Merry Christmas!

So surprise to me! We had a new family member delivered a few days before christmas!! Mike (petes brother) Flew this lil fluff ball down from Chicago for Pete and they walked in one morning carrying this lilbundle of joy! We decided to call him Zeus! He is a Samoyed which is sorta like a huskie but you don’t really see them down here in the south very often (which of course we love) But so far he has been quite a change for our lil family of 2! Good prep for one day having kids that’s for sure! He is 11.5 weeks old and about 15 lbs now (already growing so much for the few weeks we’ve had him!) He knows how to sit, shake, lay down, and roll over! Quite a lileinstein on our hands. The funnies thing we’ve taught him is to ring the bell when he wants to go outside. It is a little service bell and he’ll just look at you waiting to be served! He loves sitting out in the snow and this super cold weather we’ve had. He loves playing with other dogs- him and Jack(parents dog) got a long so well! Snickers(mike and mercy’s dog) is still a little rough when he plays- but Zeus is always asking for more. We have had muchbetter sleep the last few nights and he will bark and let us know when he needs to go potty about 7 or 7:30 every morning. We love him dearly and I was so surprised that we acctually got a puppy I was a lil speachless when he walked in!

New Residence!

so we bought a house!!!! We now reside in Fayetteville near Peachtree City. It is about 25 miles to pete’s work and I found a job down here in Griffin at Hibbett Sports as an assistant manager! We went in with Pete’s brother Mike and his family to get the property that neither of us could afford by ourselves.. but as a team we get this sweet lay out and have great neighbors! It is on Lake Horton and sits on 7.5 acres. There are two houses.. we obviously have the smaller one on the left in the first picture and Mike and Mercy and their 5 kids live in the one on the right. The two are connected by an air conditioned breezeway that also hooks to the garage. The basketball court cement was already there at the house just ready for us to play on (we added the goal) Our house has some work to be done like laundry hook ups and we are going to be adding a kitchen this year sometime. The closets are huge! And as of now since there are no children yet we get to have our own closets for the time being! We love our new ward and have started to feel more comfortable living down here about 1 hr 15 min away from my parents. (The tv is also now up on the wall, added 2 mini ottomans in the living room, and our curtains are on rings and makes our curtains longer. Some of the decorations have been put up also and we acctually have pictures on our walls)