It's been a while....

well, it sure has been a while since i last updated...sorry.
anyway, check out this video of Fisher pulling up for the first time... he just figured it and thought he'd show off for the camera!
all is well in the Dowdell household.. we're excited it's finally autumn! The leaves are turning colors and the weather getting cooler... what a great time of the year!

New Home Office!

Recently, I won a new home office! Pretty crazy, but awesome! Anyway, before we get our new furniture, we needed to redo the floor. The yucky carpet we had in our toy/school room was in bad shape. We were lucky enough to find enough wood-laminate flooring at a yard sale for next to nothing... Anyway I added some before shots and a couple of what we found under the carpet... the original hardwood in pretty bad shape. The new floor looks great though! God is such an awesome provider!

New Van!

We love our new van!

House Church Swim Party!

Fisher's First Trick!

we're so proud.... Fisher is starting to do tricks!
for some reason the last couple of weeks when he sees me (daddy), he tilts his head to the side... i guess it's sort of game between us.
now... he's doing it to everyone! he's figured out it gets a pretty good reaction.
he's becoming quite the little ham.

Random Pictures...

Summertime in OKC!

Well... it's officially summertime in OKC!

The Dowdell boys are (as you can see) are already enjoying the warmer weather!

We broke down and bought one of those above ground blow-up/pop-up pools. So, we'll see how long it takes to destroy one...

Anyway, the boys have been having a blast all weekend (memorial day weekend) in their new pool. Fisher's first swim was a success! He just chilled out in his little floatie, and soaked up some rays... check out the Tennessee hat!

Happy Summer!

Classical Conversations End-of-Year Event!

jackson just wrapped up his first year in classical conversations, a home-schooling group which meets once a week. he did very well, and even received an award for knowing all his history sentences and latin conjugations... he's a smart boy!

our housechurch also recently took part in a city-wide event called "sharefest". churches all across the city did different projects around okc... we picked up trash at a park close to our house and handed out hotdogs!

time flies...

wow... time sure is flying this spring... and not because there is a tornado blowing it around... which is very likely this time of year in oklahoma.

anyway, we had a good easter... funny story:

on easter sunday, jackson and parker were riding their bikes at their grandparent's house and a nieghbor's dog (which should have been confined... city rules) ran out and charged at the boys and actually ripped off one of parker's shoes (new crocs... he was very sad it got ripped) which caused him to fall off of his bike. luckily, he didn't get hurt or attacked any further! angie's dad and i were both in the road watching them ride bikes when all of this happened, so we were there to "rescue" him. anyway, angie's dad was pretty upset and instantly called animal control and reported the dog as a "vicious animal". after only having to make several calls and two days later, the "vicious" dog was picked up (still unconfined... even though they knew what had happened) and taken to "jail". then, this is when it gets funny, randy (angie's dad), parker, and myself all receive subpoenas and had to go to court this past monday. it was no big deal, no lawsuits or anything. basically, since randy called in the vicious dog report, the owner had to go before a judge to get his dog back and see what kind of fine he had to pay, etc. since we're the ones that reported and witnessed the incident, we had to be there, too. so, all ended well: the dog gets to go back home (as long as it stays confined), parker got to experience the legal system of the city of oklahoma city, and i got to get out of work for half a day. and... this better be the first and last time parker gets a subpoena and has to go to court!

i'm also adding a little movie clip of the boys riding their bikes... this was only one day after parker got his training wheels off! i'm so proud! we also just got a new digital video camera, so i'll be adding much more video from time to time... in good quality (unlike this one with a little dinky camera i picked up on clearance... now i know why it was on clearance.) enjoy.

laughing at mom

3 goofy boys

1st blog....

well... it's monday, again.

but only a 3 day week... since it is spring break at my school this week!

yahoo!

anyway, i took jp and pt to see "horton hears a who" this past weekend. pretty funny!

"in my world all the people are ponies, and they eat rainbows and poop butterflies"

that was probably the best quote!

we had a good time. it's fun just hanging out with the boys.

jp is getting so 'grown-up' these days... he's almost 8. i can't believe it.

it's fun getting to know him as a big kid.

oh... "what's that smeel i'm smeeling?". that is probably the top quote of our household.

pt pronounces "smell" as "smeel" with a long "e". it's very cute and funny... thought it would be a good name for the blog.

we also went to an easter egg "hunt"... more like a mad one-minute dash for plastic eggs with only one little piece of candy inside. i literally only had time to take one picture!

it was fun... for the whole minute it lasted. oh well... that's not what easter is about anyway!