My Wife Rocks!!!

Rachel ran the White Rock Marathon this past Sunday, December 14th. She had a great race and was strong throughout. It was great to see the fruition of her commitment and training that she has put in. She is a dedicated woman and can do anything she puts her mind to. I am so glad to see her be rewarded for her dedication. Congratulations also go to her two running partners, Maren and Kelsie.

Our Cute Girl (Who is Growing Up Too Fast)

Just a few pictures of the cutest little girl in the world.

Gingerbread House

Our friend's, The Melbert's (thank you Miles, Allie, Marlie, Mace & Sawyer), gave the kids a gingerbread house kit for their birthday. We have been decorating our house for Christmas and decided that it was time for the kids to decorate their house. This was a fun family project. We let each of them have two sides of the house to decorate anyway they wanted to. It is always neat to see the differences in the way they each do things. Now if we can only keep them from eating the house until Christmas!

Annual Pizza Night with the Sargeant's

Every year at Christmas time we have a pizza dinner with our friends The Sargeant's. Bob and Joyce were our neighbors at our old house. Their daughter, Carol is married to Don and she has been the kids swim teacher. Knowing this family has been such a blessing and through them we have our great friends, Tyler and Kelly Sanderford (Carol's daughter), who are currently missionaries in Kyiv, Ukraine. (we miss you guys!!). Bob and Joyce are a great example of marriage and have been an inspiration to Rachel and I.

Look Who Turned 6 Years Old

Yes, that's right, 6 years old. When I asked the kids who let them turn 6 so quickly, they said "God did". Hard to argue that one. They had a great time celebrating with a friends party at ASI Gymnastics and then a family party at Chuck E Cheese. Rachel made each of them an amazing cake that truly showed what a great talent she has. It has been a fast 6 years, but I can say that we have enjoyed and cherished every day of their lives.

Halloween 2008

Here are a few pictures from Halloween. Abigail was Daphne from Scoobie Doo, Caleb was a Transformer named Bumblebee and Ethan was Mr. Incredible. We started the evening by making our annual Halloween visit to our good friend, Ms Pennie. We then headed back to the neighborhood and were joined by Stephen, Melissa, Garrett and Holden for trick or treating. We got a couple of great pictures of Holden's 1st Halloween.

Super Dog Goes to Work

Ethan asked me if I would take Super Dog to work with me, so we buckled him in this morning and off to work we went. Found out that he really likes ESPN sports radio and that he feels like something really needs to be done about Dallas traffic. He got a little too wired on coffee and then told me he could build a better spreadsheet than the one I was working on. I just hope my boss doesn't figure out about his skills.

Recent Pictures

Here are some recent pictures of the kids. The ones with Rachel are from the morning of her birthday, October 16th. The others are from a nice day out when we stopped by Firewheel Town Center for awhile.

Longhorn-O-Lantern

Couldn't let the kids have all the fun carving pumpkins, so I decided to create my own. Now we know why pumpkins were meant to be orange.

Jack-O-Lanterns

We were decorating the house this past weekend for Halloween and the kids asked if we could get pumpkins and carve Jack-O-Laterns. It was neat to see each of them create their own and we even had some kid friendly pumpkin carvers so they each got to cut out their own designs.