Little Football Fan

Emily is really starting to talk up a storm! She has a whole repertoire of words, mostly only translatable by our family, but impressive none the less! The only bummer is that most of these she will not say upon request! I did manage to catch a few on video (please ignore my obnoxiousness on there). I was gone for two weekends in a row and while I was gone, Brian turned her into a football fan. It is pretty cute, but I still am not sure how I feel about her learning how to say football and touchdown before mommy! =)

Hello Fall!

Look what Andrew found!

Andrew was outside practicing kicking his football, Kelli was inside coloring, Brian was getting Emily up from her nap and I was editing pictures of my sweet niece, Teagan, when Andrew came running inside yelling, "There is a snake in the back yard!!" His tone told us that this was not a joke or a ploy to get one of us outside to play catch with him, so I immediately ran out with him and sure enough there it was, along our garage. Brian then made his way out and right before the thing slithered up in to the siding of the garage Brian grabbed it and pulled it out. I of course was freaking out! Keep in mind that I grew up in Arizona, where the snakes we found were rattle snakes! Well I quickly realized that this was a dream come true for a 6 year old boy! He was SO facinated by this slithery creature! Both Brian and Andrew tried to convince me that we should keep it as a pet! Ah, no. I will not do snakes! I told Brian I thought he should kill it, and Andrew immediately said, "Ooohhh, can I kill it?" Must be a boy thing! =) They ended up taking it to a local park and releasing it by a pond. Better option, I suppose, but I still would feel better if it were dead!

Cousins!!

It has been a great week being away from the computer and I will post more about that later...but for now here are a few pics I couldn't wait to get up!

Signing Off...

Hi All~

Just got back from an amazing Women's Retreat! It was a wonderful time with 40 other women. Our topic was Living Life Together...Be Authentic, Be Available and Be Adventurous. I will share some more about it later, but I just wanted to put a little post on here that I am signing off the computer for a while. Going on a computer fast. For the first week I am turning the computer totally off. And throughout this week I am going to decide what to do after that. I have become SO distracted from the things in my life that are so much more important in my life and I am getting my priorities back where they are supposed to be. And the first thing I need to do is shut down the computer. It is a huge time consumer for me and I might even say an addiction. So I will write more at a later time about how this came about. But for now...wanted to let you know I am offline at least for the rest of this week!