Our Anniversary

In October, we celebrated our 14th anniversary! We all went out for dinner and had a great time. This photo is one of my favorites. The kids were really getting into the anniversary. They were celebrating with us and told us how much they love us and they are glad we're their parents. Well, we are too!


Jett's showing off one of his birthday presents! His KU sweatsuit from Nannie & Papa!

Hawaiian Party

The Johnsons hosted a Hawaiian party for their friends that came in September from England. Some highlights...

Sorry... I guess I don't know how to flip these photos once they are in here!

Wichita Visit

I had so much fun seeing my friends from Wichita earlier in September. It was raining cats hard but it was nice to see familiar faces I miss so much. Thanks for coming out! Here's some great photos from that night. We were happy to have Susan Cherches visiting us from Phoenix.

Tailgating Highlights

Tailgating season is almost over! We only have one home game left. Here are some highlights from tailgates of this season.

KU lost to Nebraska

What a bummer! We paid $20 for pay-per-view too! Here's a funny one of Marina. She was sweating as usual while she slept so I was able to make her into a nice mohawk. I guess I'll call this the Jayhawk.

Additional Photos

Jett and Marina trying out their rubber lips they got from Grandma JJ. Hilarious!

Election Day 2008. We all dressed patriotic. And we went and cashed in a free Chick-Fil-A sandwich with my "I Voted" sticker! We also got a free patriotic donut earlier that morning! Is this a great country or what?

Halloween

Jett and Mark do the first pumpkin carving ever! I hate carving pumpkins but Mark was a good sport because Jett really wanted to. It turned out pretty good. Jett did more scooping of the pumpkin than cutting.

Jett was Annikin Skywalker. I have no idea how to spell Annikin. But that's what he wanted to be. It's from Star Wars Clone Wars. The mask was pretty coool. He loved wearing it! This was at Jett's school on Halloween.

We hosted the Saddlebrooke Neighborhood Halloween Party. It was loads of fun! Here are some good photos from that day! Thank goodness mom was in town to help me. We had lots of fun setting up the haunted garage.




Franky is ready to scare in the "Haunted Garage."

Here is a game... pumpkin agility test. I had a 4-foot inflatable pumpkin that they weaved in and out of the cones. This was great until about 20 kids decided to jump on the pumpkin. I thought it'd pop for sure. I should have gotten a photo of that but didn't. The good news is that the pumpkin survived for another Halloween!

Marina wore her costume at the Lake Quivira Halloween Party. Unfortunately, she didn't wear it on Halloween.

This photo was taken from "Trunk-Or-Treat" at Jett's school. It was on the 17th and Jett wore his Spiderman costume. Our neighbors are here with him.

Jett's Birthday

We had lots of fun for Jett's birthday. He had a 10-day celebration! First, the mom and dad came up and we tailgated at Seth's house for the Texas Tech game. Unfortunately, KU got beat! Then, Jett's birthday party at school, then that night with friends. And then the Johnsons came up. So he got lots of great stuff. Here are some highlights from his birthday!

Superhero's Birthday! The theme was Batman.

I thought I could make the Batman cake, no problem. Whew! That was work! There are 3 cakes in there!! And the original frosting turned out green. So we have a layer of army green frosting (I thought I could turn chocolate frosting black by adding blue food coloring). It looked so bad I went to Hobby Lobby for black food coloring. Much better but there was a TON of frosting on this puppy! The kids were buzzing big-time on the sugar!

Cyan came with Aunt Christie and Grandma JJ and Grandpa Stevie. They had so much fun together! Here, she's helping Jett open his new footbal jersey.

This photo was taken awhile ago at Grandma Jo-Jo's. I think it turned out great so included it.