Keith's visit to Birmingham

My younger brother Keith was here in Birmingham to visit us this past week. He actually just left us this morning. He's 19 years old and is planning on going on his mission in the next couple months so we were trying to get some quality time together before he left for 2 years. I had a good time, thanks for coming to visit Keith!!
We went downtown to the McWane Center one day for a little entertainment, they have lots of science experiments (just stuff to play with) and a dome Imax theater (it was awesome).

This was letting you experience what a tornado feels like. It blew wind something like 78 miles and hour inside there.
And this was a bead of nails Keith was laying on.
This was some sort of a pully kind of thing where you pulled your own weight,
and the boys didn't think I'd be strong enough to do it but....don't under estimate me...I am buff!! ha ha! I was pretty proud of myself!
The boys built an arch.
We were bored one day and decided to invite one of Tinker's puppies Dakota over to play for entertainment. Isn't she just adorable!!

"The Circus"

I heard that the Ringling Brother Circus was in town and decided that we couldn't miss it. I had never been to a Circus before and figured what better time then now! I loved it....it makes you feel like a kid, and that's a great feeling. Of course Jason had been to many before but he still thoroughly enjoyed it as well. We are definitely little kids at heart! Jason's big kid grin!!!!



I have to say that the elephants were probably my very favorite part. It was so cute they would walk in line in a circle and hold each others tails. Fun, fun stuff!! Loved the Circus!

And then there was one....

I thought I would give you a little update with our puppies. This is Dakota, one of Tinkerbell's puppies. Doesn't she look just like her momma?? Dakota lives right here in the same apartment complex with some friends of ours, so we get to have play dates all the time.

Awwwww....isn't that adorable!!!
This is Jackson the lone puppy!! He is our last.

This is Violet, she went to a great home on Sunday!!!

Christmas Morning...

The past 4 years for Christmas we has gone to Nashville, it has become a tradition. Everyone wears their Christmas P.J.'s all day long, we play lots of games and watch Christmas movies!! Jason and I can't be home with our families for the holiday so we have created a family away from home that we love. We go to "The Robert's House," who included: Jay, Stacy, Lilly is 7 and Gray is about 4. The kids sure do make a difference to have them around for Christmas, it really makes you remember what Christmas is all about.


This was the tree Christmas morning before anyone dove into the presents. We may have went a little overboard this year.
Lilly and Jason on Christmas morn!
This is Mr & Mrs. Robert's...
and Jason showing off one of his gifts a scarf....
Gray and myself....
After an early morning and lots of unwrapping we were tired, so we snoozed and watching one of my favorite Christmas movies "The Polar Express."
We had a lovely Christmas and we hope you all had a wonderful Christmas as well!!

The puppies are now 7 weeks old and are finding new homes. It's a little sad to see them go, but I have 3 left still to keep me company for a while. Who knows maybe we will have to keep one!! For Christmas we are going to Nashville so I have puppy sitters right now, they think it's the funniest job ever! These are some of the last few pictures of the puppies!!


This is my favorite Jasper,
and Mr. Jackson,
This is Bama and Tide, look they are friends sitting side by side....awwww!!

This is Dakota, she was notorious for falling asleep in the water bowl,
and in the food!! She just couldn't keep her eyes open any long and just fell asleep where she laid.
This is Tide the last day I had her, I wrapped her up like a present in a bow for her new family!!

Playing catch up...

Just a little note to catch everyone one up on our lives. The wedding if you didn't already hear that the date has changed it has. Instead of a January wedding it has been moved to April 4th, do to not enough room available at the resort. As for our house, YES it is still on the market, but we do have some people really interested right now. I will be sure to keep you up dated on that. That leaves us with the puppies.....ohhh....how cute they are!!! They are 5 weeks today and growing as fast as Michael Phellps in a swimming pool. We have one officially sold and many calls and a couple planning visits to see them next week.(Sorry about the underline I have know idea where it came from or how to get rid of it!)

This is almost all of them (5) all just feed, plump and sleepy. It has become a daily routine after they eat to all cuddle up in my lap and sleep. It's pretty cute...huh!!!

Puppy update...

Well tomorrow the puppies will be 4 weeks old. It is so amazing how incredibly fast they grow, before I know it they will be gone! We are going to begin selling them at 7 weeks, so that means I ONLY have 3 more weeks with them. Ohh.....how sad it's going to be to part with them, I am already so attached I can't even imagine.


This is the first week they were born.
And now a comparison to today at almost 4 weeks and you can see for yourself, they have more than doubled in size.
This is my Jasper with a big weird head and I love him the most!!
This is 1st born "Bama," she is the dominate dog for sure, we love her chubb!!
This is "Dakota & Tide," they look the most like momma, Tinkerbell.