For my brother Carson for Christmas.

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It was December and Marty and Max were chatting in their bed and they were telling their Christmas story from last year then Max had an idea that they could surprise the other three dogs Miles, Charlie and Cera for Christmas. So they decided that they would go out to find the Christmas surprise tomorrow because they will be going to the town to buy Christmas supplies.

Do you want to surprise the others for Christmas this year Marty?

Sure.

So the next day Marty, Max, Miles, Cera and Charlie went to the town to buy Christmas supplies.

I am going to go find a poop ornament for my tree. Are you coming Max? And we can take my Marcar.

Sure!

And we go and find a Christmas tree for each of us right Cera and Charlie.

Umm.... sure.

Marcar

Dogcar

So Marty and Max set out to Dogmart to buy the ornament for the dogs and find a supplies for them too.

Here we are.

Dogmart

Hi! Welcome to Dogmart. I am Steve the owner of this store. What can I help you with?

Umm.... Hi I am Marty and this is my brother Max and we are looking for some ornaments and I was hoping to find a poop ornament . Umm... do you have any?

Hi.

Umm... I don't know if we have a poop ornament. But I can look for it.

Ok. Thanks we can look around in the store while we wait for you.

Ok! Let's look around for something that we can get for Milles, Cera and Charlie for Christmas.

Ok. I'll look low and you look high and we can meet back here in 15 minutes.

15 minute later............

So... did you find anything?

I found this bone! But I don't know what we can do with it.

Cool!

Hi I found a poop ornament. Oh! I see you found a bone.

Yes! we did.

And we want 19 more ornaments please.

Ok. So it will be 10 dollars and 25 cents. But it is Christmas week it will be 9 dollars and 50 cents on sale.

Ok. Hay Max do you want to gave Steve 9 dollars and 50 cents?

Sure here you go.

Thanks!

Bye.

Bye. Come back soon.

Dogmart

Well that was fun. But we only found a bone.

Oh man. Want to go to a another store Marty?

No we can't. We have to go and meet the others back home.

It is 5:00 pm and it is getting late.

Oh ok.

Hi! Cool! Good job you guys. Those trees look nice.

Hi you two. Hey! Marty you found a Poop ornament. But did you guys find other ornaments?

Of course we have. We got 19 more. Five for each of us.

Fun!

Well it is time for bed. Oh and only 8 days until Christmas.

So the dogs decorated their trees.

Good night.

So they turned the lamp off and went to sleep.

So for the next 5 days Marty and Max try to find a surprise for the dogs. On December 22th they came to together to see what they got.

Ok what did you find in 5 days Max?

Well I got three gold medals, a Christmas hat for each of us and one extra and 4 gumdrops. How about you?

Well I got the bone from Dogmart and I got a basket, two sticks and 4 gumdrops. Oh and one carrot.

So what can we do with these things?

Hmm... I don't know what we can do with these. But I'm sure that we can figure it out.

But we should do it soon because it is the 22th. Only 2 days until Christmas.

Hey! You two it is time to go to bed. It is 10:00 pm.

Ok.

So Marty and Max only have 2 days until Christmas. Will they be able to be ready or will they have to not do it at all? We will come back to it in a few minutes.

Turn to the next page to see 3 funny jokes and 3 "Would you rather?" from Marty and Max.

It is time for jokes form Marty and Max.

Hey! Max I have a joke for you! What kind of music do elves listen to?

Umm.... I don't know. What?

Wrap music.

Hey! Marty I have a joke for you! What did Mrs. Claus say to Santa when she looked up in the sky?

Umm... What?

Looks like rain, dear!

Hey Max I have a joke for you. Why is it so cold at Christmas?

I don't know. Why?

Because it's in Decembrrr.

Now it is time for a "would you rather?" question. Marty or Max will ask a question and you can answer it either with your family or you can answer it by yourself or you can comment at the bottom. Have fun😃

Would you rather Watch Christmas movies all day or go shopping all day?

Would you rather Wrap 100 presents or decorate 10 trees?

Would you rather Have a Christmas sweater that lights up or that sings?

Do you like the jokes and "would you rather?" questions? Well back to the story. So went we last left off Marty and Max got their stuff but what are they going to do with it?

Hey! Look at the news.

So for the weather today it seems like Kentucky, Montana and Texas are going to have a white Christmas this year.

How Fun! We are going to a white Christmas.

Cool! Hey that gives me in idea for what we can do for the Christmas surprise.

What!

No time to explain. But we need a piece of paper and one pen. And of course we need our stuff that we found. Oh! And bring the glue and a piece of brown paper too.

Umm.... Ok.

1 hour later.......

Why did it take an hour to get the stuff?

It is not easy to get the paper, pen and the glue because I am short.

So do you remember the man on the TV said that it is going to snow on Christmas Eve... Well I was thinking we can make a map that leads to the park and we can make a snowman with the snow and the stuff that we found.

So what is your plan?

There it is done. Ok now hand me the brown piece of paper and the glue please.

Here you go Marty.

So I am spreading the glue on the brown paper and put the map on it. And we have to wait until tomorrow to be dry.

The next day Marty and Max came back to see if their map was dry.

Great! The map is dry. Now we just have to wait until 7:00 pm to finish the plan.

Hi guys what are you three doing in the kitchen?

We are making Christmas dinner.

How fun!

So 20 minutes later they all sat down to eat their Christmas dinner. Marty is eating a burger, Miles is eating a pizza, Cera is eating beef, Max is eating sushi and Charlie is eating soup. And they each are having a milkshake.