  This nice comfy chair has been calling my name though, so when I had the opportunity, I went for it.  My human Elise was doing laundry and seemed like she was going to be in there for a while, so I curled up on the chair to take a nap for as long as I could get away with.

My humans have been unpacking and setting up the house.  Since I don't have opposable thumbs, my contribution includes following them from room to room and taking mini naps along the way.