wedding dress photo shoot

So LAST Nov Jessica and I got to do a photo shoot in our wedding dresses, it was supposed to be a "trash the dress" type thing but we didnt really want to trash our dresses so this is what we got!! here are a couple...

Family Pictures

Birthday Week!

This is my birthday week!!! When I came into work on Monday my office was decorated!! How nice of my friends!!! I love it!!! I am half way through the week and looking forward to this weekend!!

October Birthdays

Tomorrow my sisters will be 26! It is crazy that in 4 years they will be 30!! I still think of them as little girls even though they both have each have a daughter. It just doesn't seem possible that they would be 30 ever!!

I know so many people who have birthday's in October it is not even funny! I think yesterday I counted 6 people! I think I know at least one person who has a birthday each week of Oct!

Next Saturday is my big one! Can't wait!

Happy Birthday October birthday buddies!

Happy Birthday Justin

Yesterday was Justin's birthday, he is 29! We get to be the same age for 2 weeks, then I am off to the land of 30!! oh well, looking forward to it!

Think Pink!

This weekend my mom, my sisters, my niece Kayla, and I all got a pink hair extension for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Lexi is still too little! They put Kayla's in a perm solution so it woudl be curly like her hair. You can't really see everyone's in this picture but we all have them! It was fun, we spent the day togheter at the hair salon, then off to lunch and then to a pumpkin patch! I am so happy we are so close and can do these things together!

Kayla is standing on something, she is not really that tall! She also thought she was hot stuff with her Hannah Montana arm gloves! She told Justin-"She's a rockstar, duh!"

Strides Against Breast Cancer

On October 23rd I am walking for Making Strides toward a world with more birthday's, if you would like to join me or donate please visit my personal page.

http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/MakingStridesAgainstBreastCancer/MSABCFY11GreatLakes?px=12921476&pg=personal&fr_id=28067

Don't forget, October is Breast Cancer month, donate or do what you can! I hope to get my pink extension again this year!

Thank you!

This is the view behind our house, I love when the fields are freshly cut, it looks so pretty! Justin has been very busy the last month or so, first was seed corn and now that the fields are being cut he is busy busy busy!

On another note, I am going to be 30 in less than 3 weeks!!! That is just too crazy, I remember when 30 seemed so old, now it is not so old! I am actually pretty excited for 30, I think good things will happen in my 30's!

Duke

How cute is my dog! I just love him!!

I am so happy he lets me put crazy things

on him and just sits there so I can take his

picture!

He looks good in a bow tie!

Missing my Dad

My dad passed away 13 years ago today. It is so crazy that it has been that long. My sisters have not lived longer without him than with him.
I do think about him everyday but today even more. I wish we could go visit the grave site but he is buried in Iowa, luckily I will get to go at the end of the month.
Tonight my mom, sisters and I will get toghether and talk about old times!

Tripp Thomas Sinders

It is finally time to introdue Tripp to the world!

He has had everyone

a little nervous, putting mom, Kara,

on bed rest at about 20 weeks.

But he is here now, only 5 weeks early!

He is 5 lbs and 8oz 17 1/2 inches long.

I can't wait to meet him and watch him grow up!

June 25th

Two years ago Justin proposed! It was one of the happest days of my life! It is so crazy that it was 2 years ago already and we have been married for 1 year. So many things have happened in the last two years.

The stresses and joys of planning the wedding, being in Ginny's wedding a month after ours and attending Jessica's a month after that.

Losing family members

Gaining a niece, a cousin and a nephew...along with lots of other friends having babies.

There is so much to look forward to in the next 2 years and the many many more to come!

Abbey just sent me this picture of Lexi at daycare

So cute!!!

