Hi Everybuddy, it’s me, Alex!

We getted to go to Las Vegas with Mommy.  Her got sended there for a conference. We are seeing lots of cool and BEARY nice hotels. Mommy said we’re staying at Excalibur. We’ve never stayed in a cool place like that before. Mommy said that Nana and Poppa getted married in Las Vegas about a million years ago. Well, it wasn’t that long, we makeded that up because 46 years sounds like forever to us.

We wanted to find time to meet Mommy’s friend Kirk, but we didn’t getta see him because Mommy was all weared out by the time her getted to the room every night. The conference peoples kept her busy until almost 10:00 every night. Wow… that’s a lot of work stuffs in such a cool place!

There was this really cool dubble bubble bus we getted to ride one night when Mommy wasn’t so tired. We seed lots and lots of casinos and fancy hotels, but we didn’t go in any of them. One day we drived out to a place called Red Rock Canyon. It was beary pretty and reminded us of Arizona. Mommy taked us to The Hard Rock Casino. It was kinda funny because her thinked we were just going to the Hard Rock Cafe when the taxi dude taked us to the casino. We hadda get another cab ride to get to where the dubble bubble bus was so we could go to the Build A Bear Store in the Miracle Mile.

On our way home we getted sick with a cold. At least Mommy thinks it’s a cold and not the piggy flu. We’ll catch ya when we’re feeling better!

Love,
Alex

Note: We getted better after about 2 weeks. We’ve been really busy… we had company for Halloween and we were posed to have company last week, too, but Mommy’s friend getted sick, we we went on overdrive putting stuff away in our new house.

Hi Everybuddy, it’s me, Alex!!

Whoa!! It’s been almost a whole year since I posted anything here! Yikes!!

Well, as usual, lots has happened since last time we posted. Some of it we can’t even remember!!

• *Nana and Poppa visited us for Easter
• *We went on bacation to Arizona
  • -Phoenix
  • -Red Planet Diner & UFOs in Sedona
  • -Snoopy Rock
  • -Montezuma’s Castle
  • -Sunset Volcano
  • -Meteor Crater
  • -Winslow AZ
• *Mommy getted laid off
• *Mommy getted a new job
• *We goed to Benjamin’s birthday party and were surprised by Seamus & Shortbread
• *We drived from Texas to Washington with Auntie Wisa and seed lots of cool stuff
  • -We seed Llamas in Amarillo
  • -The Continental Divide
  • -The 45th Parallel
  • -The Oregon Trail
  • -Deadman Pass in Idaho
• *We moved to a new house in Washing-a-ton
• *We getted a Facebook account and have LOTS of new friends!!

Whew! That’s a lot!! We’re still getting settled in ours new house and we miss our old friends in Hugetown a lot!! Mommy said maybe they can come visit us sometime. We miss Waffle House, The Astros, The Chocolate Bar and Candylicious lots, too. We live in a place where we gots mountains and they make wine and French Fries, but it’s not the same without our old friends. The good news is that there is a Habitat house we can work on here and that we’re trying to make new friends.

Mommy letted us have a Facebook account and we’re having fun with that. We gots LOTS of new friends there and we getta play games like Farkle even though sometimes Farkle is mean to us. But that’s okay because some of our new friends have blogs, too, and we go read them when we have time.

Uh-oh!! Mommy says it’s bedtime so we gotta sign off for now. We promise to write again real soon.

Love,
Alex & the Gang

Hi Everybody, it’s me, Alex!!

We know we haven’t been beary good about updating our blog. Mommy had surgery and couldn’t type beary good with one hand and we don’t gots thumbs so we couldn’t tell you what we were doing. So… here’s our Chrismuss letter with some updates and we’ll try to be gooder about updating our blog this year!!

It’s been a long time since most of you heard from us and it’s been a real busy year!!

Working at Habitat for Humanity

Last winter we getted to help work on a Habitat house with Mommy. It was really cool!! We getted to play with tools and measure stuff and everything! For Mommy’s barfday we goed to Minnesnowda. We had fun and getted to play in the snow and we goed to the Mall of America. Pretty soon it was spring and we played outside in the clovers and smelled all the pretty flowers. Nana and Poppa comed to Hugetown right after the Easter Bunny was here and Mommy went to the hopspital and getted her’s arm fixed. Her couldn’t use it for more than a month. Nana and Poppa comed from Minnesnowda to help us take care of her. Nana getted to be good friends with our puppy, Macaroon. Great Grandma goed to Heaven right after Mommy getted her sling off so we rided to Minnesnowda with Nana and Poppa. It was nice to get out of the apartment, but it was sad we hadda go to a funeral. Mommy flied back home and we helpeded her out while her getted her arm back in shape.

