Kristine has a thing for life guards

beach kiss, originally uploaded by Stevo28andgrowing.

So...either Kristine has a thing for life guards...or Adler knows that if he gives Mommy a kiss...he can get some bubbles!

There are so many cute pics from our trip in May to Hilton Head, I've just been a slacker and haven't finished editing them all yet. Hopefully we'll have some up on kodak soon, but for now...this one is my fav. Adler is just so awesome and I'm jealous that Kristine's not giving me the smooch... :)

It's been so fun watching Adler's personality get bigger and bigger (along with his 36.5lb body) over the last few months. Be on the look out for some new pics soon.

Playin in the sandbox...

Jake Arnold - Olympic Hopeful - Decathlon, originally uploaded by Stevo28andgrowing.

Had to post one of my favorite photos from my week in Los Angeles. It was such an awesome shoot and we had a great time watching all of these amazing Athletes do their thing. Thank goodness the Director didn't mind me running around with my camera like a 6 year old in a Toys R Us.

This is Jake Arnold. He's a Decathlete that's getting ready for the trials in Eugene, OR next week. Jake saved us a day of shooting when the female athlete we'd booked for the shoot bailed on us, due to hurt feet. I guess I can't blame her, since she's just training for this little event called THE OLYMPICS, but nonetheless Jake got a phone call the day before the shoot, said yes, and then was at the stadium the next day, ready to jump his arse off.

Good luck Jake! We'll all be watching

HELP, my life has been taken hostage by Disney Pixar's "Cars"

Seriously, help! I'm currently watching Cars for a second time today, (and viewing number 153). At the same time, Adler is playing with his Disney Pixar's interactive "play a sound" book, also while making car noises with the gajillion match-box cars that have invaded our house (thanks to Bonnie who's "son" was tired of them, but I'm realizing it was probably more like "mom" was tired one). Adler wakes up talking about cars, says "night-night Queen" (Lighting McQueen) before bed, and makes car noises the rest of the time he is awake. He only wants to watch Cars and if I have anything else on, he gets a kung-fu grib on my finger and leads me to the TV and pleads "Cars?, Cars?, On? On?". Since we are both sicky today, I am giving in, but I really do feel at this point, my life has been taken hostage. Any suggestions?

He's leaving on a midnight train to Georgia...

Well, more like a morning flight, but either way, Adler and I can't wait to see Stephen! He has been in LA since Sunday morning and we are ready for Stephen to be back! I know he has had a great time and did a great job on his shoot there (I'm sure he'll have pictures and stories to share). Adler just kissed the picture of his daddy on our blog, so I think he's ready for him to get home too! Can't wait to see you, Stephen!!

Now that it's just us.....

Whew!! Now that it's just us...let me say how thankful I am to have so many friends and family who love and care for us! I've received quite a few emails of people curious as to why we decided to go private with the blog. We weren't having any problems, or unwanted visitors (that we knew of). We actually made some new "blog friends" which I know is a crazy term especially to our parents...however, I was always monitoring how many hits we were getting. At first, I thought it was a fun game to see which blog (between mine and Stephen's) was getting the most hits (of course it was mine) and depending on the post, we were getting any where from 60-300 hits a day....and I had no idea who those people were (50 was probably my mom, but still left a large number of unknown). I started thinking twice about what pictures I posted of Adler, information I shared (like the fact that Stephen is in LA for week, etc), places we like to go..... Since the whole point of our family blog was to keep friends and family connected, I felt that going private was the best choice for us. And since I'm so protective over what Adler is exposed to, I want to be sure I'm protecting who is exposed to him.... Anyways, that's it! Stephen will keep his blog "public" so I'll let him do the networking. Thanks for your interest in our family! Hope everyone is having a great day!
xoxo

Happy June 18

On June 18th, 1997, two high school kids took a trip with friends to Galveston Island. Neither of them had any idea what journey this day would embark. We listened to this Matchbox 20 song, with KT and Daniel doing hand motions and interpretive dance in the back seat. I guess we were moved because after dropping them off, we decided to try going from "best friends" to dating. 11 years later, here we are! College, marriage, house, jobs, Adler...who knew all of this was ahead! Thank you, Jesus, for my best friend. And thank you, Stephen, for the sweet way you have always loved me!
xoxo
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Tired of the blog

I'm getting tired of this thing...sort of burt out. Like it's always on the "to-do" list and something else i don't get done in a day. Thinking about calling this thing a wrap...have been on blurb.com to see about printing it into a book, since it has become a big part of my journaling Adler's first year and a half! Anyone else done this? Any suggestions?

Dynamic Duo

Maybe Adler will do harmonies at Stephen's next show?