Dan finally gave in

Well our two cars have been slowly dying for about a year now and we are just waiting for one of them to finally go toward the light, so it was inevitable that we would need to get a new car. So around August I told Dan that all I wanted for my birthday was a new car, and he just laughed and said yeah right. Well when my birthday came around and Dan took me to Park City for the weekend, my new phrase was "all I want for Christmas is a new car, and maybe some front teeth for Shad so he will stop teething". He just laughed like before, well we thought the Explorer had driven its last mile so we went car shopping, just to see what was out there. I think that a new car is an appropriate Thanksgiving gift after all I would be very thankful for it. We finally decided on the car we wanted and went to a friend to see if he could find one at an auction for us. I must have been our lucky day because he ended up getting the car we wanted with a few extras along with it, it had about 30,000 less miles than we expected to get along with leather interior and a built in DVD player which we probably wont be using much until Shad is older and we are needing to entertain him on road trips. We are very happy with our new purchase, especially after taking our first road trip out to Sacramento last weekend to visit Dan's family and my sister in Chico.

Just like Daddy

Ever since Shad was born he has always had a nice head of hair which I am very proud of not like I really had any say in what he looked like. We gave Shad is first haircut at 2 months and again every month after that. Because his hair was growing so fast I gave in to Dan's request to buzz his hair this time and I really like how it turned out. I was worried about cutting off to much so I wanted to use a #8 guard and if Dan had his way he would use no guard at all so we compromised on a #6 guard and were both happy with the results so I think this will be our hair cutting methods from now on. Maybe next time I will be more adventurous and go with a shorter length.

Dan's Update

Dan stopped working for the Canyon's ski resort in July of this year and since then has been trying to get his business going which has actually paid off a bit, we have actually taken a pay check for the first time since he started it over a year ago. However since his business is not yet able to pay all the bill he is in the process of registering to go to the post academy. He actually applied to get a job with a few police departments and in the end he was always on the top of the list of candidates but they all turned him down because they did not want to pay to put him through post and told him that if he was already certified he would be one of their top choices. So that made our decision. When Dan was in the military we knew that some benefits would come our way when his service was through but we never thought we would need them so badly. Because Dan is a veteran the state is actually paying for his academy training and his GI bill will be giving us money for living expenses and we are so grateful for that opportunity that he has. If everything goes as planned then he will be starting his training in the end of January and will be finished in July, and hopefully hired with a PD soon after.

Hangin with the cousins

These are just a few pictures of the whole family well the little ones anyway. This is all the grandkids with Nana and Pop from left to right; Violet, Mason, Grace, Lily, Shad, Hannah, and Sam.
These little ones were all born within 1 year, well almost 1 year Grace's Birthday is exactly 1 year and 1 day older than shad. Grace 16 mo, Mason 13 mo, Violet 10 mo, Shad 4 mo.
I guess it was twinner day, JK. Jay Kim and Mason came over for Sunday dinner and I told Jay that shad had the same onesie so I put it on so we could get some twinner shots. Arent they the cuttest little boys.

Eating Cereal

Well we decided to start Shad on Rice Cereal a little early hoping that it would help him sleep a bit longer and it may end up biting us in the butt. As it turns out he absolutely hates it. I don't know if he doesn't like the taste texture or just the fact that it takes to long and is to much work but for whatever the reason we cannot seem to reason with him long enough to get a bite down so I think we might give up for at least a few weeks and try again, maybe then he will be ready.

And then there were 2

I can't believe it only took 2 weeks but he got his second tooth. He was not quite as fussy as with the first but we could deffinately tell when the tooth came in cause he cheered right up.

Just showing off how freaking adorable my little boy is

Playing in his Johnny Jump-Up

What a stud with his fo-hawk, in his church clothes