HiFi!!

Yup!!!! We've added music. Aren't we cool?
We'll talk more later.
Scott

School: Back in action!!!

Well, today is day # 2 for school. Ethan is now in the 5th grade and Stanton is in 1st. They had a great first day and are glad to be back in school. I still can't believe that Ethan's already in the 5th grade and Stanton's about to turn 7 next month. I put the above picture because I like it and I wanted to figure out how to post pictures... it's us in the Smoky Mtn. National Park about 1 month ago.... Well, I just got home from work and need to go to bed. Here's Melinda to finish up.

Later,

Scott

The boys woke up early with crazy excitement. They slept in their clothes the night before so they wouldn't have to "waste time" changing. They had a great first day and were excited to talk about it. This had ended this morning with not being able to wake Stanton up and then the crying jag sets in [his, not mine] and Ethan gets aggravated and runs on to the bus stop leaving Stanton crying in the dust, walking this slow defeated walk, crawl practically, until the big yellow bus rounds the curve and he's running and laughing like I knew he would. All's well again until Monday- ah, school has started.

Wow! I feel like a sellout.

Hey whoever!
This is the first post on our new blog. I don't really feel like a sellout, I just never considered "blogging" something I would be doing. However, Melinda and I have been keeping up with my sisters on their blogs and a couple other folks and have determined that it could serve a few purposes for us, some of those purposes are: 1. Journaling (something that we've always considered important, but have been very inconsistent at keeping), 2. Communicating with family and friends by broadcasting our lives (we are horrible @ picking up the phone, writing letters, and even sending emails... it's not that we don't want to talk to folks, it's just hard to commit to doing it and then it's hard to decide who to contact... we're both pretty good talkers once we get going, and that becomes a problem too... getting off the phone and etc.... so we tend not to call unless it's absolutely necessary... then we feel bad for not calling, writing, emailing... but we're good @ visiting when we're in the area... we just haven't been in any areas where friends are lately due to gas..... yeah, kinda lame... but maybe this blog will bring about a change in our communication tendencies..) 3. Venting (sometimes you just need to vent... if you continue to read our posts, you'll find that we both have interesting points of view, many times not comperable with those around us and we may need to vent... also some experiences with people leave us with the desire to vent and let it go... don't worry, we'll change the names to protect any "innocent" that we vent about.) .... there are many reasons or justifications for starting the blog... I'm sure you'll figure them out...

I guess typically one would do the whole "Hi my name is... I like to... my favorite color is..." when starting something like this, well, we'll get to all that later. In fact, I'm already becoming annoyed with the time I've spent doing this so I'll give it a rest. Maybe you'll meet Melinda on the next post... she'll probably prove to be a better read than me.
Later,
Scott