Sam and Joe at the Pool

Sam learns to swim!! And guess what he asks for???


Joe does somersaults.

Gideon learns the art of mess-making.

"Mom, have you tried this? It's tasty!"


"Um Gideon... You are eating our door seal."

Can I sleep in your bed tonight?

looks like they all fit .... Matt, where do we sleep?

Going swimming.

Looks like this will be easy.

Our trip to the Redwoods

Here we are next to a very large root. (It's actually a petrified mythological octopus)

Nate looks like he thinks its funny the tree fell over. Riley thinks it is shocking and terrible.


And the famous Colonel.

Titus has a great day.

"Mom, there's something in my eye."


"Ah, now it's out. What a great day! Did you see the Orange I put in the toilet?"

Which one is which?

Random family pics

Elijah, Samuel, and Josiah




Here the boys are in hand-knitted sweaters from Pam Manley


One of these kids is not like the others. Can you spot the one that doesn't belong? The extra kid is cousin Mike.

Why do we have a dog, again?

We have a grouchy neighbor so we have been leaving Fezzik in the laundry room when we go to church. However, one Sunday when we got home He had dug through the linoleum into the wood floor.



Well, another Sunday was unfortunately hot so we decided to do Fezzik a favor and leave him in the cool basement. When we got home he had clawed his way through the basement door.



Someone please remind me why we got a dog in the first place?

Mrs. Maile, part 2

She called me today and asked me to take her on some errands. So I took Mrs. Maile ( think personality of Luke with a moderate case of dementia) to Hardesters today. When we got back her house had been broken into. Yikes! We called security and the sheriff. They caught the person and extracted a confession in about 30 minutes.

While the reports and such were being taken she actually stood in the doorway and would not let me leave her house. She told me I was not allowed to talk and she told security that they were not allowed to ask me questions. Good thing HVLA Security was standing there taking a report or I could have been held hostage permanently. So I stood behind her nodding and mouthing the correct answers while she said we went to Walmart and were gone for 10 minutes.

Come to find out she has barricaded security themselves and kicked and spit on them.

Sounds like I just made myself a winner of a friend.

Quotes from Mrs. Maile:
"Maile M A I L E Its a Hawaiian name. Maile Can you enunciate? Do you know the word enunciate?" repeated every 10 minutes

"Do not take your hands off the wheel? Didn't anyone ever teach you to keep both hands on the wheel?"

"oh. You live in a desert. When are you going to put in a lawn?" Well Mrs. Maile it is a drought year. "Nonsense who cares about a drought. You must have a green lawn."

"Smoke? What smoke?"

"I don't need help getting out of the car. You need help getting out of the car."

Mrs. Maile - "How old are you? I'm going to need to see your drivers license."
Robin - "Twenty nine"
Mrs. Maile - "Twenty nine??"
Robin - "Don't I look 29?"
Mrs. Maile - "You look like your 89!!!"