Sunday, January 9, 2011

The New Year





Another year has come and gone. With a new year comes new adventures. We start our upstairs project on our home this month. I couldn't be more excited. We also start the birthday celebrations once more. With most of us having early year birthdays, the James family spent the evening at Shogun for a great time. Miles and Henry absolutely loved it. Layla, not so much. Once she was on her daddy's lap though, she was able to feel a little more comfortable.

With the new year, we also received a new Crash. Stray Rescue sent us a dog trainer to help us figure out if Crash could ever learn to love cats. We were told that he does has a strong prey instinct and what we thought was social issues was actually the drive to kill. After a little work, the trainer was able to get Crash calm in a room with the cats. We then had our homework. We have worked with him every day since her visit. We had a breakthrough yesterday. On a whim, we decided to bring Rocky out of the room and have them in the same room together. There was a starring contest between Rocky and Crash. Rocky won! Crash within minutes laid down and fell asleep. A great step in the direction of becoming our dog. Still a lot of work to do with the cats, but we can see progress for now. Crash is a very sweet loving animal who does well around other dogs, people, and kids. He just has kitty issues. So the work continues, but this time with much more hope.

I have begun my busy season at work, which means longer hours. Although I enjoy the tax season, I do look forward to spring when I can spend more time at home again. Ryan is busy with work as well. It seems our weekends just fly by with little time to enjoy just being home together. But we know our hard work now will result in more time together at home later. We both have big plans this year for our careers, so we are excited to see what will happen and which roads will open up for us.

We look forward to this new year and can't wait to see what else is in store for us.