This Tater is Trying to Take over

I worked in the yard/garden for several hours on Saturday.
It's so nice to do it on a day when it's both sunny out while being cool enough so that I don't drown in my own sweat.
A rarity.

Do you get the feeling that this ornamental potato plant is enjoying it's location? 

He/She/it appears to be taking over the upper lanai area. It's of the plants I tended to this weekend....he/she/it is now trimmed to a decent size.
I almost hated trimming he/she/it....but he/she/it was creating a traffic problem. 

And in case you were wondering, {I'm sure you were} there appears to be a potato at the root!
Go figure.

Happy Wednesday {oops} Tuesday my party people; this SPUDS for you. 

XOXO

Willy Nilly Friday~The one with all the specialists and the bloomers.

Joining Tanya and friends for 5 willy nilly whatevers. I'm all about the whatevers lately.

1)
I worked on this for a while last week....time to change it up. Again.

2)

The Ozzie saga continues.
The Tuesday before last,  just out of the blue, he went into a major seizure. It lasted 2-3 minutes, but felt like a lifetime. We again rushed him to the emergency vet specialists where they kept him overnight.
*knock on wood* he's been fine since then. The neurologist has some ideas of what his main issue is....we're still deciding on his course of treatment, but focusing on his heart issue for now. 

Ozzie now has a neurologist, a cardiologist, an ophthalmologist, and an oncologist.
There's word that he's now requesting an agent and a full time masseuse.

I took him in yesterday for a follow up visit with his cardiologist.
His heart condition is getting better. {enlarged heart, getting smaller} BUT, his irregular heartbeat is going on. She's adjusted his meds somewhat and I'm checking his heart rate several times a day now. Because, really, what else do I have to do? 
Actually, I'd do anything for this sweet boy. He does nothing wrong. Ever.

3)

This week I came Soooooooo close to saying something I hoped to never say to one of my children.

"Just you wait. Just you wait until you have children, then you'll understand."

I resisted saying it out loud.
For now. 

4)

Don't hate me, but we've been dining on fresh romaine from the garden for weeks. 

 5)
Again, don't hate me, but please enjoy this trio of orchids blooming in one of our oak trees.
These are the best surprises when I stumble upon them.

I do hope your week held more surprises than not and that your weekend will be filled with goodness.
Or at least some pretty flowers and a sweet furry critter.


XOXOXO

To destroy or NOT destroy, that is the question.

The scene: 

Our living room, Christmas morning, 10 minutes after Cocoa received this toy in her stocking. 

Ok, I just lied. 

Her toy was to her right...this was one of the visiting Labradors toys. Hence, her contemplating. 

 Can you see the contemplation in her face?

Her decision was: To Destroy. 

I can't bear to show the after photo; a dog toy tragedy. 

Again, this is why we can't have nice things. 

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I've already destroyed two checks this week by writing 2014 on them; woe is me. 

Lets document something before it's forgotten.

I've been a very bad blogger. I've been a very busy bee. 

I should be put into a timeout; preferable a timeout that includes a few spa sessions, cooked meals and a few more spa sessions. 

Lets recap. 

We had a fabulous company holiday party this year.....and since we've not been able to have one ($$) since 2008, well, that made it even more fabulous!

We held our party at a hotel, fully catered and we hired a casino company to give us all the fun of Vegas without the losing of actual cash. A fun. Fun. FUN time. 

It was nice to have the girls there this time as well. Lolo is AN actual employee and Lindsay is an actual future 'Event Planner wannabe' major. 

Christmas Eve we had a full house. 21 people for dinner. I took some time to do some family portraits for Coach's brother and his extended brood before the sun went down. It was so nice to have all the cousins here at the same time. 

My BIL and his lovely peeps.

The cousins being photobombed by Ozzie. His favorite pastime is peeing in public.

Lolo and Linds making santa strawberry hats. 

We had a delicious dinner of steak, lobster bisque, antipasto, and other non diet related foods!

This year we also had two kiddos here on Christmas eve and boy oh boy is that fun. There was bowling in the hallway and nerf guns shooting left and right! 

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Christmas day is always pretty quiet here since we have so much NOISE on Christmas Eve. 

It was just the four of us plus Coach's mom and stepdad, and they usually head home around lunchtime. 

Lolo and I watched more Hallmark Christmas movies than should be allowed. 

I mean, why do they always make me cry? No wonder they're sponsored by Kleenex. 

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas and New years.

Oh boy...it's 2015 people!