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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>Things have been very busy around here getting ready for my birthday/Christmas. Well...the other night mom was upstairs in the computer room and I heard lots of funny noises. I thought to myself ... "what is she building up there ... a Christmas Tree?" Sooooo..... I went upstairs to check it out and there IT was!!! My very own Birthday/Christmas Tree!!! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mom had an extra little Christmas Tree ... it had been in a box in the cold, cold attic all by itself. Mom must have heard it crying coz she got it out. She put pretty lights on it and it looked a lot happier! Then she put a pretty silver ball necklace on it .... I didn't know that it was a girl tree ... but how can you tell? Then mom put a basset angel thing on top ... it looks sort of like Abby ... mom says it sure couldn't be me coz it would need horns, not a halo. Finally, mom took all of her Hush Puppy beanies and her other little stuffed bassets and tucked them into the tree! VOILA .... a basset Christmas tree and it is MINE!!!! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I feel really special because I am the only basset at our house whose birthday is on Christmas Day ... that is why I am CH Red Bay Father Christmas!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Deck the Halls & Happy Howlidays,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>