An Early Start on Halloween

LJ just had his birthday so the boys (and Sophie) had an early start on Jedi training. Little Yoda was on hand to offer guidace and wisdom.

Your looking at Obi-Wan Kanobi, Boba Fett and Yoda. Do you think Dad should be Darth Vader?

Our Trip to "George Washington"

It's really too cute to correct them when they say it. I know I could be making their adult life difficult by not correcting them, but they'll live through it.


Here is our latest family pictures. After taking 20 shots...well Mom's know, it's hard to get everyone to look at the camera and keep their hands down.

Back to Washington.













The boys favorite photo is from the Smithsonian. Don't I have just the most educated and intelecual children around? Oh I guess not, it was from The Museum of American History, the Star Wars display.
Then here we are....how romantic......

This girl is amazing

I took this myself today at Soccer practice.
Can you belive her? I'm thinking Mia Hamm

Labor Day...goodbye pool

We went to the Beach Club yesterday to say goodbye to summer and well, one of the newspapers was there. This made it into today's paper.






I just love this picture with the water bubbles floating over their heads. LJ thinks he's going so fast. Next year he'll be too big to go down with Dad, I'm lucky we have this picture to remember this.

Found my moto

A boys' best friend

Our neighbor's tree fell in the storm yesterday. As he was cleaning it up, LJ when to say hi and we all followed and talk to him for a bit. While we were all talking nice, their dog who is hates our dog with a passion was letting LJ pet him then decided to bite him. (nice)

As any dog owner who has a dog who bites a child, he looks at the dog then back to us and says, "he shouldn't have done that"

I'm thinking our cute little puppy would have found out verbally that she shouldn't have done that. She would have known, that was wrong. The word NO in a loud voice to a dog does not hurt them, but does scare then and they can understand what they did was wrong.

What would the Dog Whisperer do?

Vacation at the Lake

We have some great friends with wonderful parents and they have invited us back to the lake again this year. The lake I am talking about is Table Rock Lake and it's a little piece of heaven. It's a much larger lake than the one I used to go to as a teenager, and totally better!
I have spend the good part of 20 minutes looking for an mp3 of the Go-Go's Vacation (Steve wanted us to sing that as he performed his sking act for us :-)

Anyway, I could by it from iTunes, but I can't play that format on this blog. Here are a few pictures of us on Big Bertha.

All the kids went tubing today and the big ones even skied. Reese is a great skier and JP, on his first time got nearly up. He was so happy! I'm missing a few pictures and will have to come back later to update..... Before our weekend is out we need to create and preform our anual water-ballet and eat our Petero's and Frog-Eyed Salad. Yum-e!

But look at these two pictures...this is so them.