I was elated when I got home from work today and got an e-mail from my sister-in-law, Alaina, saying that she now has a blog! Please check out her blog. Just click on the Joshua Enslen family link.
Also, I literally have company at my house. Arah and Gavin, thank you for letting us borrow your husband/dad for a few days. We are tickled to have him here! Love the new car, by the way.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
Dress Up: Our Girls' Favorite Pastime
Skyler's friend, Rachel, came over on Saturday and they gave Sibley a makeover. She was sassier than ever. They snapped some pictures. We thought we'd share.
Christmas Lights at the Mesa Temple
Found my camera! The weather cooled off and it feels great outside. I was thinking it was really cool here, then I checked out the forecast in Lehi, Utah where it will snow and get up to 37 degrees tomorrow. Boy am I glad I don't live in Utah anymore! Anyway, we decided to take the girls out to the Mesa Temple Grounds to see the lights and the manger scene tonight and here are a few of the pictures we snapped.
Also, thank you Joe for coming to visit us for Thanksgiving! We had so much fun with you. I can't tell you how happy I was to have one of my siblings spend part of the holidays with me. I am just sorry I didn't have my camera around. Love you buddy.
Skyler has a Bell Choir concert on Wednesday night. I will be updating again soon with some pictures of that!
Saturday, November 24, 2007
BREAKING NEWS!!!
This just in:
Bryant passed the first and most difficult part of his real estate exam this morning! Just one more test and he'll be a genuine, bonafide, certified realtor.
Bryant passed the first and most difficult part of his real estate exam this morning! Just one more test and he'll be a genuine, bonafide, certified realtor.
Tagged by my lovely wife!
I am a very boring individual. I am also very bad at remembering things that happen to me. So this is a tough proposition for me.
1. I enjoy teasing everyone. Anyone who knows me well knows this to be true. I even enjoyed teasing perfect strangers in the hot tub aboard our recent cruise to Mexico with Josh & Melissa.
2 I was on the state championship golf team in high school. Actually I was not good enough to ever play in a tournament and just joined the team to play free golf. However, there were about five other guys that helped the rest of us 15 get a T-shirt and trophy for being state champs.
3. I don't have any particular skills. However, as a child I could burp the ABC's. I probably still could if I tried, but my wife wouldn't find it as amusing as my playmates did back then.
4. Six......are you kidding! This is murder. I know how to saddle and ride a horse.
5. Have been to one (unforgettable) Nascar race at Talladega superspeedway. Looks of rednecks, lots of drunks, lots of tire smoke and exhaust, and lots of fun!
6. Have the best and most beautiful wife and kids in the whole world.
BTW, These six are definately NOT listed 1-6 in importance. Try 6-1. How's that for delivery? I shoulda been a mailman.
1. I enjoy teasing everyone. Anyone who knows me well knows this to be true. I even enjoyed teasing perfect strangers in the hot tub aboard our recent cruise to Mexico with Josh & Melissa.
2 I was on the state championship golf team in high school. Actually I was not good enough to ever play in a tournament and just joined the team to play free golf. However, there were about five other guys that helped the rest of us 15 get a T-shirt and trophy for being state champs.
3. I don't have any particular skills. However, as a child I could burp the ABC's. I probably still could if I tried, but my wife wouldn't find it as amusing as my playmates did back then.
4. Six......are you kidding! This is murder. I know how to saddle and ride a horse.
5. Have been to one (unforgettable) Nascar race at Talladega superspeedway. Looks of rednecks, lots of drunks, lots of tire smoke and exhaust, and lots of fun!
6. Have the best and most beautiful wife and kids in the whole world.
BTW, These six are definately NOT listed 1-6 in importance. Try 6-1. How's that for delivery? I shoulda been a mailman.
I've been tagged.
Sorry for the lack of Thanksgiving pictures. I have (hopefully temporarily) lost my digital camera. On to the tagging....Hmmmmm....Let me see. Six interesting facts; I will view the term "interesting" loosely here.
1. When I was in high school, I served as the Future Business Leaders of America Alabama District V Vice President. It was a great experience. I learned things like Parliamentary Procedure and I got to travel to Louisville, KY and see the Breeders' Cup. I also got to go to the National Convention in Anaheim and go to Disneyland. While we were in California, all of the other state officers (7) got into huge trouble for having boys in their room. I was the only one who wasn't there with them. Go figure!
2. I love to read/learn about/see Civil War history. If I ever get a chance to read, I read about the Civil War. I like to go to reenactments and would eventually like to be a reenactor myself. I think Bryant would like it too. He likes history as well. I had ancestors to fight for the Confederacy and one (that I'm aware of ) for the Union! I know it is hard to believe, but I have a Yankee forefather. I just finished Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt. It was absolutely wonderful. I like to think about how when my parents were born, there were still a few old Civil War Veterans around. I wish so badly that I could have interviewed them. Now my children are in the same situation with today's quickly vanishing World War II Veteran population. And their children will be in the same situation with Vietnam Veterans. Anyways, I try and teach my girls about their great grandfathers' experiences whenever I get a chance.
