What a year it has been! We’ve had ups and downs, but we made it through. We’ll share some of the highlights with you.
March brought us a new Motor Home in place of our truck and fifth wheel. This allowed us the comfort to go on “self-contained” camping trips without worrying about running out of electricity. We never went on these trips before with the fifth wheel. The Motor Home has a generator and has most of the lights powered by 12 volt battery so as long as we have juice in the battery or at least gas in the tank, we can have power! We camped for 5 days/4 nights at Woods Canyon Lake over Independence Day. It was fun! In July and again in August, we went to Mingus Mountain. It rained both times but the storms were beautiful to watch roll in. We met some new friends and spent more time with familiar ones.
August brought 2 additions to our family. You can see them below with Santa. Drama Boy is on the left and Brother Boy is on the right. They are Bichon Frise’ puppies that we adopted on August 24th. They are brothers and littermates whose birthday is 9/22/07. They’ve enriched our lives so much! It’s definitely a lifestyle changer to become puppy daddies, but we’ve adapted well—and so have they! They came crate trained and house broken and it didn’t take long for them to make their way from the crate to the bed at night! We’ve tried giving them free reign of the bedroom while we’re gone, but we’ve discovered they feel safer in the confines of their crate when we’re not there! They love the Motor Home and camping up North. They love other dogs and rarely bark, except when they want to say “hi” to other dogs!
Dennis was promoted at McKesson this Summer. He really likes the job—still hates the commute, but it’s a good company and he has a great boss. I’m still at Wells Fargo, managing to escape several rounds of cuts this year due to the housing market, poor economic conditions, and the tightening of credit. Things have stabilized a bit at work, and I’m hoping for a better 2009! We’re planning to spend Christmas at home, then we’re going up to the Motor Home the weekend after Christmas. The boys and I are spending the week in the Motor Home as Dennis has to work the week prior to New Year’s. He’s coming back up New Year’s Eve and we’re spending our last weekend in Camp Verde.
We launched a blog in November. You can visit www.rodneydennis.com to keep up on us. There are plenty of pictures of the dogs on there! Feel free to e-mail us as well, we both got new e-mail addresses: Rodney@rodneydennis.com and Dennis@rodneydennis.com.
We hope 2009 brings to you good health, peace, warmth, prosperity, love and joy!
Rodney, Dennis, Drama & Brother Boy
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