We may possibly be crazy!

It's really hard to get a good picture of this puppy, but he is SOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!! I went to pick Jamie up from a friend's house last week and found out they had Miniature Schnauzer puppies (hmmmmmmmm). Well, we've always talked about getting a boy so that we could have both parents on site when we breed, so I came home and mentioned it to Lafe. We thought about it ALLLLLLLLLLLLL week - quite the decision. Well, we finally decided yesterday and went and got a new puppy. This is Toby........

I think the model is pretty cute, too :)

It's beginning to look a lot like..........

Our house feels like it's glowing now with Christmas all set up!!! It was a bit of a challenge to find new places to put things in the new house, but we found some fun ones! AND - the lights we had for our old house were enough to put on this house, too! It was Talin's turn to put the star on the tree - I think he thought that was pretty cool. He also loved putting the ornaments on - one very heavy branch with slowly get rearranged :)

Turkey Trot

I went to watch the Turkey Trot at the kids' school on Wednesday. Erin qualified to run for the Junior High, and then Erin and Jamie were both on the Relays for their classes. It was really fun to be at the school with the kids.


Erin at the starting line (yellow shirt). She got 11th place - I'm just so glad she was excited to do it!!!


Jamie getting the Turkey from the hoop.

Erin taking the Turkey to the hoop - their class won overall for the whole Junior High -woohoo!

Laura, Jamie, and Ethan also ran the Fun Run - that little Laura was bookin' it! Fun Day to be with my kids!

Naptime

Talin falls asleep in the car sometimes when I get the kids from school, so I usually lay him on the couch. I walked in about 1/2 hr. later, and found this -I thought it was so cute!


This one Erin took because she thought it was cute, too. I guess he woke up for a second. He loves our animals, but he loves to chase Tiger, so it was cute that Tiger would climb up and lay by him.

Laura's Baptism

Today was Laura's baptism - it was such a wonderful day for her and a beautiful Baptism. So neat to be able to share it with her cousin.

Our family

Autumn and Laura with their Dads.

Lafe and Laura before the Baptism.

Congratulations, Laura! We're are so happy for your choice to be baptized!

Laura's Baptism pictures

Laura got her Baptism pictures taken tonight, and I just had to show you!
Autumn and Laura (cousins) are 2 days (like 32 hr.) apart and are so lucky to be able to be baptized together since we live next door to each other!!! They are such sweet friends and we had SO MUCH FUN going to get these pictures taken. We had picture of them done when they were 4, I think, and so we figured this was a perfect time to do it again. I love to call them "twinner cousins" because they really look so much alike.

SO THEM!!!

This one we actually signed to let them hang it up in the studio - cool!