We celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary by renewing our vows. This is our Pastor, Marc at our church. We had some of our friends with us.
Here is a photos of all of us after the ceremony.
The vow renewal was on a Friday. Then, on Saturday, we had a party with a theme of: Marriage, Mexican and Margaritas.
You guessed it: we had Mexican food and Margaritas. It was lots of fun and we had lots of people show up. We also ate Mexican food for about a week!
My mom got us a new TV and here is the box. Of course, which do the children find more fun? The box, of course!
In fact, E liked the box so much that one day she decided to take a nap in it! Yes, she even went upstairs and got her pillow and blanket herself.
Then in late August, we finally got our windows replaced and siding replaced. Here you can see that the workers have removed the old kitchen window in preparation for installing the new window. The children thought this was funny (and so did mom).
At the beginning of September, Z had to have ear tubes inserted and his adenoids removed. Here we are in the surgical pre-op area. We decided to include E as a good experience.
Here is our friend, P, taking Z away for his anesthesia.
And here is Dr. N, who did the surgery. Some of you will remember that Dr. N gave us our dog Sydney. Yes, Z is asleep there.
And here we are in recovery, not an hour later. The post-op folks always want to get the kids out quickly because they scream and cry and bother the other patients. Yes, Z was doing both of those.
And here is another picture of E sleeping in another funny spot. This is the folding changing table that used to sit on top of the pack-n-play.
This is the Saturday of Hurricane Ike. We lost a tree that fell into the street. But all else was OK.
The children played in the rain afterwards.
However, we lost our electricity on Saturday morning at 4am. The electricity company was saying that it would be as long as 4 weeks to get it back. So by Sunday evening, we decided to leave town. Our dear friends, the M's let us come to their country house about 2 hours from our own house. It was a bit harrowing as we left our home to travel to the country house. We didn't know if there would be traffic or if we'd have enough gas to get there. With no electricity, you can't pump gas. We packed up the contents of our freezer and emptied our our fridge and hauled the dog, husband, two kids, my mother and two cats to the country. And as you'll see from our photos, we had a WONDERFUL time:
Driving around the 40 acres in a golf cart.
Looking at the cows.
Sydney loved it there. He really liked running next to the golf cart when we went out in it.
We fished on the lake....but didn't catch anything.
E, the bug loving girl that she is, handled the night crawlers.
And the M's have a huge inflatable jumpy jump that squirts water. So we played on that too!
Z got a haircut at a local barber. Z cried and wriggled so much that the barber didn't want to charge me the 7 dollars. I told him I couldn't not pay him, so he settled for $5.
Here is what our trip home was like. Z was sleeping and Buster was climbing all over Z.
Buster really didn't like the car and Z really didn't like Buster climbing all over him.
