Probably the last weekend of summer

Beckham gets tired of his paparazzi parents...
I have a really cute 26 y.o. sister that is....


Here is the lot of our new house just after doing the foundation and back filling.

Here is a view of the whole thing from the far corner of the lot
Bex enjoying his post game treat!
Trey collecting shells and rocks on the Sound.
We took a ferry ride on the sound and ran into Emily Price and Cherilee Anderton, our friends from Baltimore (sorry, we don't have pictures yet but I'll post a link if they post them on their blogs - Update: click on their name for their post)

Video of Beckham's first soccer game - he is #4 with the blue shorts.



There are many times that Trey will say something very grown up or state an obscure fact and we will be like, "Where did you learn that?" Its funny when his response is, "From watching cartoons." We had another one of those moments today. On the ride back from a beach on the Puget Sound we had the following conversation:
Trey - "Dad, can we make a dot-com?"
Me - "A dot-com?....oh, yeah, but we already have one for the family."
Trey - "Yeah, but can we make another."
Me - "Sure, what do you want to put on it?"
Trey - "Stuff about Chinese Crocodiles"
Me - "What stuff?"
Trey - "Well, there aren't many of them in China anymore so we have to get information out to the people so we can help save them."
Me - "Wow, where did you learn that?......


And finally, I passed out for the first time ever in my life! When I wrestled in high school I almost passed out many, many times. I would get up too quickly from the mat and the darkness would close around me leaving just one circle of light in each eye that I would fight to not let it close completely. I always won that battle. I even purposely tried to pass out once. When I was in middle school there was this "game" going around where you would breathe real hard then have someone push on your jugulars to make you pass out...great fun right? I could only get myself to try once and it didn't work. Anyway, on Friday night I had been coughing a lot due to a sore throat. I all of the sudden had an excess of mucous in the back of my throat so I hopped out of bed to go spit it in the sink. On the way I (sorry) hacked it from the back to the front to get rid of it. That made a lot of pressure go to my head. That coupled with the standing up too quickly (orthostatic hyp-O-tension thnx Cody) made me pass out and hit my head on the tub. It was kind of surreal and I was actually so amazed that I passed out that I didn't even care about the sore head. Pretty crazy!