Finally warm in Kansas City

Well it has finally gotten to feel like summer here in Kansas City, Our temps have actually reached the high 90's or low 100's for the last week and they are telling us it should continue for the next few weeks too. It wouldn't be so bad except for the humidity which really seems to kill me and the kids. Zach says it won't last but maybe a few more weeks 6 at the most. We haven't been spending as much time outside as we had been.

I have however taken apart the kids power wheels motercycle and replaced a rear wheel driver so that it now goes in reverse again. We have had fun playing on it and Kendall has gotten to go on her first ride on it. After Carter told her her ride was over she went crawling down the driveway after him. "yelling" at him to come back.


We went down the the mall in Independence the other day to find something to do inside out of the heat. I let the kids have a ride on the carousel and they picked the one seat that was sure to make them dizzy although they did have a great time.


The kids also had fun playing in the play area nearby inside the mall
Yesterday we even finally made it to the lake. Although I have no pictures as I forgot my camera at home because I had been thinking of downloading these other pictures. A few families from the ward were headed up to the lake to play at the beach so we took along the jet skis, it was fun and everyone got to ride although the yellow one wouldn't start, (that will be Zach's little project for the next little while) We had a good time anyways. We are seriously considering selling them next summer in turn for a boat as our whole family no longer fits on just the two jet skis. I guess time will tell on if our plan works out. Hope you all are doing well. It was good to read your posts Summer and Desi. It is so fun to see pictures and how everyone is growing up.

Zach should have his perment assignment this week or next Carter starts school on the 20th a week from tomarrow. 1st grade if any of you can believe that. Time goes by so fast! Dylan and Tatum (the little girl next door) will be doing preschool together alternating weeks at my house and hers. The kids are very excited about this. Kendall is growing up way to fast and is starting to stand on her own. I am not quite ready for her to be walking but I don't think it will be very long now till that happens. She loves her brothers and mostly loves to be the center of attention. I am still riding my bike and actually had a great ride this last weekend with a pretty fast group that rides pretty fast. we held a 19.1 mph for 40 miles Saturday, (FYI the pellaton in the Tour de France averaged 19.5 this last year, although they did it for 100 miles for almost 30 days in a row) I'm not that good, but at least I am getting better. Last year I was lucky to reach 17 for an average. Anyways we love you all and are thinking of you too.

Love Lynette

HEY YA'LL

Hey everybody! I like what Curt was saying about this being a family journal for us. I thought I would post that we are having another boy, even though I think we told everyone! (Sorry Ben for not calling you, I was just having a week that I was so stressed out, so sorry for the craziness!) We will be naming him ______ Lindsay Page. We have a few ideas for the first name but it has been harder coming up with another boy name. For FHE this month, mom did the lesson on our thoughts, and how our thoughts turn into actions, and how important it is to focus on positive thoughts. How we can monitor this is by how we feel, if we feel good or bad. We made vision boards to help put goals in our lives and concentrate on the things we need. It was a fun FHE I thought.
Kaden is doing well and is becoming very independent. His favorite thing right now is to watch Neverending Story, Monsters, Inc or Captain EO. However, I really have to monitor how much TV he watches since lately he wants to watch it all the time. He is talking a lot and still hasn't caught the concept of having a baby brother instead of a baby sister. He stills thinks that baby sister is in mommy's belly. I have getting big and am at 25 weeks already. I feel like the time is really flying by. Justing is doing well, managing Park. He will actually be going over to Campbell because we have a manager named Hope that will be taking over Park. SHe has been working there helping Justin so all the employees know her and like her. Curt is working on moving out this week. It is really weird for Justin and I since we have always had someone living in our home since we have been married. However, since Curt starting dating Jen we really haven't seen too much of him, so it shouldn't be too weird for us to see him go. I am so glad that he will be close, and now all we have to do is get Nick closer to all of us, since we all live on the east side. Lynette, I hope that you can make it out for the tour! It would be fun to see everyone again. I can't believe it has been 8 months already since you guys have been gone. I miss seeing my boys.
Congratulations Zach and Lynette for 10 years! Zach I can't believe Lynette has put up with you for so long! LOL.
Congratulations to Curt and JEn for getting engaged! Jen is in for a wild ride!
Congratulations to Mom and Dad on the 27th for a really long time of being married, I think 36 years? Crazy.
Congratulations Ben on getting your new job. We are so excited that you will still be here.

