A little windy in OK

Owen is now 5' 11" just to give you a little perspective.

Adventures Down Under

Fishing and tornadoe relief

Last week was another typical non-stop week. Monday and Tuesday were work and house cleaning days :). On Wednesday I drove up to Haverhill Ohio for meetings Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday we did a little more house work and then went fishing with our neighbors the Herrings. Cade caught his first two fish ever (ok, Brooks caught the first one and then gave Cade the pole :), but he caught the second one all by himself).






Kaitlyn caught her first four fish ever and she had a blast doing it!


Sadie was a non-stop stress machine. She was running back and forth on the dock and I can't believe she never fell into the water.


She did decide that she wanted to fish also, she laid down and stuck Kaitlyns pole in the water and then dropped it :) Kaitlyn threw a fit and sobbed for a couple minutes and then she got over it.




We had soooooo much fun. I've never really liked fishing but that's primarily because I never caught anything :). It was so great to see Kaitlyn and Cade actually catch fish.

After fishing we all went out to Meksico for dinner and then I headed to Chattanooga to help with the cleanup after the tornadoes a couple weeks ago. We camped out on the stake center softball field and then woke up and drove to Cleveland TN where we used chain saws, bobcats, and good old fashioned labor to remove trees and debris from peoples yards. It's really amazing how much devastation mother nature can inflict. I've never really been around tornadoes before but they are absolutely devastating.






We worked all day Saturday and Sunday and finally got home about 6:30 p.m. on Sunday (Mothers Day). Luckily I'd sent Cindy a couple of nice Mothers day letters on Facebook and e-mail. Also, I called and asked Kaitlyn to get a package out of the downstairs closet and give it to her. It was a great week!

Jordan's Prostart team's winning food

Thanksgiving in Tennessee

Can white boy dance?

UCO's Season Finale

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The day Zach has waited 7 years for!

Zach is the tall one on the left (not on center podium yet, they trade that game to game). This was taken with Dale's iPhone. Hopefully next game we'll have found our charger for our camera and we can get some better shots.

Sadie

Last night I was walking down the hall with Sadie, holding her in my left arm and asking her to give me five over and over again. Each time she would swing her left hand at mine and giggle. I turned around, placed Sadie in my right arm and asked her to give me five. She lifted her left hand, swung it straight forward, smacked me in the face and giggled. :)

This morning she woke up before I left for work so I got her out of bed and took her downstairs with me. She was sitting on my lap and I was feeding her yogurt. After each bite she would look up at me, smile with her BIG cheesy grin and squinted eyes, and giggle. She is so dang cute!! I love being a dad!!!

Awesome Owen!!

Hail hole... or a new way to aerate your lawn

Hail holes (new meaning to that term) in our yard... that's a quarter inside the one on the left.

This is how we aerate in Oklahoma... ha ha

All Hail broke loose!

Jordan's Windshield

They've already melted some....

No more B-ball for awhile :(

Dale's windshield... yep, right in the driver's view. Of course it had to be our new car.

Hail Stones and leaves

Singing Elders Down Under

Kaitlyn & Cades Easter basket scavanger hunt

Music Man Jr.

Whata March

It's been a pretty eventful March. The weather is finally nice out so we went camping (turned into the kids first slumber party), cooked dutch oven potatoes & bbq chicken, took a day trip to Fort Loudon, went fishing, went out on the boat (1st time of the year), spent lots of time on the trampoline, got the rabbit fence up around the garden, & went paintballing with the scouts.

From 2/20 to 3/5 Nate was in India (Mumbai, Pune, Kolkatta, Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Haldia, & Delhi. Trains, plains, & automobiles. Quite the experience (cows, poverty, monkeys, CRAZY drivers, festival holi, missionary experience (not the sharing the gospel kind :), very productive business trip)).


For spring break the Tanners came over. We went skeet shooting, paintballing, to the jump house, to Johnson City to eat dinner & visit with Brian and Kathy, and started our own polar bear club for Jordans birthday :) Good times.

Week 7: What are some family traditions that you love / don't love so much?

Week 6: What was the first prayer you remember being answered?

Week 5: Memory from elementary school (teachers, friends, likes/dislikes, etc.)

January 2010 events

January was a really fun month (other than the fact that the kids have been sick for 1/2 of it. Ok the beginning and end was fun :)). We went over to Nashville and spent the weekend with some friends. We'd gone to the temple and when we came back it was hilarious to see how the kids fell asleep. We also went around the Vanderbilt campus looking at the geese and the squirrels.



We went for a walk the other day and it was cute to see Kaitlyn pushing Cade & Sadie in their strollers. Then this weekend it snowed so I pulled the kids up and down the street in a laundry basket. Our neighbor saw us and brought our a real sled for us to use for a while :)



"THANKS AUNT CATHY FOR THE NEW DRESS!!! I LOVE IT!!" Kaitlyn