(OMG my dogs look miserable and this was the best pic!, btw, trey isn’t fat, that is a fuzzy beard attached to his hat)

To say I’ve been busy is an understatement. The holidays were sort of nothing but work work work and more work. Saturday the 22nd we had our work party and ironically, that wasn’t any work at all, it was a Blast! We a DJ and a beautiful dinner and open bar (the drinkers all had designated drivers or cabs) and we played the money wheel game and gave away thousands of dollars to our employees and their significant others. We also had an ugly Christmas sweater contest, Laura won with her Mrs. Santa with a secret under her skirt – a big cock that is! She won the $100 prize. Next year I think we’ll have more participants knowing there is a cash prize. I had so much I can barely remember the details : )

The day after the work party was my husband’s extended family’s party with 9 children all under the age of 10. We brought gifts for all of them and did an exchange gift game between the men and then between the women. Fun but exhausting having 2 parties in a row.

The next day was Christmas eve and I drove my baby down to Carlsbad for his radiation treatment. I then drove home in tons of traffic, finished wrapping gifts, handed out gifts to my neighbors and got dressed up and went to dinner in Seal Beach and had another gift exchange party afterwards with Ryan’s parent’s best friends and Ryan’s cousin’s family. Then drove home late only to find my 2 parakeets dead. Lovely evening…

I stayed up wrapping and packing and burying and finally went to bed around 2AM. I then awoke to get my sister who had been staying with me since the 22nd to doggy sit while I was painting the town red all those evenings. I got her packed into my truck along with her dog and sent them down to Carlsbad to visit my niece and be there with her and her son while he opened up his gifts. This was his 2nd Christmas but last year he was just an infant. So much more fun when they can open their own gifts!

I then finished packing my husband up to go to his parents and packed myself and Trey and Tommy and headed down to Carlsbad for Trey’s radiation appointment, yes, I know, can you believe they were open on Christmas day? I took Tommy and checked into our beachfront hotel and met up with my sister and Tommy’s brother Beau and took the hounds for a walk along the beach. Absolutely beautiful sunset. I then left to pick up Trey and settled all 3 dogs in for the evening and drove about 15 minutes over to see my niece and meet up with my other sister. So it was the 3 yayas as we call ourselves for Christmas evening. We all 3 went back to our hotel and chilled out with some wine and some relax time.

I then awoke and packed and took Trey for radiation and then me and my sister Cheryl met with our future business partner on a new venture I am doing. As if I have time : O

The meeting went well, we packed up and I got Trey and headed home. It is all a bit of a blur after that. I finished up Trey’s last radiation appointment on Friday the 29th. All I know is that I haven’t stopped and I ended up getting sick. It was sort of expected. I spent the weekend sick but I really didn’t slow down. I had Ryan’s parents over on the 31st and then after they left I did a shoot for kellymadison.com. Hey, the show must go on. I’m going to take it easy this weekend and just spend it taking care of Trey. His radiation burn is huge and oozing. My flu is raging and I need to just take one day at a time right now.

Happy New Year to you all and wish you all the best. Stay healthy in this nasty flu season and please pray for my baby Trey and that is cancer is gone. He got the cutest bandana on his graduation day that says “Hug me, I’m a cancer survivor”. It made me cry.