Happy New Year!!!! -- It's going to be AWESOME!!

Finally!!!! We have a new job! Rob starts on February 2 at Siemens Building Technologies as a Sales Application Engineer. So life is looking up, we have a plan and we're going to push ahead this year.

Here are a couple of pictures from the past few months.

Christmas morning going through the stockings.

A typical scene this past year. We've been watching my sister Gloria's kids after school every day, so it gets a tiny crowded.

Stitch, our bengal cat, broke his pelvis a few weeks ago. We're not sure how. The vet said that he will be o.k. in 4-6 weeks. Poor guy. He is the coolest guy. He has the personality of a laid back dog .

Harley hardly has any fur so she gets cold in the winter. So she wears one of my sweatshirts.


This is our foster dog that became permanant. We fostered her and her four puppies awhile ago and when taking her back to the shelter when the puppies were old enough, I couldn't let her go. She is the sweetest thing in the world. She is about 9 years old and is heart worm positive. She's missing most of her teeth and has a cateract in one of her eyes. She's too old to undergo treatment, so we will just love her and give her a nice retirement in her final stage of life. Although she seems to have been defying the odds. She still has a lot of energy and doesn't show any of the symptoms yet. We've had her for almost a year now.

Taylor being her typical self. She went as a rock star for Halloween.

She loves to play guitar hero and rock band.

Colton got his face painted with Christmas lights during a Christmas party.

I thought it was so cool looking. Colton is doing awesome in school and loves to

cook and love on all of the animals.

Cameron wearing his daddy's cowboy hat. Cameron is into coin collecting and loves reading the Spiderwick Chronicles and Harry Potter.

Brianna, is just one of the kids now. There is nothing they can do that she can't. Except for riding the bus and going to school. She thinks that is so unfair.

Rob and I are as happy as can be. We are best friends and love to hang out together. We love to read, watch movies, do the grocery shopping and have picnics at the park together.

So, that's our update for now. We will try to post more often. Love all you guys!