Golden Day!

Reed turned 13 today...his GOLDEN birthday, our second golden birthday this year!

Reed was my very hardest delivery and had to be taken by ambulance to the NICU in Eugene. We spent a very scary 4 days driving to Eugene, holding Reed for 12 hours, going home, and doing it all over again the next day. At 7 lbs and 1 oz he looked like a giant next to most of the babies in the nursery and the nurses enjoyed him because he was less fragile that their normal clientele.

Reed wanted to stay home from school today and when we said "no," he "played sick" and did it anyway.

He ordered steak for dinner and key lime pie for his "birthday cake." We'll celebrate with a few friends late this month.

Happy Birthday Reed...We love you!

Pumpkin Head!!!

We picked the pumpkins from our garden this week!

I love getting credit for a whole Family Home Evening!

This is our haul...not as much as in years past, but I think we'll have enough to get us through Halloween.

Welcome Fall!

They're getting desperate

On the way to pre-school this morning Ben described to me how he was going to get a dog....

He's going to make a DOG TRAP!!!

The dog trap is a box held up by a stick, and he's going to put dog food under the box...the stick has a sting that goes to Ben's bedroom. When he sees a dog go in our yard and eat the food under the box, he's going to pull the string and trap the dog.

Mom: "Then what?"

Ben: "I'm going to take care of it! I don't think Dad's going to let us get a dog, so I need to trap one!"

The poor kid has the meanest dad on the face of the earth, and sadly, he knows it.

Brooks Harrier Classic

Kraig's Cross Country meet was in Albany today....it's so fun to watch him run!

Look at that SEA of kids! READY, SET, GO!He had his best personal time of the season today!

Waiting to turn in his BIB info....MAN! Those are some SHORT shorts!

New Toys!

I got a new dryer last week....I LOVE it!!! I would marry it if I could! It's the LG XL and it sings me a song when it finishes. AND I'm not the only one in the family that is excited by our dryer purchase. In buying a new dryer, the kids scored too!
Can you believe they have a beautiful Little Tikes yellow play house with a pink door? And YET, they would rather play in a dryer box...

There goes my 'get skinny quick' plan...

Aren't runners skinny? I THOUGHT runners were skinny! But I was recently teaching a class and noticed a woman wearing a marathon t-shirt and asked her about it..."yeah, I just finished my first half marathon," she said. Now I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just saying how it is...she wasn't skinny, in fact, she was a little on the chubby side.

CRAP!!!

Now what am I getting out of this running thing? Is it enough for me to just be strong and healthy WITHOUT the skinny part? I need to think this through.

Enjoy each mile, because you may or may not be getting skinnier :)

FIRST GOAL!!

Ben is playing AYSO soccer this year...he's on the team with his best bud, Braiden. He thinks it's pretty fun, but it hasn't started raining yet.

At today's game he made his first goal and mom bought him ice cream...we made a little deal earlier in the week.
Good job Ben!