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Klaus has this new thing that I’ve been telling everyone about because I think it is so cute.

It all started with him being sick though.  He had some sort of doggie cold or something, and he was shivering pretty bad, so I put a blankie over him (and honestly put a heating pad on low also).  Ever since then, he’s become attached to his blankie!  He won’t go to bed without it!  I’ve been tucking him in so he doesn’t get cold at night.  He IS a short haired dog.  One night I forgot and left the blankie draped over the arm of his bed (he usually sleeps in his chair).  When I told him it was time for bed he looked at me like I was nuts, walked over to his blankie and started pawing at it and looking at me.  I hadn’t known that he had become attached until then!  Now he snuggles with it too when he naps.

Rotten.

I stumbled upon this picture of Klaus from last year.  September 2011 to be exact.  Thought I’d stick it here so you guys could the cutest most spoiled little boxer in the land.  We are watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer together as I type.

This year The Husband and I had a quiet holiday at home just the two of us.  We like to do that every couple of years – make our own traditions.  I thought I’d share with you guys a few random photos from the morning.

We had homemade buttermilk pancakes and bacon for breakfast!  PB and syrup on top!

Now, I know Christmas isn’t all about gifts – but nonetheless we’ll get phone calls, emails, and facebook messages asking ‘what did you get?!’  So I figured I’d take pictures and post them here for those folks who wanted to know.  (mostly our relatives…)

Me time!

West Elm platter.  When we hosted Thanksgiving I realized we didnt really have any platter big enough for turkey – so I added this one to my list.

Owl mug – I love owls.  The owl is my favorite animal.  I have been thinking about getting an owl tattoo a lot lately.

Another West Elm – a pretty framed silhouette of a little girl to hang in the bedroom.

This framed skeletal chart from ZGallerie.  I’m going to hang it on the wall right there in the entryway over our record player -and hang a mirror up beside it.

A new doormat – another owl!

Valley of the Dolls Special Edition DVD.  I love love love this movie!  songs – beautiful costumes – big hair – mod makeup – beautiful ladies – over the top acting.  You can’t ask for much more.  The packaging is beautiful.

There were some miniature lobby card reproductions inside.  If you dont know, lobby cards were pretty much posters of production stills that were hung in theaters to promote the film.

This is my favorite one – of Neely in the sanitarium trying to kick those dolls.

Look at the menu screens!  They’re fabulous.

I made this once…for another blog.

The Virgin Suicides.  The movie is one of my favorites, so maybe the book will be too?

I told you guys I was going to start reading the Harry Potter books – heres the first one, sans book cover.

A much needed wallet that matched perfectly with my kelly moore camera bag.

Cozy Minnetonka slippers.

Flannel VS PJs, and other goodies from JCrew, Gap, and Anthropologie.

Now for The Husband.

Clothes.

Shoes

Marshall headphones – I love the packaging!

He loves when other people play the harmonica – so I got him a little beginners harmonica and book – we’ll see what comes of it!

The newest Lock and Key

Inception – I was pretty let down by the special features.  I was thinking OH YEAH this movie will have AWESOME special features – documentaries, making ofs, I’ll get to see how they did the 0g scenes.  But no.  The only awesome thing there was a documentary about dreams.

He also received a pair of minnetonka slippers – the old man scuff version.

And a whole bunch of kitchen stuff.  He spends a lot of time in there.  I venture to say if he would have discovered his love for cooking earlier he may have gone to culinary school.

A cookbook we are both excited about.

A dinner of turkey, homemade cranberry sauce, rolls, brussels sprouts, and rosemary roasted potatoes.  YUMMY!  Those potatoes were the best part.  We don’t eat them often.  We had some leftover bacon from breakfast that we crumbled over top the potatoes which made them even better.  We watched A Christmas Story the rest of the night.

I hope you guys had a Happy Holiday!  We did – snow, good eats, gifts, chocolate, and our Santa Klaus!

Many of you know our puppy by now – Klaus!

Well, this holiday season we have taken to calling him Santa Klaus.  (for those of you that don’t know how to pronounce Klaus – like much of The Husbands family and 99% of the people at our vets office – even though they have all HEARD us say it a million times – it is like when you’re saying clown think klow-s not klaws). We paint him as kind of a menacing Santa Klaus.  Always watching and judging.  You better watch out…you better not cry…you better not pout I’m telling you why…because Santa Klaus will get you.

We decided to take a last minute trip to the pet store today to purchase Santa Klaus a Santa hat – but alas they had none.  I did however find a couple of things I would like to purchase him from Etsy though.

Here – the Christmas bowtie! From Etsy seller sillybuddy.

And a knit santa hat from Etsy seller anywear!

For Klaus?

I’m in love with this brindle Boston.

Two brindles!  Wouldn’t that be the cutest.

More shots from my Hipstamatic app.  

 

 

Yesterday seemed to be all about Klaus day.  We took him for a long and leisurely walk and when we arrived back home played with him in the yard for most of the remainder of the day.  So I’m going to post some shots from yesterday of our favorite puppy.

This is our little boy.  Klaus.  He turned one last week.  Happy birthday Klausy!!!

This is what you get for punishment if you go rooting around in my hair diddy drawer.

The shame.

Yeah, I said “rooting around” and “hair diddy” in the same sentence AND WHAT?

Every time we buy Klaus a bed he will lay on it for a couple of weeks, dragging it around every once and again. Then he decides to rip it to shreds.  He thinks they are toys and we cannot figure out how to make him understand that its NOT A TOY!  Well, we bought him a new one yesterday afternoon and decided we weren’t going to allow him to bring it out of his crate and drag it around.  Maybe this will make him understand.  It only to be SLEPT ON!  Well, we left him to his own devices for forty minutes so we could play a little rock band.  After we put away our guitar and drum kit, we happened upon this lovely sight.

We just bought that two hours ago GEEZE!!!!  He seemed rather content to just lay in the stuffing though.