3. I love yoga. Plain and simple. Yoga is my thing.
4. I love animals. If it was up to me, we would be living on some sort of farm right now. But it isn't and we aren't. I have the fondest childhood memories of taking care of pet calves and having little pigs wander around the yard. Maybe one day I will get some land and be able to have more animals. I would definitely get a donkey. They are the cutest. But for now I will have to settle for three cats and an occasional trip to a petting zoo.
5. When I was little I wanted to be a poet. Here is one of my poems:
"God's Creations"
The birds,
The trees,
The pretty fall leaves,
Are all God's creations.
I must have thought that one was pretty good, because I memorized it so well that I still remember it today. I remember bits and pieces of a Christmas one about stockings and M&Ms too. Me and Jacob got in a big fight about that one because he claimed I didn't write it. He thought I had plagiarized, but I really didn't - Jacob! By second grade, though, my dream of being a poet was replaced by my dream of becoming an architect. I took to designing houses for all of my friends. I must have been good because I got requests for new jobs everyday. So in my spare time at school my friends would come up to my desk and ask me to design them a house. I would then ask, "Would you like for your house to be in the shape of your first initial or your last?". "E" houses were the best because they could have two patios, but "C" houses were tough. To this day I still love architecture and that is the reason I minored in Art History.
6. When I was a kid in Alabama, Chubby Checker came to the Jasmine Hill Garden Amphitheater. He pulled me on stage and we did the twist. It was a really fun concert. I remember twisting with him and looking down at his checkered boots and thinking about how I wanted a pair like those.
I am tagging Arah Atwood, Steve Atwood, and Bryant Slade. We'll see if the men can deliver.
1. When I was in high school, I served as the Future Business Leaders of America Alabama District V Vice President. It was a great experience. I learned things like Parliamentary Procedure and I got to travel to Louisville, KY and see the Breeders' Cup. I also got to go to the National Convention in Anaheim and go to Disneyland. While we were in California, all of the other state officers (7) got into huge trouble for having boys in their room. I was the only one who wasn't there with them. Go figure!
2. I love to read/learn about/see Civil War history. If I ever get a chance to read, I read about the Civil War. I like to go to reenactments and would eventually like to be a reenactor myself. I think Bryant would like it too. He likes history as well. I had ancestors to fight for the Confederacy and one (that I'm aware of ) for the Union! I know it is hard to believe, but I have a Yankee forefather. I just finished Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt. It was absolutely wonderful. I like to think about how when my parents were born, there were still a few old Civil War Veterans around. I wish so badly that I could have interviewed them. Now my children are in the same situation with today's quickly vanishing World War II Veteran population. And their children will be in the same situation with Vietnam Veterans. Anyways, I try and teach my girls about their great grandfathers' experiences whenever I get a chance.
3. I love yoga. Plain and simple. Yoga is my thing.
4. I love animals. If it was up to me, we would be living on some sort of farm right now. But it isn't and we aren't. I have the fondest childhood memories of taking care of pet calves and having little pigs wander around the yard. Maybe one day I will get some land and be able to have more animals. I would definitely get a donkey. They are the cutest. But for now I will have to settle for three cats and an occasional trip to a petting zoo.
5. When I was little I wanted to be a poet. Here is one of my poems:
"God's Creations"
The birds,
The trees,
The pretty fall leaves,
Are all God's creations.
I must have thought that one was pretty good, because I memorized it so well that I still remember it today. I remember bits and pieces of a Christmas one about stockings and M&Ms too. Me and Jacob got in a big fight about that one because he claimed I didn't write it. He thought I had plagiarized, but I really didn't - Jacob! By second grade, though, my dream of being a poet was replaced by my dream of becoming an architect. I took to designing houses for all of my friends. I must have been good because I got requests for new jobs everyday. So in my spare time at school my friends would come up to my desk and ask me to design them a house. I would then ask, "Would you like for your house to be in the shape of your first initial or your last?". "E" houses were the best because they could have two patios, but "C" houses were tough. To this day I still love architecture and that is the reason I minored in Art History.
6. When I was a kid in Alabama, Chubby Checker came to the Jasmine Hill Garden Amphitheater. He pulled me on stage and we did the twist. It was a really fun concert. I remember twisting with him and looking down at his checkered boots and thinking about how I wanted a pair like those.
I am tagging Arah Atwood, Steve Atwood, and Bryant Slade. We'll see if the men can deliver.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Sistas-N-Effect
Those of y'all from Wetumpka will get the title. I found this today and just had to share it with y'all.
HALLOWEEN 07 - The Real Deal
Skyler had to be a rockstar, along with the rest of her class, for her classroom party and parade. Sibley kept with the geisha costume. The girls decorated our yard all by themselves this year. Did they do a good job or what?
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