Keith 13 years old!

It's hard to believe my sweet baby is 13 years old! How did that happen? Seems just like yesterday I was down in that little GA hospital giving birth to my first born. For his birthday, he didn't want much, just some friends to spend the night. They ate pizza, played football, watched movies and played video games. He's got a nice group of friends, and we're proud of the young man he's become. We love you Keith! Happy Birthday.

The boys thought it was pretty funny to use Hannah Montana plates left over from Kelly's party. I think secretly they liked it!

Keith wanted to go to HuHut for dinner on his birthday.

Halloween 2009

Can't say Halloween is my favorite time of year. But, the kids like it so they always get to trick or treat. We went to our friends house this year for their Halloween party. Steve handed out the candy with gospel tracts and my sister was in town, so it was fun spending time with her too. The kids had a great time and came home with lots of candy!




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Kelly's Birthday #9

I'm late on posting on Kelly's 9th birthday. She had a fun filled day. On her actual birthday she chose to go to dinner at The Onion. They give GREAT BIG birthday deserts. Her goal was to pick the restaurant with the best desert in town. I think she accomplished that. Mom and Dad came over before dinner to give her her present. She was surprised with a gigantic basket filled with Hannah Montana stuff. She was happy. :) The next day we headed out to Seattle to get the Mini. She got to celebrate with cupcakes with Auntie, and dinner at the Prentices. For her party she invited seven friends to spend a few hours at Chuckie Cheese. She had so much fun. Kelly loves her friends. Avery spent the night after the party and they slept out in the tent trailer. I can hardly believe my baby who was born just yesterday is 9 years old. WOW time flies. This birthday seems like a big change to me. Something about the number 9. It seems older somehow.

Welcome to our family Bella!

What a day!

Yesterday (Sept. 6th) was quite a day! Steve has been looking for Mini Coopers for a while now. I'm not sure if turning 40 has anything to do with it, but he has been wanting a car to drive as his car. I have my TSX and he's been driving the truck. It will be nice to have a car for him to drive. So my Dad found a Mini Cooper on Ebay. It is an 05' Mini Cooper S with the John Cooper Works package and all kinds of bells and whistles. It Kelly Blue Books at 20,000. We didn't want to spent that much so we thought no way we're going to get it. But it was fun dreaming. Plus the car had a reserve on it and we had no idea what the reserve was. The car was in such sweet condition we figured there would be no way the reserve was much below what it was worth. So yesterday the bidding was ending. In the morning the highest bid was $12,126. After church the bid was up to $15,500. We talked and decided the highest we could go was $16,500. The reserve still wasn't met. So, at about 4 minutes left we put in our bid at $16,000. Well suddenly the reserve was met! Someone else bid $16,200 and with 10 seconds left in the bidding Steve bid $16,500. That was the longest 10 seconds! But, a message popped up you've won the bid! Let me tell you, every one of us jumped up and down screaming and high fiving! I know, I know, it's just a car, but...it's a really cool car! We head to Camano Island next weekend to pick it up.

But there's another part to the day that only a couple of people know about. As most of you who know us know, we had a dog named Molly. Unfortunatly Molly was not a good fit for us and we had to give her to another family. This broke the kids and I's hearts and we have missed her ever since. Well, recently Keith has got it in his mind that he wants a dog. The kids and I were up at Northtown Mall and there were Yorkshire Terrier puppies. I made the mistake of holding one and letting the kiddos hold one. Keith fell in love. He came home and for weeks did research. Asking Steve what his reasons were to not get a dog and then finding info on Yorkshire Terriers that would take away all his arguements. Then the praying started. "Lord please help Dad to let up on getting a Yorkie." :) I chuckled at his choice of words everytime. The thing is that Steve is a really good Dad and LOVES his kids, so how can you not eventually bend to that. So we started looking at breeds thinking this time we have to be careful so that we really like this dog. We narrowed it down to the Shih tzu and the Yorkie. So, we went to church came home got a quick lunch and headed out to look at Shih tzu puppies. Kelly fell in love but I think it was because they were ready to go home with us today. We ran home from looking at the puppies and did the whole ebay thing. Then at 4:00 we drove to see a little Yorkie puppy that was the only one in the litter. The Shih tzu's were 9 weeks this Yorkie was 5 weeks. Let me tell you, we walked into that house and I was in love with every single Yorkie she had! The Mom and Dad are 3 lbs, all of them sweet as could be. And so loving. We couldn't hold the Dad. He was in a pen with a girl friend, but everytime he saw us he would stand up on his back feet with his little front paws up like a prairie dog and watch every move we made. Sandra the breeder said every one of his puppies has done that too. The Mom was a sweetheart with a blue and brown coat Dad is the same color. Needless to say we wrote a check. :) Ours is a little girl and we have to wait 3 weeks to get her. I'm still randomly doing the happy dance! :) So bets are being taken as to how long we will keep this one. 6 months or a year? My bet is until death do us part.

Pictures to come at a later date!

Kelly and Avery

BFF

Water Skiing videos

Here's the videos from the kids water skiing. The last two are of Easton and Avery.