Our pitt stop in Detroit!

Okay, so I realize these are like 2 months past their prime, but I wanted to get them up still and thought I should since the camera is charged again!

These first ones aren't all that much fun, they just us driving through and making a Pitt stop in Detroit (actually on our way home)


Just the things we saw!



I tried to get a picture of the 8mile Rd exit sign for Cara,
but that didn't really work out so well.


More buildings!


hey! Never seen one of them before! :)


Some great landmark I'm sure.


And nothing can stop us now.


Lara all ready to go check out Detroit malls!

Yeah, I generally take a lot of pictures of myself!
I'm so vain - or I'd never be in any pictures!


There's Chris on the hotel couch, I'm forcing him to stop watching some combat movie on TV and take me to the mall!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from Chris and Lara!

Hope everyone got everything they wanted and things they didn't know they wanted!

Here's what we got!
Lara - Pearls from Shane Co.
Chris - Candy - Mentos, Tic Tacs and M&M Candy Bar
COLTS Ink Pen
COLTS Mug
COLTS Car window sticky
PEYTON MANNING Jerzey
17th Row SUPERCROSS Tickets



Chris Checking Out his Present!


Surprise! It's a COLTS Mug-
since now he drinks coffee!


Opening another one!


A COLTS Ink Pen! "This will look great
making my sales visits!" Chris said!


Here we go again!


So, Apparently this one was a big hit!


Santa thought Chris needs to show of his
COLTS LOVE to everyone! This is a Car
Window Sticky for the back window!


Crazy Wrapping - Chris thought he got one of
Makenna's gifts! Ya all know that wasting paper
Syndrome! Like the bow?


Let's see what's inside!


Okay, more wrapping inside - it looks like
paper...??



Because it is paper! It's a note- going to the
SUPERCROSS March 24th
at the RCA Dome BAY-BAY! And he has
an extra ticket, Santa thinks the wife would
love to go too... :)


Chris is Chris keeping his area nice and clean!


Oh boy! This one is pretty! And, it was the
first gift to go under the tree! What could it
be?


Oh My! Peyton Mannings Jerzey!


"Jeff Saturday?" Chris asks. "They don't
sell his around here hunny. I looked
everywhere!"


::Back to :: PEYTON MANNING! This is TIGHT!


Let me just put that on right now! "I can
really be a couch quaterback now!"



So Pretty! I knew there was no way Chris
Could have wrapped this! But it looks just
lovely!


Lara's taking a peek inside that beautifully
wapped gift!


NO WAY! They are so beautiful!


PEARLS! and they are from Shane CO!


Look how beautiful they are for yourself!

And they even come with care instructions
and a quick briefing on how they need to go
back to the store every year for a cleaning
and re-stringing.

Merry Christmas from BoJackkers!

Random picture of the colts mug!

BoJack with his new rope!

Tigger got 2 new cubes for her playcastle!

We had a wonderful Christmas and can not wait to celebrate it this new Years in TN with the rest of the family!
We rented movies to watch all day and that inclues A SMOKEY MOUNTAIN CHRISTMAS! My favorite chritmas movie with Dolly Parton.

Love you all!

Uncle Chris Feeding baby Devon

Yummy, Yummy! Devon says he likes that!

"Where you taking that thing? - put it back in my
mouth!"

Uncle Chris is getting lots of practice with Devon!

Hall Family Pictures

We spent yesterday at Lara's parents house having the family Christmas party! Here are some pictures we took of the family...

Christmas List

Chris and I have made out a gift list on-line so no one needs to worry if someone else is already buying that gift. We promise not to spoil christmas by looking at what everyone has bought. Check it out here:

http://www.mygiftlist.com/giver_login.asp?code=21DB02610E2C80B093775EFF700D

Thanks, Lara and Chris

Whew - A month gone by!

What a time!So to catch everyone up...

I'll have the pictures from Pennsylvania trip posted soon. Camera has been dead and we couldn't find the cord...but I think I found it this morning, however I have to go to work! and tonight we have a party thing in Indianapolis to go to. But I have Thursday/Friday off to play catch up.

My Business Law class is about to end! I like it, but man is it a lot of reading, I mean A LOT! Whew so I'm glad about that. My next class is a 3 week winter course - Intro to Psychology, then hopefully if I'm not working too much (our busiest time of year at chuck e cheese is approaching quickly)I'll be able to take another class that starts with the regulars, in January.

I've also been working on another blog that makes fun of celebrities and I waitress'd for the fist time in my life a couple weeks ago! I helped at Greeks Pizza for a couple hours and made what totaled $12/hour in tips. One of the couples I waited on works at the hospital with the owner and told him how wonderful they thought I was. So when the nursing staff Christmas party was decided to be held there at Greeks, the owners called and said that the couple I waited on suggested it would be a good idea for me to be a waitress that night, of course I'm super excited and can't wait!

Chris is working well and working hard! He still makes the daily drive to Ft. Wayne but has decided he'd like not to move which was the plan when Casi and Shane moved towards Ft. Wayne. I guess we're all adjusted to not having each other around. Miss ya Cas! Totally we are missing Mr. Man (Austin) and Devon. It's weird not going to see them everyday.

The party tonight is for Christopher's work, it's a cocktail party and I can only hope I dress appropriately! :)

Makenna's baptisim was awesome! Wish you all could have been there, I'll steal some of Amanda's pictures tomorrow and get those posted for everyone who wants to see our neice and now our GodDaughter in action. It was wonderful, Chris and I were so excited and so nervous Makenna was the star of the show and she slept through it! :) What-a-cutie!

