Sorry It's Been Awhile!

Sorry it's been awhile since w've posted anything. We're very busy these last few weeks of summer! Vacations pictres will be up as soon as we stop running long enough for me to load them. Chris and I left our camera at home, so we are borrowing Cathy's photos to show everyone! Hope you like them...once I get them up!

We are in the process of re-doing the little bedroom upstairs and making it an office. Chris dosen't have a lot of spare time so it's mainly been on me to do it when I can, I just got around to starting it last night. It don't seem so hard, He'll have to do the high stuff though.

Chris is away for wok this weekend. He left on Saturday and went to Ft. Wayne. There we met another saleman (Mitch) and a couple other guys and they went to Wisconsin (I think) to get a tour of the Generac plant. (Generators) The generator guys gave him a ton of free stuff and they got to go check out a race of somekind- I'm not quite sure which or what- though I think it was cars.

He's Back!

BoJack is back. We picked him up from the Kokomo Humane Society on the 10th! He has Kennel Cough pretty bad and a deep-green runny nose! It's so gross he is getting his boogies everywhere! But he's safe and sound an spent about 45 minutes chasing me while I pushed mowd the front yard yesterday and has chased all of us on the dirtbikes. He seems to like tires a lot more now though, usually he just stayed behind you, now he runs right in front of you! But We're happy because we missed our baby and now he's home.

We may have found Bo-Jack!

I think we may have found Bo-Jack. He has been missing since August 3rd.

I let him out to chase me on the mower, which I couldn't get started. I came back in the house to call Chris and wait for him to call me back. When I went back out- Bo-Jack was gone.

Chris went to all the neighbors and asked if they had seen him. One said they thought they saw him chasing a deer. So Yesterday I called the Humane Society in Tipton County- which is closed due to lack of funding. So I called the commissioner, closed for lack of funding. So I called the Auditors office, who told me to call the Sheriffs office, since they are acting as a holding cell for animals right now aswell. I called the Sheriffs Dept. and they only had three dogs and Bo-Jack wasn't one of them. BoJack did NOT have his collar on when he ran off or it would have been easy for someone to call us. So they said to call the Kokomo Humane Society. I thought that was dumb, we live in Tipton County, why would Howard County have come get him!?! But I went to the Kokomo location anyway and I thought this dog was him right when I saw him, but then I thought the white spot was really high on his neck and then I saw the kennel said "NOTIFIED, Has Chip." So then I knew it wasn't him, cuz Bojack has no chip.

I went right to work after that and it was really bothering me, because it acted like my dog an looked like my dog. So I called back and asked if they were sure that dog had a chip. The lady came back and said that note was from the last dog in the kennel and this dog has no chip!

So I'm going today to get him, because I have a picture that clearly shows BoJacks spot was rather low.

This is our wonderful pup. So classy and refined...taking a dump upstream from those unsuspecting kids!  

Guys, Guys Hush! I think I see a fish!  

HEHE! I'm gonna splash you Grandpa!  

Just Checking the temp. guys! 

WHOA! BoJack almost got away from you dad! 

Rachel decided to come out and play too! 

Kristina encouraging BoJack to get in deeper! 

Kristina and boJack in the Lake Swimming!  

BoJacks Vacation

While we were on vacation last month Bo-Jack got a vacation of his own! He stayed at Grandma and Grandpas house and they took him to Turkey Run along with Rachel, Ashley and Kristina. Below are some pictures of the great time they had. I really love the first one!

Thanks mom and dad for watching him while we were gone!

July 1st- Strong Man Competition

Chris was so great! I mean he totally stomped all over those competitors! So what he didn't actually sign up. Man, he carried those weight and tires around like it was nothing... using his forklift! He was the official forklift guy bringing the crazy machinery all the way from Ft. Wayne to kokomo to help out. And this year, things moved along a lot more quickly and smoothly than they did last year trying to get the course set up again for the next guy.

I had a blast watching the show. I really, really did not like the log pumping thing...sorry I forgot what its called but you'll see in the pictures they have those white tubes with thier hands inside pulling it over thier heads. Yeah one guy actually fell backwards and did a back flip. I thought one of them was going to break their backs or it was going to fall on thier head...I did not like it. My hand was to my mouth the entire time and my eyes were buggeyed!

But it was a lot of fun. Sorry it took so long to get it posted!

See all the pictures here > Strongman Competition!

Dinner with Friends!

