Cuuuuuute baby!

"Lijah" is just so cute. What a sweet baby. He's 6 months old now and very close to crawling.

Patient Dog

Scarlett and I were playing with her stickers and she thought it was more fun to put the stickers on Roxy rather than in her book. For those who Roxy kinda scares, she really looks a whole lot less intimadating with stickers.

The 80 lb lap dog

Jim and Alyssa and Don and I share a dog named Roxy. She thinks she is a lap dog. She isn't. She weighs about 80 lbs. Don fixes breakfast (bacon and eggs) every morning for them. haha

Update Pictures

Joe and Shana and Jim and Alyssa and the kids did the Feed the Hungry 7k run on Thanksgiving day.

The one we passed on for the xmas card.

Scarlett giving Lukie loves. You're never real sure with Scarlett.

Luke and Mia

Thanksgiving

We played a game and Donnie Ross won a remote controlled trantula...and yep he was a hoot all day with it. :)

After.

The room before the feast.

We had a great Thanksgiving with over 30 people, children and babies. It was lots of fun, food, and catching up with the Strassburg's. My family (my mom, niece Linda and g-niece Gin) were also represented along with our three workers, Karen Tenniswood, Virginia Richmond, and Courtney Blanchard (and Courtney's dad too).

Some new pictures

Grandpa and Nana with twins.

What a cutie-patootie!

Lukie

Jim, Alyssa, Luke and Mia on the beach.

Playing in the room.

Scarlett (a bumble bee) and Chloe in front of Joe and Shana's big pumpkin.

Chloe and Eli. They were Mary and her little lamb for halloween.

Well now that the elections are over and my blood pressure has gone back down life is going back to somewhat normal again. Discussions around the house are keeping pretty close to normal ranges. Don and I, along with Jim, Alyssa, Lukie and Mia, went to Newport Beach for a week. Naturally it was during the horendous Orange county fires (Newport Beach is in Orange County). They were burning all around us but all we got was smoke. The air was really really dry but really really sunny and nice. We got home yesterday and Joe, Shana, Chloe, and Eli came over. We haven't seen Joe for a couple of weeks as he was deer hunting and didn't get back until after we were gone. He has quite a beard going and I'm kicking myself for not getting a picture. Maybe Shana did? Juan and Scarlett popped in too (Cari was teaching), they headed out today for Maui for the Thanksgiving week. We are going to have the family over for Thanksgiving this year, about 28 adults and 6 kids, 4 babies and 3 workers. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, eh! Here are some new pictures. Unless I've developed a tic in my eye, I'll put some up from Thanksgiving. haha

My life in a few pictures

I love all the messiness, stickiness, noise, and laughter that comes with family. The "Joe's" and the "Jim's" were over the other night (the "Juan's" were buying Scarlett a big girl bed as she has decided no crib is going to keep her in.)

Sage and Roxy seeing no value in grandchildren at all.

Mia being Mia. We decided that if Mia and Eli came 1st they would have set the bar impossibly high for any other grandbabies.

Luke and Eli. The 2 boys who know how important it is that they stick together against all these girls.

Chloe decided that Grandpa needed some adorning so she helped him out with some of her stickers.

Chloe and Scarlett love Grandpa's massage chair.

The girls playing.