CliCK HERE to see all the photos!



Here we ha a fun morning hanging out at my parents house with my neices and my sister and her friend...? boy friend?? Guy pal?? I'm not so sure which, but he's pretty cool. His names Dustin and he likes cars and toys of that sort.




Here's a fun video of Rachel crossing her eyes, doing a cart wheel and Ashley trying to flip!



Rachel is playing with a toy football, being her silly self!



This one is Ashley trying to do a flip on the floor this time. She's so adorable, I didn't get it on tape after i told her she did it, she goes, "no, no because I went to the side like that!"

A Fun Day With Brent, Amanda and Makenna

Sunday October 15th we spent the afternoon with Brent, Amanda and Makenna! We had a blast!

First we sat and talked in the living room and then we went to eat...Chris and I had already eaten, but we went to O'Charles after trying to go to Chilis first(it was packed).

Then we went to the apple Orchard and had a good time, we seen the goats and tried some apple donuts and had apple cider slushies, which don't sound good, but it was YUMMY!

Then we went back to Brent and Amandas and Chris and I shared feeding Makenna responsibilities! It was awesome!

The best part is, Brent and amanda asked us to be Makenna's GodParents! Which ofcourse we accepted, but it took us a little while to proess, I asked Chris, did they mean both of us? We are so happy and excited and we never saw it coming! yippy skippy!

Go here to see all the pictures and videos from our visit!

hanging Out With Casi, Austin and Devon

Casi, Austin and Devon all came over on Friday the 6th to hang out. Casi worked on her stockings she's making for the boys--- which they are big enough to actually put devon inside of!

I mainly played with Devon and Austin and Chris did their boy things and played with bo jack.



See the pictures.

I got a really cool video of Devon - holding his own bottles now! (Sometimes!) Here is one:

Whew!

Whew- it feels like I am always writing a post about how long it's been since we've posted before! Again, we haven't really been up to too much lately! Just working and school and hanging out not doing anything exciting!

We did recently have my family over to watch the Colts game September 24th and I just got the pictures uploaded! So go here to see them!




Yeah, those are our middle neices! So annoy...adorable...but we love them that much more! ray-ray's reading her new book and Ashley is just being plain cute. We love these girls so much and wish we could see them more often---speed team meets should be starting soon so we'll go see them then.

Here's all the food we made for everyone coming over, of course, we planned for 11 people, but then Shane had family in town and Kristina's friend ended up not coming, (though he never said he was going too) so we made a little too much food!






I'll have pictures from Grandmas Birthday once Kristina emails them to me--- so email them to me kris! Thanks!

Colts Game Baby!

That's right! We were there on Sebtember 17th, watching the Colts destroy the Texans!

We had a blast! Before the game we ate Lunch at Bob Evans with Mom and Dad.



It was some yummy food and good Makenna Mae talking time. Cathy had a picture Makenna on her shirt that said, "Grandma's Peanut". How Cute.

But going back to the game now! It was GREAT! Here's funny man- Guy One- trying to do a handstand! He was hilarious the entire game.






CLICK HERE to see all the photos!

Meet Our New Car

My 1984 celebrity hit a snag last week when the brakes went out on me! I didn't get in a wreck, but it was still pretty scary! That car is at the shop and will cost too much to make me feel safe in it again.

Chris and I spent the whole week trying to find a good, nice looking car with a price we could afford...well, that didn't exactly happen. Anyone who knows Chris, knows he needs to have the most expensive thing he can find.

Ok, he didn't find the most expensive this time, but it was the most expensive out of all that we were looking for...and as much as I hate to admit it... I like it!

CLICK HERE to Check out lots and lots of photos of OUR NEW 2000 Cadillac DeVille DTS.

Chris Meets 2 Colts Cheerleaders!

Chris said that the black guy on the right is the bodyguard. And he told them when they asked for a picture not to touch below the waist. If you want to put your arm around them, it has to be over their shoulders. Mitch, Chris' buddy from work standing next to him asked, "what happens if our hand slips?' the bodyguard told him, "if it slips, then you're eating pavement."

Chris was so excited about getting to see the cheerleaders! Hr also got their autographs, which I hope to scan and post in a few minutes- if I can get the scanner hooked up. It may have to wait till Chris gets home.

Chris also said they guy in the red shirt behind them had a table set up and was giving a-way free hotdogs, chips and waters to everyone. Oh, they are at some golf outing for the Better Business Bureau. So they were trying to drum up business.

Makenna Mae!

Here is the lovely Makenna Mae we've all been waiting for!

She was born September 2nd and is a story that makes childbirth sound so easy... "...only took an hour and 30 minutes from check-in time to have her..."

Makenna and company was home by noon on Labor Day (the 4th) when Uncle Chris and Aunt Lara went over to visit with the family.

Let me just say- This girl is adorable already! And you can see just how much so by looking at the pictures we took of her here ---> Makenna Mae

Beach House Pictures are posted!

Hey guys!

Pictures of the Beach House Worth 1.25Million are posted.

Click the photo above to view most of the house!

I can't seem to find the pictures that Cathy took, so I had to 'steal' Amanda's from her site! (Sorry Amanda- I didn't use all of them, so go to Amandas site for more detailed photos)

We had a blast and the BeachHouse was perect- this vacation could not have been any better!