v-i-c-t-o-r-y!

i know it is only saturday evening, but i have already had one of the most relaxing and enjoyable weekends ever.  we woke up at 9 am and the pastor made a big breakfast that i made gabe get out of bed and walk over to enjoy.  we ate lots and had coffee and talked and laughed and had a fun morning. 

then, after hearing about all the festivities in carytown...i mean scarytown, i headed to walmart to make the little dog a costume for the contest.


meet franklinstein...

 

as we walked to the competition, the pastor was majorly doubting our chances and then...

 

we won!

don't get me started on the duggars...

"it's ok that i drive a hummer, my baby is wearing a cloth diaper" - anna duggar

yard work with the little dog...

our accomplishment ( sorry for the terrible pic. it was infact taken with photobooth)

then we snuggled on the porch and admired our work.

life long project

i love everything about victorian family photographs.  i wonder if the conversation went like this, "we need to take a family photo." "alright, everyone out in the yard, grab and animal or possession" "ok ready no one smile....1.....2......3..."

ok so where is the life long project coming in?

here it is...

every year i want the stephen, myself, and franklin to take a picture like this.  then when we are old, every year our family will be captured in hopefully at least 50 of these pictures filled with lots of people that all started with just me the pastor and the little dog.  any photographer friends want to help?

this picture from our wedding begins the series...

virtual try on

thinking of getting these...just virtual try on makes me nervous.

however, $95 dollars for frames and prescription lenses is a beautiful thing.

he pronounced them husband and wife.

the pastor did his first wedding...

photo by nick kessler

and i was very proud.

the past week in a blog post.

for starters, we celebrated the little dog's 1st birthday.  i can't believe that the little dog is the biggest now.  he was so tiny the day we brought him home.  i also can't believe that a little dog is a staple in our family.

the day we brought him home.  tiny little one.

also, the event that makes me hate my job more than any other thing happened last week.  video dance camp.  here is my finished product.  i am officially the worst videographer and editor ever.

laughs and ridicule are allowed.

thirdly, the new house is coming along. we are adjusting to it and getting to know the neighbor hood.  when this house is cute, i will love it here. little dog has adjusted and is acting normally.  see below:

his post as usual.

sarah and kristen came to visit twice this week.  visitors definitely makes it feel like home.  i didn't realize that we had become used to never being alone in our house.  the change is really nice, don't get me wrong, but sometimes a little lonely.  they harassed frank as usual.

 at least no chick-fil-a nuggets were involved this time.

these are only highlights of an insane week.  so insane, that little dog and i went to sleep at 9 pm last night.  today? ikea.  woohoo no more sleeping on the floor!  also, we say good bye to holly hill officially with a dump run.  we love our new house and are ready to say goodbye, but probably we need to apologize for all the mean things we said about it.  deep down, we love that house.