This summer we getted to go on bacation with Mommy. Her had a class in Furginia and we goed, too. It was really cool to go there because we goed to Washaton DC. We seed the Lincoln Memorial, the Washaton Monument, the White House and lots and lots of other cool stuff!! We goed to Mommy’s cousin’s house in Maryland, too. We had a blast there because there are three little boys there and boy, do they know how to play! Whew! We taked a boat ride in Annapolis with them. It was loads of fun and then we goed to a restaurant and eated crabs and shrimps. Yumm-o!!

In August we goed back to Minnesnowda on bacation and had fun. We stayed with Mommy’s friend in Wisconsin for a few days. We seed lots of cool farm stuff. We getted our pictures taken with sunflowers and soy beans and we getted to see where Great Grandpa’s farm was in Wisconsin. Poppa letted us roast marshmallows in him’s fire pit. That was fun!!

In September we hadda leave again to go back to Furginia. When we getted home we finded out our apartment getted drenched because the roof broked after Hurricane Ike. That was poopy!! Our friends helpeded us move  and them were really awesome! Mommy’s friends from church letted us stay at their house until we getted a new place. We had fun staying there because they are Washaton Redskins fans and we getted a Redskins football uniform while we were in Furginia. We getted moved into our new apartment but we’re still not quite unpacked yet.

We had Thanksgiving in Hugetown and we getted to watch lots and lots of movies!! Mommy taked us to her other friend’s house and we played the Wii all weekend long. That was royally fun!! In the beginning of December iIt snowed a bunch and we builded a snow bunny!! The beary next day we seed the Space Shuttle on its way to Florida. That was sooo cool!!

Whew! It was a beary busy year and we’re glad this one is over. We’re hoping next year is quieter and we getta play more. Mommy said we might getta Wii of our own to play with. That would be fun!! We’re looking forward to playing with our friends, Benjamine and Monkey & Timmy and exchanging post cards and stuff with everybody like Seamus & Shortbread, Teddy2Bears, Growler, Mr. Moo, Flt Lt Bear and lots of other cool friends who have really cool adbentures!!

Merry Christmuss and Happy New Year!!

Love,
Alex, Gregg, Bear, Piggi, Rover, Fudgie, Spam, Macaroon, Klondike, Pounce and everybuddy else!!

Hi Everybody, it’s me, Alex!

We’re part Irish so we wanted to wish you all a Happy St. Patrick’s Day!! Mommy said her would take us to Dairy Queen for a Mint Oreo Blizzard!! Yay!! Anybody coming along?

We goed hunting for four-leafed clovers and we didn’t find any. We did find an Irish Bear friend at Barnes & Noble the other night, though. Him was beary nice. We wanted to bring him home, but him said him had to work late and couldn’t get out early. There were other places Mommy needed to go so we hadda say goodbye to our new friend because we couldn’t wait for him to get off work.

Mommy says that traditional dinner for St. Patrick’s Day is corned beef and cabbage. Mommy said we could have that if we want. There’s a guy in Hugetown who plays him’s bagpipes on the roof of a pub. We thought that might be cool to see, but Mommy gots to work tomorrow. We’d rather have a St. Patrick’s Day Parade with all of our friends, anyway.

A Toast For Our Friends

There are good ships,
and there are wood ships,
The ships that sail the sea.
But the best ships, are friendships,
And may they always be.

We raise a mug of hot chocolate to you!!

Hi Everybody, it’s me, Alex!!

Guess, what? Today, March 14th, is Pi Day!! So… we writed a little poem.

Ode to Pi

There once was a man who liked Pi.
To divide 22/7 he did try.
He tried with ground round,
Not a circle was found,
Nor was any spilled on his tie.

Hi Everybody, it’s me, Alex!

Mommy has had a few problems the past couple of years. Her had a ski accident when I was just a little bunny and her hadda have surgery on her knee. It was really bad. Her was in a brace and on crutches for almost a whole year, but her did all of her therapy and everything worked out okay. When we moved here, her didn’t getta go outside and play as much as her did in Minnesnowda and her knee getted sore again but her goed to the doctor and they gived her some medicine to make it feel better. In 2005, her friends from work convinced her to ride her bike from Hugetown to Austin. Her did that and finished. Yay!!! Good job, Mommy!! Her was riding it again in 2006 and her other leg stopped working so her goed back to the doctors again and her had surgery on both of her knees at Thanksgiving right after we first joined Flickr.

That sorta helped her and then her was playing softball and swimming and stuff and her shoulder was hurting her so her goed back to the doctor again. They sended her to lots and lots of therapy to see if they could fix it. It getted better but it still hurted so when her goed back the doctor wanted to take a picture called a MRI. When they taked the picture them found a owie in her shoulder and her’s going to have to have surgery for that. It will be right after Easter. We are very busy helping the Easter Bunny during Eastertime so her hadda schedule it for after that weekend. The good thing is that Nana and Poppa are going to come and help us take good care of her because her won’t be able to use her arm for more than a month! That will be lots of fun because they will buy us lots of Dairy Queen Blizzards!!

