Marin's Big Party

Our beautiful niece was 1 on September 23rd, but we celebrated last weekend with a FROG party. She was really into frogs, so Stephen and Jalyn took advantage of it, but we think she might be on the tail end of that phase! None the less...we had a blast. She was the BEST girl ever and we all had a wonderful time!
PS...look at her face with Jamie...she is SO over him!

ALASKA!!!!

What an AMAZING trip!!!!! Alaska and Canada were both SO beautiful that pictures don't come close to doing it justice!!!! The cruise was so fun, every port was different and exciting, and getting to travel with Grandma, PLUS seeing Jamie perform was a wonderful blessing. Just wanted to put some of the 1500 (or so) pictures up for you to see a little of what we experienced.

Headed to Alaska...

We leave for Alaska tomorrow, but it has not been an easy week getting there! I had a "medical concern" early this week that required most of my energy (but everything is 100% fine now), and then last night we learned that the Houston airport is closed this weekend due to hurricane Ike, and that was our connection to Seattle! Byron and Mom were up until after 1am trying to figure out how to get us there, and ended up having to get a refund from Continental and buying new tickets from Southwest that take us through Nashville. So the Good Lord Willin' (the creek don't rise) me, Selah and Grandma leave tomorrow around noon, and Byron flies out around 5pm. Please keep us in your prayers...no more glitches would be great! We are planning to have a terrific time, and I will update you as soon as we get home!
PS...these pictures are of my niece Marin...she has NOTHING to do with this blog, I just wanted everyone to see how DANG cute she is!!!!!!!!

Our New Love

It is a REALLY long story as to why we have ANOTHER dog...but here he is...
Prince Charming of Land O Lakes.
She named him (as you can tell) and he is the sweetest dog we have EVER owned. We rescued him from an animal shelter and he came to us so filthy and matted that we have to have him COMPLETELY shaved down the next day, so these are the before and afters.

Big Day!

The 1st tooth is OUT! It has been "hangin" in there for a while now...but on Sunday, Sept 1st, she bit into an apple and that was the end of it! The tooth fairy did come by last night, but I'll let her tell you about that..."The tooth fairy came and I wanted to catch her, but I didn't really. She gave me 2 bucks...2 bucks is alot people, 2 BUCKS! I put my tooth under my pillow and when I woke up in the middle of the night money was there...thats the end of the story. I love you" That is typical Selah! She ran into our room at about 2 AM screaming that the tooth fairy had come by...it was the sweetest thing ever! Thank you to all of our friends and family that told her she would probably get between $10 and $20...RIGHT!!!