I am so happy everyone is doing so well. Love you all!

Desi

Our turn=)

OK OK, I guess it's our turn. Thing's are going well. Ryan is plugging away with the website, and I had my review and got a big raise at work. Lots and Lots of hours, but it'll all be worth it. As I saw Mom told you the kids all went back to school. They are all adjusting.


And thank you to Zach, Ben and Curt for calling Ryan on his birthday. It meant the world to him.


This is a pic of Ryan, Brittany, Abby and I at the Pima county fair this year. That was their reward for bringing their grades up. It is something Ryan and I started doing as an incentive. And so far so good. Last quarter I took them all roller skating and found out I am not as young or limber as I used to be=) Next it will be a trip to golf and stuff.


We love you and miss you guys.

KC Update

Well things are going well here. Summer is quickly coming to a close and as I look back it has gone way to fast. Luckily we still have a few more weeks. Dylan is really going to miss Carter when he goes back to school. Kendall is growing up so fast she now has 4 teeth, her 4th just coming through this morning now she has two on top and 2 on the bottom. She is getting close to walking, but seem to still find ways to get into everything. She has almost figured out the stairs going up at least and has had a tumble going down. At least the tumble down scared her bad enough she hasn't tried it again. Dylan and Carter are going to be starting soccer soon too. We have a parents meeting this week and Carter has "try outs" on Monday. He will have his skills tested so that they can create even teams. I think they are both excited about that. Dylan and the little girl across the street are going to do preschool this year switching back and forth between myself and Dena as teachers. I will do it for a week and then she will. Just 2x's a week. It should be fun. I did it with Carter one year in Tucson and he really liked it I hope it will go just as well with Dylan. Carter is excited about being in first grade and equally excited about loosing his two front teeth. Both of his "big boy" teeth have already come in. They came in behind his baby teach and we nick named him shark boy for a while. though now that the baby teeth are gone the bigger ones are moving forward thankfully we were getting scared that he would be forced to have braces. He also just got new shoes that tie. Last year when the teacher asked the parents to make sure the kids could tie their own shoes Carter had Velcro shoes so we didn't work on it. So now that he has these new shoes I have also taught him to tie them. He is so excited because they have "springs" in the heal that make him run faster. Although he said no to joining me on a run. Someday maybe when he is older and can keep up. I am working hard on learning to run better. I have a running partner here who is the wife of a guy Zach went to school with and then they moved here to work for Cerner too. She is awesome at running and we have been running together for about 10 weeks and I have seen lots of improvement in my running skills. When I trained for my marathon I rarely ran faster than a 11 minute mile on any training run unless the whole mile was down hill. Yesterday we did a 4.2 mile run in 40 min. Holding a 9 and a half minute mile for 4+ miles in a row. Wow. I would have never believed I could do that. I am so excited about it and think that I will continue to get faster. I love running with her because she is so good at pushing me to my limit, but not too far everyday. I have decided also to start training on my bike again, We are hoping to come back for the Tour de Tucson again. I started training and have met up with a group here in town to ride with on Saturdays, the other days I have to ride my trainer in the basement since the roads out here are too dangerous on a bike. (running I can at least jump into the ditch on the side of the road when a car comes). I had a choice of groups slow or fast. since I am trying to train for this long ride I picked the fast group although they are faster than I normally ride. I thought I wouldn't make it on Saturday, but I did, I rode with the slower of the groups but we still averaged 17.2 miles per hour. This Saturday though I am going to have to be ready to do 10 more miles than I did last Saturday since the lesser mileage group of the faster group from last week only went less miles because they had a race the next day and didn't want to over do it. Hopefully I will be ready. It has been an odd week this week with Zach working in Lee's Summit, which is a suburb of KC we live in the north east KC and Lee's Summit is in south east KC. His commute this week has been about 45 min each way which is a big change from the 20 min commute normally. At least we only have 2 more days of that. He should have his permanent assignment anytime now. He has another meeting tomorrow where he might find out then. We'll keep our fingers crossed. He is looking forward to having the same boss for more than 8 weeks at a time and having a chance to really sit down and learn or put what he has learned to real use. Well that about covers it. Sorry this is so long. We love you guys and miss you all so much. Congratulations again Curt on your engagement to Jen. We need to get her on here too since she is going to be a part of the family too. Also congratulations Desi and Justin on having another little boy!! I love my boys so much and they are so much fun. You too will have a great time doing lots of little boy things with them and seeing the world through their eyes they will have so much to teach and share with you too. Have fun.

