I miss you Grammy

She's So Vain

Marin loves to look at herself as most babies do, however she knows how to kiss and she loves to kiss herself if it is in the mirror, a reflection in the window and today in the bath tub it was her shadow. Here she is looking at herself thinking wow what a cute little girl that is. I think I just might have to give that cute girl a kiss. SMACK!

Mark ran around to get the windows view of the lovely event. She looks a little hum smashed in this picture, but lets face it we would look close to the same if we tried to kiss ourselves in the window. We were laughing pretty hard!

I should be cleaning or doing homework, but instead......

Darla the Entertainer!

For those of you that have had the pleasure of meeting our charming dog, you will probably get a kick out of this. A while back we trained Darla to sing. The song that you can kind of hear in the background gets her to sing every time. Marin was loving it the first time Darla started to sing Marin was so excited that she started to shake. So stinken funny. However by the time I got the camera out, there was plenty of singing but no shaking. Marin is sitting on my lap and Darla is sitting next to me and when I play the video they both freak out Marin dances and Darla sings some more. Pretty sure the people upstairs are sick of that........

He Did It!!!!!

The title of this entry has 2 different meanings. For those of you that know. Mark and some of his academy buddies thought it would be a wonderful idea to grow out a mustache until they graduated. Now Mark can't grow facial hair this is something that he has found humor in and also enjoys not shaving every day. Here is his mustache, that you can only see in certain light. It took us a few tries to get a picture of it, but here you go. Nasty isn't it? I sure thought so, however if I told someone that he was growing a musctache and they saw him, they would ask where is it I can't see it? So when the light hits it just right you get the Mark Stache! Lovely don't you think? Anyway he promised me the day he graduated the academy he would shave and he did! Much much better!

Okay Mark also graduated the academy. It was pretty awesome! They had a nice little program for spouses that I really could of done without, but it was everything Mark told me it would be and much more negative than I was expecting. Anyway enough about my awful experience. I love how the director looks like he is crying (they guy at the microphone) He loves my Mark just as much as I do.......

Mark got an award for his physical fitness. He and I laughed about it later, he is probably most slender guy there, and he missed getting the top award by 1/2 a point. Bummer. Mark was impressed with his shrinking hair line in this picture. Is the light right can you see the stache?

Marin was also a peach during his graduation. It was only an hour and any time she thought about getting fussy I would push the button so the red eye light would come on and you would get this look.


After graduation Mark's Grandpa took us out to lunch, YUM! Mark is holding Aurora here and watching Marin while Frieda and I went and got food, the man of the hour babysitting. Way to Serve and protect!

When all is said and done it was a good day and a wonderful night thanks to the mustache removal. By the way Mark has a mustache in this picture and you can't see it even when we blew it up. Can you find it? I know you know where to look but it is like the invisible mustache now you see it...........

Merry Christmas

We had an AWESOME Christmas! We started out at our house where Santa came and we opened presents. Then we headed over to the Ludwig/Cook house where Marin opened her presents there. She got some great noise making toys (you know the ones that you want to take the batteries out?) Then it was off to the Welch's where we talked to the missionary boys (Robbie and Daniel) and then opened presents there. Most of our Christmas pictures are on my Mom's camera however I got a new one for Christmas (HOORAY!!!) So the pictures below are the ones we took a few days later. I will post actual Christmas pictures.... sometime. Happy New Year! ( I have pictures from that too)