Ole!

Owen received his mission call today. He will be serving in the Mexico, Torreon mission (Spanish speaking of course) and will enter the Provo MTC on November 19th. We're so excited for him and know he will be a wonderful missionary. Soon he will be able to speak Spanish with Brett and Steve! Now he just has to find a job and be patient for the next 13 weeks.:)

Sarah - please forgive me...

My Dear , sweet Sarah: Sorry this is sooo late. I lost track of this month. Hope you had a great birthday! Love you!

August "Rush"

I snuck in to take this picture the other day. Aubrey had fallen asleep with her bum up in the air, and found a binky in the crib. She has just started taking them at nap time. She just looked too sweet and even though she had been cranky, it all just melted away when I saw her like this! : ) I love my little sugarpie...

We've been so busy lately it seems with all of the house preparations, but it seems that about everything is in place now. I drove past "our" house today with Aubrey and the sellers were moving out so that was kind of exciting.

Aubrey didn't really want to take a morning nap so finally around noon I decided to go run my errands anyway. We dropped off some paperwork at the bank and on our way home I gave Aubrey a little "open-the-flap" book that she's been looking at from the library in her carseat. She was pretty quiet but every time I peeked back at her she still had her hand holding up a flap.

When I stopped at a stoplight I turned around and she was knocked out but had fallen asleep holding up the flap to the bunny rabbit page. It was so cute. But apparently the elephant page looked mighty tasty because a whole corner of that flap was gone and little pieces of red paper were stuck all around her mouth and on her cheek!

She's such a crazy girl. I know she must have been pretty exhausted though because she didn't even wake up as I took her out of her carseat and walked her all the way upstairs. She was so warm and cuddly in my arms. I'm really trying to hold onto her baby moments, I know they'll be gone so fast. I was just thinking tonight as I put her to bed how good it feels to have the weight of a sleeping baby in your arms, especially when they're all soft and sweet smelling fresh from a bath.

We took her to a park here close to us this evening to have a little dinner picnic with my family. It was a beautiful night and we had brisket and watermelon. It was nice to sit and visit a bit. Aubrey loved to look at the fountain in the pond and all the ducks. Actually, she wasn't really interested in the big ducks but loved looking at the little fuzzy baby duck that came swimming by after it's momma.

On another note, has anyone been watching the Olympics? We've been watching about every evening. Unfortunately, we only caught the tailend of the opening ceremonies the other night. We did get to the amazing fireworks however. I absolutely love fireworks and I wish I could have been there right under them in the stadium. They really had an amazing show. Anyway, that's all for now. Hope everyone is well. We are missing everyone and are extending an open invitation to visit us ol' Missourians anytime!