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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Everybody – Nick Here!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Silly Mom and Dad! Mom, Dad and Clark loaded all five of us bassets into the van and we went to the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>photographer’s studio. We created quite a scene when we went in … people gasped …people fainted … <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>people laughed … Mom blushed! While we were there, they “tried” to take a picture of all of us together.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Well, Abby was a good girl … she tries to show us boys up by being “Miss Goody-Goody” … she laid down and stayed down for them. Isn’t that boring ?!?!?! Cash and Jesse were also pretty good … they both sat and stayed … also pretty boring! Morey was okay … he sat and Mom only yelled at him once. But me … the Nickster … well I wiggled, I waggled, I yawned, I looked around, I barked at the light … I did anything but cooperate. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Finally, they got our picture together.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then Dad and Clark took Abby, Cash, Jesse and Morey outside to the van. They left me there! Mom and the photographer started getting goofy. They put me in a sleigh!! I did not like it one bit! Then they put these ugly antlers on my head … I looked like a basselope! Then … you won’t believe this … they put a Santa hat on me. They laughed a lot but I didn’t think it was funny!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Later Mom and Clark went back and got the pictures. They said I am going to be famous since they put my <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>picture on our Christmas card. I can’t wait to see it!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Slurps, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>