Great Video on Mortgage Crisis

This video was removed because of a claim by Warner Music. My hunch is that Google didn't want this on Youtube because they are extremely Liberal and want Obama to win.

This sums it up nicely in 10 minutes on who and what is largely responsible for the problem we are in and why I am greatly concerned about who is "fixing" the problem.

I wonder why they would want to take this down? Watch it for yourself.

For Sale

We are officially on the market! This is a bitter sweet thing for me. If we sell we have decided we're taking the plunge and moving to California. A lot of Brett's family lives in the Sacramento area and we know how awesome it would be to have the benefit of Aunts/Uncles and cousins for the boys. Living in Portland is totally our city of choice. We love the Northwest... we love our church.. we love our friends. But the boys are never truly going to know family if we only see them once or twice a year.
Flock has one of it's main offices in Redwood City so Brett would benefit from being MUCH closer to his company. The timing is as good as it will probably ever get. The boys are young enough to not be overly traumatized by the move... Brett has job flexibility.... the market there has taken a major dive so we could actually afford a house. Of course all of this rides on some lovely person buying our beautiful house. So, spread the word. Our house is listed $40,000 less than it was a year ago so it's a great deal.
So of course we're totally excited about the prospect of a good change and totally sad about the real possibility of saying good bye to so much we love. Please pray for the Lord's perfect timing and will for us.

First Day Of Preschool

Today was Matthew's first day of preschool! Totally exciting for him... totally sad for me :) My precious baby is growing up! I know he is in the best of hands with Teacher Patty.
Here is a picture of the two of them together and then an adorable little Cowboy I just found in our family room.

Enjoying the last of the hot days

Backyard + Sprinklers = FUN!!

Soccer Jamboree

SYSC had it's annual soccer jamboree Saturday to kick things off. The kids got to have their team pictures taken, participate in drills, get tattoos and have their very first soccer game of the season. Josh did so great and proudly scored two goals! Go Hurricanes!!

First Day Of Kindergarten!

Tuesday was Josh's kindergarten orientation and today is his first official day of kindergarten! He is such a social bug. He warmed up to his teacher right away and already has made some new friends.
There are two familiar faces at school so that helps a bit. James and Josh went to Teacher Patty's together. And our good buddy Miss Abigail is there. Both James and Abigail are in the other AM kinder class but Josh looks forward to seeing them at recess and before and after school :)
Here are some pictures to remember this very special milestone! Oh, and I did great. I didn't even shed a tear :) I think having him at preschool for the last two years prepared me. I pray this year at Archer Glen is filled with lots of learning, laughter and memories he'll carry with him for a lifetime!

The great outdoors

Yesterday we got back from our final camping trip of the summer. Our three days at Ft. Stevens were SO much fun! We had a great spot within walking distance to Coffenbury lake where the boys got to have their first experience fishing. Unfortunately none of caught anything but it was a great lesson in patience! We also enjoyed swimming in the lake. We're trying to convince Maggie (our lab) that she is in fact a water dog by nature and should love swimming. She wasn't easily convinced but we tried :) We went to the beach Saturday afternoon and enjoyed perfect weather and sand castle building!
I love making these great memories together! I don't know about you but I'm not ready for summer to be over.