Today, Tony officially started his new job as a Trainer at Lifetime Fitness.  If you know of anyone that’s looking for an awesome trainer, who takes his job VERY seriously, my man, is your man.   We’re SO proud of him!  I can’t wait to see him do well, which I’m confident he will.

We also went out of town to Dubuque, Iowa this past weekend for my cousin’s wedding.  It was GORGEOUS and such a blast.  I was honored enough to be asked to sing a few of the songs during the mass as well!

While we were in Dyersville, Iowa for the ceremony, we visited the Field of Dreams Movie Site!  Surprisingly, I left my camera home for the weekend, so all I had was my camera phone.  So, here are a few weak shots from that.  You get the “picture” though.  It was really neat to see it in person!  And for just $5.4 million it could be yours! LOL

Yes, Kevin Costner’s tushie sat on this bench. 

“If you build it…they will come”

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The last month has been such a whirlwind in our lives, but a wonderful one.  When I look back at the last few weeks, I wonder how we survived, but we did, thank God, and we're all settling in.  We couldn't have done it without the help of our family.  We hired some amazing movers as well to help.  If you are in need of a moving company, I highly recommend Two Men and a Truck.  They were A M A Z I N G.  The best money we ever spent.

We officially moved into our new house on the 26th.  It's been a little over a week, but now it's beginnging to feel like we've been there MUCH longer than that.  I drive by Tyne Lane every day and wonder how our cute first house is doing.  I'm sure the new owners are loving it, but part of me does miss it just a little.

We also had an awful decision to make about a week before our move.  Our dog, Zeus, was 9 years old (that's senior for a Doberman) and his health had been declining pretty quickly over the last few weeks.  We knew the time was coming, as horrible of a decision as it was, we made the choice to put him to sleep and let him cross the Rainbow Bridge.  It was a very sad day for our family, but we knew in the long run, it was the right decision. 

We're now getting settled into our new home.  I have been taking a few pics here and there, but it's been such a mess with boxes and unpacking, that I've been holding out on taking too many until it's all prettied up.   So, when it's all nice and pretty for B's party this weekend, I'll be sure to take some new ones.

Speaking of The Princess, can you believe she's turning ONE on Sunday?  I know I sure can't!!  We took her one year photos on Sunday and did a cake smash.  Stay tuned for those, but here's one of my faves of her laughing at her brother.  And I LOVE my new natural light studio in the house!!  I can't wait to use it over the coming years!!

While I'm on the subject of photography...I'm having an amazingly fun contest over at the Ten Tiny Toes Blog.  Definitely go and check it out and I'd love to have you join in the fun!

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Here are a few macro shots of the gorgeous giant flakes we had the other morning.  These were on the windows of my truck (since I can no longer park in the garage!)

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So, here is my week 1 photo.  Bailey is really trying to start crawling now and so here she is doing one of her pushups.  I tried to do a fun crop on this one.

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Last Friday Tyson had his little Christmas program at preschool.  While the program consisted mostly of a local choir singing some songs, at the end, the kids got to join them and sing a few songs.  they were SO cute!  And Tyson did great and knew most all of the words to the songs (and I could even hear his cute little voice singing).

Here's a little snippet of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.  He get's VERY into it about 1/3 of the way in.

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This was just a starburst sort of shape

This was my attempt at a snowflake shape, but clearly, I need to work on my snowflake cutting skills...maybe Tyson can help me!

And last, but not least, Christmas tree bokeh!

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Tyson was AWESOME at decorating the tree this year.  As you may recall last year, he concentrated the majority of the bulbs in ONE spot on the tree.  But this year, he was a decorating rock star and even wanted to put the star on the top on (which I tried to let him help with, but it's Swarovski, man!)

Here's Tyson hard at work and VERy focused

And since his Daddy was making weird faces and poses for the camera, guess who else had to do it??!

And I'm SO proud of myself for taking all of these without any flash (yay, me!)

More focus and concentration...

That smile...and my attempt at getting some Xmas tree bokeh!

What the Princess thinks of our Xmas tree...let's pray she doesn't start crawling until after it's all down because then I think she'll LOVE it!

And I'm in LOVE with our new stockings that I splurged on this year.  And it was awesome to finally be able to use the 5th stocking holder that I've had for the last 5 years

Had SO much fun taking this pic, I've always wanted to get one with the "glow" of the Christmas Tree.  It took my tripod and lots of test shots, but I LOVE it!

It's been so awesome getting these annual ornaments, someday I'll have a whole tree full I hope!

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These are definitely my new favorites to date   Bailey's also been doing some new, exciting things!  She's been waving for a week or two now, and it's so cute, it's like a beauty queen wave, so dainty and sweet.  She also has started signing Milk!  So, we've been adding in a few more signs and I'm sure it won't be long until she's doing those, she seems very interested in them and I can't wait for her to start using them more.  Then, yesterday when I got home from work, I said "Hi" and was waving to her and she said "Hi" back to me!!  It was so cute!  Tony said she had been saying it earlier in the day too, so it wasn't just a fluke thing!  She's growing up WAY too fast!

Can you tell I'm loving having a girl?

I like to call this one fascination

I'm hoping to get another blog post up before Thankgiving, but in the event that I don't, I hope you all have a wonderful thanksgiving with friends and family.  We have SO much to be thankful for in our family this year: our health, our beautiful baby girl and sweet big boy, and all the success I've found in my new venture as well as my wonderful husband who I wouldn't have ANY of these things without.

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Ty and I took on the task of making some cupcakes for our party

I *lurv* purple frosting...yum!

Party favors for playing Pin the Tail on the Cat

Guess who decorated this one? LOL

Shake your sprinkles

And yes, he pretty much used the entire container of sprinkles.

Now, onto the fun!  My new fave pic of him as Spidey!

For some reason this totally cracks me up!

Our fun little party group (sans one member).  The shot is nearly a miracle.  They're all looking at the camera and *almost* all are smiling!!

Our little Moo Cow <3

There's our group!  Next year, we will have 2 more babies added to it, yay! And yay for it not being one of ours!   Oh, and please note Tony's awesome pumpkin bush that he decorated himself!
 

Dead Spiderman...who will save the world now?

Crackin me up some more

One more of the most adorable cow ever!!

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