"Me don't like that"

On Wednesday, I was riding my bike with Samuel in the back of the bike trailer like I usually do to pick up the kids from school. I had just turned the corner and felt something dragging behind me, and turned around to see the bike trailer had flipped upside down and was dragging behind me. I jumped off my bike and ran and flipped over the bike trailer. Samuel looked at me very seriously and said "Me don't like that". I kind of laughed/cried because he was so funny and I was so relieved he was fine. He was strapped in and had his helmet on so he was okay. Although the top bar of the bike trailer is broken, so I have to find a way to fix it. We've been plauged with various illnesses the past couple weeks, and it seems like somebody is always sick, although nothing serious so we're thankful for that. We're keeping busy with Soccer, Judo, Tumbling, Piano, Scouting, and lots of different activities. We're looking forward to Christmas time, since Daddy is supposed to be coming home for R & R.

Austin video for Travis

I realized that I accidently put Betsy's short video on instead of Austin's , so here is Austin's video she made for Travis

Happy Birthday Travis!

Travis' B-day is today and the kids made these videos for him. Happy Birthday Travis, we love you!!

Little Family

Mom Joseph Austin Betsy Samuel

The kids and I made these figurines out of salt dough a couple Sundays ago, and painted them to look like each one of us, and sent them to Travis, so that he could have his "family" with him in Iraq. I didn't post the picture until now, becuase I didn't want Travis to see them before his package arrived. He got his package, and everything arrived intact, except for Samuel's left arm, but hopefully he can glue it back together. We had a lot of fun making these, and it was actually our second set. The first set we made, and then as I was putting them up high on top of the cupboard, so that they would be out of reach, until the package was ready to send, I slipped and dropped them, and they broke. Although, Samuel enjoyed carrying "his Samuel" around for a little while and playing with him until it broke too much to play with anymore.