Kurt Warner

What an inspiration Kurt (QB for the Arizona Cardinals) is to us all. His personal story says it all. At 21 years old, when most men at this age are partying it up, Kurt was falling in love with Brenda and her two children (one with special needs, a serious brain injury inflicted by her ex-husband, and confined to a wheelchair). Brenda was a divorced single mom supporting her family on food stamps. Four years later, Kurt and Brenda married, and he immediately adopted both of her children. They have since had 5 children of their own. All the while, Kurt is being cut from teams, getting injured, loosing contracts and at one point stocked groceries for $5.50 per hour.

Kurt Warner is an amazing man of God and I will be right there with my husband cheering him on this Super Sunday!

This is a really neat article about Kurt, his family and his unwavering faith. God is good!


"If you ever really want to do a story about who I am, God's got to be at the center of it. Every time I hear a piece or read a story that doesn't have that, they're missing the whole lesson of who I am." - Kurt Warner

www.kurtwarner.com

Don't laugh, Daddy dressed me

I generally do not allow Rustin to dress the children, unless for bed. For instance, he dressed Reed on Saturday. He dressed him in a long sleeve polo shirt and sweat pants.

Reed's PJs are all stacked neatly in his drawer with matching tops and pants and we still end up with this last night (and countless others):

Or this, which happens to be Adalae's sleeper that was accidentally placed in Reed's drawer. The neck was actually stretched so far down and poor Reed had to stand on his tip-toes to avoid choking. I'm not even sure how Rustin managed to stuff his arms and legs in, much less button the thing.


Reed loves these sunglasses. He wears them to play and watch TV.

Thade's new shirt

I just bought this shirt for myself Thade.

Thade's hero

I couldn't post this any larger but if you click the letter, it will pull up larger in a separate window. Way to go Gary!

Never too young for Ugg Boots or to start a Rock Band!

And she is just adorable. Thanks PJ for the cute outfit!

Conversations with a 1 year old

It's amazing and scary at the same time how quickly Reed's vocabulary is developing.

Tonight at dinner he says, "Cheese peese, Wawa (water), All done, Bath?"

Every night as soon as he gets in the bath he stands up and says, "pee-pee, pee-pee" and proceeds to pee in his bath. He thinks it's hilarious. I've started keeping his potty by the bath tub but he has no interest in it. Literally, I will pick him up mid-pee, put him on the potty, put him back in the bath after a couple of minutes of nothing, and he stands right back up and finishes his pee in the bath.

Just now, I pull up my blog to start a post. Reed sees the last post as I'm scrolling down and in rapid succession yells,

"Hand!"

"Da-Di, Ba-Bi (for Mommy), OH WOW!" (sequin prom attire)

"Da-Di"

"Ball, Ball, Ball"

"Tade, Alalae, Ho, Ho, Ho"

He quickly loses interest and then starts shoving a book in my face chanting, "Buu, Buu, Buu"

Well he quickly lost interest in that also after about 4 seconds.

Rustin and I started The Love Dare on New Years Day. For all you couples out there, I highly recommend this book! Our class at church is doing it together and I guarantee you will be blessed no matter if your marriage is in great shape or not so great shape.

Some pictures from Christmas morning:

Reed loves his slide.

Thade showing about as much enthusiasm as always when Naruto or video games are not involved.

Adalae's first baby doll!

Rock Band, Rock Band, We all scream for Rock Band!



Reed does the monkey while yelling, "oo, oo, ah, ah!"

Everyone is finally well and healthy in our household so I'm very thankful for that. Adalae is not far from walking. She pulls up on everything and will let go so we have to stay right by her at all times. Thade starts basketball practice tonight and he is very excited about that. Rustin and I are still gainfully employed and loving each other and our beautiful kids so life is good! I'm excited about 2009 but also sad this makes 12 years since high school and the big 3-0 for both Rustin and I. Time flies!