Merry chirstmas

SNOW in Louisiana

There was a rare snowstorm in La. Here are some of the pictures my sister took.

Happy Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving with friends. Josh started off the day with our first annual Turkey Bowl. Some of the guys from church started a game at 8 in the morning and the ground was still frozen. I stayed at home and started cooking. I make my broccoli salad, Paula Dean's Creamy Mac and Cheese (cooks in the crockpot), homemade potatoes and Peanut Butter Fudge bars. We had a lot of food and dessert. We are grateful that we have such great friends to spend our holiday with.

Beach Pics

We went with the Durdles last weekend to the beach to try and get some nice pics. It was actually too sunny and the pics didn't come out like we wanted but we may try again next weekend. Here are some of the pictures we did get.

Getting ready for the cold

So I got a little worried about cold weather coming and wondering if Ranger would go outside. I found this little jacket at Target for 2.50.

Here is his reaction to his fitting.

Fall Festival

This past Sunday was our Fall Festival. There was a lot of work that was involved and I actually had a lot of fun but was completely exhausted when it was over. We cooked for about several hundred people and on top of that Josh and I had additional jobs.

Worship Team

My Job
Josh's Job

Let the Games begin. Scott challenged Josh to a race. So here is the play by play

There off...and in the process almost knock over a kid!

Josh tries sliding into home.

But alas....Scott is victorious

Where has the time gone???

A recent visit from my mom and George. We went out to Oscar's...good food.

Ranger is a great travel dog. When we went home this summer he spent most of the time in his crate, part of the time in my lap and part on the time on the arm rest with his head on Josh.

This is Ranger with his cone after his surgery.

Josh and I went with the youth to Carowinds, which is an amusement park. At the event we heard Skillet, Casting Crowns and Family Force Five.

Okay, so I have been really bad at updating the blog recently. There are a couple of reasons. No. 1 : I thought I had lost my camera cord to the computer but finally found it sitting next to the computer (so no more excuses). No. 2: I have been really busy at work No. 3 I have been spending too much time on Facebook and not on my blog. So now that I am back and committed to updating my blog here are a few pictures that let you know what we have been up to.

This is a video to show some of the tricks I have taught Ranger. I have taught him verbal commands and hand signals. He catches on pretty quick. I think I taught him most of these things when he was around 3 months. He is around 9 months now. Just this last month we got shake, which he got after one day of working with him.

Mud Run

This is the second time Josh has ran in the Mud Run. It is a 4 mile obstacle course, which you may have guessed has a lot of mud pits. He ran with a 4 man team and this year I decided to go. No, I didn't run I provided my photography and child care skills for the day. We also had two ladies teams that participated as well. They all seemed to have a lot of fun and I enjoyed watching them.

Visit from Josh's sister

A few weeks ago Tracy was able to visit us again. We ate at some great restaurants while she was here. I haven't been able to post any pictures from my camera b/c I have lost my connector to my computer. It is somewhere in my house but who knows where.

They Caught Him

It looks like this robbers days are over. The bank robber and his accomplice were pulled over in Myrtle Beach for making an illegal turn. I haven't seen anything on the new about it but Josh told me earlier today he was caught.

Josh's 2nd news appearance

Well this time I have to say was unintentional. This week Josh's bank was robbed and as you can see from this picture Josh was the teller. So, if any of you recognize this man you can let us know so we can maybe catch him. Apparently he has hit several Regions banks in SC, GA and FL. Here is the link to the full story. Josh was okay and he only slipped him a note but it still was not a fun experience and it is never good getting a phone call from your husband saying "We were just robbed....but I'm okay".
Story

Sweitzer Farewell

We wanted to say goodbye to some of our friends the Sweitzer's. You know when we moved to Charleston we didn't realize that our friends would be in the military which meant they would eventually move away. If only I would have known that then....
Anyway, they are moving to Germany for a 3 year stay and I'm sure they will have a blast once all the details are taken care of...find a house, enroll in school, get a drivers license, get some of their stuff, 3 months later get the rest of their stuff, find the supermarket.....speak German??

I stole some pics off of Debbie's blog and I had to go a ways back to try and find a family photo of all 5. I found one of the girls and one of the boys and figured that would work as well.

So I guess all there is left to say is Viva la Sweitzer's ...

Oh wait...That's not German, oh well I guess just because you have a PhD doesn't mean you know everything :)

More pics

Ranger waiting for me to let him get his treat which is right in front of him