Her’s been practicing doing things with only her left arm. It’s kind of funny to watch sometimes because her is right-handed. We think her’s going to be eating just chicken nuggets and toaster waffles for that whole time because when her eats with just her left hand, her needs a bib!! There’s lots of stuff we’ll have to help with like washing hands and putting contacts in and stuff like that where you need two hands. Her said yesterday that her will need to find some slip-on shoes to wear because her won’t be able to tie hers herself. We could probably get the puppies to do it but they might chew up the laces playing tug instead.

We’re letting you know because we probably won’t be able to take many pictures or do many blog posts for a while after her has her surgery because we’ll be busy taking care of her. Her said we would try to take a bunch of pictures of stuff before her has the surgery and we can post them in little bits while her can’t use her arm. We’ll try to keep you posted when it happens, but if you don’t hear from us, you know why.

Hi Everybody, it’s me, Alex!!

Gregg and I goed with Mommy last weekend and we getted to do lots of cool things! First we went to the Habitat for Humanity house that her is helping to build. It is really neat to see how fast Mommy and her friends build a house even though they only work on weekends. Gregg and I even getted to help!! With our engineering skills, we worked on the plans for the porch and then we helped put some stuff together. We meeted new friends and had lots of fun!

There is a fire truck in Texiss City we getted to work on and that was pretty cool. We were in fireman training class and we learned lots about how the hoses go on and the water valves when it pumps water and all kinds of cool stuff. We getted to have our picture taken on the truck, too. We asked Mommy if her would let us go to firefighter school and buy us uniforms. Her said her would see what her could do.

After we was done building for the day we found a patch of clover. We asked Mommy to stop and check it out because we like a little clover salad from time to time and wanted to pick some. When we getted to the clover, we finded some Texas Bluebonnets and a new friend there, too! In the clover patch was a cute little moo cow! We getted our friends, Moo and Morris, to help translate what the cow said. When we was driving, Mommy finded the horsie ranch where our friend Colorado lives and the little cow ran into the barn there to be with the rest of her family. We was sad to see her go so soon after we meeted her, but we’ll go visit her sometimes.

It was a beary busy weekend!! Now that spring and Easter are coming we’ll be beary busy!!

Hi Everybody, it’s me, Alex!

Mommy reminded us that today is the day 4 years ago that we finded out Great-Grandpa went to Heaven. We miss him lots and hope that somebody went to him’s grave today and said hello. We tell him hello when we say our prayers before we go to bed every night. Mommy telled us that there are a lot of little kids in Heaven who needed a cool Grandpa like him and so him’s taking care of them. We hope those little kids love him as much as me, Karmel, Spam, Mommy, Auntie Wisa, Miss Mouse and CJ do.

Hi Everybody, it’s me, Alex!!

It’s Poppa’s birthday!! We getted him a cool card, but we didn’t get it in the mail until after him’s birthday. We called him and telled him Happy Birthday, and guess what?!? We was the first ones to call him!! That was pretty cool because Auntie Wisa usually has CJ and Miss Mouse sing Happy Birthday to peoples first thing in the morning.

We wanted to get him a cool present, but Nana wouldn’t let us. Poppa said him wanted to hook up the puter to the telebision so him could record stuff on the puter. Mommy finded a puter thingee that him could use but Nana said him didn’t need one. We asked Poppa what him wanted and him said him doesn’t know. Can you believe that?!? We can’t!  So now Mommy gots to figure something else out. Hopefully him will tell us what him wants pretty soon!!

Hi Everybody, it’s me, Alex!!

Remember how I told you almost exactly a month ago that we was moving? Well, now we’re not. It was a beary stressful month for Mommy. The peoples in the apartment office wanted lots of extra monies in rent that her couldn’t afford. We looked at all kinds of other places. Her taked us to look at other apartment complexes and some condos and townhouses and even a house we could have all to ourselves. Those places were pretty expensive, too, so her was thinking about living in a house with a roommate, too. That was kinda scary for us because Mommy was gonna hafta store a bunch of her stuff and we couldn’t have all of our toys at the new place. But… the apartment peeps turned out to be good eggs and our rent will still be more but not as much as they wanted at first. We’re glad because Mommy didn’t really want to pack the boxes in the first place. We’re also glad because me and Mommy was both beary sick after we getted back from Minnesnowda. We even hadda go to the doctor and get some new stuff for our noses. Thankfully, we’re all better now and spring is right around the corner, so that’s good. We’re going to try to take more pictures and do more stuff on the blog. But Mommy said we gotta gets our taxes done first. Whatever that means.