South Padre Island Sand Castle Competition, October 2008

This is not my favorite picture of teh kids, but it's my favorite sandcastle. It's Santa's Workshop! The kids had almost as much fun as Matt did.

Porter's Family

Porter did a project in school about his family. These are some of the pictures we took for it.

Bailey's 7th birthday

Cupcakes, a new scooter and small, fury rodents. It was a hit!

Matt and Jillian's birthday!

On our way back from Albuquerque our van died. It was a hand me down from my parents and had almost 260,000 miles on it when we traded it in at the toyota dealer ship in Roswell, NM. The kids got a little teary about leaving the van behind, so we took a few pictures to remember it by. The van parked directly in front of ours is the one currently parked in our garage.
Bailey was particularly attached to the van. She always called it her "car friend."

Matt and I took "separate" summer vacations in 2008. Matt went to Papua New Guinea for three weeks and I took the kids to my parents house in Albuquerque. You'll have to bug Matt if you want to see the pictures from his trip (pun intended). Here's what the kids and I did.