Thursday, July 26, 2007

zoo trip with daddy


Last satruday night we took a family trip to the zoo! We had never been to the zoo with daddy. We had also never been to the zoo in the evening. I highly recomend it. We were the only ones there and after about 7:00 the temperature was almost nice! We took advantage of being the few at the zoo and took lots of pics on the statues!
In the top pic, Neil wanted Mitchell to sit on the fence (over the pond and waterfall) while he picked up Mark. Mitchell was a little nervous about it and I have to admit so was I. I wanted to crop myslef out of the bottom pic, but left it so you out of towners could see any belly progress.
Thanks to all of you who put in your two cents on our poll.
I am sad that not more of you agreed with me. The major concensus was that it was feminine. Which is not what I wanted to hear!
I still don't know what I will do!

Friday, July 20, 2007

reader poll

I have a question for all of you out there. I am trying to get some things prepared for our new child and am thinking of making unisex bedding. I have found my favorite, but Neil thinks that it is too feminine to be male bedding if that is what such offspring should be. He suggested that I take a swatch and ask at least 3 men from our church class to see what they think. Well, I am not that brave to ask our male friends sewing and decorating questions! So I will put it out there for all of you to see. I expect mostly female responses, but men, I know some of you are dedicated bloggers, so this is your non-confrontational way to express your opinion! We would love your input on our debate.

Here is the fabric. It would be paired with a matching stripe fabric. The walls would be a matching tan color. To make the room masculine we would play up the tan and blue and add a darker brown to the room's decor. To make it feminine we would play up the blue and white and go with a "shabby chic" type theme. Let me know what you think!

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

the fourth

Here are some pics of our celebration! We watched the parade in Edmond, then went to my mom's for some food, family, fun and fireworks! I think our family pic turned out better this year! You will have to go back to the archives to check it out! Thanks Phylliese for taking a good picture for us this year!
Mark's favorites from the parade were the horses, especially the tiny pony, and the police motorcycles that rode around in a circle. He kept saying, "sirc, vwoom" and waving his hand in a circle. Mitchell's faves were the mystery machine and the boy dancing on the bank float.

This is most of our new family. They had us duped on the fireworks. Don acted so humble and said that he wanted us to go with him to pick out fireworks because he did not know what to get for the kids. Neil and I know nothing about fireworks, but Neil went along to offer some type of help. It turns out that Don and his family ran a fireworks stand for several summers! He was asking for specific fireworks by name and they were going to the back to get them! Meanwhile, back at home, Celestia was telling me about all the fun things they would do with their left over fireworks! We felt pretty stupid! Mark liked shooting Roman Candles (with adult help) . He said, "Pop, Pop!" and would cry for them when it was not his turn! We did some after dark fireworks too, but the pics are mostly dark as you would guess! My mom gave the kids glow bracelets and necklaces and they turned out to be pretty helpful in the dark. We knew where they were at all times! I guess we exausted our host! Sleep tight Don!

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

new old post


Neil requested that I put some new pics up on the blog. I don't even know how often Neil looks at our blog, so I know that all of you in blogger land are probably thinking the same thing.


We are having some techinical difficulties with uploading new pictures. I have lots of new pictrues that are trapped in my camera! So here are some pictures of Mother's day that I never got around to posting! Enjoy having something new to look at; sorry it was in May!