Love to you all

Lynette

Shelby B-day pics etc..

Here are a few pics from Shelby's birthday. Both Brody and Shelby wanted to read a book and sit in my lap for some reason.

She seemed to have a lot of fun and enjoyed her cake. She got it all over her face and loved every minute of it.


Here is a picture of Brody and Shelby enjoying the mud puddles we got after a monsoon storm came through last week.


Updates Shelby has two and a half teeth finally. At her 1 year appt she weighed in at a whole 18lbs so there for she is still facing backwards in her carseat. She has been walking really well now for almost two months. Her personality is really coming through alot. She loves to swim with her brother.
Brody is still himself huge he is really loving the fact that his daddy flys helicopters and loves to go to the school and visit him cause daddy lets him sit in the helicopters and pretend to fly. He really loves going to nursery and actually likes his teachers alot and knows there names. He is starting to recognize the letters that spell his name and gets really excited.
I am doing really well only have 8 weeks left until my due date. My Dr. Is talking about inducing me again if I want so hopefully as long as I am started to dilate like I did with Shelby it will only be 7 weeks. We thought we had a name but are still kinda playing with it so we will see what it ends up being once we actually get to see each other for 5 minutes and are both coherent. Then we will let everyone know. I have really enjoyed this summer not working and getting to spend my time with just my kids.
It has been so nice being able to get on here and see how everyone is doing. I hope everyone is still doing well. Zach and Lynette we really miss you guys but are glad things are going well for you.
Erin

There is a First Time for Everything

I know, I know, everyone is shocked that we are finally getting around to writing.
The most recent info, Sebastien, Brittany, Kayla and Abigail went back to school
last week. Yeah. The house is now as we left it unless the dogs get into something.
Sebastien is now in middle school. They are really strict and structured, which is
what he needs. All but Brittany have expressed that they really like their teachers.
We are working on finding out why.

Randy's youngest son, Shaun, was getting married on 7/7//07 and I haven't
Mom since November, so I thought I would run up for a day attend the attend
the wedding and see Mom. I flew Skywest since their flights are an 1 1/2 hour
and the morning flights out and returning were supposed to be great. But I arrived
back home 15 hours later than planned, and lucky to be there at all.
Although the trip home was brutal and it took me a week to recover, it was really
good to see Randy and Wendy and their family, it has been a long time. I was also very glad to check in on Mom to see how she was doing. I am going to try and post some of the wedding
photos. I was only able to take a few cause I had to keep a close eye on Mom.

Zach and Lynette the Monsoons have started with a vengence. We have had some
incredible storms the last 4 days. A storm hit 4 minutes before I got off work today
and I was soaked in the minute it took to get to the car. There wasn't even any protection
under the overhangs since the wind was blowing so badly. Good news, I just bought
a few flowers for the pots out front on Saturday and I haven't had to water them yet.
Cool. We even had a tornado watch last Thursday, the sky was very strange that day.
Should have taken a picture. Well that is all the boring stuff I can come up with for
now.

I'M ENGAGED!!!!!

I don't think that there is anyone that I haven't told, but thought it would be apporopriate to post that I asked Jenn to marry me. For whatever reason, she decided to say yes!! I
m sooooooo excited for this and figured that since this is kinda like a family journal, it would be appropriate to post the info. I know that i've told everyone this, but I'm so excited for the prospect of bringing this woman into the family, everyone seems to really like her and that is very important to me. Right now we are tentatively looking at a date late next April (Zach and Lynette, I'll be calling you soon to make sure you can make it, we're just waiting to find out if the place will be available). Other than that things are going really smoothly with me. I had my private pilot checkride sceduled for next wednesday, but got bumped for a CFI checkride (they have priority). Actually I'm OK with that because I want more time to practice some of the manuvers (180 autos, Ben, you know what I mean, they kinda hard and all). Anyway, love you all, and Zach and Lynette, I realy miss you guys and the kids. I can't wait to see you guys. Kendall is getting so cute, she must get that from you Lynette, 'cause Zach, you kinda ugly (haven't been able to make an ugly comment for a while).