Speaking of dogs...

Today we adopted Charlie a black lab/pointer. We started our own blog, you can see pictures of Charlie there (there's not much on it yet, but we'll be adding to it ---http://mattnbreannastevens.blogspot.com/).

Old dog, new tricks...

So Thomas got me to try the Wii last night. Have to say, it was waii more fun than I expected! I've always declined to play video/computer games with the excuse that I didn't want to get "hooked", but the truth of the matter is that I suspected I wouldn't be able to play worth a darn--an assumption which was amply borne out when I finally tried "Flat Out 2" last year.
In any case, I particularly enjoyed the golf, and I'm not at all discouraged by the fact that the Wii gave me a "fitness age" of 75!!

Miriam

Family Trip to San Diego

Here are some pix from our trip to San Diego a few weeks ago. David has better ones; maybe he will post them.

The Studio Diner, which we saw on the Food Network, and wanted to visit. Michael likes to entertain Brian Jr. Michael with Alia (4 1/2 mos. pregnant). The Hotel del Coronado, which is beautiful (and expensive!).

Betty

More graduation photos

Quite a vicious cougar, evidently, though Matt and Breanna escaped unscathed.
And there's the new, clean-shaven Brigham Young. Maybe sometime I'll figure out how to align the text with the pictures...
(Miriam)

OK, here goes. It's taking me a while to figure this stuff out. (Obviously I still haven't!)

KC was Rockin last night

Weather was warm, windy and humid all day with a cold front coming in. It wasn't any surprise
that nasty weather was on it's way. About 7:30 pm the sky really started to darken up and you could see the lighting in the distance. It wasn't long after that the sirens started to blow and the
weather radio alarm goes off. They have a policy here that whenever a rotating storm is within the county limits they blow the sirens for everyone. The first one wasn't near us so we stayed
upstairs (not in the basement). After a while the sirens started again so we went downstairs.
The storms were dropping hail all around us and one even dropped a small tornado to the south
of us for a short while (no damage). Finally after about two hours of non stop lightning it looked
like it was all over and we went to bed around 10:00.
A little before 2:00 am the weather radio goes off and warns of a severe thunderstorm with wind being the main threat. After closing the window I decided not to wake anyone since it didn't seem to be a big deal. This morning on TV I saw that we were pretty lucky and missed
the brunt of the wind.
The picture to the left shows a neighborhood about 15 miles to the north of us, the other one used to be an Arby's in Independence, MO not to far from Mario and Theresa's house.
With all that hail and wind around us, we got nothing but heavy rain. Guess we'll have to wait
a while for that new roof.

hahah here doodle pics