Well, we are back in Indiana and trying to unpack and, do laundry and get Shawn situated in a new (and last for his Masters) semester in school. Can you believe that they had him registered as a freshman engineering student for this new semester? Who came up with that idea, we'll never know, but it gave me a good laugh. In the mean time, I will be much better at keeping you up to date, posting pictures of Laralei and looking forward to hearing from you.

Hope that everyone had a Very Merry Christmas! We certainly enjoyed our time with family, and Laralei loved meeting grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, and most of all the COUSINS!

I will be posting pictures every other day, so check back often and keep us up to date on how all of you are doing as well.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Here are all the cousins! Sam is holding Nate Nate, Racheal (so happy to have a GIRL cousin) is holding Laralei and Jared is sitting on the right.

When Laralei first woke up and saw all of her cousins hovering by to meet her, she gave a big "Hi guys, it's been a while. How are you?" smile!

In this picture Laralie is sporting her beauitful new dress that Grandma Luisa gave her. She looks like she just stepped out of the movie "White Christmas".



This second picture was taken Christmas Eve in Las Vegas. Laralei loves posing with Grandma Luisa and Grandpa Mike.

Laralie loved meeting Aunt Michelle, Macey, Mckenzie (pictured here) as well as Blake, Bailey and Uncle Breck (not pictured here).

Meeting Aunt Jackie was a special treat! Aunt Jackie gave Laralie this beauitful candy-striped dress with matching pink panties. Laralei felt like a Christmas elf! Uncle Jacob supplied the matching elf hat!


We miss everyone and look forward to seeing you again soon.

More pictures will be forth coming each day or every other day. If you did not see your picture with Laralei yet, stay posted.