It Is Already December

Doug's Visit to Phoenix
December is bringing us lots of company! Our good friend, Doug, came for a visit at the beginning of December. We think he also brought the cold with him. While he was here we had a great time just hanging out, watching football, and even taking in a few sites. As engineers of course the main site Shaun and Doug wanted to visit was the home of Frank Lloyd Wright (Taliesin West). This was also Larkin's first guided museum tour. Overall, she held up pretty well.

Here we are are at Taliesin West just beginning our tour.

Here is the cabaret where Wright would show movies and entertain. It was a hexagonal room that was partly underground, and if you ever took acoustics class (you engineers) you would have been quite impressed with this room. In fact I think all of us were impressed at how well we could hear in there.

The end of our tour. It sure wore some of us out!


After a day of adult site seeing, Larkin wanted to see some of her own favorite sites. Here she is leading Doug to the park and getting ready for another thrilling time at the slippery slide!

Thanksgiving Day
This year we spent Thanksgiving in Arizona. We had a great day of eating, playing, and decorating the Christmas tree.

Larkin eating some of Daddy's DELICIOUS cinnamon rolls

Admiring the tree after all the ornaments had been put on

Getting ready to watch the "choo-choo" go around

Time to Start the New Nursery

We have also been busy getting ready for baby boy. In November we got all of our furniture ordered, found bedding and curtains, and decided how to decorate the nursery. Shaun has been busy working away with a little help from Larkin!

Cheering Daddy on

Getting ready to paint


It Finally Got a Little Cooler!

It took until about November, but things have finally started to cool off in Arizona. Larkin was all excited to get to pull out her "winter" hat and hit the park.

Larkin's favorite hat.
We have found that she will wear this hat EVERYWHERE, even when it is not cold outside. She wears it with just a diaper, with just shoes, at the dinner table, even during daycare. One day I went in to pick her up from daycare and there were about 10 kids just sitting at the tables all eating their snacks. Then there was Larkin, snacking away with her winter hat plopped on the top of her head. She is a bit of a character!

Playing at the park


Hailey's thought is "Anything you can do, I can do better!"
Actually Hailey has come out of her shell a bit since Larkin has been around. She is finally finding that inner dog and not being quite as much of a scaredy cat.