A Brave Little Boy

I know we haven't updated for a very long time because of the lack of computer internet at our home. (Our computer busted). I am currently at a computer that I can update a little bit.

I just wanted to write about my sisters little family and their little boy who is 18 months old and with an extremely aggressive and rare cancer. He is currently at Dana Farber in Boston. You can check out his updates and story on OURBRAVELITTLELION.BLOGSPOT.COM.

Great News!

Well this is a few days late because our computer died, so I had to use other means.
My Twin sister just had her first baby on Friday(Feb 26) at about 5:30 am! It was a boy and he was 8 #s even and 19.5". His name is Jack Walton and is a cute little guy (sorry no pic).
We are excited. Congrats Lisa and Jim.

This tough guy is 6!

I love this picture. Alex is younger than Taylor and Brig is only a couple months old. I think they have the sweetest faces. So that's why I'm posting this as the baby pic of Brigham. I can't believe that 6 years has already gone by.Here is Brighams cake (a dragon volcano with rocks instead of flowers).Blowing out candles. Opening presents. What a fun day!

We're glad Brigs is in our fam.

Yeah! He's here.

We just wanted to say welcome to our newest nephew/cousin. Everett Michael born 11:37 pm on the 6th. He was 7lb 15oz. and 21 inches. Congrats Julie, Jon, and Wellyn!

I know it's Thanksgiving, but...

I thought that I'd post the Halloween costumes at our house.

A fairy, Pilot, Indiana Jones, DraculaThe rest of the pilots costume!

For those faithful supporters...

...or those who are just curious. Voting was yesterday. Mark made a good showing, but in the end came in 3rd out of 5 candidates for seat 2. He did well. He ran against one of his friends/clients who came in 2nd. We'll see what we decide to do next.

The man is 7!!!

ALEX ON HIS BIRTH-DAY

We have been busy lately with lots of different things, but we had an exciting day on Monday. Alex turned 7! We had no digital camera then, but my mom sent me a scan. Here is the birthday boy with his cake. Do you like the 7 candles as the stem? He wanted a jack-o-lantern cake with a bat and Brigs wanted dracuala. I added a spider ghost and witch.Alex is doing well in school. He was telling us the other day that the other kids in his class get $s for loosing teeth. Why does the tooth fairy only brings me a quarter?

Mom: Because that's what the tooth fairy does at our house.

Alex: Wait a minute, I get it...you and dad are the tooth fairy! Here is Taylor enjoying the festivities. He is growing sooo much and is now a Toddler. He has figured out how to move the chairs and turn the lights on andoff. He also can climb up on the stove and push the buttons, so we try to keep a good eye on him.

Lissie fell asleep like this. Funny girl. She loves being at home and spending time with Mom. she sings about it. She has also learned to write her full first name (no nickname)and some of the letters and numbers.

Brigham thought up a great sandwich. He made his into a smiley face here. How fun. He is doing great in school. He only has 5 boys in his class and 15 girls! He gets to play with one of the boys about 2 times a week. He is still very imaginative. In fact he started writing a book and wanted to put it in the library.

Mark is running for city council against 4 other people. He had a debate last night and did really well. He has been busy with that and YMs. He has signs and we made some flyers that he is going to hand out. Elections are Nov 3rd. He's been busy getting all sides of the issues and getting out meeting other people. I'll have to get some pictures of the signs later.

I am doing the PTO this year and we finished our first fund raiser a few weeks ago and made money! It was a back to school night. We are now working on a Halloween Carnival which is next week. There are 2 of us doing it and we have been able to get a some volunteers to work on it. Yeah. The boys have also started basketball and Lissie and I are doing preschool. Taylor loves his Dad and will come bring a book for me to look at with him and sit on my lap. We are just having fun and enjoying life. In a couple of weeks hopefully things will slow down and we can rest for a little bit, but we are good.