The 2009 Year is coming to an end...Yorkie style

Well the 2009 year is coming to an end and what a year it has been...I hope you all survived it. Let's just hope that 2010 is a little better for the economy, for health care and for jobs and housing....and for everything else we need.

Our Christmas was very good to us, to our family and we hope it was good for you too. It comes and goes so fast. Now we have to take the tree down soon and move on to the next holiday. We ae playing a few songs that we found this year that makes think of the year we just had..we hope you enjoy the music and listen to the words.

We at "Waterside Yorkies" would like to thank you for following us this year...and oh what a year it has been. We did manage to have some fun in all the craziness of this year...but we wouldn't change a thing for with all that was bad...there was alot good too.

We did enjoy going to the beach some this year....and no those aren't my footprints even if some people think so...come on...I'm only a size 13, and that's not me either standing there..it's a funny picture people...ahhh nevermind. Let's move on...Tinkerbell got her favorite toy this year...a cat...I mean a dog house...yeah...a dog house. She even lets Shiloh and Carly use it to get onto the couch. She loves to go hide in it when she is playing with the other dogs...it's her safehouse.Shiloh spent most of the year being voted on at a bunch of websites...he did very well and is still going strong on the K-9 Cuisine - Premium Dog Food photo gallery and PeoplesPetPlace...both have links on the left if you would like to vote for him..we are very proud of him. And we hope you used the discount code that they gave us to let our followers and friends save 10% more on the savings your already getting from them...great site..please check them out.

And Carly had her puppies this year...she gave us 5 beautiful puppies, the "fab five", that we found great homes for. We really enjoyed the puppies and have gotten great photos and stories from the people who got them. Some are riding boats, some on motorcycles...a tough life for them isn't it. But Yorkies are suppose to be spoiled right?

And speaking of puppies...we have a even bigger addition to our family....Madelyn Audrey was born this summer. She is our first granddaughter and is the most beautiful babygirl I have ever seen. She is growing up fast and we hope she slows down alittle..her smile will melt your heart, it does mine.

She lives not that far from us so we get to see her often...and the Yorkies love it when she comes. Carly thinks she is one of her puppies still...whenever Maddy cries Caryl comes a running. Worried to death that something major is wrong...it's a beautiful thing. And speaking of beautiful...isn't baby Maddy precious....we think so too.

And our grandson, Ryder, turned "1" this year...he has grown into a little man....walking, talking and turning into a toddler. It seems like only yesterday we were at the hospital waiting for his birth...now he's walking....time has gone by quickly for sure.

We have enjoyed watching him grow up this year...he's still his mom's "little goose", despite his independence he has gotten this past year. I still enjoy seeing his smile when we first see each other...it makes my day. Handsome little man isn't he...oh yeah..he knows it too. He flirts whenever we go out to eat with his parents...unreal...only 1 year old and a player already.

So we have been blessed this year despite all the problems in the world. Oh we had a few major bumps in the road, but it's been a road that we enjoyed traveling on. Puppies, family and grandkids...all things that made us smile even when things were not so grand.
And when we think something is really bad, we just look at our grandkids and know that things will work out for us. And that we have a lot of love in our family.

Puppies and grandkids have been a big part of this year for us and we have enjoyed telling you about them. We hope you will come back next year and see what is ahead for all of us at "Waterside Yorkies".

We have grown alot ourselves this year...we started blogging so our friends and family could see what was going on in our lives. Then we added "Waterside Yorkies" to tell people about our Yorkies and share their lives with the world. Little did we know we would get a bunch of emails,touch people like we have and win awards. I am no great writer...only a man who loves his family, his dogs and his wife.

We hope you enjoyed reading about our Yorkies, and that we helped you understand what a dog can mean to someone. We hoped you read about our friend who lost her dog and how we tried to help her in a time of need. The post is titled "Do Dogs Go To Heaven? A Tribute To Trixie" and we still are getting emails..little did we know who we were touching by our blog.

But I didn't blog to win awards (but they are nice), to become a great writer (no chance there anyway) or become famous (like I need that). I did it to share my love of my animals with a world that needs a little happiness in it. I hope you come back next year and follow the Yorkies and my family in the journey that the Lord has planned for us.

You will be in our prayers as we hope we will be in yours. Please email us, post a comment on our blog, follow us on facebook or join our followers here. Link onto us won't you? We want to hear from you, to share life's journey ahead. And hear about your dogs too.

I am a blessed man with a great family, 2 beautiful grandkids, 3 crazy Yorkies and a beautiful, loving wife who loves me for who I am, I love her too.

So until next year we will enjoy the coming New Year's eve and hope and pray that 2010 will be the year that we all talk about in the future. Thanks again for reading about our Yorkies and their crazy lives and from all of us at "Waterside Yorkies" we wish you and yours a very "Happy New Year".