Jordan's Car

"The Sube"...As we have affectionally called it over the last several years. Jody's car for 10 or 11 years... out of commission for about 3 years... and now for the past 9 or 10 months, Jody and Jordan have been working on it doing various things, most of which I know nothing about... but what I do know is that they rebuilt the whole engine and replaced the transmission. I mention all of this because I had planned to blog today that it is complete and running and that all that was left was getting the tag back up to date and Jordan getting his license. But as it seems every time they get close to being done... something else goes wrong... so one day (soon I hope) I will be telling you about the complete project and how great it is. I will say now... they both have worked extremely hard on this car, and the fact that Jordan was gone for 10-12 weeks over the summer and they only truly have weekends to work on it... they really have done extremely well...sure, we probably could have just bought him a used car and spent about the same amount of money, but the experience that Jordan has gotten out of this work and the quality time spent between Jody and Jordan is truely priceless!!! It is looking really good, I hope to have pictures the next time I post about it.

Boo at the Zoo

There are some days that I wonder, do I have more fun doing the kid stuff than my kid does. I had so much fun at the zoo, and I think Alex did too. Although she did go to her first "Haunted House" there and was not real keen on that. I thought it was kinda clever. It was in the primate building and was led by the apes from Planet of the Apes, and you went through the building to view the Humans in cages. It kinda freaked Alex out though. But there were more young kid friendly activities to do also. She really liked the hayride... it was really kinda cute. The pictures show her in her Halloween costume and there are more on Erin's website http://www.erinnolenphotography.blogspot.com/ They are really cute, I cant wait to see all of them.