Mommy's Jack Michael

Jacky is still a very very cuddly boy. He's a little ball of love. When I put him in his car seat he usually is upset and struggling to hug and kiss me in between each snap and buckle. And oh he gets jealous when momma is loving daddy.

Ward Halloween Party

This is Brother Mumm, a good friend of ours.





Dad and the boys were all missionaries. Dad was a nerd junior companion just trying to keep the situation under control. His boss made a suprise showing at the party and took pics of Dustin to black mail him. Check out the hair.

Being good missionaries

Daily ritual

Jacky loves to tromp through Miss Daisy's flowers next door. He's so fast it's hard to prevent him sometimes. Here in the south, you have to say Miss, and then the first name of the woman you are addressing. And, everyone says "yes maamm"--I mean everyone.

A few more southern sayings...A grocery shopping cart is called a buggy. And instead of saying I'm going to do this or that you gotta say "I'm fixin' to do this or that". At the end of a few of our regularly sung primary songs everybody shouts "Yeehah!". And of course Y'all is a singular noun, and all ya'll is its plural and it's something we hear everyday. Monday week, means see you next Monday. A common one at work is "that ain't right" but it sounds like "dain rat."



Every morning mom and the kids walk 1 1/2 mile, and drop Jude off. Then mom and the boys walk back. In the afternoon we do it all again. Well... it would take actual money to buy a double stroller. Anyone who knows Dustin and I very well, knows that we don't part with that green paper stuff very easily. I guess when Paul takes a face plant we'll brake down and get something better. It takes about 2 1/2 hours a day. Dad has been riding his bike to work too. He spends about 40 min. a day, & has done great the past month.


Jude's good friend Stuart is in both her school and primary class.

School just keeps on going and going.....

Here's Dad doing what he usually does night after night, and most of the day Saturday.

Skito bites

Jack had 21 mosquito bites on his head alone last Saturday. Mom and Jack attract the bites more than most people.

These pics are things we see on our trips to Houston that we like or think are funny.

Next time we go to Houston we're going to drive right into the big city. We'll take some pics of the skyscrapers and post them.

The Jack-man is starting to walk on his own

We wish we could be there Kylee!

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Hurrican Ike Around Our Yard

Progress photo-taking it out a bit at a time:

No Damage to any house or to any one. But a mess to clean up, still we count our blessings: the wind was blowing east to west most of the time and our house faces south so tress pretty much fell paralell with the house. Picture below is of our west side neighbor's back yard. Good size tree takes up about half his back yard. Notice the fence at bottom right, it is flat on the ground. The neighbor let me use his chain saw to remove the tree from his yard. The missionaries have been helping us remove the root system--chalking down that service, meanwhile I drag our neighbors over to meet the Elders!

Took out the west fence, nearly hitting the neighbor's house

Got lucky on this one. The tree is pretty, but it must GO! GO!! GO!!! No damage to roof. Neighbors Aaron and Tina and son Ryan helped remove it just after the storm passed. They also helped everyone around the neighborhood!

This isn't meant to replace any aforethought ideas

I think I have cracked the lyrics to this song!
I don't know why, but I am very excited about it...
No clue what the name of the jig is, but it's cool, by Rockapella
My research is backed in libretto format in italics to the side...
My ode to taking a break from school work

I Can ride the 1 up to Yonkers, *A real bus line to Yonkers I New York*
Sun on a yacht on the Yangtze, *River in China-Longest in Asia*
I can feel the breeze off the Mississippi
You only mean everythng to me.

Spinning over Chad in a chopper,
Boogie-woogie in a blimp over Bombay,
Take a batobus through the Gulf to Yucatan. *Batobus is a water bus*
You only mean everything to me.

I could thumb around Thargomindah in the middle of the winter *an Australian artesian well*
(marsupials bedding down)
Do the Louvre in a minute-get a poster in the giftshop
(Mona Lisa gets shrunken down)
Take a suite in Topeka with spiders on the ceiling
I never know what you're feeling
What poisonous fruit you're peeling
What miracle cure you've found

I could ride into Cannes in a tux on a Clydesdale, * city off coast in France*
Bareback on a pack mule to Greece,
I could walk a high wire 'tween the world trade towers. L
only mean everything to me.

Gonna saddle up a manatee and dive for gefiltas *I am not sure about this one, some fish figures? in a story book*
(funny white blob gonna drown) *the moral of the story?? Have to read five little gefiltas…?*
Parachute into paranoia with your mama's dishes
(you better go underground)
Hang-glide on the Hudson with nothing but an Aspirin.
You better know what I'm feeling
What dinosaur's doing your dealing
What kinda hog's in your ground.

Rip the conch from the shell do the Junkanoo Party in Bahama*Junkanoo on the net is indeed a Bahama thing*
(back-to-back)
And they were singing (back-to-back)
They said it was nothing (yeah) but a zombie jamboree yeah
Gonna give a Bronx Cheer with an eggcream moustache. *A Razberry, any phrase in disgust…*
You only mean everything to me.
Gonna give a hot towel to a humble visitor.
You only mean everything to me