Our Favorite little Model

Most of you all know I have a very good friend that is a professional photographer. She is very talented and artistic. She wanted to enter this photography contest and the parameters were the photo had to have a dog, a cane and knee highs. This is what she came up with! The socks really are knee highs Eliza just pulled them up to her thighs! ;0



Too see more of Shannon's work go to her blog She is AWESOME!

Too Long....our update!

I am so sorry;( We have been so busy (the fun kind) with the holiday's, new jobs, a puppy and lots of family and friends! I am going to try to do a quick update for everyone ;)

Mary and cousin Kaitlyn (Uncle Jared's daughter) playing under the table after family dinner! Mary calls Kaitlyn Clayton it is pretty cute!

Uncle Thad

Isac and Owen (Uncle Thad's boys) playing under the table.

Thad trying out guitar hero. Too much fun!

Crissy and Jared talking....maybe she is telling him she is pregnant!

Yep that's right she is having a baby!!! We are so excited!
Uncle Bob and Tiana cuddling up on the couch. Tiana ended up getting sick. ;(

Mary and Kaitlyn playing on the sit and spin, they sure liked each other! Andrew (Aunt Crissy's son) playing Guitar Hero! Nice one Bob!
Owen really wanted his picture taken by himself. Isn't he a cutie!
Christmas Eve we were at Crissy and Bobs house and here Mary was singing 'Best of Both World's' by Hannah Montana. And yes she does know the words we couldn't believe it!

Our Christmas was great! We had a very low key Christmas this year. Most of Ryan's fam is out of town now and we stayed home so we just hung out with my fam. We played lots of games ate a ton and just relaxed! It was awesome! Christmas morning was great! Santa came to our door with a Lhasa Apso 8 week old puppy for Eliza. She had asked Santa for a puppy but mama Sherrie had her convinced that Santa doesn't deliver livestock! So when Santa came to the door (almost 3 hours later than scheduled! Do to black ice in Oregon City) and told her she had been very good and he had something really special for her. Eliza blurted out 'an Ipod Nano?' Santa said 'No.' Santa even had the puppy in his arms but she hadn't seen it yet. Then she got this big smile on her face when she spyed the puppy and said 'a puppy?' The grin on her face was totally priceless!! It was so awesome. Eliza named her puppy Oliver. She loves Oliver and is a very good mama! Mary was quite impressed with the whole Santa Delivery too! Eliza loves to take Oliver with her! The other day we even walked him to school and Eliza rode home on her bike with Oliver in her back pack. Adorable! Mary is very loving to Oliver too, but often squeezes his poor neck to death! We let her give him lots of treats for putting up with all the physical abuse from having a 2 1/2 year old alpha ;)

Our Little Oliver!

Mary got a train table and she is in heaven, playing with her choo choo's!

It snowed on Christmas nothing stuck but we got to take Oliver out in his first snow! mama Sherrie and daddy Deryk came over and spent several hours with us Christmas morning and Evening. Eliza and Mary so love them!! Thanks!Mary got a slide and she was having so much fun sliding over and over and of course testing out new ways to go down the slide. It was and still is a big hit at our house! Thanks mama Sherrie and daddy Deryk!

Grandma Troy made the girls blankets for Christmas, they absolutely love them! Eliza's is green and pink with sock monkeys all over it! Mary's is red and black with Olivia the Pig on hers. She has to have her 'Olibia blankie and book' every night to sleep. It is so cute! We all had a great Christmas!