Happy New Year to all of our families and friends out there!
May your New Year be filled with health, joy, happiness, success, beauty and sanity,
and may you find the beauty in every, ordinary day.
Surely these are the best days of all!
Pat was smirking when he saw me on the computer tonight.
"Are you blogging?" he asked?
"I thought you are on break?" ... smirk again.
"I knew you couldn't do it!"
My response
"WHATEVER!!!"
This post is a MUST-PUBLISH and deserves its rightful place in the Necklac-Lee World!
Blogcation or not ... it had to be recorded!!!
We had a wonderful New Years celebration with the Haberstroh's last night.
A yummie Fondue dinner and lots of Bowle (a deadly, German mixed drink kind of like a punch) and lots and lots of laughter. We watched "Dinner for one", another tradition and all in all had a very lovely time!
We had made some party favors at home.
Party Crackers filled with a few little treats,
Noise makers, with 4 little people in the house, we truly did NOT need those BUT then the kids were so loud we never even heard the noise makers.
The Ls decorated Champagne Glasses for the big event.
Here are the glasses in action
Lulu was serenading us all night on Hannah's guitar and explained to me this morning
that she REALLY, REALLY needs a guitar right away.
Maskerade Ball
Mark und Mama
La-Pappa and Lulu
The Haberstroh big-people
Sweet Rebecca, Queen of the Bowle!!!
The little people at 11:00 PM still going strong ... L fell asleep 5 minutes later and was OUT COLD!!!
Thanks guys for this wonderful celebration and for hoasting!
We truly had a fun time and were still laughing all day today.
This one is for Rebecca: "TU-DORS" :):):)
Mark, check out what I found http://www.target.com/Classic-8-Person-Black-Raclette-Grill/dp/B0000635XW/ref=sc_qi_detaillink It's a date now for sure!!!
I officially declare January 1st as my favorite day of the year!
It was the quietest day ever out there. Nobody goes shopping, no traffic, few people out and about.
While everybody else was at home, curing their hurting heads with Aspirin and hiding from the noise of the world, we had lunch at "Eric's" and then set out to do the FIRST big job of the New Year.
It's been on our minds and on our to-do list for quite some time but I didn't have the neveres and the stomach to do it for so long. But today I had decided it was time. The right time, the right day, the right way to start this New Year.
The weather was yukkie to say the least but we still went for it.
With "barf-dog" in tow and the Ls screaming in the back of the car "YUKKKK, Eddie - stop throwing up!" we drove up to Livermore to visit Lake del Valle to bring my Willie, my Waggie-Tail, my Forever Dog, my Boo-Boo finally home.
It had been long decided that we'd be spreading his ashes here at Del Valle, at the "Willie Beach" as we named it today since this was one of his favorite spots in his doggy world.
We'd be driving into the park and he'd be sitting in the car, jumping and crying to get out and race around. He would start his "Super-Famous HYPER bark" as soon as we would open the door and it was a barking festival from that point on ... much to the "delight" of all other visitors. He just loved it up there, off leash, poop-free, sniffing every inch of the trail and then playing at the lake shore.
So today it was time to bring my littly buddy home and let him be free and happy up there.
We love it up here! We truly do!
It's peaceful, quite, pretty and always fun.
The Ls find lots of treasures and we always see and find something new.
The lake has been drained quite a bit for the rainy season and we could actually walk along the lake shore today.
Edd checking out the DANGEROUS water front.
I LOVE that tree!!!
The Willie Beach
The Good-Old Days
Willie at Del Valle in 2006
He LOVED this place!!!
So peaceful and serene
And this is where it gets AMAZING!!!
Edd was racing through the high flora, chasing the birds like he was possessed.
He raced up and down, jumped through the grass like a baby Bambie and was just going nuts out there.
We had never seen him like this before and couldn't believe our eyes BECAUSE
this is EXACTLY how Willie would be out here.
Racing from bird to bird, trying to catch them, never giving up.
It was so amazing to see little Edd following his big brothers foot steps and he reminded us so much of him.
Racing from bird to bird, trying to catch them, never giving up.
It was so amazing to see little Edd following his big brothers foot steps and he reminded us so much of him.
This is it!!! This is the place, this is the Willie Beach!!!
Be free my love, be free!
May you find peace and rest out here and may this place always and forever remind us of your presence and your spirit.
We know now were to find you and where to come to be near you and we always will treasure the memories of you at this wonderful Willie Beach.
Be free my LOVE!!!
The Ls said little prayers for Will and said reasons why they loved him.
It was very touching!
It may seem silly to you to make such a BIG fuss over some Mutt but for us he was a huge part of our family and we all miss him dearly.
The Ls talk about him all the time and have so many questions, questions which are hard to answer and things hard to explain.
This was a big step for us towrds healing and moving forward.
We now have a place to visit (besides the Willie Tree) and we know in our hearts that this is a place he loved and a place he was the happiest.
It brings us much compfort knowing that he can run freely now and we can always come and visit.
We still have half of his ashes and will bring the rest to Carmel, his other favorite spot.
But we'll wait until the weather will be a bit more friendly and then bring Boo-Boo to his other home.
So this is how the CZ's greeted the New Year.
It feels very good to have done this and it eases the load we had to carry for so long.
Once the other part of his ashes has been set free we will be ready to really move on and leave the sadness behind us and just concentrate on the good memories we all carry.
It is good to start the New Year on a happy note and to make room for more good things, fore there are many in store for the CA CZ family for this new year.
Big happenings and small ones, things that will change everything all over and make our crazy life even more crazy. It's as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow ... it'll be a BIG year indeed!
So you see, I had to blog today! I had to!
So this is how the CZ's greeted the New Year.
It feels very good to have done this and it eases the load we had to carry for so long.
Once the other part of his ashes has been set free we will be ready to really move on and leave the sadness behind us and just concentrate on the good memories we all carry.
It is good to start the New Year on a happy note and to make room for more good things, fore there are many in store for the CA CZ family for this new year.
Big happenings and small ones, things that will change everything all over and make our crazy life even more crazy. It's as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow ... it'll be a BIG year indeed!
So you see, I had to blog today! I had to!
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