Oh Santa Baby.........

Today we took the boys to their 2nd attempt to see Santa. (the first time he was out feeding his reindeer for an hour and we did not have that much time to wait) We have never had a child scream his head off at Santa. Somehow I knew that Nolan would be "that kid" to do it..sure enough he screamed..we laughed so HARD! The first picture is the one "I paid for" that is so FUNNY...Ian looks HIGH, not sure what Landon is doing, Nolan is screaming, and Devin is looking at Nolan and Santa is not even looking at the camera..LOL
The rest is what I took of each boy...Nolan is the big winner of the day! The BEST picture is what I won today!!! We drove to Riverview to pick up my goods I won from their Silent Auction with proceeds going to Missions...OPPS. I won and never knew until the lady left me a message telling me to pick up my stuff...I only paid 39.00 for all that YUMMY Starbucks treats and a 20.00 gift card to the Yellow Strawberry Florist..Merry Christmas to me..coffee and flowers..my favorite!!! (still feeling rather guilty that no one out bid my low numbers)

2 Mailings This Christmas Card Season

Jess made us an adoption notice. Since it was the end of Oct. I sent them out instead of an actual Christmas picture, I sent them out right before Thanksgiving. Well...I ran out of those and cards...


So I just went to the store on Thursday and made up brand new pictures and bought new cards..I sent those out to several more families and friends...I think it is funny depending what group of mailing you received...is what you received!! I am pretty sure I sent out more than ever before this year...It must have been well over 100 cards this year..and I am still sending!
Here is what I sent out during the 2nd round of Christmas Cards...I am CRAZY but it is fun!

Christmas Family Pictures

A friend of mine is just starting her new photography business and wanted some volunteers. I of course said ME!!! I said she could experience our crazy fun family.
So here are our pictures...enjoy!

http://www.directionstudios.com/ Click on Client Proofing and Click on us..Peiffer Family

First Day on the job was AWESOME

I was so happy yesterday morning at 8am as I was driving to the Department of Human Services Office for my first official "first day" on the Foster Care Review Board. I was so excited to think that I was dressed in my professional clothes again and did not have that mom look..well..except I still had my mini van with all 4 car seats in it..so I guess that still made me look like a mom..LOL

We dove right into case readings and I was assigned my first case. We started seeing cases right at 10am and stopped for lunch then went right back at seeing cases. It was truely amazing. We saw cases ranging from parents coming in, to just caseworkers, to an entire room full of caseworkers, counselors, grandparents, siblings, etc..it was amazing. That case took me in awe...I only felt like adopting 1 little boy who was almost 9. My heart went out to him. I loved being there for every minute. I left the office at 4pm. Then headed to my PTO meeting the night at the school and I had to take Devin to Basketball after that..it was a long but awesome day. I will look forward to doing it again next month!!!

The Largest Christmas Store in the World!!

Is Bronners of course :) We took the boys there and my neice, Hannah. (age 9) Hannah was able to spend 2 nights with us over Thanksgiving break. They all loved having Hannah over. I picked her last Tuesday night and we got up on Wednesday morning ate a large breakfast of French Toast and headed for Bronners.

We had not been there since Landon was a baby. Devin, Ian and Nolan had never been there or had Hannah. Of course after we shopped and looked around for a couple of hours we headed for lunch at the famous Chicken dinner place..Hannah said "Aunt Laura, this chicken is too salty" I looked at her and said " I agree!" it was actually nasty and I really do not complain much...oh well..we will have not remember not to go there again..LOL Which is ok because Jim said we can not go back to Bronners for another 10 years..by then I will forget that I did not like the famous chicken dinner and do it all over again..HA!

Here are some pictures of the kids that day.....


Landon loves babies! He was so excited to see Baby Jesus!

I have determined that this must be a 7 year old pose...he has been doing these funny "cool" poses since Devin has turned 7. I love it! We had each boy pick a color tree they wanted their picture by..here is Devin's.

Hannah loves Precious Moments. I used to as well! She is the closest person to me that resembles me..she even has this cute little annoying curl on the side of her face..that I have and it has always annoyed me not so much now that I know Hannah as it too! :)

Nolan by his blue tree saying "Cheese"

Ian has a new way of taking pictures lately as well as Devin. Raising his arms up like this..it is cute!

It was not until Landon said "mom, take a picture of me" is when I started shooting all these great photo opps! I am so glad he said it...he is a boy after my own picture heart..LOL

This is by far my all time favorite for the day!!!
Devin, Landon and Hannah