Lindsay's Bike

What an exciting night!!! Lindsay did not suck her thumb for a whole week and was rewarded with her first bike. We are proud of you Lindsay!!! :-)

Marbles Game

Show Time!

Lindsay and Leslie put on a show for us tonight. This first video is of Lindsay's
"Gallop Dance." Looks kind of like an Irish Jig. The second is of the Girls looking for Praise!

This date in our history.

Two years ago, October 20th was the day that Lance left for Texas. It was a pretty sad day for us because he left without us and we didn't know when our family would be together again. Thanks to our friends and family, that couple of months apart was survivable. John and Nichole were there as he left and Kathy met with me for coffee that morning as I just needed to be away from the house. (I remember asking her if she wanted to go to the park, instead of pointing out the idiocy of that since it was cold and wet that day, she kindly said, "how about coffee?" instead of "are you crazy?!") Looking back at where we are today, some might think that the move to Texas was a crazy mistake. But, despite the intense desire to move back and "freedom" to do so, we find that we have been on the Anvil and are better for it. What do I mean by that? Christian author Max Lucado refers to being on the Anvil as God's shaping us into who we are meant to be. Being on the anvil is tough, not easy, but very necessary. Maybe what we are going through today is going to shape us to help us go through something even more significant in the future. And we are thankful that we are worth reshaping. All that said, we really want our house to sell or rent now!!!! :-)

Welcome Fall....Well, sort of.

Fall hasn't come to our corner of the world. Which is unusual, even for Texas. My brain doesn't quite get it. I look at the calendar and it says it's the middle of October. But it has be in the 80's or 90's since the actual first day of fall. So we were quite delighted Monday night when the temperature dropped and we had storms all night long. The next day we woke up to a perfectly dreary, though slightly warm, Autumn day. In Seattle, we might be wearing shorts in this temperature, but since it is Texas, somehow 65 is cold. So I excitedly broke out the jeans (yes, for the first time since being in Washington this summer) and the girls insisted on wearing their jackets, at least until they got sweaty. Even if it wasn't a real Fall day, at least the girls got to do some puddle jumping!!


This is a video of the girls playing in the play room. This is for the grandparents more than anyone!!

Guess Who??

I am cleaning up our computer before it crashes and we lose all our pictures. I came across these two pics. NO, they are not pictures of the same girl. Can you guess who is who??

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A few pictures.

We have been a little behind on pictures lately. Maybe it is because of the nearly 10000 pictures in iPhoto, but the whole photo thing is a little slow, making it a bit of a task to upload photos. So enjoy these, please!

Lindsay recently made a self portrait on the whiteboard. Some of the "extras" are courtesy of her sister.This past weekend we joined Lance on his business trip to Birmingham, Alabama. A friend who is from Birmingham gave us a neat place to visit before we left for home: The Vulcan. It is a giant statue on Red Mountain that overlooks the city. The Vulcan is a god of Iron Work. Anyway it was a beautiful day and a great little stop on our trip. Alabama was a new state for all of us so that was exciting. So was the 10 hour drive back and forth through Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Driving through Birmingham was a lesson in History, as well as through the other deep south states. We crossed the Mississippi at Vicksburg, where one of the most significant battles of the Civil war took place. We also saw cotton fields being harvested and a bayou or two along the way.

Leslie, all ready to fall asleep.