2013 | New Years Eve

Welcome to 2013 - the year of More! More Blogging, More photos being taken, More exercise, and More dieting. More on that... later.

Last night we spent in company of our wonderful friends Tim and Katherine. We rang in the new year by having a pork chop dinner together topped off with Monster cookies and Ice Cream for dessert! Mmmh! Good! Oh yeah, and I polished off a half bottle of wine... It tasted SO good.

Then Kat picked up some Christmas Crackers for us - so at Midnight, we cracked them open and had to get a few photos of the crazy crowns that came with them!

The Dogs were NOT happy with all the fireworks going off outside. Aquaman was the least neurotic of the three which is pretty impressive. Cosmo just hopped up on Tim's chair, which is pretty out of character- and Seven ran around in circles panting so hard his toung was hanging sideways out of his mouth... Poor Puppies

Bring it on 2013... Let's do this!

Ps Aquaman even got brave and snagged a chew from Seven....

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