Hi Mandy!

So here is a shout out to my Ohio buddy, Amanda Kelly. I have to get better at emailing you. Thank you so much for the scale. Your thank you card is on my desk. It will probably be sent out with the christmas cards. Tell your momma hi!

Not Home...

So thanksgiving takes us away from home, again. We are at Bill and RoAnns for the remainder of the weekend. Things have been OK so far. Thank God for anti-anxiety meds. Jasper is currently on Ro's lap screaming at the teething toys that she is stuffing in his mouth. Not happy.

I should grab him, but I am trying not to be my usually bossy self. Now she is putting a blanket in his mouth. Is that safe? Hmm.
Ok, so Ryan and the rest of his fam are at a Pacers Game in Indy. I hate B-Ball so that was not even an option.
I miss my family. A call to my dad revealed that they are going to Haps tomorrow. I am so jealous. I was really thinking of getting in my car and heading to West Lafayette to see the real family. I miss them so much. Maybe before Jaspers 15th b-day we can get over there. Its a goal.

Well I made the pies and the rolls and they were fabulous. Mind you they were made by a sneak attack, but they were great. The deal is that RoAnn did not want me to make the stuff at home. She wanted to make them here, as a part of tradition or something. But I wanted not to be rushed around and bossed in the kitchen on the day before so I thought ahead. I made the pies on Monday at home in my very quite kitchen. Well despite the in between, they went over very well and RoAnn gave me the blessing to do that again. I make great pies and my rolls were Fabu.
We took some pictures of Jasper playing the piano with his butt earlier, so I will get those posted later. Hope you all had a great Turkey Day.

Puppy Love...

Puppy Love! Oscar is such a hugger. Jasper is not as much of a sharerer(is that a word) as Oscar. Oh how I love my boys.










Love this picture of my little man trying to eat a couch. Natural light, no flash. I took this at Ryans moms house, she has a few great windows that give the best natual light.











more of the cuteness.


So as for the local update... Not a whole lot going on, which is wonderful. I am trying to focus on getting the photograhy thing rolling.

We went over to RoAnn and Bills on Monday night for a suprise visit since ryan had the day off on tuesday.


So I started taking pictures for the Chistmas cards. I love doing picture cards and have had some great ones the last couple of years. I will post some later.

Voting Complete

So I was up at 5 am this morning so we could go vote, with Jasper in tow. We got there early, stood out front, walked in and I voted! Jasper was held by some super cute grandma in a flag sweater. So I'm done... but where is Ryan.....
Ryan where are you....???????????
So I look back at the registration table and he is still there. Crapola...
Ok, so he comes strolling over to me with a look of disgust on his face....
He has to go to Sullivan to vote. What a stinker.

Well I know for a fact that he did change is voter registration. I saw it and felt like a slacker for not changing mine before the primarys so I had to do mine when I changed my drivers license. So I know that he did it. But regardless he had to hop in the car and drive to sullivan to vote.

Yay we both voted !!!!!!!!!!!

Super cute picture of Jasper in his red white and blue voting outfit to follow~
Happy voting.

Back Home and Halloween

hello! Well now that I am back home hopefully I can get into some sort of routine. Last Friday we went to a friends house for Halloween. We sat on their front porch and handed out candy. I unfortunately only had to tackle one fat kid. Ok seriously this kid deserved it.
Ok here is my system. I buy good candy for the cute little kids that actually are out Trick-or-Treating because they want to get dressed up and have fun. Not just to be out tormenting adults for free candy that they don't need. I had a 190lb 15 year old come up to the porch, so of course this joker was going to get Carmel's. He was bold enough to stick his fat hand in my candy bowl, so I had to smack his and and yell at him. I really liked yelling at him.



Ok, the night was really fun other than that. Kristin cooked awesome meatballs and other great junk food for us to munch on.

Mr Jasper was an awesome Moo Cow.



Super Moo Cute!!!!!
Ok, we put him in the laundry basket, this was fun, and toatlly Ryans Idea.