A few pictures from a warmer day.....

I looked at the temperature online today, it said it was -8 degrees. It felt colder yesterday when it was 3 degrees outside, but I guess it could be -8... anyway all the cold weather had me feeling nostalgic for warmer days. I started looking trough pictures of the kids and found these great images of the kids at Lagoon and the first day of school. Enjoy.

Izzy and Rose at Lagoon...

Todd and Amelia on the train that goes around the lake, and past the animals....

Picture from the train of the swings.....

Ethan age 14, 5' 10"

First day of school for the fair and golden (Elise, 1st grade age 6) and the dark and beautiful (Isobell, 3rd grade age 8)

Cute sisters and Aaron (6th grade age 11)

Trampoline girls with the movie screen in the background...

working Mom

Lara has the hardest of all jobs raising our kids, but on top of thast she has 3 other jobs. Between her calling as primary secretary, doing some invoicing for his dad, and the work she does for Family Chart Masters... she has little time left for other things. This is not a rare thing to see; Lara at work with two devices going!

Scout the Beagle... and heres to the New Year!

Happy New Year! 2013 is here......

We finally named the Dog; Scout, as in the character from "to kill a mocking bird". We couldn't it call it Toby (like Lara's Childhood Beagle was named) because Aaron's best friend Tobias goes by Toby (just by Aaron) Isobell really didn't like the name snoopy, I said that snoopy is a boys name and we could femme it up a bit and call her Snookie, but that was quickly shot down. Everyone likes Scout.

We have a interesting deal with the Universe; we stay mostly poor, but when ever when ever we have a need for a certain thing we are sure to find that item at DI (goodwill store). We had been housing scout in two laundry baskets tied together with a Sunday tie. So we put on our list " find Kennel at DI". and new years eve we went and sure enough there it was sitting there waiting for me. $15 seemed like a lot for me at this time of year, but much better than a new price. now if we could just get the kids to find their own playhouse.