Crazy Cat

Ya, we have the weirdest cat... Most cats won't even let you touch their stomach, but our cat likes to lay out on her back like this. I wanted to test her out to see how much she would put up with, so I told everyone to use her as a garbage (we added the remote for some extra weight). She cracks us up.
She's also very spoiled as well. Cade and I wanted to get her a kitty condo so she wouldn't scratch up and use our new furniture. We went to Petco and decided that we weren't going to spend $200 on one, so Cade got the parts from Lowes and made one from scratch. She loves it and it has really done a great job of keeping her off our furniture.

Sweet Little Neice

I just had to post this picture of my cute little neice, Shayna. She crossed her little hands like this all on her own and we thought it was just adorable!

Halloween Fun!

Wow, so much has happened since last time I posted! We finally purchased our first home in Syracuse and are all moved in now. We have lots of projects that we are trying to tackle, but it's been fun being able to do whatever we want with the house. So far we've painted the living room and kitchen and stained our railings, but we still have quite a bit of tile work to do etc. etc. I'll have to post some before and after pictures once everything is complete. We absolutely love this area and couldn't be happier. It's crazy to go from the apartment scene to a neighborhood. We're not used to having friendly neighbors stopping by to see if we need anything. We have some great neighbors and feel so lucky.

For Halloween we had a little family get together at our house. Aubrey and I stayed up late into the night making cute little desserts and getting everything ready for the next day. It was a great turn out and we all had a great time. We took the kids trick-or-treating around the neighborhood, even little Shayna came with us in her cute little angel costume. I made home made chile and rootbeer (a family tradition). Little D was baptised on Halloween as well. I can't believe that little tike is already 8! We celebrated his birthday at our house during our little get-together. Davis was dressed up as Harry Potter, but received some fake mustaches for his birthday that he was sporting! Katie was a cute little Gypsy and Garrett wore a creepy lookin' monster mask. I posted a few random pictures of our little event.