Happy New Year!

My first post of the new year...Just minutes into the new year I learned something I didn't know about Simon. He likes champagne! He's a near nut when given just the slightest taste of bubbly!

At the stroke of midnight all pets in the house were given a smidgen of milk to celebrate the new year while the adults celebrated with champagne. Well little Simon was rather curious about the bubbly. The question, "What is in the bottles that have those loud popping corks?" was clearly rolling through his mind. I'm not sure what possessed me to do it but I reached down to his bowl and poured a little bit of my champagne in his bowl. He lapped it up as if it was the best thing he had ever tasted in his nearly 9 years of life. He then began to stalk all glasses of champagne. He was a dog on a mission for more champagne! He stared with big bright eyes directly at each champagne glass. He moved his eyes when the glass moved. He did a little anticipation dance in hopes of getting more. He literally couldn't sit still, moving from side to side and foot to foot. I've honestly never witnessed Simon act that way. He was a crack up! We couldn't stop laughing at him. Cody could careless. He drank his small amount of milk and returned to his bed while Simon resorted to a new 2011 anticipation dance for more champagne. I enjoy champagne too much to have given him any more of mine....sorry Sime! LOL!!!

We had a lovely New Year's Eve. We had a small gathering at my boyfriends house. I fixed fajitas and a 7 layer dip along with some queso(my boyfriend's fave). We watched a movie and played some games. I also now know that Dallas shoots off fireworks at midnight. I'm not sure why but the Rockin' Eve from NY with Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest was shown live as the east coast was receiving the live feed, so an hour early for us. When midnight rolled around for TX they switched us to local programming where we watched the downtown Dallas fireworks go off at the stroke of midnight. No big deal to us, we enjoyed seeing some of the local program and at least I now know that Dallas shoots off fireworks for the New Year. A good time was had by all! Happy 2011!