growing family

Our family is growing. Meet kirby....she is our newest addition! We love having her around to cuddle with and play with! She loved her first road trip to Colorado to play with Jett and Kai. Now, if she could just figure out her days and nights.......

I'll be ready....

We've all heard the saying...'some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers'....And I totally believe it. But do you ever want to sit down with God and ask why...not in a disrespectful kind of way, just a why kind of way. It doesn't work that way. I have come to find out that in the whole scheme of things, it is for the best. I just have to sit back, have patience, trust and have faith that He really does know what He's doing. I guess I need to quit praying for 'gimme, gimme' and start praying 'when it's Your time and Your plan, I'll be ready.'

beautiful...thanks to God...

these were taken on our drive home yesterday 6.8.08....

summertime memories....

As summer approaches, I got to thinking about all the summers growing up....so many wonderful memories......slip-and-slide in the backyard, family cookouts that always ending with a game of baseball, homemade butterfinger ice cream, conchas lake, little league baseball, swimming pool, riding bikes all over Earth....oh I could go on and on. But, what I remember most is the laughter and love that we had growing up. I wouldn't trade my growing up experiences for a million, gazillion, trillion dollars! I have two wonderful parents and two goofy brothers to thank for such great memories....

mowing the grass with my daddy....


me, Bruce, dad, Curt...


swimming pool in the backyard...


Curt learning to ski...daddy would always put his skies on for him...spoiled!

'nice boo-ful day outside'

the most precious story every....

Last weekend, I got the joy of having my aunt and her family come to stay with us. She and her husband have two precious boys (ages 2.5 and 10 months). We had a wonderful, fun filled weekend. We read books, played golf, baseball, sidewalk chalk, etc. When the 2.5 year old woke up on Monday morning, I got to go in to get him out of bed. As soon as I walked in there, he was already standing up. When I told him good morning, he told me that 'it's a nice boo-ful day outside!' And it was! We opened the curtains so we could see the nice boo-ful day outside! Wouldn't it be nice to wake up every morning and say....'it's a nice boo-ful day outside'!