Gizmo

A few weeks ago we said goodbye to our loyal, playful, oh so friendly 20 lb. lap dog.

After 3 years of of having him as a member of our family we made the difficult decision to give him to another family. He is now living with a family that has two girls around the ages of 7 and 9. The guy we gave him to works for Preston, so we make sure to ask about him often. He is loving his new playmates! We will definitely miss this crazy dog!

Easter Day!

We had a great Easter day! The first thing Lorelai found when she got up that morning was of course her easter basket. Here she is more interested in the eggs than the toys.

Preston made sure to help her with her golf swing

But, she just wanted to sit on him and eat her Easter candy!

Ready for church in her pretty new Easter dress!

She did not want to smile for the camera, I could barely get her to look at it.

After church, it was such a nice day that Lorelai could play outside

with her new golf set while we barbequed.

One of Lorelai's new favorites is corn on the cob, she digs right into that thing!

After lunch Preston hid some eggs in the back yard for Lorelai to find. This time she didn't care about the eggs, she just wanted the candy.

Here she is with a mouth full of twizzlers and goldfish crackers, a delicious combination!

Emptying her eggs, making sure she got every last piece of candy.

The rest of the day we spent enjoying the weather and later had dinner with friends that evening. All in all it was a fantastic day, hope everyone's Easter was great! (Sorry about the picture overload)

Easter Egg Hunt

Saturday we took Lorelai to an Easter Egg Hunt at a park by our friend's

house and Lorelai had a great time filling up her basket. They basically layered the ground with eggs and then split it up by ages, so she had no problem getting a good stash.

When she was done we had to give back all the eggs, but that's the

part she really wanted, she didn't even care about the candy inside.

After she finished gathering eggs we visited the Easter Bunny and

this is the best picture we could get. At least he didn't make her cry!

The Latest

There hasn't been too much excitement here lately. Preston has been busy with Iceberg and Papa John's. We feel very blessed by how well Iceberg is doing, it has started off even better than we expected, Lorelai has been busy getting into everything and trying to learn as much as she can. Emily is enjoying the blessing of being able to stay home with Lorelai everyday.

I thought she was just getting toys out of the drawer

until I came over and found her sitting in it!

Lorelai loves helping with anything she can, including the dishes, I guess

she thought standing on it would get help get the job done quicker.

Lorelai is such a girly girl. She carries her purse around all over and loves to pretend she is talking on her cell phone. She has a fake lipstick in her purse that she pretends to put on and loves when mom pretends to put her make up on her.

She has a plastic knife that came with a food set she got, but she thinks it is a comb and tries to comb her hair with it. She loves bracelets of any kind and decided that her red bath toy ring was better suited as a bracelet. She will keep it on her wrist all day long!

I can't wait until it gets just a little warmer so Lorelai can play outside, she loves to stand at the back door and loves to go outside. Here she is watching the hail storm; she thought it was so funny!

I tried to get a better video of Lorelai wrestling with her bear,

also a favorite activity of hers, but this is the best I could do.

Back to Az.

Lorelai and I went and spent some time in Az a couple weeks ago, we had a great time visiting everyone and enjoying the great weather. We were able to go to the zoo and the McCormick train park and just hang out with all the family. Lorelai got pictures taken with her girl cousins and we were lucky enough to be down there while some of the Maynes family was there. I also got to see Tyler wrestle for the first time ever. Lorelai was definitely worn out by the end of the trip but we had a great time, we just wish Preston could've come with us.

Open For Business

After many long hours and lots of hard work Iceberg is open! We did a test run with a bunch of friends and family on January 7th and then opened to the public on the 8th. Thanks to everyone who came out and supported us. So far things are going well, we're really excited about this opportunity!

Christmas Fun

We weren't able to make it home for Christmas, but were still able to have a nice Christmas at home. On Christmas Eve we had some friends over for dinner and made gingerbread houses and read the Christmas story and watched Elf.

Preston and Lorelai were both so excited for Christmas morning that they decided to wake up around 2 a.m. and get me up with them. After I managed to get Lorelai back to sleep, I was also wide awake. I mostly blame it on Preston because he woke me up first because he couldn't sleep and then Lorelai woke up probably because she heard him get up. Eventually, we all got back to sleep and didn't wake again until the sun was actually up.

Lorelai had a lot of fun opening up her presents and playing with all her new toys, she definitely got spoiled this year! Thanks to everyone for all the great gifts!

That afternoon we were able to have an early dinner with The Warren's and their family, then we came home and relaxed and watched Lorelai enjoy all her presents. We had a great Christmas and hope you all did too. Have a Happy New Year!