It's Beginning To Look A Lot like Christmas....

Um, Santa stopped by a little early in the Alger household. The puppy Rusty didn't really seem to like him. I guess he won't be getting anything from him this year :)

Disneyland

On November 17th and 18th, Buddy and I had the privilege of going to Disneyland. My work, Career Step, took the entire company, and Buddy tagged along with me. It was perfect weather and the perfect time of the year. I want to go back every November! We had so much fun. There are a lot of photos, and more to the story, but I'll save that for a later date. I spent a long time just uploading them off the camera, and it's getting late. So I'll post more about it soon!

Buddy's Birthday!

Buddy turned 24 in November! Hip hip hooray!! Here he is blowing out his birthday candles.

Psi Chi

Buddy was inducted into Psi Chi, the Psychology National Honor Society, this month. I didn't bring my camera to the event, but here's a picture of Buddy afterwards.

Catching up: Halloweenie 2008

These pictures are all a little out of order, but I'm trying to catch up. Here's our cool pumpkins we carved for Halloween and Buddy in a costume (he didn't wear this one, he was just trying it on). The crazy hair one is my work costume. We were silly and didn't get any of our "real" costumes. I was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz and Rusty was Toto. I had some pretty dang cool ruby red slippers. Buddy went as a cowboy with a cool inflatable horse. We'll have to track down some pictures from friends.

Fall Photos

We went up Provo Canyon a few weeks ago to take some pictures with the pretty leaves. We left a little late, so it started to get dark, but here are some of the cute pictures.

Rusty Pup

Now that I finally am able to upload pictures, I had to put up some of our cute dog, Rusty! (affectionately known as Rusty Pup, Stink Pot, Bubba, Bubbalicious, & Rusty Bubba) We hadn't planned on getting a dog, and this is how it happened. I was walking around one night and these two cute puppies that live in the complex came running up to me. They were the cutest Yorkie-poos (Yorkie/Poodle mixes) and I told Buddy that I wanted a dog and didn't want to wait like we had planned. I went inside to take a shower before we went to bed, and Buddy got on KSL. I came out of the bathroom after my shower and Buddy tells me, "Look, here's a dog for a good price. He's a year old and potty trained. He was posted 15 minutes ago." I told Buddy to call the guy right then and we would buy him. It was already about 9 PM at night and we told the guy we would meet him at IKEA (he was from Salt Lake) and buy him. So an hour later , there we were in the IKEA parking lot purchasing our new little Rusty. (He was named Sparky at the time, but I changed that as soon as I got him). Rusty never looked back. He came into our home like we had been his family his whole life. And that's how our puppy came to be Rusty Alger!

(cheesy I know. I never thought I would be one of those "crazy" dog people, but I do love my dog!)