June 30th

Chris and I had dinner with an amazing, yes, AMAZING couple - NEWLYWEDS JAMIE AND GREG HAMILTON! They litterally just got married the friday before we had dinner- June 23rd!

Greg cooked Salmon and Steak, Jamie made Corn on the Cob, macaroni and cheese and the best cream/fruit desert ever! We sat around the table and had great conversations! We talked about how they met, what his job is (this is the first we met him, but we totally loved him! - Jamie deserves him!) anywho- They are both teaching at Indiana University - Kokomo and he also designs web sites for Nascar.

Very interesting couple that we can't wait to hang out with again. We also watched FAILURE to LAUNCH with one of my Favorite actresses- Sarah Jessica Parker! It was funny, you should rent it!

Dance Ministry

I am part of the Dance Minsistry at Church. I use to be more involved, but work scheduling conflicts put the dance team on hold. Now I'm hopefully back as things were getting steady at work, and now a curve- rotating schedules. The team has already done this dancce, but lost a few members for this performance due to other obligations. So I am learning - it with only two practices so far and only two more left before the July 17th performance. Here is a clip of how I am doing now:

Father's Day at Kings Island

In the early hours of Father's Day this year we ate breakfast in Indianapolis with Darrell, Chris' dad and then we went on to Ohio and spent Father's Day with our brother in law Shane and my brother, Brother or Little James as other people call him. Above is a picture of Chris and I with my brother and his family.



I was trying to get a picture o Devon on his first ride but silly austin kept putting his face in the way! But the picture turned out way - adorable!

CLICK HERE to se the rest of the pictures from Kings Island!

BoJacks Day at the Lake

Click the picture below to view all the pictures.

We took BoJack to the lake for the first time this past weekend, Chris and BoJack had a BLAST playing in the water. The cameras batteries died right before BoJack actually got into the water. It was so funny watching him jump around like, "Oh my gosh! Where did the ground go?" Chris was like, "is he a deer or a dog?"

Here is a video clip of BoJack and Chris on the dock:

Chris and I played frisbee and catch with BoJack while we waited for them two to dry off. After that I had to rush off the work and Chris came home to rest, the boys were tired after all the playing.

No Swinging Around Today

I can't be outside having a blast in this beautiful weather on my day off because I'm sick! My allergies are acting up like something awfull. I can't stand up with out feeling light headed, I can't lay down with out my nose running non-stop.

It's just going to be a miserable morning. Hopefully, I'll be feeling better by this afternoon. Then I get to be sick all over again, because I'll have to mow the church yard if I get to feeling better, and then my allergies will be right back into play.

Please pray that my body's natural reaction will just pass quickly!

Chris should be getting more details about his new position today! I'll let him post the news when he gets it. He's been debating on if this is the right move for him. But I think he landed on the thought, "I'm maxed out as far as I can go in service". So we'll have to wait and see if he takes it or not.

Casting Crowns Concert

Last night we had a blast with friends Jon and Julie Eads at the Casting Crowns Concert in South Bend Indiana!

The whole show was awesome and the message was great! It truly spoke to all of us and the season we are in with our lives. Click Here to view more pictures from the night.

Finally! A Time Change Lara Loves!

After telling people our hours of operations I can finally stop hearing, "People come in there that late!" Chuck E Cheese has officially changed the hors of operations for the Kokomo location. Here's Jon posting the new hours- Sun-Thur 9-9 Fri & Sun 9-10.

Looking to the Future

Lara took the Writing/Reading Asset test at DACC-

Danville Area Community College - this morning!

Still unsure of what I will decide to study, I am going to stick with General Studies for the moment and hopefully
I'll get-a-clue about what I wanna study.

Chris had his 2nd interview for the Sales job available at Brehob - Ft. Wayne today.

He is really excited about this oppurtunity and was offered the job!

He'll meet with the "big guys" again next week to discuss moving him into this new role.

We'll keep you updated as he goes on a 6 month trial run of the job.

If things don't work out- he can slide right back into his service job.

Devon James

Devon James

We are very excited to welcome Baby Devon into our family!

Birth Date: May 23, 2006

Birth Time: 3:10 PM

Weight: 7lbs. 4ozs.

Length: 20.00 inches

Parents: Cassandra & Shane

Look at how he is smiling on his first day of birth!

While we just adore having Devon, we are anticipating the birth
of Brent and Amanda's baby due later this summer!