Jeffy Singing his Favorite Song

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but Jeffy knows all the words to the Walker Texas Ranger theme song. Enjoy!

The House is DONE!!!

Have you ever seen that Skittles commercial where the rainbow pours color into everything it touches??? Well that's exactly what happened to our house (along with about 300 hours of work and lots of prayer that we wouldn't need an orthopedic surgeon).

Tell us what you think!

April Trip to Florida

Ok, so I'm a little out of order, but you'll get the drift. I wanted to add

a few pics from our trip down to Orlando that we took in April.

We stayed at the Liki-Tiki Village just west of DisneyWorld,

and we had a blast. Our hotel had a water park,

paddle boats, bumper boats, mini-golf, tennis, shuffleboard, a

beach, and basketball. Of course we invited Grandma and Poppy

to stay with us and we enjoyed our days taking advantage

of the hotel grounds. We didn't do a lot of sight-seeing,

as we've been to Orlando a hundred times, so by some

miraculous stroke of luck, Disney got a very small

portion of our cash. Wild, huh?

After flying 3,000 miles, spending $27,000

eating out, paying $4.94/gallon for gas, and

settling up on the pool bar tab, here was

the response to the question, "What was

your favorite part of the trip?"

Brett: "playing basketball"

Luke: "eating popsicles"

Jeff: "sleeping on the couch when it's a bed"

Hmmm.... These are all things we could have done at 11005 North Central Street. Oh well. It was totally worth it!

Erika and Mike's Wedding

Memorial Day Weekend was spent on the beautiful plains of Kansas celebrating Erika and Mike's wedding. It turned out to be a gorgeous day for an outdoor wedding in spite of an ominous forecast of rain, hail, lightning, and tornadoes. The weather gods were watching over Winchester!

Of course, Erika and the girls looked great, and the wedding was

held in their new backyard, landscaped with white benches

(handmade by Mike) and little solar orb lights scattered

all over the property. The effect was really magical.

The most amazing part of the day was that all three

of the boys wore shirts without a Disney character plastered on

the front, and we only had one

"drop-your-pants-and-pee-in-front-of-everyone"

moment by Jeff. Not bad for having spent 9 hours there!

The reception was held there too, and we all dressed in

our normal clothes for that. Here are pics of Rik and I

in our girly clothes (can it get any girlier than a wedding

dress?) and our normal fashionable attire. This was late in

evening when we broke out the good music and the old

Bon Jovi concert t-shirts from the 80's! Woo Hoo!

Quarterly Check-in

Wow. I'm really not very good about this. Another three months have passed and absolutely nothing posted. OK, THIS time I'm going to do better. I'm going to cheat though. I'm going to make several blog entries today. This will trick me into thinking that I'm actually keeping up.

And blogging is a beautiful thing. You can almost treat it like a diary, highlighting your life as you go along. This will be a good way for me to look back over time and see what in the world I've been doing with my time. Hmm, good thought.