These are two of my favorite pictures

Basketball season is here!!!!!!

So Tallyn's coach gave the team a little talk the other day at practice. We had our round robin games last week almost the whole team looked like they were twitching the entire game. So they were all given a week to get haircuts. Tallyn was not as upset as I thought he would be. In his words "Who would choose to have long hair over playing basketball?" He was not willing to go super short so we had to go short enough to stay out of his eyes. He is hoping if he lets it grow for the full year in between seasons it will be long enough for a ponytail next year. I could care less, hair is one battle I can go without fighting. Plus, I like him and Reb both with long hair.

I will keep you posted on the games. Season starts in December 4th. He did make the A team. The first round robin was a tie game 14-14. Tallyn made 6 points but he was more excited about the steals he did. The second game was 18-16 them. He scored 9 points, missed 2 free throws and did a great job rebounding. Now that team will be able to see they will be amazing.

Voyage Ministries

I just added a link on my blog list (Dave). He is a guy that came to our bible study the other day. I had heard of him and knew he taught several classes at church but had not met him. He had so much to say and later he told me about his blog. I added it because it is worth reading. He is teaching a class on Revelations in December and Jeff and I plan to go. That is one book that kinda scares me to study so we will see. Anyway I hope you give it a chance and read it...he updates regularly.

Here are a few pictures. Tallyn was not in a good mood so it made for a hard day.

Women of Faith 2008

I had an amazing weekend at Women of Faith Conference this weekend. This was my first one to attend and I hope there will be many more to come. I went with our pastor's wife and a few other girls from our Monday group. It was a little strange because I was the only one under the age of 55. What does age matter...we had a blast!

I saw a girl, Kassie, that Jeff and I went to HS with. It was nice to see a familiar face in such a big group of ladies. I hope we will be able to stay in touch.

I hope to have family pictures up soon. We should have them taken tomorrow as long as Ellie is feeling better. She has had a cough the last couple of days.

Rebel's 13

OK, so now I have a teenager!! He is fitting title pretty good already. On his birthday he just wanted to go watch some horror movie with a few friends then go to the skating rink (I hear to meet up with girls). He said he had fun but of course he said it without an ounce of emotion.

When we had family birthday night he asked for cherry cheesecake instead of the typical birthday cake and chicken cordon blue. Jeff was happy last year he picked salmon and Jeff hates fish.

He has set a record....all his birthday money is still in his wallet!!!! He can't decide what to spend it on. We all know he can't save it!

There you have it....Rebel is 13....GASP!!!!!!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Pumpkin Patch

Here are the Halloween pictures

Make a Smilebox slideshow

We spent a day at home for once. There are a group of boys that come over and they will all skate. Since it was a nice day they took their old boards and went grass surfing. It was nice not to have to be anywhere.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

We went shopping for some fall clothes and she
loved the hats. I thought she looked so
cute!!

We went to see my dad over the weekend. It was

VERY windy outside.

Shana and her kids were in town for a visit.
I so wish we lived closer together, the kids have
so much fun when they get a chance to see each other.



Can you say headache??

PJ Day at school
Since they are all stripes it matches right??

Tallyn has been saving his allowance forever
to get a new board. We went to so many different
skate shops to get all the right parts. This was
his very first board to build himself.

I told you that she can be sweet

I try and get something up every week for Mom, Debbie and Amber. I will do my best but it may just be a few pictures here and there. Love you guys..thanks for caring enough to check up on us.

We took the kids to Lake Hefner just to hang out
for the afternoon and take a break form the nonstop
going. We watched some people flying kites, the kids
seemed to enjoy that. Ellie and Tallyn would
pet almost every dog that walked by. It was a
peaceful afternoon.

A few misc. pictures

Ellie saw a spider and got Dad to check it out