My horrific week before Thanksgiving

Rider

Oooowweeee

This was 15 minutes before the fight! Bolts sleeping on Gigi

OK so now that I have shown you how GREAT Thanksgiving was... I must tell you about my doggie problem...
As you know we have 3 dogs...

Rider [8 yr old Weim] , Gigi [4 yr old Weim] and the infamous Bolts [11 months old] and no she was not named after the new Disney movie, she was named after the Charger's football team... but if Disney wants to make her into an action hero who am I to object... LOL

Anyway... long story shorter... the week before Thanksgiving... Bolts and Gigi got into a horrific fight and Bolts caused Gigi to get 8 stitches in her ear! Right after it happened I drove Bolts down the hill to my son Kameron... she was placed in exile...

[Its his dog anyway, I knew I was gonna end up with her when he brought her home... but that is besides the point]
Never in my wildest dreams would I have EVER thought those two would get into it... Bolts adores Gigi... Rider and Bolts getting into it... yes... but Gigi and Bolts NEVER!

Ask Nurse Pam, she ADORES Bolts!!

Well, after taking her for surgery, my vet gave me the name of an aggressive dog trainer... He will be coming to the house next week to observe and comment on what 'we' are doing wrong...

[WHERE is the Dog Whisperer when you need him? He seems to get owners and dogs fixed in minutes]

The trainer basically said "Bolts is challenging Gigi for pack leader because she is hitting puberty"

[GD teenagers] This wouldn't be a problem, except as you all know... Bolts is a Pitbull... Bolts LOVES people, hates other dogs... but so do my Weim's... so WTH?

Am I putting off a Michael Vick vibe in my house... WTH?

I don't know what is going on... but it better stop...

My vet bills lately are no laughing matter! Sheesh...

We love Bolts [she is my grand-dog-der] We miss her up at the house but we have to DO something...

BTW Jeanne: I saw a dog show with 4 Weims and one of them was snuzzling LOL Like my Gigi and your Vizla... he he

For those of you who don't know what snuzzling is...

My Gigi [4 yr old blue weim] will take a pillow and suck on the corner of it while kneading it with her paws... It looks like she is nursing or something... she never chews the corner, it just gets wet! Jeanne's Vizla does it too... Weim's and Visla's are in the same dog family... bird hunting dogs

More Thanksgiving pics

My sister in law Tina and her dog boccie [or baby chubacca I'm not sure]

Below is Kameron

To the left is Collin and below is Gram Pam's oldest grandson Corey

Sam's sister Tina's family


Below is Kieffer and his favorite cousin Michelle... they have been best friends since they were in diapers

Below is Collin and his girlfriend

To the left is Jelly Bean [Aka JuJu Bee aka Shaniqua *see story below for explanation LOL]

And these are the Newlyweds again... and yes I was bugging them for a Grandchild... Here was the response "Sure Mom, here is the deal... you buy us a house and we will get right on the grandchild thing"

Ya dream on Candice...

Candice would say "Ya dream on about those grand kids then..."

Thanksgiving pics #3

The volleyball teams Saturday afternoon... Only in Southern California!


This is breakfast with half of us!


Isiah [Sam's sister's hubby's daughter's son]


Spagetti sauce

Spagetti!

Kieffer working in the tractor Thanksgiving weekend

My son Kris, My SIL Mike, and Sam

The flag flying over the house so everyone could find us

Feeding the horses carrots [My SIL Lisa and her husband's daughter's son] Could you follow that?

Kieffer and Isiah feeding horses down the road

Thanksgiving Weekend pics 2

Me getting a ride in Gram Pam's son's buggy!!


Sam and I being weirdo's


Sam and his sisters Lisa and Tina





Gram Pam and her kids Allen and Christy

Gram Pam and her honey Chuck plus 'little man'

Gram Pam's sister and her hubby plus Emma Jean I took a bunch of Christmas card photo's for them

The gang's all here... Oh uh actually we are missing 6 people LOL

Kameron

The morning dog walkers

Gram Pam's daughter Christy and her hubby Troy

The morning after Thanksgiving my SIL Tina and her hubby Ciro made breakfast... Bocce supervised from a stool LOL

Thanksgiving night some of the cousins in the hot tub

The newlyweds Mike and my daughter Candice

Some of the pies, cakes and cookies Thanksgiving evening

More photos coming so check back often...

