Day one -having to much fun

 Poor Jason is suffering from a case of "fun uncle"  The kids love to play on him, around him, with him, especially on him. He was sitting on this chair with Tyler on one shoulder and Ali propped on the other shoulder. Carter was sitting on the couch across from him shooting his face with nerf bullets. Now tell me who would stand for such treatment? Jason is such a great uncle and far to fun to have around.

 Laura was so excited to see Hollie and love on baby number two that is growing away in there. So fun to see the Szamosfalvi's and their cute growing crew.

Sadie was so sweet and gentle with the newest Pollan member, Shadow. She really is just right there are Laura's feet all the time. Shadow tolerated us all fairly well. She definitely prefers a female to a male in any situation. Shadow won all of our approval though as she was always sweet to the grandchildren.

Thanksgiving Break- TX style

 Welcome to Dallas in November. Seriously it wasn't warm in the water but it was warm enough they wanted to give it a try. Mondays swimming did not go so well. They were in and out in a matter of seconds. We decided to try again for Wednesday that was supposed to be the hottest day of our trip.

Nanny was helping wrap Carter up and dry out his ears for him. It was a chilly and speedy swim in the pool.

Puppies from Jodi

We are so lucky to live across the street from Jodi. She is a kind hearted woman who helps a rescue group called CAWS with unwanted dogs. She usually fosters small dogs but this time she was brave enough or crazy enough to take on a Germany Shorthaired Pointer. This is the kind of dog we have. Well this mama named Mia had 9 puppies. Our tough duty in the whole business is to go over and socialize the dogs and get them acquainted with kids. Our kids had a ball playing with these sweet little puppies. They were about 5 days old in this photo. Tough life getting to play with litters of puppies.

My first baby heads off on a mission

So Amanda is my niece but she really was my first child. I have loved her like my own daughter. I was heartbroken when they moved away for med school when I was a wee teenager. She is such a beautiful lady and I am proud to know her. This is a photo after she was set apart as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. If you can believe it she got called to the New York, New York South mission speaking Spanish. Thankfully I know and dearly love her mission president and his wife, Pres. and Sister Calderwood. He was our bishop when we moved to Reston, VA. She will be well taken care of when she gets there. I am so proud of her and so happy for the experiences she will be having. She packed extra work jeans as she will probably be spending more of her mission in clean-up efforts than in regular tracting. The people of New York will love her happy personality and her go-getter attitude. She is practically a (add your best New York accent here)  New Yorker already.