Sophie the dog in the trash can

So the week after Thanksgiving I found a puppy in the trash can. Ethan and I had been at Elizabeth's school working on a project so we didn't get home until about 10 AM. I heard a puppy whinning and I knew that my neighbors didn't get a puppy. After a little explorering I found her accross the street in the trash can. I didn't know what to do so I took her home. I couldn't just leave her there. Fast forward a few days and a little girl approaches me asking me where I got the puppy. I tell her the story and she tells that that it was hers. I ask to speak to her mother and the mother refuses to talk to me. She tells her daughter just to tell me to keep it. The only good thing to come from that is I found out that she is half black lab and half german shepard. We have been trying to find her a home but we havent had any luck. Matthew is not amused. Here are some pictures from that 1st week that we had her and some more from earlier this week.

Cakes I made over Thanksgiving...

Here are some cakes that I made for my neighbors. They have twin girls who just turned 8. One cake is Hello Kitty and the other is Spiderman. It is amazing how well the phrase "completing each other" means when you consider these two little girls. They are opposites yet they really do complete each other.

It's been a long time...

It has been a really long time since I have last posted. My only excuse is that the time between Thanksgiving and New Years just flew for me! For some reason everything crept up onto me this year. The month was really good but REALLY busy. I am going post all the updates in separate posts because I have tons of pictures! Have I said how much I love my new camera. I adore it....The only issue is that I take so many pictures and it takes me forever to sort through them all.

My little pilgram....

We were suppossed to go to Ohio for Thanksgiving but Matthew came down with a bug. We thought that it was the beginning of the flu but luckily it passed by mid-day Thursday. I was sad to not get to go home but it was great to have a few days that we didn't have to run around anywhere. We just had a relaxing few days, which was wonderful! We didn't do black Friday this year but we went on Saturday and got almost everything on our black Friday list! It was great, I love the fact that they basically ran the sale for two days. I would say that I am about half way through Christmas shopping. I am trying to get it all done in the next few weeks, so I can enjoy the season with my kids.
Here are a few pictures from the Thanksgiving celebration at Elizabeth's school.

Pictures from last weekend

Here is one of the ways we celebrated. We spent the day walking the greenway in Murfreesboro. I swear taking pictures of your own kids is HELL. If Elizabeth ever looks at me it is a miracle! She likes to think that she is fooling me but her eyes are hardly ever looking at me. Not to mention Ethan...run, run, run far away is his moto. We had a great time!

Six years and no capital crimes!

This weekend was our sixth wedding anniversary. I thought I would celebrate the day by posting some pictures from the day. The pictures are grainy because they are the ones that my mom took at the wedding. I didn't feel like breaking any copyright laws by scanning in the offical ones. I choose the song Highland Cathedral for the slide show because it is what I walked down the aisle to. It still send chills up my spine.

We celebrated for the whole weekend as a family but I'll share all of that in my next post.

Cowboy week

Last week was cowboy week at Elizabeth's school. They spent the whole week studying cowboys and how they lived. On Thursday a parent in his class brought a few horses to the school so they could learn about how to care for them. Friday was the grand finale where the kids could dress up as a cowboy for a parent lunch and a rodeo. I am not sure if I have mentioned this but each kindergartner has a 4Th grade buddy who helps them with different projects. I think that they meet once a week but I am not sure. Elizabeth's buddies name is Sydney and she adores her. For the rodeo the buddy teams made stick horses. The 1st race was a relay with the kindergartners racing across the field followed by the parents. All I have to say is thank GOD Matthew was there. It was such fun though. The second race was a relay with the buddy teams. I was a great day!

Elizabeth and Sydney


Mrs Natcher in the middle of the race.


Elizabeth with her pony.


Ready to Race.


Daddy and Ethan racing.




Ethan had a great time. He loved the horse.