Sunday Drive

We were loafing around Sunday afternoon, when we decided to go for a drive... we just started heading south...
I remembered the ostrich ranch, I thought the kids would enjoy those huge birds! Well, they have built this fencing all around them and you can't see them at all :(
We headed for Picacho Peak... and found this great little deserted train off the side of the road.
Eli whipped out his camera and viola! He takes some great spur of the moment pics!
If it wasn't for him I wouldn't have many pictures that grace this fun blog!
I think we need to make a Sunday drive a family tradition!

My New Obsession...

I can't get enough of this movie!
Pride and Prejudice is a comedy of manners novel that criticizes the social structure between the rich and poor and the role of women in the family. News of a wealthy young man named Charles Bingley stirs up the hearts of women in the town and the girls in the Bennet family are one of them. Accompanying Charles Bingley is the wealthiest man in the area, Mr. Darcy. Mr. Darcy meets Elizabeth Bennet at Bingley's ball and other social conjunctions over the next few weeks. He soon finds himself attracted to Elizabeth, but Elizabeth is utterly disgusted by his wealth, status, and arrogance. Through a series of unfortunate events that turn her family and her sisters upside down, Mr. Darcy is the last person Elizabeth expects to marry. Nonetheless, Mr. Darcy confesses his love for her and even proposes to no luck. Elizabeth doesn't agree to his proposal until Mr. Darcy explains himself, secretly fixes her family's problems, and humbles himself before her. The stumbling blocks of this love story begins with the tension created by the lover's personalities. Elizabeth is prideful and Mr. Darcy is prejudice. Despite their attitudes toward each other, their love for each other overcomes their pride and prejudice...

Swimming Update! (By Becca)

THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE WAS TYPED BY BECCA, (sorry if there are any misspellings!): Swimming! I have gone swimming everyday in the past 3 days!It's OOBER fun! (That one's for you, Connie) I am learning how to dive; I never realized that you have to squat and all that junk. I finally can now go under water for like 6 seconds, and I don't have to hold my nose (that much). And, instead of going leg by leg underwater, I just jump in. Sometimes, the pool will sway when me and Grayson jump in.

I've even made a boat! I got a lawn chair and all the pool NOODLES (I love saying the word "noodles")and tried to place 3 going vertical and 3 going horizontal. Except, I cant lay down in it. I'll just flop over!

I'll have my mom take a picture and post it here! (Of my boat, of course)

A Palace!!!who knew?

C.S. Lewis put it well when he gave us the analogy of remodeling the human soul and a living house: " Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently, He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of--throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace."

Earring Keepers

THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE WAS TYPED BY Becca, (sorry if there are any misspellings)I just got some new dangly earrings and have been dying to make a craft to keep them in! I got two little boxes and cut the tops off them, wrapping a paper towel around each. Then I pierced the earring rods through the paper towel, and VOILA! Earring Keepers! I now keep them in my bathroom where they are safe and sound! More are yet to come, so thats why they are empty. The long one is meant for oober dangly earrings, and the little ones are for normal ones.Here thay are:

Under the Sea...