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)

Happy Birthday to ME!

So this past weekend was my birthday. I had a great day and got many fun things. Marin enjoyed being one of my presents, she thought the bow was just fantasic. I got 2 cakes, my Grandma accidently brought jello instead of my cake, I have a picture of it some where.... Anyway once we all had a good laugh about that we drove down to her house to eat the real cake. It was yummy, I prefered it to the jello. This picture was taken a few days ago, so here is our darling little family! I hope everyone has a great Christmas! I doubt anything super exiciting happens between now and then. So I will talk to you all after Christmas!

Lights at the Lowes' Parking Lot

So the other day we met up with Johnny and Jeana to have dinner and go see the lights at temple square, as you can imagine by the title, we didn't make it to temple square. We had dinner over at the White's and then we headed out to temple square, about half way there our one and only working car blew up on us!! AWESOME! Anyway. We were able to get to an old Lowes' parking lot and waited for a ride. Marin loved watching the working cars drive by.

The parking lot was pitch black so when we would take a picture she would blink over and over and then she would get a big ol smile on her face. It was pretty funny. However when she was looking at you a red light would flash first and you get a wonderfully suprised look, like so....

Overall at least when the car broke down and the heater didn't work we were well prepared to stay warm until our ride got there, so it blows that we don't have a car, however it was nice that it broke down when we were "prepared" Merry Christmas to us!!! Sorry Johnny and Jeana! We will have to get together again.