Collinger

Sticky face from breakfast in the car!

Morning hair!!

She was perfect on the ride home- took turns sitting with both kids and never cried once!!

We picked up Collinger on Sunday morning and she is quickly becoming a part of the family and our routine! She was a lot smaller than we expected (she's about 5lbs right now at 8 weeks) but we're happy and hoping it will mean she doesn't get any bigger than 40lbs...but I guess anything would seem small in comparison to our old 100lb labs!!

The kids were soooo excited to go get her on Sunday, and were in great moods when we loaded them in the car at 6:30am for the drive to Oklahoma City. The breader is from northern OK so Oklahoma City was half way. There were four other families that came to pick up their dog, it was so fun to see how excited everyone was.

Cute kids!!

Some recent cute pics of the kids....

Go Hot Shots!!

Finally got the camera back and was able to get some pics at Emma's soccer game this last weekend...she is really enjoying playing this season and it's been fun to see the kids improve from last season. They are undefeated so far (7-0 was the score of the last game!!)

Emma kicking off...

Emma doing a throw-in!

Getting the game plan from Coach Brian!

The count down has begun....

Collinger- the newest member of our family joins us in ten days!!! We made a ring chain to help count down the days, the kids are sooo excited!!! We also got some new pics from the breader this past weekend and she is looking sooo cute, cannot wait to meet her!!

Wishing I had my camera...

My camera has been in the shop for the past few weeks so of course we've had several weekends full of picture taking opporunities :( So there are no pics to this post, just words!!

Friday night we went to our audition for the Bass Pro commercial- it was fun for me, but probably won't take Emma to another audition as it's way too much pressure on a little kids (had to bribe her with a new pair of shoes to get her to put on outfit that I wanted her to wear- so she now owns a pair of "twinkle toes" and we danced in the dark tonight to see their full effect!) The audition also made me realize how awesome of a gig the SM commercial was!!

Saturday morning Emma had her first soccer game of the Fall season. She is playing with the same team she played with last Spring- The Hot Shots!! One of my good friends from works has a son who plays on the team too- she and her husband had a meeting Saturday so we took their son, Ben, to the game and lunch afterwards. It was a test of our car to get three carseats in the back, but we made it work and Emma and Bryan thought it was so fun to have Ben with us in the car!! We spent Saturday afternoon and evening at the SMG Kountry Karnival. It was so much fun and the kids got filled up on all sorts of carnival food!! Saturday evening we had movie night with the kids and decided to watch "Air Buddies" since our puppy will be coming home in about three weeks! Hoping the camera will be back from the shop when we get "Collinger"!!!

Audition...

This time it is a family affair!! Emma, Patrick and I will be auditioning tomorrow evening for the Bass Proshop Holiday commercial. Patrick's uncle sent us a notice from a casting company in Dallas that they were looking for a "family" with kids 4yrs and older (thus the reason Bryan won't be auditioning!) and so I thought what the heck, I had so much fun with the SM commercial that I think it would be a blast to do it as a family!! Amazing how quick the process moves, sent the email with photos yesterday, got notice today that we were selected for an audition tomorrow, and if selected the shoot date is in a week and a half! It will be interesting to see how Emma does tomorrow; I've tried to explain it to her and she just keeps asking if she gets to be on TV like mommy and then when I say maybe she gets super excited!!!

Great weekend to end a great week!!

Emma and her tent!!

Catching bugs!!

One of the dads brought the swing along with him...smart thinking!!

Emma and her fellow tribe members helping to set up the tee-pee for the big bonfire!

After running in the rain...

Cool bowling shoes

Bowling with daddy

It was a great week because Bryan started back to school at Tate Tots and did wonderful!! He was getting so stressed out about the other school so we decided to switch our schedules around to allow him to go back to "tater tots" (as Bryan calls it!). We love his teacher Mrs. Terry and feel so relieved that he's back in a place where he feels comfortable!! Non-stressed baby = non-stressed parents!!

It was a great weekend for many reasons...Patrick and Emma had their first camp out with the Paposes, they spent two nights in a tent, got rained on, had to escape to a bowling alley, made a bonfire, fished, went on scavenger hunts, ate camp food- hot dogs and s'mores, and had a WONDERFUL time!! They came home wet, tired and dirty and it took hours to clean out and clean up the car...but they cannot wait for their next camp out, Patrick is already looking into purchasing a camper! It was also a wonderful weekend because Chelsey came into town...Brandon needed to study for his first round of med-school tests so she came to hang with Lindsy and I for the weekend (Haley and my parents were out of town for a wedding). It was so nice to just hangout together, we did a little sewing/crafting, a little shopping and ate some good food!! It was also a wonderful weekend because we got to help celebrate Lilly's 5th birthday party at the carosel at the mall, which the kids love!! And finally the weekend concluded with dinner with Patricks family because Elizabeth was in town...it was so good to see everyone!!

Of course we all ended up with colds on Monday, so hopefully we can shake these soon so we can have another great weekend, looks like we're going to have some really nice weather!!