Bunnies

So last Friday Duke was outside, I happened to look out to see what he was doing because he had been pretty quiet and that is never good. Well I see that he has something in his mouth, at first I thought it was a mouse, but then realized it was a baby bunny! I freaked out. It was still alive (thank God) I saw that there was another one too. I finally found the nest, it was in our fenced in back yard!! I finally got Duke inside and then thought, ok, what do I do! I have to put them back in their nest! I got some paper towels and scooped them up and put them back. They were so little, eyes not open yet. (See picture above) I Made the nest back as best I could and waited to see if the mom would come back. The 2 he got out of the nest were not hurt too bad, he didnt bite them, no punctures, just a scratch or two.
Well, mama wasn't coming back. I finally looked online and read that mom only comes back to the nest at night and that if you/or your dog/cat do find a nest, and disrupt it you are to put it back the best you can, the mom will come back. It also said to make sure make a tic tac toe board (#) on the nest with sticks and if they are messed up or moved the next day you know she came back...of course i did that! But in the mean time we had to take Duke out on his leash so he didn't go right back to the nest!
The next morning I went to see and yep mom came back! I also heard that if your scent is really strong that she will move them because she might think they are in danger...so there I am rubbing my hands all around the nest area....but the # back on the nest and then waited, thinking that the next day she would have them moved!
Nope, Sunday morning they were still in the same spot! Well, Duke was going crazy because he wanted to just run around the yard and we were going crazy taking him on the leash each time he had to go out(how did we do that for 2 1/2 years I dont know!) so I had read that you can move the nest yourself up to 10 feet away from the original spot.
So I get the measuring tape out and see that I can move it to the other side of the fence! I get my gloves and the shovel out and dig a little hole, then I move them 2 by 2 (there were 7 of them!) over to their new home, I moved as much as the original nesting stuff with them because I wanted the mom to be abel to find them! Again I put the # sign on to see if she found them the next morning. The 2 Duke had gotten out were still alive and healing really good!
Sunday-Success!!! she found them and they were all ok!

It was very eventful and Justin thought I was crazy but I had to save the baby bunnies!!!

One Year

Happy One Year Anniversary to US!

This weekend was our 1 year wedding anniversary! It is so hard to believe that it has been a year already! It went by so fast.
We had a great pretty relaxing weekend so that was nice, we went to a winery in MI and then over to the Stray Dog for dinner in New Buffalo. Our cruise in April was kinda our anniversary gift to each other so that was fun. I did get flowers at work though!
We also saved the top of our wedding cake and ate it this weekend, suprisingly it was really good!!!

I am so happy that I was able to marry my best friend! We went on our first date 12 years ago May 1st!! we then dated for about 2 years, broke up for 4 years and have now been back together for 6! I guess it was just meant to be!

Within in the next year we plan on adding to our family, no not pregnant yet but we will be trying soon! I am both excited and scared to move to that next chapter of our lives!

Lexi's party

Saturday was Lexi's 1st birthday party! There were 8 kids there so she had a good time!!

Softball

Justin is playing softball this year so it will be fun to go to all his games on Thursdays. Here are some pics from the first game!

Here he is batting and running to fist! Safe!

Doggie Day Care!

So I had my first experience with my own doggie daycare, well kinda! Last week everyone on my team at work brought their dog over to our house to play, there were 8 dogs total!! We had a good time watching all the dogs, big and small, play. We didn't have any fights at all!!

Happy 1st Birthday Alexia!!

Today is Lexi's 1st birthday! I can't believe she is 1 already!! Time has really gone by so fast! That means in one month Justin and I will be married one year already!!

Last night we had dinner at mom's for her birthday and I got her this cute 1st birthday dress/shirt so I had to take some pictures of her!

Her Birthday party is this weekend and it should be a lot of fun!!

How cute is this! She was so excited!!

Ballerina?

Of course I had to play with Kayla too, here she is flying!!

Sleepy puppy

I took this pictue in the morning, Duke likes to cuddle (and I love it) so when i pulled the covers back this is what he looked like! It was too cute not to take a picture of!

Homemade Dog Treats!

There was a bake sale going on at work and the money was going to the Humane Society, since I got a dog treat cookbook for Christmas I decided it would be fun to make dog treats and the Humane Society bake sale would be a perfect place for them!! I was up all night making them and they turned out really good!! Of course my taste tester Duke loved them!!

Thanks for my doggie treat cookbook Ginny!!

The babies have arrived

All of the babies have made it!!

Frist was Carter and Nora on the same day, Feb 18th, now we have..

Shiloh Renee Hershberger, born Tuesday March 16th, 7lbs 20 inches!
So excited for Travis and Miranda, she is such a doll. Can't wait to see her grow up!

Riehl Priestly Wade Hilliard, born March 11th, 7 lbs 3 oz. 20 1/2 inches long.
Congrats to my good friends Jennifer and Jason!!
I hate that we live so far apart but so happy for you and can't wait to meet him this summer

Easter Bunny

How cute is Lexi with her bunny ears on!! Abbey said they are going to go see the Easter Bunny when it is time, wonder if she will like it!!
Lexi will be 10 months this weekend, time sure flies!! She is so close to walking on her own! She walks around pushing her walking toys and Abbey said she gets braver and braver everyday!!

Baby Nora

Well, as you can tell the baby frenzy has started! My friend who lives in Spain had her baby girl the same day as my sister-in-law. How cute is baby Nora! I can't wait to meet her this summer when Sara comes home!

Next is Miranda!! Another girl hopfully to come next week and then Jennifer the week after with a boy!!

So many babies!!!