Hi guys,

This picture is from Sirena's 5th birthday (Sept 29)--a little dark, but very current.

Paul is doing fine-getting settled and all that. He calls once or twice a week, and we e-mail lots.

Hope all is well with you all.
--LuShaun

YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2007 WHEN.....

1. You accidently enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3 . You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

My First Ever "Blog"

Alright, well let see..."blogging"? Kind of feel like a dork because I have never blogged, and until Teresa started her page I didn't read any blogs. I Guess I am so behind the times. Well, I lead a pretty boring and routine life so this week has been quite eventful for my mundanesness since we finally broke down and got cable yesterday (It is football season after all). Its been so long since we have had it its taken us two days and lots of calls back to the cable company to figure this out. OK its really not that hard, just lots of technacial problems. What a headache though! O' and other big event was to brake down and get another Costco card. A whole year of holding out saying we didn't need them....the withdraws were too much, exspecialy Teresa taking me there when she came to visit and reminding me what I was missing out on.
Wow, the excitement! I know I know, you all wish you were me. I can't wait to see what this next week holds for me. Pretty funny when your actually looking forward to your dental cleaning appointment in the morning.
Yea! My first blog......

A Fresh Start

Okay, I know I'm pretty brave in admitting this, but I'm going to vow in front of my family to start exercising more and take better care of myself --- maybe then if I make this announcement, there will be some accountability attached to it. It's taken a while to realize this, and feeling my clothes become tighter and realizing I'm not feeling my best has finally settled in. I'm just doing baby steps right now ... for instance, I've decided one thing I was going to do different was to start walking at least 30 minutes a day 4 days a week. I announced this to Joseph this morning as I was getting the little boys ready to go...he was so excited and said "Okay, but can we go 5 times around the park?" You have to realize the walking trail inside our park is about 1/2 mile. Yikes..... 2 1/2 miles is alot to start with, but to humor him I said I would think about it. So we went and started at the other end of the trail and eventually came to the playground and then Joseph piped in "okay mom, 5 times around" and pointed to the playgound. Whew, that was a relief, he meant 5 times around the playgound - now, that I can handle! So while he and Josh played in the sand, I want you to know, I not only did 5 laps around the playgound, but I did 10!!! How's that for a start! Remember...baby steps.

I'll go first!

Hi everyone. This is just going to be an informal blog so we all can post pictures, messages, little things we want to share with each other. Lets have some fun with this!