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This past year has been very crazy, we had William last June and this June we had another little girl join our family! Needless to say, I have been very tired. Josh has been super busy too, this last year he was working two jobs, going to school full time (this included lots of time spent doing research for his Sr project) and doing everything he could to help out at home with me not feeling up to par. He is truly amazing, and I am so grateful to have such an amazing, patient, and loving husband! :D His work payed off however and he graduated in May with a perfect 4.0 GPA! He also managed to do it without going into debt at all. Doing both at the same time is just amazing in my mind. My work also payed off and we have a cute little baby! So..... that is why neither of us have posted anything for quite some time. I am hoping that things will return to some state of sanity now and can get more done both with blogging and in the real world. I'll go ahead and post some pics from graduation and Baby Savannah (since that is the real reason people look at the blog anyways) I might try to do some posts from this past eight or nine months, but no guarantees! Thanks to everyone for all your support and encouragement the past several years, each of you has made such a huge impact on our lives and we love you all so much!

We had lots of fun this Christmas!

Jo and Will got lots of fun things to play with and wear. They eventually played with things other than the boxes and wrapping paper.

Everyone loves Duplo.

Why won't kids look at the camera when you want them to?

Very cute Jo.

Love the red hair.

Hummm....

Loralyn learned how to knit slippers this trip. We'll see how long the first pair take her. Maybe if you ask nice she'll make you some.

December is birthday time in the Smith home. Grandma and Grandpa Smith came down to have some fun with us here in Vidor.

Guess who just had to be a princess for her birthday!

We had a pinkalishous good time...

There were plenty of presents to open...

and a fun time was had all round.

Jo had a great time with grandma and grandpa. We don't get to see them too often so it is always fun when they get a chance to visit us. Maybe next time Destiny and R-Dee will come too.

Brown's at the Reunion

Trampoline Fun!!!!

Playing in the dirt

Poor Riah got a twig stuck in her hair.

The girls

The girls hugging Alex (or choking, it's not very clear-Riahs face really makes me wonder)

Dancing!

Reunion with Stephen, Jaymi, and Klara

(Jaymi- you might not want to let Stephen see this one, it has pictures of him and I value my life-only to a certain extent or I wouldn't be posting these at all. Oh well)

Cutie Klara and Jo
Jaymi and Will

3 kiddos

Stephen spent quite a bit of time at the trampoline with the kiddos. It sure made Jo happy. Oh, excuse me, Jo renamed him "Uncle Awesome"

Cutie Klara!

This may not seem like a picture with any Joneses in it but if you notice the hand with the football on the left, it is Stephens hand. I was going to get a picture of him playing with the kids, cause it was so cute, but he gave me that look that says I will kill you if you do such a thing and said something like" You'd better not be getting a picture of me" so I didn't. Not because he can kill me with his pinkie, but because I am a nice person. So you'll just have to mentally add in a picture of my handsome brother with his crooked grin playing catch with the kids to make this one complete. Love ya Bro.

Sleepy Klara! I have the cutest neices and nephews ever!!!

With a frisbee hat! I LOVE that face!

Cute! I'm not sure if that is a happy or sad face, but whatever it is it's adorable!

Uncle Awesome playing with Jo.

Klara and Jaymi at the lake.

Bastian Reunion

Family hanging out here and there, it's pretty self explanatory.

We made mousetrap cars, here is Jo's. She was so excited about it and it actually made it home where she proceeded to destroy it. Oh, well.

Uncle Tim got hold of my camera and was going on to one of the kids about how he was going to suprise the owner of the camers with a picture of their favorite Uncle. I was sitting next to him so I guess that kind of ruined the suprise.

Water ballon launcher! Jo took a turn but couldn't quite get it so Rollin's wife, Trisha, helped her.

Four Generations. I wish we had a better picture, but this will have to do. At least we have one!

More four Generations

It was impossible to get a pic of this kid smiling till we got this one, now he smiles all the time!!

Will with Aunt Jeni (I think her and Uncle Ken were getting a little grandkid hungry) Uncle Ken's getting one now! Yea!

Joe made it his goal to befriend Little Jo. She noticed this and played hard to get. But that last day she decided to give in and play with him. Now they are best buds!

Cindy and Bobby w/ Jo