Toby's first day of pre-school.

Toby's first day was a day after we got back from our wonderful trip to Memphis. Unfortunately it will also be the day I came home and saw that Ken was home and told me he had been canned. Yep after we went on a nice little trip that you will review Ken's boss fired him.
We are actually enjoying him being home. I'm getting a lot of help and I am able to do lots of classes at the Y. For those of you who think we should drop the Y, I have opted that for cheap entertainment....It's cheaper than cable TV--which we don't have. I'm loving Zumba and weight lifting classes and power cycling in the morning with my friends/neighbors. I'm thinking of doing body building--maybe I can make some cash doing that.....or maybe I could gain a bunch of weight--get on the Biggest Loser and lose it all...for cash. Or maybe I will play Bunco every night. I don't know, we are looking at all our options....maybe we'll start a honey bee business...

Thank you. Thank you very much...

Toby slept good on our road trip out to Memphis. He had this blanket over his head as he napped. The kids did well on our trip to memphis. It was work, but we did it.

Both the boys got squirmys...um yeah....don't really get it, but they were CRAZY about these little worms.

We are finally at Graceland. We had a great time and saw some very strange people too.
Here is good ol' Graceland. It's funny...I go to a church named Grace Covenant and I went to college at a school named Graceland....oh yeah and one of my neices has the middle name Grace...We've decided to name our estate Gracias. Muchos Gracias. (Get it--Thank you...Thank you very much) (in spanish).

Front Living Room.

Elvis' parent's room.

The Dining Room.

The Kitchen.

The TV Room. This room had mirrors all over it.

This is the Billiard room....all in fabric.

The Jungle room. I guess Elvis used to do recordings in this room...because there is carpet on the walls.

One of Elvis' jumpsuits and his billions of gold/platnum records.

The Lisa Marie. The sinks had gold flakes in it!!!

Elvis' pink Cadillac. The car display was the most impressive. We weren't allowed to take pics with the flash. Well it's pretty dark in the building, so Caleb made a complaint to the Securtiy Guard...she was kind enough to look the other way and let him use the flash. I'm not sure we got that great of a picture. At least it's not blurry.

He had a blue succer.

A happy E-pa.

The incline railway in Chattanooga, TN

Just so you can celebrate this is our 100th post on this blog. Yippee to 3 years of memories that have catapulted into the future and now recorded as the past. Life is too darn short.

See the incline? See it! This really was a glorified buss ride...although we did get to see everyone's back yard as we went down the mountain.

The Lost sea

We met my parents in Memphis, TN for one weekend...On the way we stayed in Chattanooga and went to The Lost sea. It's a cave with a lake in it. We really had a great time here in the cave. No bats are in the cave, but some rainbow trout live in the lake. They were brought in about 20 years ago...If you are ever in the Chattanooga area I recommend stopping here.

On the Boat.

A stalagmite? That sounds like cave talk doesn't it?

if you see the devil--you must have done a bad thing last week. This is called devil hole.

The tunnel into the cave. This is man made and painted yellow because it helps your eyes adjust to the dark cave.

6 months

Sliding Rock and Looking Glass Falls

For Ken's birthday we went to the mountains where there is a really cool rock slide. Toby loved it. Caleb just hung out by the rocks and Leisel and I took pictures. It was pretty neat. We also went to Looking glass falls, which was in Last of the Mohicans at one point. Very beautiful.