How Do Big Families Do It?

Take a picture, that is! I tried sooooooooooooooo many times to get a picture of the boys under the Christmas tree. Was not happening! I was trying to get a picture to compare this year to last year. Last years picture is the one above. Way easier back then!


"What you must be crazy!"

"You know I don't sit still that long"
"Okay, seriously YOU have to be kidding me"
Carter...."I'm getting so bored"
"Maybe if I turn like this"
"Okay, lets try standing"
"I'm outta here!"
"Okay, maybe Santa will help"
"Come back here Santa...and Landon"
"Okay, give Santa a hug"
"Maybe the bus?"
"That goes zoom zoom real fast"

"And he's gone...for good"
I NEED A FASTER CAMERA!!

Watch out World!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have so much to be thankful for this year. Good health, lots of friends, TERRIFIC family and most importantly LOTS OF LOVE!
I hope everyone enjoys their Thanksgiving and safe travels!

Our newest addition...

Carter has been begging us for a dog for a long time now. About a year ago, we told him once he turned 5. Well his 5 year old birthday came and went without getting a dog. So lately he has been asking if he could get one for Christmas. Without putting much thought into it, we kept brushing him off.

Well...wouldn't you know that at 9:00 this morning we get a call from Elinor saying that her nephew was down there with six golden retriever puppies. Thinking we would just "take a look", we went down there.

After seeing a little boy begging (see picture above, I can't get it to move) "pllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaasssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
(and their nephew practically giving the registered dog away)








and this cute little face
we now have our newest addition in the Paddack household.





Meet Oliver...

Grandma

It has been a year since I lost one of the kindest, funniest most WONDERFUL woman I know. I miss you Grandma, now more than ever. I wished I could have called you the other day when I watched a man win $100,000 on Wheel of Fortune and I wish you were here so we could talk about how crappy the Cowboys are playing. You are missed....always!!

What a Stinker!

We are babysitting Mason, Lindsey's dog, this week. Landon quickly figured out that he could throw his food to Mason and quickly finish his meal. He thinks it is so funny!

Happy Halloween

The boys had so much fun last night. We had Emma's family, The Tracer's and Travis over for hot dogs before trick or treating. Emma was Dorothy (Carter was very upset about this because he felt she should have been Princess Leia), Samantha was a cowgirl, Grayson was an adorable spider and my boys were characters off of Star Wars (go figure).
After trick or treating, Carter handed out candy forever at our house and Elinor's house. He kept calling the trick or treaters our "customers". At one time, we didn't have any at our door and Carter said "where are all our customers". Travis said "Carter, don't you know we are in a recession!