My Once Upon a Time...

We call Zuma our "chicken". He is afraid of EVERYTHING! He jumps at the smallest touch that he is not expecting, he only goes up the stairs if no one else in going up and the dog gate is his worst enemy.  It might have something to do with the fact that he got his head stuck in the rails when he was still a puppy. He was all by himself and when Katie came home she found him in there, whining, she said it was heart breaking. Who knows how long he was stuck...poor guy. Most days he makes it through okay, barely, but he makes it, but at least once a week, he just totally freaks out and bolts through the OPEN gate like a maniac and this is how we find it then.  Wir nennen   Zuma  unseren  "Angsthasen" .   Er  hat vor allem Angst !   Er springt   bei der kleinsten   Berührung, die   er   nicht erwartet hat ,   er   geht nur   die Treppe hinauf , wenn sonst  niemand auf der Treppe ist und das Hundetor ...

We celebrated Rene's and Christian's Birthday last weekend and it's always so much fun for me to hang out with the whole family. We went to the Old Spaghetti Factory and then headed over to their house to do cake and presents. Letztes Wochenende haben wir   Rene's   und   Christian's   Geburtstag  gefeiert  und fuer mich ist es immer toll, wenn wir Zeit mit der ganzen Familie verbringen.  Wir gingen in die   Old Spaghetti Factory  zum Essen und danach ging es nach Hause um Kuchen zu essen und Geschenke auszupacken. Rene got this card from Christian and I love how he wrote on the back "BAM! Home-made card"...totally cracks me up that kid.  Rene   hat   diese Karte von   Christian  bekommen  und ich   liebe es, wie   er   auf die Rueckseite schrieb: " BOOM!  Selbstgemachte Karte "...er bringt mich immer wieder zum Lachen. Robert Winston was tired! Winston ...

Who doesn't like practical jokes? In our office, we sure do! Well, maybe Katie didn't so much when she found this in her inbox...totally scared the crap out of her! Wer mag denn nicht gerne   Streiche ?  Wir lieben es in unserem Buero !   Na ja, vielleicht  nicht  Katie , als sie dies in ihrem Postfach auf der Arbeit gefunden hat ...  das hat sie fast zu Tode erschreckt! And maybe Kim didn't, when she rolled her office chair over this...just for the record, there was some screaming and jumping involved! Und vielleicht auch nicht   Kim ,   als sie mit ihrem Buerostuhl drueber rollte  ...  sie schrie und sprang auf...hehe. The snake popped up EVERYWHERE, under papers, in lunch boxes, even in the freezer...it was dang funny...until Debbie had to take it back home to protect her pool pump! Die Schlange   tauchte   überall auf,   unter   Papieren,   in  Lunch Boxen und  in   der ...