A Walk with Dad is a Walk to Remember. :)

Here are a few "cool" pics Dad and the kids took on their walk. Nature is so awesome!

Hey Jessi, now you've started a competition between Justin and Rowan. So far, Rowan is ahead so you all might want to get a move on it! Rowan split his chin open yet again on Saturday afternoonish. This is his fourth time to split it open. Stitches, done that. Now I'm thinking I might want to let some scar tissue build up just in case he does it again. Which is looking like it will be immenent. :). Well here's to our Boy's chins! Rowan was the same, after about 15 minutes of ripping open his chin (each time) he was jumping off chairs like nothing ever happened (even in the emergency room while waiting to get stitches). Now, I just throw my hands up in the air and laugh! As you can see from the pic, he's not too scarred from it!

Yesterday Dad took the kids on a walk and let Mommy sleep without interuption so I can try and recover from having my tonsils ripped out. Ha! Now I know why they do this when you're little! Anyways, Dad and the kids had a lot of fun hiking and taking pictures! As you can tell my kids love to pose! We all really like to take walks because the outdoors here are just so breathtakingly beautiful!

North Carolina in the Fall

End of Summer Fun

These were taken at the end of the summer. One is of the kids on their first day of school. A few are of us at the pool here at our apartment. And the others are of us at the lake near our apartments. We like to go feed the geese, ride paddle boats, and play at the playground there. At one outing, Jeff caught a goose to get a string off of its foot. The goose endured it then when Jeff put him down, oh my goodness, you could feel the embarrassment rolling off him. He didn't bother to run around anyone in order to get away from Jeff and into the lake, no he pushed right past our kids and slinked down into the lake with it's head down the whole way! We couldn't stop laughing!

Oops, Sneads Ferry NC. Labor day weekend, 08

We spent Labor Day weekend in Sneads Ferry/Topsail Island Beach, NC. We all had so much fun! I can honestly say I would love the chance to become an actual beach bum! Boogie boarding and battling the waves was sooo much fun! Ian proved himself to be a natural surfer, Rowan preferred the sand to the water, andvHannah even became somewhat comfortable in the water. And thank goodness none of us saw any sharks!









Argg! I'm a pirate, so don't even think about taking my candy apple!


Rowan and I were playing with the camera. Aren't we cute!

GOALLLLLL!!!!! October 2008

So we decided to put Ian and Hannah into soccer this year. Hoping to teach them team building skills and exhaust some of there never ending energy! Energy still there, but they are learning to play as a team instead of just wanting to be the only one to score. Hannah is making us wonder if we have the next Mia Hamm on our hands. She showed all the boys up by scoring 5 times in one half of a game. She's a surprisingly aggressive player!











Ian is doing really well too. He loves hearing people yelling his name! He loves to be in the spotlight. He too is one of the more aggressive players on his team.