Hi everybody!!  Just a quick post...since I have my new blog, I probably won't be doing much on here anymore.  I will most likely be doing a lot on my other one though!!  So if you want to see some of my older posts you can look on this one but all the newer ones will be on my new blog.  See ya!
Lauren

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Note to self: Do not take pictures outside without gloves on!!!
 
My fingers got SO cold!  Brr!  Anyway, it snowed A LOT last night and it has been snowing constantly all day :).  It is really pretty outside so I decided to take some pictures.  Our camera wasn't dead (for once :P) so I got some awesome pictures.  I am hoping to get a better camera soon...the one we have now is a Kodak Easyshare M530 and it's not very good at all.  I'm hoping to get either a Canon EOS Rebel T3 or a Olympus SZ-12.

http://www.beachcamera.com/shop/product.aspx?sku=OMSZ12S

http://www.ebay.com/itm/181024375368?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2648

Okay, now for the pictures.  Finally.  :)

Icicles!!!!  They are so pretty :)

More icicles...

Our yard and our rope swing!

Footprints...:)

Taking pictures of snow on a Spruce branch...so much fun!!

So pretty!

Me!  I was just a bit cold :) lol

This looked really cool!

Our swing set.  It's still snowing!! <3

Some burs in the back yard....they looked awesome with the snow on them!!!!

Some more weedy/grassy kinda things

And yet another Spruce branch :) :)

Me and my snowy doggy <3 <3 <3 she loves the snow!!!.  And that thing in her mouth is her favorite toy, a pig :).

Our house :)

Looking down the road....

A really cool rock from the Rock Garden!!

Some grass.  This is kind of a dark picture, but it's still cool :)

Hope you enjoyed the pictures!!!!!!  I enjoyed taking them :).
Lauren C♥

Yesterday, January 12th, my brother Joel married Lydia Seibel!!!  It was a beautiful wedding!!!  Lydia's dress was sooo pretty :).  It was so sweet and I cried almost the whole entire ceremony :).  I love you two!!!  ♥ ♥ ♥

I will try and post more pictures soon...
Lauren

I have some very exciting news to share with you all...Tyler and Jessie are adopting!!  We are all very excited!!!!  They are going to get a little black baby from Memphis, Tennessee.  They will send in all their paperwork and things and there will be a mom that hand picks them and they will take the baby home right from the hospital!!!  It could be as soon as 3 months or as late as a year.  Yea!!!!!
♥Lauren C.♥

Hi!  I haven't posted in awhile so I thought I would now.  Well...pretty much the only thing we have been doing after Christmas and New Years are over is planning for Joel and Lydia's wedding (my brother and his fiance)!!!!!  I am soo excited!!  It's only next week :D!!!!!  I am going to be a Junior Bridesmaid with my sister Shannon and 2 of Lydia's sisters, Sylvia and Natalie.  It's gonna be so much fun!  So yeah, this is a short post but really, that's about all we've been thinking about lately :)
Lauren
p.s. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year!  I can't believe that it's 2013 :)

Hi everyone,
Lindsey is almost a month!!  Can you believe it??  It seems like just yesterday she was born and now she's getting so big :)  Here are some more pictures of her.

That's all for now...
Lauren C. Duke

Hello,
In case you didn't know, my sister-in-law Jessie lost the baby she was
carrying a couple days ago.  Please pray for their family that they  will trust
God through this hard time.  They didn't know if the baby was a boy or a girl so
they named it Kendall Emery Duke.  Thank  you.
Lauren

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!  We went to Tyler and Jessie's house (my brother and sister-in-law) for Thanksgiving yesterday :).  It was a very fun time for all!  It was really cool because our whole family got to be there!!!  We got to see Lindsey again too!!!  While waiting for some of the family to get there we took some family pictures (Jessie is a photographer), so that was fun!  Oh, and I forgot to say this in my earlier posts but......Jessie is expecting another baby this summer!!!!!!!  We are all very excited!!!!!  Well, I haven't been doing much else lately, but today I am going to my sister Kelly's house to chaperone her so her boyfriend Andy can come over!  We might be getting a Christmas Tree for her too!!  Well, that's about all!  I'll try to post again soon!

~Lauren~

Hi Everyone!  We have a new addition to the family!!!!!  Little Miss Lindsey Renae was born to my brother Brennan, Sister-in-law Amanda and their little boy Michael, last Sunday, November 18.  Lindsey shares a birthday with her Grandma Duke (my mom) so that's really cool!  Most of our family was deer hunting when she was born and so we didn't get to meet her until today.  She is SO sweet and adorable!  Michael loves her and is always giving her kisses :).  At first he was feeling a little left out having Mommy and Daddy be thinking about and caring for another baby but now he's fine and adjusting well to having a little sister.  Lindsey was 8lbs 1oz and 20" long.  Here are some pictures of tonight when we got to meet her ♥ ♥.

That's all for now...I'll try to post something after Thanksgiving.  Thanks for stopping by!
♥Lauren♥

p.s. our deer count for this year was 4.  My brother Joel got a buck, my sister Kelly got a buck fawn and a doe, and my dad got a doe fawn.  It was pretty fun!