Well, here we go! We’ve decided to go public and start sharing our blog with everyone. Well, not everyone…with our most favorite people: our family and our friends. We’d like a way to share our family with our far-away family, and since visits are few and far-between, we’re hoping this will help. Plus, we just wanted to be cool like these people, and this seems like a good place to start.

I’ve been practicing writing for a few months, every so often, but haven’t really told anyone about this little project until now. So you’ll see some older stuff from the past few months. Posts from here on out will mostly be about what our family does, written by Lisa. Maybe we can get this guy to write once in awhile. If we’re lucky.

Weekend was great, but man is it hot. Really. I don’t think we’ve had a drop of rain here in over a month. Yesterday we got a little break (the low 90′s signifies a cold front) so we took a family date here, since we needed to do a little shopping and it seemed like a nice night to walk around. It’s an outdoor mall, so much of it feels like a little downtown main street. We got ice cream for the kids, and then listened to a jazz band that had set up outside the movie theater. I wish I’d had my camera; Ivy’s into dancing lately, and oh boy. Does she dance. Like nobody’s business. She stands still, listening to the music, and then the mood just HITS her and she throws her arms up in the air and kicks her feet all around and just lets loose. It’s all very inspiring. I’ll try to get a picture sometime.

How was everyone else’s weekend?

We are really looking forward to sharing more often with all of you; it’s hard to be far away from family and good friends, but we hope this helps.