Wow, I can't beleive it's been a month since I last blogged/posted pictures! It seems as there are just not enough hours in a day and my blog has taken a back seat. We took a trip to NM for Thanksgiving and had a great time with Nana and Grampster...The pictures posted are from a photo shoot while we were there. (Thanks so much Lani for taking the pictures!!)

Zoe is 23 months old now and the time has just flown by. She'll be 2 in just a matter of weeks! Her vocabulary is growning exponentially, although on the way home today--which took forever--she seemed to go back to practicing "mommy". I believe she said "mommy, mommy, mommy..." 392 times (just approximate, of course). Tomorrow is the last school day of 2008, and I am soooo ready for a break! We look forward to traveling to Waco to visit Paul's brother and fam for Christmas. It will be nice to see the cousins together--it has been too long since we've seen them.

Zoe and Dad at the Playground

I've hijacked Caryn's blog to tell you about Zoe and my day at the playground. I have a cool new work schedule of four days of nine hours with a half day from home. That gave me the chance to hang out with the munchkin. We did a PBS marathon of Sesame Street and Clifford the Big Red Dog. (That Emily Elizabeth is a little uptight if you ask me. I'm just saying.) Then it was time to take a walk. I figured we'd be brave and leave the stroller at home. We stopped frequently along the way to poke at the dirt, examine cracks in the sidewalk, and once just to stick our head in the grass. (I'm not really sure what that one was about.) A cold front had come in the night before so the wind was really whipping. Fortunately we were well equipped with hats and sweaters. I was really proud of Zoe for conquering the slide on her own. I know you will be too. Thanks for letting me hijack the blog. Paul

Some recent pictures...

A couple weeks ago we went to a pumpkin stand at a nearby church to pick some pumpkins...

This is when Zoe was sitting on a pile of ants!
Note to self: Next time make sure you don't set your child in a pile of ants!

Busy Weekend...Can we set the clocks back again? Please!

These pictures got all out of order, but we had a great but busy weekend. We enjoyed a couple of Halloween parties on Friday night, a day at Dewberry Farm on Saturday and ended the weekend with a Crop Walk with the Youth group. A lot more pictures and blogging to come but I am too tired right now...stay tuned. And if your reading this on Tuesday-stop it and GO VOTE!!

We were sportin' our green & gold to support BU Homecoming.

Maybe next year they'll schedule it on a more convenient weekend...Sic "Em!!

This is what you get when you ask a stranger to take a group photo!

Is it really that hard to get us all in the picture!

The Zipline...this is what enticed Paul to come to the farm trip...

not sure it was all it was cracked up to be!

Feedin' the goats.

Country girl!

First party stop was the Pope's. Bella had invited Zoe to her party. She had a toddler bounce house and toddler-sized trick-or-treat houses (super-cute, very Martha Stewart--great job Debbie).

Then we were off to a Haunted-House warming party at the Rogers. Jeanette made some very cute (I mean spooky!) finger foods and I got to see their cool new townhouse for the first time. It was great to chat for a few minutes, but it quickly became evident that WonderWoman needed her sleep so she could save the city on Saturday!

Sunday got off to a great start...all rested up, and didn't even take that extra hour to sleep...just got ourselves ready for worship and leisurely went off to church, later it became a day... One of those, "If anything can go wrong...it will go wrong" days. What are the odds that when you lend out your jumper cables, the next time that you try to start the car--20 minutes later, you need them. The Xtreme Disciples were on our way to the Crop Walk, when we turned the key, and heard nothing. So when the heroic Jeremy Wood stepped forward with his cables it seemed like a life saver. Red...Black...Positive...Negative. Negative...Schmegative! And the next thing we see is smoke. I had placed the cables on the wrong charge. The black rubber cables literally melted in front of us. A successful jump and then another jump at Burger King and we were on our way to the Crop Walk. It was a beautiful day...and I can't tell you how proud I am of the four youth that walked the 5k. We raised $200 dollars to fight against hunger.