What's Up?

Here's what we've been up to in our little town of Altus, OK:

Riding Ponies at the Rodeo  

 In Altus we ride for 5-10 minutes vs. 30 seconds at the

 Houston Livestock Show...that's a plus!

Georgie, proud to be in princess underwear!  And no, she's not potty trained yet.  It's official, I'm the worst potty trainer EVER!  I guess I'll just have to send her down to Gaga boot camp!  It sure worked the first time.

Tough guy in the tub!

Miss Sassy Pants

We're working on actually fixing her hair now.  A friend in the ward does the COOLEST things to her two girls' hair.  This is my feeble attempt at copying her!

Papa and Gaga's first visit to Altus

YAY!!  They're finally here!

BIG Squeeze!

Ahhhh!

I need to find the picture of my dad and I in a similar pose SEVERAL years ago!  

Here's Joey's last hand in speed scrabble.  Check out those vowels.  See how many connected words you can make outta' that bunch!

Happy Birthday Papa!

Happy Birthday to the Worlds Greatest PAPA!

...and MANY MORE!

We're so lucky to have you with us on your Birthday!

...and 5 minutes later there were tantrums!

I HAVE PICTURES!!

I have some catching up to do!  I finally got all my camera parts in one place so I was able to download new pictures onto the computer and, therefore, post them on my new blog!  

Here's my sweet, sweet boy on his first day of school at Altus Christian Academy...the local evangelical preschool;)  He was pretty excited, mostly to wear the empty backpack!  But also to meet friends.  From the moment we arrived in Altus, he was asking where his new friends were. I'm really looking forward to the first day he brings up Joseph Smith, three seperate beings or our prophet when they're having JAM time (Jesus and Me).  I'll be sure and let you know!

"Our House...

...is a very, very, very, fine house."

Don't worry, we're ripping out those hedges!

This is our shed/garage because our actual garage hardly has room for one car.  We have BIG plans for the back yard!

Yes, it has an inside...

Here is our cozy little fire place that you can't see;)  

And yes, it WAS painted orange when we moved in but I've since painted it a steely gray blue and it looks really nice...if I don't say so myself.  There are two of these corner china cabinets off of the main room.

This is our kitchen, obviously;)  The backsplash looks a little over the top in this picture, but it's not quite that loud in person.

The Den/family room is done in this knotty pine and my vote (which vetos Joey's vote) is to paint it, but Joey likes it as is.  I'm painting it next week.

Never say never!  I'm a blogger!  I finally saw the light when I thought of this as a great way of journaling our family life.  So here we go!  Here's to posting!