In late September Jacob, Hailey, and I bought a house! We had been in the process of looking for about five months when we finally found a house we fell in love with. Its a three bedroom, one bathroom, on a quarter of an acre. We have a huge backyard for Hailey to run and play in and have plenty of room to expand when the time is right.

Hailey helped us carve pumpkins and went Trick-or-Treating this Halloween. She had a blast at the pumpkin patch looking at the animals, riding on the wagon, and picking out her perfect pumpkin. We dressed her up as a little witch-fairy! We had planned on only taking her to a few houses just for fun and probably ended up going to about 30 homes! Everytime we walked up to a house and they answered the door they would say how cute or beautiful Hailey was. She of course, being the ham that she is would smile and say cheese. They would give her some candy and then she would toss it into her bucket and say "bye-bye." She ended up getting 5 king-size candy bars and filled up her entire pumpkin bucket.

A little over a week ago we got a new puppy! Hailey's Uncle Josh got it for her as an early Christmas present and she absolutely loves him. He is a black lab and we named him Devaki (which means black in Indian.) He is very loving and playful. Josh got a puppy for himself as well and he has been staying here at our house. It has been a little hectic working/playing with the two pups and Hailey but we are having fun.

Jacob recently wrote an essay and s hoping to get a supervisor position at UPS where he works in the evenings. He is enojoying his job and looking forward to moving up in the company. My level four team is having an amazing season. Two weekends ago we had our Zone meet where my girls took FIRST place as a team. They were thrilled and I loved seeing the smiles on their cute, little, faces. We are now training hard and getting ready for State Championships in a few weeks. I have the most rewarding job. It is a lot of fun for me to see things from the coaches point of view after already being a gymnast myself.

Anyways, this next week is Thanksgiving and we are looking forward to spending time with our families. We are also very excited to meet Theresa, Josh's girlfriend who is visiting from Santa Barbara. I cannot wait to spend some girl time with her and get to know her. Christmas is right around the corner too, this is just the best time of the year. This is what our family has been up to and I will be sure to update after the holidays.