New addition to the family...

Bahahaha... you thought I was pregnant didn't you?? Nope! :)

Meet Martin! The newest addition to our family aka Dave's early Christmas present. He is an English Setter. Dave had been contemplating a hunting dog for a while. Yes, Avery is a lab so she goes hunting too but she isn't really trained for it. Dave just takes her and lets her instincts do the hunting. Anyway, he wanted a dog to train from puppyhood to be his hunting companion. And we kind of wanted a buddy for Avery. Thus... Martin came to be part of the Van Orden clan! He is super cuddly and adorable. Him and Avery are still feeling each other out but I think they will be great companions! :)

I guess we are officially dog people! :)

P.S. Don't you love his name!! :) We think it is pretty perfect.

Kalai, Avery and mince meat...

For my birthday last month, Dave and I went to Salt Lake and I got to go shopping and we went to a concert. It was an awesome way to spend my b-day weekend... well, Saturday anyway. Here are some pics from our mini-adventure...

Um, this is not from our mini-adventure and I'm not sure how it got on here but it is funny nonetheless. I took this picture with my phone at WinCo and sent it to my sister and mom and asked them if they wanted some mince meat. Apparently it is the stuff you use to make mince meat pie but it looks like just about the grossest thing ever. It is in the bulk food section. Can you imagine scooping that nastiness out and putting in a bag? Barf. It looks like ground poop. :)

Anyway, these are picture from the concert since my pictures are backwards for some reason. We went to see Kalai who is pretty much amazing in concert. It was an awesome show! Plus, Dave bought a Kalai shirt that he looks really good in... bonus b-day present for me! :)

The quality of the next four pictures are due to the fact that Dave could not handle the brightness of the flash from the camera on my phone and subsequently could not hold still for a normal looking picture. There are four of them because I thought it was hilarious so I kept making him try to be normal.

I believe this is the "trying really hard to keep my eyes open by not looking at the camera" look.

I think this is the first one and he was in mid sentence telling me that the flash was insanely bright... haha...

This is at a soccer field by my sister's house after shopping before the concert. We let Avery out to get some exercise with a little fetch and run some energy out of her since she had been in the back of the truck all day. It's a pretty sweet view if you ask me.

My three babies... my hubby, my dog and my truck... :)