Jennifer and Cody Schubert

Well, today is Thursday, October 1. It's hard to believe that it is October already...Halloween stuff already in the stores (which, by the way, I bought Cody and me a Halloween gingerbread house to put together...we'll see if it actually gets done!) and within a couple weeks, the Christmas stuff will already be out. Which reminds me. I have some Christmas stockings that I bought last year, and before it's time to hang them up this year, I want to embroider (with some help from my mom) our names on them. We'll see if that gets done, too. I have high hopes for Christmas this year...including an official picture that we can use as our Christmas card picture and to have all the decorations up and stuff like that. I have a lot of fun with decorating. If I put my  mind to it, I could probably decorate for every holiday. It's just one of the many things that I love about the holiday season. Back to Halloween, I love to dress up, although there's hardly anyplace to go, but that doesn't matter since Cody and I are pretty much homebodies. I did buy Dakota a costume, his first Halloween!, and I want to at least get a picture of him in it before he destroys it. Maybe then that way I can get him a Santa hat and he can and will wear it for our picture. I'm also hoping to take him to Petco for his picture with Santa. After all, they aren't lying when they say your dogs become your children. He starts puppy school on Sunday, the 4th, and we will see how much he learns from that. If there is a good outcome, we (meaning I) are going to sign him up for the Intermediate and then Advanced classes so he can learn all kinds of things (not to mention it'll make things a little easier on us, too!)