Hey you said you wanted photos

A few pics of Thanksgiving

UGH I am SO not use to this photo thing here yet... so hang in there with me...

Sam carving the turkey
Gram Pam's daughter Christy

Poppa Woo from World War II [he is 85 yrs young]

The table for Thanksgiving

The trailers in the yard

Below is Cali one of the dogs

Gram Pam's grandson Blake

A huge tub of ambrosia

Gram Pam's youngest grandson

OH MY GOD... He is THE cutest 19 month old you have ever seen!!!

A huge tub of stuffing

Poppa Woo from World War II and other stuff

I really wish I could post the weekend photos... Darn it! Soon...

We had so much fun... I think the volleyball games were the best part of the weekend!
Poppa Woo from World War II was a kick too! Last year he made a drawing of Grampa's WWII ship he was on... The USS Essex... then he sent it to Grampa... that was so nice of him! It is here, hanging on the wall now that Grampa is gone.
Just so you know how Poppa Woo fits in the family... Try following this...
Poppa Woo is Gram Pam's daughters husband's grandfather... Did you follow that? He is in his 80's and going strong... [must be the shot of Bailey's in his coffee in the morning LOL] or its the sit up's and stretches he does before his coffee!
Anyway, one night we were drinking [Ok we were drinking every night but that is not the point of my story] and somehow the subject of sex came up [big shocker huh!] I think the point of the sex stuff was the hubby's bitching how they NEVER get any sex and someone asked Poppa Woo if its still possible to have sex in your 80's! So Poppa Woo says
"Oh.... sure it is... as long as you have those little blue pills" we all laughed so loud!!!
I just love Poppa Woo, he is so mellow and you can talk to him about anything!
Wait till you see a picture of him, your gonna love him too! He told me as long as he is standing he will be back next year!

I am so happy EVERYONE had a great time! Collin brought his girlfriend and she said "Oh. My. God. your family is so chill, there is NO WAY my family would be this much fun if they all got together!" that was kind of nice to hear!
This was a very special Thanksgiving! Sam's sister's have not been up here since 1995! The kids were so little back then! I played old family video's of back in the day... [which was a Wednesday by the way... that was a joke I hope you got it! Every time someone says "Back in the day" Kieffer always says "Which was a Wednesday!" Anyway, the video was hilarious and oh so embarrassing for the kids... Oh well... it was worth it... we all laughed so hard... I HAVE to learn how to post videos on my blog.... LOL
We also had quite a few dogs here! We had Gram Pam's Chihuahua 'little man', her son's husky wolf mix 'Cali' [she has one blue eye and one brown eye], Gram Pam's daughters dog 'Jelly Bean' or as Sam liked to call her
"Ju Ju Bee' I can't tell you what breed she is but to me she acts like an old Jamaican woman who has smoked to much pot, lives for eating food and moves really slowly... I called her Shaniqua... LOL Don't worry I have a photo of her! Gram Pam's sister Mary Ann brought their Dalmatian Emma Jean... She was so happy to be here and loved running around... Mary Ann called me today and said Emma slept for 2 days after they got home LOL
Sam's sister also brought their dog named Bocce...
Everyday after breakfast we would take the dogs for a walk and go feed carrots to the horse's down the road...
My dog aggressive dogs were at the kennel... There is NO WAY they would have been ok with other dogs being here... The funny thing was when I went to pick up my dogs from the boarder taking care of them [A registered AKC breeding kennel] Guess where my whiner-riners were? Still in their kennel area? Uhhhh no... they got to stay in the house LOL She said they were not happy unless they were with a human! Uhhh ya, that would be my whiner-riners LOL

A few pics from the weekend I got from my daughter

Candice and Michelle [cousin]

A Group shot

My SIL Lisa, ME and Candice