Thanksgiving 2011

We spent Thanksgiving in Florida with Craig's parents and 4 of his siblings and families. I can't believe there were this many kids and 2 families were missing! We also celebrated Christmas since it was the last time his parents would see the kids before Christmas.

The girls that were there (missing Angie and Allison!) Anne edited this picture beautifully but somehow I can only find a hard copy of it...so this is a picture of a picture because scanning it was way too much work.

The rest of the family opted for the beach while we headed to Gainesville to visit friends and go to the Gator game.

Thanksgiving dinner.

It was so fun to be with everyone for Thanksgiving, I wish we could all be together more often.!

Can't watch without a smile

Update in pictures.

 Riley baking (aka eating the batter)

 BYU vs. TCU

 Night before Halloween, they found the candy stash. These are Riley's cousins/besties Mason and Gavin

 Riley is obsessed with all things Cars, so this was the only costume I had a chance of getting on him.

 Pondering the weather.

 Zac Brown Band concert. BLAST!

I'm trying to decide if he should get a hair cut...

 Sometime summer 2011

 Turner Falls in Oklahoma. Summer 2011.

 Packing. August 2011.

 The new house.

 Riley hiding from a diaper change in my closet.

 Utah trip in August 2011. We wore him out.

 My bff from college, Annie, had just had her first baby! His name is Dallas and he is adorable!Unfortunately, we didn't get a pic with him :(

 Riley was excited about the airplane.

 Cameron finally got our TV hung! It only took Cameron (mostly), Craig and Shaun a week to get it up.

 Watching his new TV.

 BYU vs. Texas

 Me and Anne, my sis in law here in Dallas.

 Napping in the shopping cart. I couldn't get him to wake up, which never happens so I just went with it.

 Lazy morning in bed with Dada

 This kid LOVES apples.

 My good friend growing up, Heather, and her family came to visit from Houston when her hubby had a conference here. She has a 3 year old and 1 year old twins who were sooo good the whole time. Every time Alexis got out of her princess stroller Riley climbed in. Again no pictures of all the kids together.

 Mason and Riley love to plain trains at Barnes and Noble.

 Riley and Gavins relationship has had it's ups and downs. They are 4 months apart. This happened to be a good day for them!

 Costoc samples.

 Our little climber.

Loves his Mia cat.

I'm pretty sure there is a gap in Riley's childhood on my blog and our lives in general, but at least this is something!

Update on life

To say I have been a blog slacker would be an understatement. I created a blog because I wanted to document our lives and hopefully someday print it off into actual books or albums. I've recently remembered how much I wanted to do this and am sad I haven't kept up. The only post I've made in the past 1-2 years have been random and tell very little about what's going on in our lives! So let me summarize the past 1 1/2 years or so and then I'll dump a load of pictures to try and catch up :)
I'll pick up with moving to Texas (since I'm not sure where I left off with life and I don't have time to go back and read)....we moved to Frisco, Texas June 2010. We rented a home, Craig started work as a dentist and I started real life as a stay at home mom. Craig started with All Smiles as an associate. He enjoyed it, but soon after starting he was recruited my another company Smile Magic. He went to meet with them as a courtesy, not intending to actually change jobs. However, he knew pretty quickly Smile Magic was where he needed to be working. So, after being at his job only 2 months he made the switch. Now this was not an easy decision (for me) because it meant "just starting out" again. Without going into all the boring details it meant losing quite a large sum of money for initially less pay. We were just out of school and loans were due soon! Eeeek!
Craig says to this day it was one of the best decisions of his life. He LOVES his job and isn't doing too shabby "providing" for the family. He currently is partnering with Smile Magic to open an office in El Paso, Texas, which will open the first week of December. He's already working on the next "opportunity" and feels this job has opened so many windows for him. He works a TON of hours, which is hard for me, but I'm glad that he has a job he enjoys. I know many can't say the same thing, so I try and keep my complaining to a minimum. :)
Spring 2011 we bought a spec home that was just being started and had a fun time building a house. Craig continued to work a ton so I had a fun hobby of picking everything out and making sure all the details were done. We moved in late August and love it. It's so nice to finally OWN a home and feel like we are settling down somewhere. My hobby will now be getting it decorated!
Craig turned 30 in May and although all the deals weren't technically closed at the time, I was very proud of all that he had accomplished in his 3o years. Husband, father, dentist, homeowner, and business owner. I'm afraid he's going to run out of goals if he doesn't slow down soon! :) I always told Craig from the beginning that one of my favorite things about him was his ambition. (Isn't it funny how the things we love the most about people can sometimes be the things that also drive us nuts?!) I'm so proud of him and grateful for all that he does for our little family.

On a separate note, I've lost my camera charger back when we moved so all pictures are on my iPhone. I'll try to upload the update of our life via the iPhone next. Be prepared it will mostly be Riley.