Our Birthday Girl!

Happy Birthday Kiah! I can hardly believe that you're 2 already. So much has happened in you little life, you've moved twice and got a baby brother, you've adjusted wonderfully. I love the way you adore Tobin and look out for him, even though you still sit on him and take his toys, it is evident from the way you come running yelling "mommy, Tobin stuck" or Aboo, wake" that you love him. You love to color (on everything) and love to dance. You are very verbal and are starting to put 2 and 3 words together. I pray a blessing on you today that you may continue to grow strong and into the beautiful little girl that you are already showing sings of becoming.
Love, Mommy


Here are some pictures of her special day. She loved eating cake, opening presents and that her favorite babysitter (and possibly person) came to visit. She had to try on the beautiful sweater that Grandma Mae made for her, it is beautiful.

Soccer

The boys are playing soccer this fall, today was their first game. They are on separate teams this year, bummer for the parents who have to go to 2 games, but the boys don't mind. Jason is coaching Justin's team. Isaac's game was at 8 and that was good, his team won. Justin's game was at 9:30, it was hot, we sat in the shade and sweated, the kids on the other team were much more experienced, but Justin still had fun. Next week both boys play at 8 so it should be nice weather.

Luau

The pre-school that is a part of our church had a Luau last saturday to celebrate it's 25th anniversary. Jason did the grilling, the kids and I did the eating, fun was had by all. This picture of Kiah makes me smile, she is wearing an outfit that used to be mine!
Like Justin's blue smile? we had snow cones!

muscles

Justin at breakfast while stirring his oatmeal "I can feel a muscle coming on!"

Baseball!

Justin has become quite a fan of baseball this year, especially the Arizona Diamondbacks. He has been able to go to 3 games so far. Through the summer reading program at our local library, the boys both earned a ticket, so Jason took them to the game on Monday.

The back yard

Here are some pictures of our back yard. It is kind of U shaped.

The flood and therefore the floor removal

We had a huge storm last week and the living room flooded! You could stand in the middle of the room and watch the water come through the bamboo flooring. Now we already knew that we wanted to replace the flooring, but not so soon. We were very thankful that the tree in the front yard remained standing, many trees around the city went down, it was one on those storms that had me wondering if I should gather the children and hunker down somewhere; the wind was blowing so hard, rain like crazy and hail, it was crazy. So we spent Saturday pulling up the floor. Oh, and notice that whoever put the flooring down in the first place was not so smart, they glued the bamboo onto the concrete, it was a pain to remove.