more pictures, and a movie!

I'm so excited to show you a bunch of new pictures. It may help you to be up to speed on the family. First a few pet shots: Bosco with the baby's head band on, and the cat stretching outNext we have a few of Mark working out with his kettlebells. He loves it!

It is not snowing, it is actually the chalk that he uses on his hands.

Mark and I disagree on what hairstyle looks good on him. He LOVES the "high and tight" while I like just a little more length on the top with it short, but not shaved on the sides. He is also constantly changing his facial hair. I've started taking pictures of the various looks of Mark. Vote on your favorite.

Longer hair, side burns, and low beard

high and tight with shaved off sideburns

sideburns and hair on the side of his head are coming in, cutout of beard, and he seems to have lost some eye brows . . .

here we have the flat top with the Wolverine beard

Makayla is ready for Halloween with her cat p.j.s. She positioned herself perfectly with the tail stretched out.

Best of all, the baby laughing:

flu and the heat

You would think that the flu (influenza) would only come in the cool weather. Here in AZ it's over 100 degrees and we have lots of swine flu (influenza A) being passed around. I've had several patients positive on the testing, and even my own medical assistant went home early on Friday when she tested positive for influenza A. Mark has been sick today, having a fever this morning, and feeling lousy all day. Hopefully he hasn't caught the flu and will be feeling better soon. The baby has had a stuffy nose all week, but not much more than that. Here's hoping that the antibodies she gets from my breast milk will help to protect her.

Mark is still looking for work. He can get quite discouraged when things don't work out for him. Please keep him in your prayers. We are praying for a job that is right for him and for our family, in a location that will work for us. It's tricky when his daughters live in Utah during the school year, as we would love to live closer to them. If not, then we'd like to live close to an airport where we can go to see them, or fly them to see us.

We finally did it. We bought a King size bed yesterday. We've been sleeping on a queen for a couple of years. Now when we lay on the King, we'll say things like: "what are you doing way over there?" or "you seem so far away." We've been trying to wait on buying a bed until we get into a house. (There are several things on this list of "when we get a house") It got to the point that we just weren't sleeping as well as we would like to.