vacation 06

It was time to work in a vacation before the end of the year. We went to Tulsa Sunday night to visit my brother and his family. We got there in time to meet them at their church and went to service with them. We stayed until Tuesday morning and mostly sat and talked and relaxed. It was nice. We found a park for the kids to play in for a while. Sarah had to work Tuesday so we pulled into the driveway with just enough time for her to run in and change and head out the door. Tanner and I decided to make a pumpkin pie. I realized I bought the wrong crust so I went searching through a cookbook to find out how to make one myself so Tanner got the rolling pin and we made a pie from scratch (well with canned pumpkin of course). It turned out really good. The next few days we worked on the yard, closed up the pool (yeah I know I should have done that a couple months ago) and decided to start stripping wall paper off of our dining room and family room

king of the almost

We have a tree in our front yard that is great for leaf piles. One day it's full of leaves and the next day it just abandons all of them. We like to take that opportunity to get some good pictures of the kids. Lately we've noticed that we don't have that many pictures of Tanner and I'm beginning to see why. He is the king of the almost good picture. It seems really hard to get a picture of a 5 year old boy. He's either making a goofy face or has that fake smile thing. Anyway, here's a few examples of the dozens of attempts. I guess the true test of a picture is if it represents the person and these certainly do.