Weekend Update

Tim & Madeline in Arizona, August 2008

We have a few more birthdays this weekend! Stephen's best friend, Tim, celebrates his birthday...Happy Birthday buddy! We hope you have fun celebrating with Kacey, Elizabeth and your family & friends. We hope to see you again soon!



Yoram and Yair in Holland.

This weekend Rachel and Jan Melle's son, Yoram, celebrates his 3rd birthday. Hartelijk gefeliciteerd Yoram! We heard you love Thomas the Train, we hope you get all the trains you wanted! :) Keep an eye out on the mail, we sent you a little something from the States.

Madeline's really been enjoying all of the arts & crafts, pens, stickers and drawing tools she received for her birthday. She spends many hours "writing letters" and drawing pictures. Here she is drawing one for her best friend, Mia's birthday.

Today we went and checked out the Austin Boxer Rescue Adoption Day. We're considering getting a family pet. Stephen prefers a dog, and we have both liked the Boxer breed since having and knowing our late, beloved Behr. Our neighbors recently got a Boxer pup which brought back the memories. We think a family dog would bring great joy to our family as well as motivate us to start walking and exercising more. Anyhow, friends of ours have adopted a rescue dog, so I looked into if there was any Boxer rescue organizations and found one in Austin.

Buster, a Boxer we met at the Adoption Day.

It was fun meeting all the dogs today, they're so sweet and playful. There's definitely pros and cons in getting a puppy vs. an older dog. I do like the pro of the older dog and not having to puppy train. So after today we're considering going through the adoption process of one of these Boxer rescues. We'll keep y'all posted!

Cooler Weather makes for a Nice Weekend!

Ever since Hurricane Ike passed through Texas, the temps have seemed to cool down. We're using our a/c a lot less, if not at all on some days and opening up the windows. Yesterday evening we took the kids to the city park to enjoy the fresh air!

This is at a park near our city post office. There was a co-ed adult softball game going on next to us. We had fun swinging on the swings.

James normally doesn't like the swings, but he's smiling here. :-)

The love of my life. :-)

Our beauty.

Stephen wanted to take a photo of me trying on his Maui shades he scored at work since the customer never came back to claim them. They were really lite in weight and polarized.

Jimmy wanted to try on Dada's shades and BOSOX cap too!

Silly boy. :-)

We left at sunset. Here's are latest Hertz car, a Subaru. I really like it. Can you tell we're in Texas...no mountain lines and a water tower. LOL

Today after Mass we got some lunch at Steak'n'Shake. It was alright (good shakes), but we like Culver's better. After lunch we went to the Frisbee Golf park near our house, let the kids play some more and then we drove by these cotton fields next to our neighborhood. Stephen wanted to get out and feel the cotton blossoms...yup they feel like cotton balls. :-)

Weekend

We did not do a whole lot this weekend. I worked on Friday until 2:30pm. Stephen and the kids went Frisbee golfing, and I learned from Stephen that James is pretty adventurous out on that course. Standing right on the edge of hills, possibly falling down ones that lead to icky swamp water at the bottom. Ya, way to worry mommy. He said afterwards the kiddos were sweating and so hot so he took them to DQ for ice cream.

That evening our neighbors brought home a new addition to their family...a puppy boxer named Starla (they're sticking with their Napoleon Dynamite theme, they already have a dog named Uncle Rico and a cat named Pedro). Starla is SO cute, and she brought back fond memories of our old boxer, Behr.

On Saturday we just took the kids swimming at the city pool, it was fun and refreshing. Oh and we've also been tivoing the Olympics. What a cool opening night there in Beijing, those Chinese really put on a fantastic show! We're excited to watch all the events over the next few weeks!

Well one more work week then we're off to Arizona!