Beautiful.

EI playing dress up with her sister.

The crew, in various stages of getting dressed in the morning. This picture was their own idea; I'm not sure why.

These last three are simply IM. No more to be said.

Fall Run

This picture was taken right outside the church where AK takes piano lessons. It is called Chapel by the Sea, for obvious reasons.

I went for a run during AK's piano lesson, and this is what I got to look at as I ran.

This country lane is one of our favorite places to run. It is just a three minute jog away from AK's piano lesson (and a twenty minute jog from our house).

This is the cottonwood tree in our backyard. It went from totally green to totally yellow in a very short time.

Right after AK's piano lesson on Friday, ML, AK, and IM took off for a camping/fishing/boating/hunting trip. They met the two favorite uncles from Soldotna who brought my parents camper trailer with them for everyone to stay in. They had an awesome time and got a bunch of good pictures which we will post soon. EI and mama got to stay home and have a relaxing couple of days.

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Just wanted to put this on, does there need to be a reason?
Later

Birthday Weekend

EI eating breakfast backward

On my birthday some friends watched the kids while ML and I went out to lunch and went birthday shopping. When we were done the babysitters and kids were still at Chuck E. Cheese's so ML took a nap while I went for a run. Back home I got some pictures of our newly growing lawn. We are going to give the grass a couple more weeks without being walked on, and then we can cut off at ground level all the pipes you see sticking out of the ground. Next summer we should have a real lawn! The kids had a great time with the babysitters. Not only did they get to go to Chuck E. Cheese's and play games and win prizes, they got to go to McDonald's to eat and play in the playland there.

Another very exciting birthday present was new interior doors. Yea! This hallway looks so much brighter with six white doors instead of six dark brown doors. We still have to paint the doors glossy white, put the door knobs on, and change the hinges to antique pewter instead of gold.