We're Buying A New Car!

I'm very excited because just this morning Craig found the perfect car for us! We've been searching and praying to find a car that will be safe and reliable for us when the new baby comes and hopefully for years to come. Today, Craig found it! It's a 2004 Buick LeSabre, and it has just over 27,000 miles on it! It fits us so nicely too! It's roomy, has a huge trunk, and it's gold! (not as gold as the lovely car we have now, but enough to look great). We test drove it today and fell immediately in love. So...we've put a small down payment on it and on Monday the keys will be ready and we can bring that beautiful car home :) To give you an idea of what the car looks like I found pictures and I'll post them here.

Alyson came home from her mission!

Texas Roadhouse

We've found out this summer that Claire loves ribs! This was her second time to Texas Roadhouse and she still loves the ribs. We found out that she likes spicy food pretty well when she kept asking for the buffalo wing bones. She's sweet, we love her, I'm glad we get to keep her :)

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Pictures of Claire

I haven't posted many pictures of Claire for a while, so here they are:

Claire's Birthday Party

So for Claire's first birthday we decided to throw a party and invite all our family and friends in the area. We had a lot of people packed into our little apartment and we ate a delicious cake that my awesome friend, Karen, made for the party. Then after talking and eating we went outside to hit open the pinata! This was my first time making a pinata and it was so fun that I think I'm going to make a birthday tradition! Here are some pictures of the process.

It worked really well, too. It lasted through most of the guest and cousin Andy was the one to smash it open. There were lots of little toys from the dollar store inside and some candy. I had a blast and hopefully everyone else did too. Here's a video of us singing happy birthday to Claire and her first tiime eating cake :)

I'm really glad we had a party and I think we'll keep trying for parties for other kids we have. It was a great day.