Here's wishing all of our visitors the happiest of holiday times.  Good cheer, friends, family and Santa Paws to all!  Ward and I were fortunate to spend several days with Ward's parents Jack and BJ at Disney earlier this month.  Christmas time at Disney is truly nice, but bestest of all is being with our family.

 

Ward and I celebrated our 7th anniversary this year, my how times flies when we're having so much fun.  We still have 101 years to go!

 

It's been a year now since we packed up and moved back to Florida from California.  There are several things we miss about California, but we are sure glad to be back near Ward's family. We've about got settled into the house.  The remodeling work is essentially done, now we're working on the yard.  The kids; Cannon and Rosie thoroughly approve of having a huge yard to run, romp and play.  They do tell us that they will like it much better once we've got a grass yard in.  Ward & I have been putting sweat equity into converting the "naturalized setting" into a regular yard.  We should be ready to sow grass seed in early spring.  Yippee!

 

Ward is working for a software development company that develops legal software.  His job has him working from home, so he has an office upstairs where he goes to work each day.  I'm slowly getting things going with CrystalBall Media, and I've got an office downstairs.  The high point of the year for CrystalBall Media was having some of my photos published in Nov 2005 Front and Finish for the Unsung Heroes column.  The dogs have got to be totally spoiled with their folks around full time; though most of the time, they wander off someplace for some peace and quiet for serious power naps.  The biggest problem with Ward working from home is keeping the battery charged in his car, he doesn't get out much.

 

Ward has gotten into to playing WoW, Worlds of Warcraft; a PC MMORPG game.  If you're into to WoW, look him up.  Cannon, Rosie and I continue with our shenigans.  We're working on getting Rosie's conformation points aiming for her breed CH, she earned her CGC this year, and she should be getting her health clearance CHIC number in the mail anytime now.  Rosie's also learning flyball, and we expect to see her out racing flyball sometime in 2006.  Cannon, is still growing up; he's turned into an absolutely stunning dog, and he's starting to use some of his brain cells.  He's been going to conformation and rally matches this year, and has brought home several first places in Rally Novice B matches; so in 2006 we'll start looking for real Rally trials to enter.  Cannon has just started learning the basics of Open and Utility, and he thinks articles and directed retrieves are the greatest fun.  Rosie is a true clown, I'm convinced that her motto is 'life is a big party, let's play!'.  I'm not sure that she and I will ever be ready for Novice or Rally, but I'm determined we're going to try sometime in 2006.

 

To all of our friends and family, Happy Holidays and we wish you the best in 2006.  If your travels find you near Orlando, please drop us a note so we can try to get together.

 

Ward, Dianne, Cannon & Rosie