BABIES!!!!

I love talkin' 'bout babies. And with six kids and eleven grandchildren, I surely do know somethin' 'bout birthin'!!!

Not to mention dogs...

Here's Maddie with her first litter of babies...

And here's what they looked like six weeks later:

Taylor's cute, too, and you might recognize her as the taller girl on the cover of "A Family to Cherish" 

"Sophie"

And shameless plug or not, you can buy A Family to Cherish HERE!!!!! and you won't be a bit sorry because this is about the sweetest book ever...:)

And that Cam Calhoun guy??? The hero????

TOTALLY TO DIE FOR "LET'S FIX HIM" WIDOWER!!!

Oh. Yum.  (big smile attached)

So tiny. So perfect. And check this young mother's smile...

Gorgeous, right?

And how about this look of absolute newborn trust???

(Of course that will disappear in a sea of stubborn brattiness around age two, but we're not going to think about that now. We're just gonna relax in the moment.)

With lemonade, because it's hot up here!  ;)

So this is the new "baby" that came to live at my house yesterday:

This is "Rosie"...

The first new car we've bought in eleven years...

ISN'T SHE BEAUTIFUL????

Not as beautiful as this:

Or even this:

Clearly Mary is EXHAUSTED, Joseph is picking his nose, the shepherd is possibly stoned and the baby...

Well, he's just stinkin' adorable!!!!

:)

To get our good picture of this crew, we kissed a lot of frogs, metaphorically speaking, LOL!

The car's first job was to swing by the farm store for chicken feed.

She might as well figure out she's not a city slicker...

She's a Country Cruze!

So when was the last time you bought a new or new-to-you car???

Was it over-the-top exciting?

Or excruciatingly painful?

'Cause I've been on both ends of that scenario.

Happy is better.