A boy & a dog

Well, hello! It's been awhile, huh?
Before I start playing catch up, I wanted to post pics of the world's most tolerant dog...Weston lays full body hugs on Greta all day long, which she accepts as part of her canine duties...










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Happy birthday, dear Weston!

Time has gotten away from me, and I have so much to cover for the months of November and December, but I absolutely wanted to post about our sweet boy's 1st birthday before the year ended.

He turned 1 on December 8th. We had a very small family gathering (us and one set of grands) the night of his b-day and a slightly larger family gathering later that weekend.

His first cake, made by our phenomenal housekeeper, Esmeralda.


Help blowing out the candles.


Lots of pics of cake eating! He loved it!








And he got some help opening presents and playing with his new toys as well.







Happy birthday, sweet boy! We love you so much!

Many blessings

We've joined a wonderful church this year and have truly enjoyed attending and getting to know everyone there. It's the perfect fit for our family and has added so much to our lives, in so many ways.

So, last weekend, the kids and I were baptized. It was a really wonderful day. Beautiful service and ceremony, lots of dear family and friends attending. And one uninvited guest: the seriously aggressive stomach virus that the kids passed along to a lot of our group.

I wish we had more pictures; I am relying on the ones my FIL sent. I spent most of the day busy and also worrying about Reese since she wasn't well. Here's what we've got!








Thank you to everyone who travelled near and far to be with us. And my apologies for any illnesses brought home with you. We love you all!

Cool school party

Super Reesie!












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Halloween fests, part 2

R on her way to school. Fall festival today! So fun.








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Trick or treat, part 1

I love this annual tradition! It is so much fun to meet up with dear friends and their kids at the sorority house and take our kids trick-or-treating from door-to-door. Let's face it, the actual trick-or-treating lasts about 10 minutes tops--they're getting pretty fast at this! But then they always have cookies and candy apples to decorate and lots of the girls come down in costume and are so cute with the kids.

We got there and immediately met up with Monique and Nico. The beautiful ballerina and the sassy Strawberry Shortcake say hello...
(all photos courtesy of Monique--thank you!!!!)


Weston tolerated his cow costume...



Nice cow! love the patting!



The kids are ready to go!



One of the girls brought a cat dressed up as a clown downstairs. Am I remembering incorrectly that we weren't allowed to have pets? Anyway--generally kind of an odd sitch--but awesome when Nico started carrying her around!



Happy Halloween! The holiday weekend begins....

Gymnastic super heroines!

Mommy misunderstood instructions & brought R to class in character. Oops! Oh well. Fun times!


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