Samuel is 4!

4 years old!!! We had fun celebrating Samuel's birthday. Grandma Paula, Uncle Robert, and Auntie Danica were here to help. We also had our friends, Tom, Nancy, and Isabella over in the afternoon. It was a fun day. Birthday breakfast!

"Checkered flag here I come!" Quoted by Isabella who is a huge fan of the movie Cars.

Thank you Grandpa and Grandma for the new bike!!

Uncle Robert "helping" with the new toys.

Auntie Danica and Samuel enjoying the new garbage truck.

We are home!

Well, we have been in our new home for one week now and there are still boxes to open but we are starting to feel a bit settled. Samuel and Merideth seem to feel very content and stay busy with opening boxes, it is like Christmas in October! Samuel started preschool this week and Merideth started in a preschool-like program this week. They both seem to enjoy it but are so exhausted when they get home that they are very quiet and want to play alone.

Sorry that we don't have pictures, we hope to have our computer put together soon so we can connect with the world!

Pictures of "Mernif"

Merideth wanted both of these pictures to show you her new sweater and her baby. I had to uphold my promise to show them to the world!

Finding fun in TX

Okay, picking pumpkins in TX is nothing like picking pumpkins in WA. All our pictures from WA show us in double layers, hats, gloves, etc. Look at us in TX; shorts, sunglasses, Samuel is even wearing swim trunks. I had my first pumpkin spice latte the other day...it was 90 degrees outside, not right. Still fun anyway!

Open wide!

Samuel and Meirdeth sculpting something at a n arts festival.

Finding fun in OKC

Go Thunder!


Fun at the OK state fair. Merideth has taken a likin' to corn dogs since we have been away from home cooked meals. This one topped the charts!

The boat ride on the canal in downtown OKC.

POPS, a burger place on route 66 with a few hundred different types of soda pop. We aren't sure what prompted this pose, maybe a future rapper?

Creative; that's what you get when in a rented apartment.

Many games of jumping into the "water".

The underware bandits. (no help from mom on this one!)

If there is nothing else to do cover your sister with stickers.