Martin Luther King Day

Read the phrase within the artwork
Art by Phil Hansen

S O L D ! !

Our Home Has SOLD!!

Thank you everyone for your prayers and support, it has been a long year for us and we are grateful to Heavenly Father our house has finally sold!

We're so glad that Daddy came home!!

On July 8th 2009 Brian came home from Qatar, Saudi Arabia.
We were so thrilled to have him home!

The first thing we did was take him out to lunch for some good 'ol American BBQ!

Since Brian came home, life has been busy and packed with fun! I will begin posting updates on our activities and try to get this blog a little bit caught up over the next few weeks. We've had so much fun being reunited and getting back to life as usual.

Rockin' the Wall!

What a blast this was! I organized this climbing wall event for our Relief Society Sisters. We didn't get as large of a turn out as we expected.. but, all the more wall for the rest of us to climb! We had so much fun! I can't wait to go again. And, waking up this morning wasn't as bad as
I thought, I am mildly sore but ready for more!

Group Photo
(We took this picture at the end, so some of the group had left)

Getting ready to climb for the first time, and laughing because my friend Shelly is pretending she doesn't remember how to belay.... or was she pretending?

Made it to the top! I was surprised with myself!
It was so much harder in some ways than I thought it would be.
It was the going down that really got to me... just let go... No Way!

It may have been the way down that gave me this....
I was still trying to hug the wall.

It's hard to tell from this picture, cause it's zoomed in,
but this was by far the hardest wall, and my favorite!
See the straps on my gear?
I am hanging on more than climbing here!

Giving my friend Amber a high five when she makes it to the top!

Computer Crack

Facebook boasts "200 Million Active Users"

"Reach over 200 million active users on Facebook. Learn how to connect your business to real customers through Facebook Ads."

I do find it somewhat disconcerting... here I am browsing Facebook for the 100th time since I woke up this morning.... wondering "Am I addicted?"

When Facebook actually refers to me as a "User".... I need a 12 step program!

At the Dog Park

Last Saturday we met with some friends to let Baylor get play at the dog park.
He had a ton of fun as you'll see in the pics below...

Baylor "casing the joint" ... he likes to check everything out first

Here he is saying hello to some new and old friends, I just finished telling one of my friends there, how glad I am that he is always the biggest dog there,
and doesn't get all dirty and slobbered on...

Let the games begin! Baylor and his buddy Toby love to wrestle...
when they are through, Toby is always covered in drool and dust and mud...
and always leaves the park and heads straight for the bath! Not Baylor... until...

(cue music, earth rumbles)...........Enter Cosmo, the Mastiff!

Here is Cosmo with Toby, and two of his young owners...
And Cosmo and Baylor at the "bar" together
Whoa!
What a Dog!!

Pine Wood Derby

We had the Boy Scout Pine Wood Derby at church on Friday night, coupled with a Chili Cook-off and another Pine Wood Derby in which all ages could race. M1 and M2 raced Dad and Mom's cars from a race we entered in 2001; a race car and a long black hearse. M3 just got to run around the gym and play. And even though the same cars that took 1st and 2nd in the race in 2001, this time the same cars placed 4th and 5th, or so (not real sure)... we all had a lot of fun!

And last but not least, tiny little video clips. You'll want to watch one after the other to get the idea of the skit. Sorry, my camera only takes short clips and apparently takes a very long time to write them to disk, so this is a few very short snippets from a skit
some of the youth at church put on... it was HI-LAR-IOUS!!