Now This is A Teenager's Room!

We surprised Isabella when she returned home from Camp with our idea to transform the extra bedroom into her new Teenage Room, and she was more than happy to help paint and organized it. It took us a little over a week to finish. It's amazing how a coat of paint takes a boring room and makes it into something fabulous. We had a great time working together as a family and I am so impressed on how great it turned out. Isabella is feeling very blessed...

Isabella's home!

Isabella is back from Camp Eagle - we sure did miss her. And we're pretty sure she grew a few inches. Welcome home Princess!

Wimbledon 2008

How lucky is he? Patrick Kelley our Senior Pastor at RPC happens to run into Venus Williams, the Wimbledon Women's Singles Champion, walking through the airport in NYC. Congratulations Venus!

4th of July in Austin

We finally made it back to Austin to see our friends, Mike, Dulce, Jessica and Jack, the Stenglein family. The 4th of July would not have been the same without spending it with them. We started off our afternoon with margaritas and some good Mexican food and later that evening we enjoyed some awesome smoked BBQ at the Roussos'. Mike usually purchases a ton of fireworks, but this year we enjoyed some great music and fireworks at the Nutty Brown Cafe. The music was awesome compliments of Bob Schneider and his band. The Nutty Brown is a typical laid back Austin watering hole with a welcoming family atmosphere. If you're ever in Austin you should check this place out for a great time http://www.nuttybrown.com/

Before we headed out Bob and Mike played a few rounds of tennis (the Stenglein's have their own court). As you can see from the pics it's been awhile since they played. We laughed pretty hard at how exhausted they were.

Camp Eagle here She comes!

Isabella and the RPC Middle & High School students left for Camp Eagle, in the Texas hill country, this afternoon. The week ahead will be filled with non-stop activities for all of them. Bob and I miss her already and we can't wait to hear the "camping" stories!



Here's Isabella and her BFF Sarah Sipos as they waited for the buses to arrive at RPC.

Isabella is a Teenager!

Isabella turned 13 years old a few weeks ago - Our daughter is officially a TEENAGER! Crazy! She and a few of her friends celebrated with a movie, dinner, and a sleep-over. The girls laughed it up all night until 5:30am the next morning. Yes we had some tired and cranky young ladies later that day. The celebrating did not end there, it continued through out the weekend with family and friends. Bob and I continue to reflect on how quickly the years have gone by and how much we are enjoying this wonderfully sweet, kind, loving, intelligent, funny teenager of ours.

We even had our house teepeed to mark the start of the teenage years compliments of our dear friends the Slater Family. There was toilet paper everywhere! It was too cool! The best part was having them come back and clean it all up the next day.