Family Pictures, First Day of School, and More!

This summer Jon's family had a family reunion. Every family got their own family picture in the back yard. Ours turned out pretty good. Excuse Lexi's bangs, she's going through a hair cutting phase.

Faith & Logan had their first day of school. We let them ride the bus and then meet them at school so they know where their teacher is going to meet them on the playground. Logan is now in first grade and he's very excited about going all day and eating hot lunch. Faith is in second grade and she just loves everything about school. She even told me that she wishes school would not stop in the summer.

Jon said I had to get a picture of the kids in front of his new car...

Our Demon Dog with the kids. He's almost a year old now and though he can be a pain sometimes, we sure love him, and we know he loves us. One of his favorite things to do is cuddle with the kids while they're playing games or watching TV. Lexi calls him "my best buddy". Numerous times I have found Faith on the couch practically sleeping on top of him. He loves every minute of it. And I cannot tell you how excited he gets when he sees the kids get off the school bus.

It was a warm day and the kids wanted to make puddles in the backyard. I agreed to let them. This picture is right when they got started, too bad I didn't get one with them covered head to toe in mud.

When I dyed my hair blonde, don't know if I'll ever do that again...

This is Lilith. I almost ran over her on my way home one night. I found her family but they didn't want her. Why? I'll never know. She's super cute, loves everyone, and is easily trainable. Plus, her and Demon get along amazingly well.

Birthdays, Visits, and Annerversaries

A lot has happened since I last updated. Faith had her 7th Birthday and got her ears pierced. She didn't even cry and she was soo excited to get it done.

Grandma Marlene and Grandpa Fred flew in and visited for a few days and celebrated Faith and Lexi's birthdays. They took Faith to build a bear and she made an Owl which Faith named "Rainbow". They gave us a gift card to build a bear so we could take Lexi on her birthday and she made a cat.

We played with playdough and made sugar cookies

We colored and drew and even Tyler had fun

We even played spin the bottle where whoever spun the bottle had to say something nice to the person it landed on or had them do something silly. Logan like to made every one slap themselves...silly boy.

On May 5th Jonathan and I celebrated our 8 year anniversary. I made Jonathan breakfast even though he's not a breakfast person and didn't really eat anything, but drank almost a gallon of OJ. We went to an early dinner for once at Azteca so we wouldn't have to fight crowds and wait over two hours for a table. Jon's parents, Emily & Jason, and Bradley & Ruthanne ate dinner with us. We took a nap then went to Fast5 with Jon's parents, watched about an hour of a movie called "Dyllan Dog" which we ended up leaving because it was boring, then headed to the midnight showing of Thor. Was a great day and loved every minute of it!

For Mother's Day Jonathan woke up early with the kids and made me a wonderful breakfast in bed. He took care of everything all day so I could be lazy and lounge around and all the boys in the family made steak, salad, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, and rolls for dinner for all the women. The food was great! Jon had to go to work right after dinner so I ate ice cream and drank sparkling cider until he came home.

Puppies

After many months of working through our dog Snow's issues and her not getting any better, Jonathan and I decided it would be best to take her back to the shelter. We were thinking about trying to find her a new home but since she was deathly afraid of men & strangers and since she snapped at Jon's dad (didn't break any skin but totally freaked out on him) we didn't want to risk giving her to someone else and her end up biting someone. The Humane Society here has a rehab program for dogs like her and since she's not aggressive, just fearful, and hasn't ever broken skin they were able to take her and hopefully she will get better and find a home that is better suited for her. Since we still wanted a dog we decided it would be best to start fresh with a puppy instead of an older dog who may have issues. We talked to the Humane Society and they told us about a litter of puppies who were currently being fostered. We met with the foster mom who introduced us to the puppies. There were six of them and of the six, four were already spoken for. We spoke to the foster mom for over an hour and found out that they were getting spayed/neutered in two days and whoever didn't have a home to go to would go straight to the shelter and have to wait there to get adopted. Jon and I had many discussion about adding another dog when we had Snow but didn't have the room at the time. Since then we've moved and we did want two dogs eventually so we decided to take them both. Two weeks ago we adopted two puppies, a boy and girl and named them Demon and Angel.



Angel is all black with a tiny strip of white on her chest. Demon is black & tan and looks just like a German shepherd. Their mom is a lab/boxer mix and the litter had two dads. Three of the pups looked just like husky pups, Demon had a brother that looked exactly like him and they both look shepherd, but we're not sure about Angel. She was the only one who was pure black and looked more like her mom. I think her dad was the husky because she has a softer more fluffy coat but Jon thinks that she's shepherd like Demon. What do you think?