Being Silly

Ryan decided to wear my socks and pose for the camera. Mason loves playing with "bo bo" - cantonese for balls.

Trunk or Treat

On Saturday, Oct. 25th, our church held their annual Trunk or Treat - everyone decorates their trunks so the kids can trick or treat in the church parking lot. Ryan was excited to be Bumblebee and Mason was Robin. Esther and I sported 1920's costumes.

With Esther wearing the wig Mason would not go to Esther the whole night. He was actually not too thrilled about the costumes.

185!

In the last 4 mos. Sherman began to exercise and actually reduce the amount of food he was eating. He runs 3-4 miles three times a week, plays b-ball evey Thursday night and does 120 push-ups and 150 sit-ups evey day (except Sundays). This has translated to losing 20 lbs since July 2008. His goal is to have his 6 pack by June 2009 - before the 2nd Dawg Pound Reunion.

100,000 miles

Sherman's Elantra hit over 100,000 miles a couple of weeks ago.

I was driving back from a networking event from Milwaukee and decided to record the history in the making. sadly, the digital counting is not as cool as the old pin wheels slowing turning to 0.

Black Tie Event

Every year Sherman's work has an Annual Recognition dinner - a black tie event.
It is a great time to praise the accomplishmnents of each rep in his regional office.

The dinner is delicious and held at the Milwaukee Country Club.

Jim's Pumpkin Patch

This last Saturday, October 18th, a friend at Sherman's work, Michael, has a son, Davis, who just turned 2.

He invited the whole family for Davis' birthday party at Jim's Pumpkin Patch. It was a beautiful day - perfect fall weather. Michael had invited some other families to Davis' party too. Jim's pumkin patch had a hayride, a pumpkin patch, some photo setups and picnic tables to have lunch. It was a blast!

Pumpkin Patch Family Photo

When you have a digital camera you can just take as many pictures as possible.

With these two boys it is difficult to get them both to look at the camera at the same time.

Hayride to the pumpkin patch

We all piled into the wagon that was being pulled by a tractor for our hayride to the pumpkin patch.
At first Ryan and Mason were a little intimidated by the loud tractor, but afterwards became comfortable enough to look around at the corn fields.

Picking out the perfect pumpkin

We walked around the pumpkin patch searching for the perfect pumpkins.

Ryan and Mason enjoyed walking around until Ryan got dirt in his crochs. Then he need Sherman to wipe his foot off. Also both he and Mason would enjoy looking at the pumpkins but didn't like holding them b/c there was dirt all over the pumpkins so they were "dirty".

Lunch Time!

After the hayride and pumpkin patch it was time for lunch.
It was delicious! Croussant sandwiches, chips, apples and juice boxes for the boys.

Ryan was digging right into his lunch.
Slow down there champ.

Halloween cut-outs

Ryan and Sherman decided to have some fun with the wooden cut-outs.

Ryan just checking stuff out. I think it is time for him to go home.

Run, Forest! Run!

After 3.5 years of little exercise Sherman decided it was time to get back in shape. He had hit 205 lbs on the scale and decided enough was enough!It was time to get into shape and lose weight.

He first started by volunteering at every single move-out and move-in going in their ward (which turned out to be over 7). Then he started to run/walk with Ryan and Mason. Since August he is now running every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 4 miles each day. He also adds in doing 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups every day.2 mos later he is now down to 190 lbs with a goal to have a six-pack by June 2009!