Arachnophobia!

We had hoped that our first blog post would be something exciting, something spectacular, something special. It turns out it is none of the above. It is however frightening. This big guy is one of hundreds of spiders that have moved into our yard. This is a giant sunflower head that he is crawling on just to give you some perspective as to how big he really is. We canceled the exterminators visits and now we are the haunted house on the corner. People have stopped visiting us. At first we didn't know why. Then I walked out the front door and straight into a spider's web. I'm glad it was early and our neighborhood was quiet because someone would have gotten a good laugh at the dance I did to get the web off my face. They have yet to migrate in to the house which will not happen because the exterminator is coming back as soon as he can get here. Either that or I'm in the dog house with Daisy.

Now onto the family. This is Logan. He is 4 years old. He has a shirt that says "I do all my own stunts" and he does. He is not afraid of anything except Ghostbusters. We watched it at Jarom's house the other weekend and he did get a little scared of that (his mom thinks Ghostbuster's is a horror flick so we know where he gets it from). He has spent the summer riding his bike with out training wheels. I literally held onto the back seat of his bike one time up and down the lane and then let go and haven't held on since although I have wanted to. He also has been playing tee ball, going to gymnastics, helping me in the garden and torturing his little brother.

This is Landon. He is 2. He speaks in twelve word sentences! He loves our dog Daisy and think the sun is his. When his sun

goes to bed then he will go to bed. His mom can't wait for it to get darker earlier in the evening. Landon wants to do everything Logan does including the dangerous stuff like trying to leap buildings in a single bound (they are big into Superman and Spiderman), jump off the top of the piano, climb down into the window wells, and go off jumps on his trike. He also love to cuddle and give kisses. He is such a happy kid most of the time. I say most of the time because you don't want to be the one that wakes him up if he is not ready to be woken up. Beware. Other than that he usually has a smile on his face.

This is Amie, the love of my life, the reason I carry on. She is the CFO, head chef, manager of the cleaning crew (including dirty diapers), and conductor of the symphony of our lives. She takes care of the kids and house, runs them to practices, manages the finances (I tried to once and she looked over my shoulder the entire time so I let her have it back), keeps the place stocked with food, cooks, cleans, and takes care of the dog and so much more! I really don't know how she manages to do all of it in a day. I am truly in awe of her. She not only runs the house but she is also a small business owner of a cleaning company that cleans offices. All of this and she is expecting a baby girl in September. I know what you are thinking, "What does Brion do?" Frankly I am asking myself the same question. Everything about her is amazing.

Well here I am with my boys. I work for Okland Construction as a project manager. When I'm not at work, I am at home with the family. When I'm not at home I'm out hunting, fishing, or golfing. I am a novice gardener trying desperately to keep up with the thing of beauty Amie's dad has. There is a reason his garden is called the thing of beauty. Everything in there is big and beautiful and oh so tasty! I'll keep listening to the Green House Show and work at it. I am scared to death about having a little girl. I just got the raising little boys thing down, I think, and the good Lord sends us a girl. That doesn't mean I'm not excited, I'm just not used to little girls and I think it will be a much different experience than it has been with the boys. We are probably going to have the change the no crying rule and I'm trying to get used to the color pink. Those of you that have recently raised girls give me some advice. What am I in for? And that is me in a nut shell.

This is Daisy. She is 10 years old in dog years (1 1/2 in human years) and she is hopefully going to be my bird hunting buddy until the boys are old enough to join us. Basically she will do all the work and I will have all the fun.....that sounds oddly familiar. She is a smart dog who loves her family and loves to please and can't wait till I put up a fence around the yard so she can expand her domain.

Any way, that is us. We are officially members of the blogging world and we're lovin' it! This will probably be one of the few posts that I do on this thing but I thought I'd get us of the ground. I will hand the reins off to Amie for most of the rest of the blogging. She is much better at these types of things but I might sneak a few things in now and again.

The things that are most important are the things that last the longest. Take care.