What We've Been Up To

I wanted to do a year in review post..... I think that I still will but post mark it before all of this.. so never mind about my lame excuse for laziness was going to be.

I'm back at work now. It was a great two week break. I love that my work gives it's employee's a week and half off for the Christmas Holidays. We didn't have to be to work till the 3rd. Awesome!

We purchased a new car. Hooray! We feel we got a really good deal on it. We purchased a 2007 Mazda CX-7. We love it. We weren't looking at Mazda's at first, what we were looking at were the Honda CR-V's. We wanted a bigger car for our future growing family... No I am not preggers and will not be for a while. We love it. We did a lot of research and exploring and then when we sat in the CX-7 both Dan and I fell in love. It was bigger by far then all of the other small SUV's we had been in and were looking at. It was the first pre-owned car that looked almost brand new inside as well.  The others had been cleaned but they were definitely used. This one had to have been owned by a bachelor who had no kids. It's a gorgeous cobalt blue, with no dings scratches... etc.

This one was also certified pre-owned. We actually never even got to go to the Hyundai dealership because of how much we fell in love with this car. My twin got a Santa Fe at the end of summer and she loves it and I've been in it a few times and she let me drive it to see if I like it and I loved it. Oh well. We got suckered. :) We also really liked the guy that sold us the car, Gabe. We went to the dealership that he works for first, told him our situation. He didn't pressure us, he just showed us around and then we left and went to some other dealerships. Before we left, Rudolph Honda, the dealership we were at, they have another dealership, Mazda, on the other side of town with some used cars we wanted to look at. Gabe told us to come back either the next day or the day after and he would drive us over there to look at them so we didn't have to waste the gas, nice right? Anyways with the other dealerships we got hammered with salesman everytime and at one place we had 4 people get on us to get a car that we didn't even want we just sat in it. So after our great experience with Gab we decided to try and stick with him. The next day we went to the Mazda dealership were our car was waiting for us. :) We sat in all the ones that Gabe pulled up on their inventory the day before but decided to take the Mazda out for a test drive. It is awesome. Smooth, quiet and perfect. It doesn't have a ton of bells and whistles but I'm not into all that. I need something that has awesome trunk room, which it does, is roomy for growing kids and car seats, is an automatic, I'm done with sticks for awhile, and gets me from point A to point B.. I'm pretty simple... although i do want an iphone. :) I think that is the only really spiffy thing that I want in my possession. I also want a Dyson and a steam vac thingy. So three things. Anyways... we love our new car and constantly fight about who gets to drive or not.


My supervisor, Susan, just had her first grand kid. Before baby-E was born I told Susan I would love to shoot some infant photos for them to get my portfolio up. It was fantastic. I also did a few family sessions before the holidays but i don't really feel like getting those up.

Baby E was super cute and big. He was 9 lbs. My baby was 7. Big difference between the sizes.

We also went on a date this last weekend. It was fantastic. Baby slept over at Grandma and Grandpa Morgan's for the night while we went to dinner and saw the Tourist. My Dad loved it when he saw it during the holidays, so we thought we would give it a shot. I usually like the movies my dad likes. It was good. I really enjoyed it. It doesn't really take a lot for me to like movies. Just a good plot and some good acting. :) I also do enjoy those super lame movies.. I kinda want to see the Human Centipede. Seriously it exists. See...

The poster says that it's 100% medically accurate. What the?

Dan starts up school next week... Hooray! It's his last semester! Then on to the unknown. Scary.
He's been working really hard on his thesis and getting all the recordings he needs for it over the break. Wish him luck that he doesn't get to stressed about it and that writing the thesis will be super smooth. :)

Babes is being babes. She is super cute and teething. She wakes up sometimes during the night. It's not that big of a deal but it sure does interrupt my sleep. :) Poor girl. She also had some exploding diarrhea last week for about 4 days. We called her doctors office to see if we can giver her some pedialite, on the bottle it said for 1 year and older and they told us that it's going around with infants right now and it last about 3 to 5 days. That we can give her some pedialite and the only time that we need to be super concerned and bring her in to see the doctor is if she has a fever. Which she never got. We just needed to keep her hydrated. During those days she was still as smiley as ever but just more clingy then usual. She's always been a cuddlier but she just always wanted to be in my lap.

That is us for now.

Peace