officially 'that family'...

So this summer we were taking 2 VERY long road trips in May one was 7 hours and one was 16 hours!  It got us thinking about the fact that because we want 3 kiddos we knew soooome day will will have to jump on the 'mini van' wagon so why not go ahead and get one before our road trips (other wise we would have to rent a van because Heather would be travailing with us and Heather affectionately called our car the 'clown car'....yeah it was REALLY small).  So in March we put our car on craigs list, months went by and we had NO interest!  So jakes dad rented a car for all of us and we moved on with our trips.  We got home and jake kept it on craigs list on and off, but since no one ever called on it, i completely forgot we were even 'trying' to sell it!  Then the night before labor day a lady emailed jake wanting to see it!!  Jake spent 3 hours the next morning cleaning it up for her while i scowered the internet for vans...but she NEVER showed!!  Then just a few days later another man called and came to see it...he loved it...but didn't offer us a very good price so we turned him down (we weren't even REALLY trying to sell the car anyway;)  then that night another family came to see it!!  SO weird right!! 6 months on and off craigs list with no interest then 3 people in one week!!  Anyway, they loved it and made us a great offer so jake met him at his bank the next day (yesterday) and BOOM my car was sold!! Well thankfully I have always kept a 'cars' savings account through ING and had been saving for this 'someday' van for quite a while (that's obviously savings that is on top off the money we would get from our payed off car)... so of course my late afternoon was searching all over auto trader and Craigs list...i found 3 i seemed to like, 2 at one place in south Dallas and one RIGHT down the road at David McDavid Honda (a HUGE dealership here in the area). So around 4:30 yesterday afternoon we head down, though Dallas traffic to see these 2 vans that were in our price range that were AWFUL!! grr i was pretty discouraged and by this point it was getting late.  But we go see the one at the dealership and it was AMAZING!!!  we probably played the 'game' all wrong...even piper during the test drive was saying "Mommy my like it! can we take it home!?".  So after the test drive and the back and forth game to get the 'right price', and the explaining to about 8 people 'no, we do not want to finance, thank you' (ugggg i HATE it!) and one LARGE personal check later...we are officially a mini van family!!!

i told jake...now all we have to do is fill it up;)

on a lighter note...

we have been on the look out for a bookshelf for piper...up until now all her books were put up in her closet and we would just get them out as needed...but i wanted them out and displayed for her to get a book to read whenever she wanted :) well, last Saturday we found this gem at an estate sale...

its just her size...

we have already played MANY games of "pulling everything off the self"...

thank you da-da for putting up our new book/toy shelf...

monkeys jumping on the bed....

we bought a new bed!! its temper-pedic...king sized....and amazing!!!!!

29 years!!!

Today is my hubbys birthday...so last night we went to a fun dinner out with his family and to see Sherlock Holmes...Pipe slept through the whole movie! Heather made yummy chocolate cupcakes and gave jake a RAD vintage gumball machine for his office, and jakes parents got him two slick black coats and some birthday money...





Piper and I surprised him with a breakfast omelet in bed(parden the toplessness;)...

Piper gave her daddy his birthday present from her....

He LOVES his new scarf!...

Today we have been running around town drinking starbux and spending birthday money!! Its been lovely!!

Christmas, Christmas, Christmas!!!....

Christmas with Grandma...





Christmas with Nan-nan and Pa...





Christmas with Papa Shu...

Kids these days....

it seems the younger they are, the more "up" on technology they are! And our little one is right there with them. Apparently my uterus has wireless Internet so baby Seaton started a Twitter!!!
One of my most treasured things on this earth, is a "play by play" diary that my dad kept during my moms labor with me...it is typed on a type writer and in my baby book....it covers everything from who was there, what the weather was like that day, to my moms progression and eventual c-secton, to how he felt the moment he saw me.
Because of that diary, it is pretty important to me that my labor is documented...somehow...we decided the easiest way to do that is to take advantage of modern technology and start a "Labor Twitter" that jake will be able to keep up with from his iphone that he is getting from me for fathers day :) I plan on being able to then print all the "twits" off somehow for our baby book...
So to follow baby seaton on Twitter just go to www.twitter.com/babyseaton I think they plan on tweeting some up until the big day as well :) Plus its a great way for all our family, friends and blog readers to keep updated when things start to happen!!! :)

less then a week till christmas...

GIVE IT TO ME!!!!....

I promise I'm still alive...

wow!! I can not tell you the last time we have been this busy!! I am even skipping church tonight, just to try to catch up with everything! We got home from our trip/wedding to Dallas at 2:30AM on Monday morning (yes we both had to be at work by 8am) and i have felt behind since...Our trip was way fun, jake and i went to our favorite place...northpark mall in Dallas...we spent way too much money(all cash of course ;) and had a blast!! We had our first IKEA experience...that place makes me want to live in a tiny tiny new york city apartment! It took us 2 hours to walk though it!! The wedding was Beautiful!!! It was so awesome to see old friends and do what i love...I did the photos and Jake married them...I have just downloaded all 1700 photos from the weekend...yes i said 1700!! It was a sunset wedding on a lake which made for great sun glare photos!!! I will post some as soon as i get to it ;). but the latest news...Monday night after work, we had a friend in our yard...a female bulldog was wondering around yard, with only a flee coller, all we knew to do was put her out of harms way (aka the street) into our back yard and feed her (she is very skinny). We have put signs up all over the neighborhood, with no luck. Because it so rainy and cold we have set her up in our garage, and she is just making herself at home....we think she is old, she is very hard of hearing, and seeing, and just sleeps all the time,she is very very sweet, she is eating good, and seems to either be potty trained or just is good a "holding it"... we have named her "girl", we didn't want to give her a permanent name because she's not ours, but we had to call her something...anyway we need some prayer warriors out there to help find her home or a home for Girl...I will post some photos of her soon too...

cute boy...

We are leaving town tomorrow early morning for a trip to Dallas....which will be a little bit of pleasure and a little bit of business...One of my best childhood friends, Stephanie Munson, is getting married On Sunday the 19th. Jake is performing the ceremony and I am doing the photos....we have got quite the team going here ;) But at the last minute we have decided to go a day earlier and do some shopping!! It is going to be a beautiful wedding and it will be really hard for me to do the photos through teary eyes ;) But i cant wait...and will defenetly post a few when we get back! ~adios~

a birthday of a diffrent kind...

two years ago today, Jake and I became the proud parents of a bouncing baby mortgage :) We fell in love, and moved into our 50 year old 1300sqft home. If I could, i would fit 4 kids in this house and stay here forever...but im just not sure thats reality :(