I'm on a roll

Remember that post where I brag about our 8 mile bike ride on the Tony Knowles Coastal trail? Well look we have a couple pictures. I finally got them here for you. Shocked aren't you? I know. Remember this is before the broken jaw this summer.

We just went on a very mild bike ride this week and poor little Sam would hop off his bike at the slightest decline and walk it down. Now most people do that for the incline but not Sam. He does not want to be in pain like that again. Cute kid.

Another item for your viewing pleasure.

My next tee shirt purchase. The shooting range has ladies night. Oh yeah, any one want to come?

Stuff I like

So I have a folder in my pictures labeled "STUFF I LIKE". This bed is in it, don't you just love it? Not the bedding but the bed frame. I love it. My husband has recently informed me again that he would like ALL of our furniture to be light colored, round, log wood/cabin furniture. I disagree because I just don't really like much of anything that is all the same. I'm surprised that we have matching dishes and silverware because I think it's fun to have VARIETY in almost everything. Alas, we are so different and yet our relationship works. In fact we just celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary. Yes, that's right 11 years. So now you may be asking yourselves, "wow, I wonder what they did to celebrate" Well besides the obvious we went to (brace yourselves for this) . . . . . . The Shooting Range! Isn't that amazing. I told one of my favorite people this and her response was "Dang Mary, you're a redneck". Well that may be true but she is too. Okay not really but she teases that she left our redneck invested mountains in NC only to fall for a redeck from Denver. Ha, ha, I think it's great.

Oh, yeah we also went to a resturant with a reservation so you know that erases the prior red neck behavior. On the way we did listen to Jeff Foxworthy and confirmed that rednecks do not take their women to resturants with reservations, they prefer drive thru's with the second window and super sizing. :)

I want you all to know that I LOVE those NC mountains. Take no offense to the red neck jabber, it's all fun and games.

Summer Here, Summer gone

Wow, time has flown by this summer. I never went to the u-pick it farm or to pick wild berries. All my things to do didn't get done but it was still a great summer. Well except for Sam breaking his jaw that is. :) School starts tomorrow for Jack and next week for David. I'm amazed that I will have a 1st and 3rd grader. Wow, I must be grown up by now, though sometimes I still don't feel like it.

Jack got baptized the first Sat. in Aug. and that was wonderful. It deserves a post of it's own but we'll see how good I am at getting to it. I relied on my in-laws for pictures since I couldn't even find my camera. He really is so big these days.

Sam will be staying home with me unless we find some more friends that want to do another preschool co-op. I thought of running my own preschool for a while and even had a complete outline for the year all done including Spanish in the curriculum but then one day I got frustrated and chucked it.

We've had wonderful visits from Mike's family this summer and got to see Denali on a beautiful clear hot day. I knew I shouldn't have worn that darn long sleeve shirt. It was about 80 the hottest I've ever been while in AK. I know wa wa. :) We did lots of stuff with them too which should also have it's own post.

Mike's sister stayed with us for about a month this summer as well. The boys loved having her here even if they teased her a bit. Jack still says that having her here this summer was the best part of his entire summer vacation. He gets all sad faced about it. I think he's being a bit dramatic but it's cute. Our Ainsy stay also needs it's own post or two or three. :)

We've also just given our boys each their own room. Sniff Sniff. I thought they'd love being together forever. So we've been rearranging everything like crazy. It looks like we just moved in again. The boys are excited and LOVE it. Now we've had to divie up the toys since they all resided in one room before. That's been a little bit more challenging but not too bad. There's been a little of "you can't come into my room" but not much. They all made signs for their doors right away though.

Another note to mention is that I finally got my wheat grinder! I know a tad bit nerdly but I'm very excited about it. I just made my first sourdough too. We'll see how it turns out. It's cooling as we speak. Healthy whole grains here we come!

So this has been a rambling post but I won't promise any different next time cause that's just how I am.