Go Vikes!

Ryan dresses the girls up in their cheerleading gear on game days. Not that it has brought the Vikings any luck so far. We'll see what Old Gus can do this week. Isabel has even started to ask football questions like "dad who has the ball now?" She likes to get her pom-poms out and then Ryan likes to pause the TV when the cheerleaders are on (for Isabel's sake of course.)



Before the Game



After the Game

Clean Up

Isabel wanted to do her part with the hurricane clean-up. Notice she is wearing a dress and jewelry. Later she put on her princess dress-up dress and shoes. The neighbors thought that was pretty funny. And Aunt Mandy wondered if she ever wore her dress-up dress. Ryan was checking out the pool equipment and Isabel had to run in the house and grab her tool kit so she could assist.

We survived Ike!

Well hurricane Ike came through on Friday night. Our area is looking pretty good, just lots of downed trees and fences, roof damage, and power outages. We are very lucky to have power right now. We cleaned up the yard and will be dealing with insurance and contractors now. Lots of people are still without power and the people on the islands will have it rough for quite a while. Things get very unsanitary, very quickly without electricity or water. All the basic necessities are in short supply around here but everyone is happy to have survived.