Heritage Park #1 Christmas decorated house!!

Last year our house won 2nd prize for decorations in the neighborhood

But this year, Mark will settle for nothing but 1st place!  So here is what he's done:

The giant December calendar that stands in our yard: 

The wooden Santa that Mark made:

To go next to the walkway that looks like this (please note that this was taken before the lights were hung behind it, Mark would be mad if I forgot to mention that!):

So we're just waiting for our "1st place" sign to be put in our front yard!

Meanwhile, I bought the pups Christmas sweaters, and they came in today!!

 

Of course, Bella was very uncooperative, but Edward was posing for pictures left and right!!  Here's our little model in his sweater, while Bella was hiding under the bed! 

He's lying on top of the wall decor from Mark's nursery! Berna found it in her attic and let us have it, and it is a favorite of Edward's to lay on! Who would have thought that 29 years ago, Mark, Sr. and Berna would decorate their baby boy's room with space shuttles, and now he works with NASA!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

We put our Christmas tree up and our house is looking quite festive!!  Here is Edward putting the star on top of the tree!!

And then he cozied up underneath the tree while we finished decorating

We took our family pictures for our Christmas card (which you should be getting soon)

That's all for now!  We're getting ready for the holidays and we're all very excited!!

My 24th Birthday celebrations!!

Well, it's official, I'm in my mid-twenties!!  This is how it played out...

I woke up Thursday morning to a note on my night stand.  It said Happy Birthday, and that I had breakfast in the kitchen.  When I walked into the kitchen, there was a plate with a bacon croissant and a kolache and another note next to that.  Also, there was a very sweet birthday card.  So I warmed up my food and sat down to eat it.  All of a sudden, the door bell rang.  I went to the bedroom to put clothes on to answer, and then the door opened.  It was Mark with a beautiful bouquet of flowers for me!  (He was knocking to surprise me!)

I had field experiences for school, so I had to do that during the day, but then Mark took me to the midnight premiere of the new Twilight movie, Breaking Dawn Part 1!!  On Friday, I had to go to work.  They had a cake, balloons, flowers, a card, and a Starbuck's gift card for me!!

When I got home from work, Mark took me to a live comedy show!  It was so great!  I loved it!!

On Saturday we went to his cousin's wedding, and then to the high school Texas Invitational to see my sister perform. 

This is Gabbi with Ronald McDonald...

Then on Sunday I went to see Breaking Dawn again with my mom, Amber, Alaina, her boyfriend Douglas, his friend and his mom.  It was amazing, again!  Then my mom, Alaina, Amber, Ricky, Mark and I went to Gringo's for dinner.  I got a Keurig machine from my mom and Kirt, Silver sparkly Toms from Alaina, and a beautiful candle holder and candle from Amber and Ricky!

After dinner, we went to Mark and Berna's to have cake for my birthday.  I got lots of funny cards and gift cards and this wonderful ice cream cake:

Berna did not have a "2" candle, so the two ones worked just fine!  I was not turning 114 years old, but I was 1+1 and 4 years old!  I love this family so much!!

Edward and Misha

Mark laughed out of nowhere tonight, and I looked to see what was going on. I saw he was looking at this...

Edward is constantly messing with Misha and trying to bite her tail and lick her face, but now, it looks like he just wants to be like her!  He's sitting here, exactly like Misha, watching Mark hang a mirror.  Words cannot explain how funny this puppy is!  He makes me laugh every single day!!

I'm thinking we should have a baby soon, because pretty soon, people are going to get tired of hearing about how cute my dogs are!

Growing Babies

This is a picture of my babies almost a year ago.  Bella was a lot bigger than Edward and they liked to cuddle!!

This is them now.  Edward is almost twice as big as Bella and they can't sit next to each other for more than a minute without biting at each other's ears!  Bella would still like to cuddle, but Edward is such a puppy, he just wants to play with her!

They grow up so fast!!  It makes me sad... :(