<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281</id><updated>2012-01-24T07:08:11.141-08:00</updated><category term='Parks'/><title type='text'>Small house lotsa love</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>168</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-9138388038024011333</id><published>2011-12-15T16:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T16:19:30.617-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Random Thoughts</title><content type='html'>The thing about looking back &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;too much&lt;/span&gt;, or forward for that matter is that you miss seeing what is around you in the present.  I have 3 little faces that smile at me everyday, and a husband that loves me beyond words, a roof over our heads and food on our table.  As I write this my heart and my eyes overflow.  The Lord has blessed me so....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-9138388038024011333?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/9138388038024011333/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=9138388038024011333' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/9138388038024011333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/9138388038024011333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2011/12/random-thoughts.html' title='Random Thoughts'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-5989531437143338910</id><published>2011-12-15T14:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T14:31:54.691-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Just Love Making Memories</title><content type='html'>I think, correct me if I'm wrong here Mom, that we have made gingerbread houses every year since Emily was born.  We have tired something a little different, this year.   Everybody got to make their own.  It work really well.    Alterations we well make for next year: don't wake Ryan up early from his nap (lol).  Use small milk cartons for support.   (picked up this idea while making gingerbread houses with Kiera's class today.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J1lyrGIv9hk/Tupv2mkF9XI/AAAAAAAAB9U/WVeMD3AAflo/s1600/Dec%2B%252711%2B066.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J1lyrGIv9hk/Tupv2mkF9XI/AAAAAAAAB9U/WVeMD3AAflo/s400/Dec%2B%252711%2B066.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686480463364224370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can tell Ryan favorite part of this fun-filled afternoon. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hK07rSMlnKQ/Tupv157Nf7I/AAAAAAAAB9I/BiIH2XKtzIQ/s1600/Dec%2B%252711%2B069.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hK07rSMlnKQ/Tupv157Nf7I/AAAAAAAAB9I/BiIH2XKtzIQ/s400/Dec%2B%252711%2B069.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686480451381591986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Ryan finished product.  Lol yes, he ate most the candy off before I could get a picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4Y5FbMDaozw/Tupv1XRW5SI/AAAAAAAAB88/jj1Mx_xLJK8/s1600/Dec%2B%252711%2B067.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4Y5FbMDaozw/Tupv1XRW5SI/AAAAAAAAB88/jj1Mx_xLJK8/s400/Dec%2B%252711%2B067.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686480442079241506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The girls have fun decorating and being creative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vKjwcHUtLJw/Tupv1DntluI/AAAAAAAAB8w/U0XaKA5ZR4c/s1600/Dec%2B%252711%2B070.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vKjwcHUtLJw/Tupv1DntluI/AAAAAAAAB8w/U0XaKA5ZR4c/s400/Dec%2B%252711%2B070.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686480436804294370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All three finish products&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7yjrfIzuhFE/Tupv3Po9IXI/AAAAAAAAB9g/DhhHzUgnXcA/s1600/Dec%2B%252711%2B065.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BEiRyEWAM3g/Tupz_XJigDI/AAAAAAAAB9s/wSSt3GMlpKw/s1600/Dec%2B%252711%2B063.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BEiRyEWAM3g/Tupz_XJigDI/AAAAAAAAB9s/wSSt3GMlpKw/s400/Dec%2B%252711%2B063.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686485011891650610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Kiera's finished product from school.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-5989531437143338910?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/5989531437143338910/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=5989531437143338910' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5989531437143338910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5989531437143338910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2011/12/just-love-making-memories.html' title='Just Love Making Memories'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J1lyrGIv9hk/Tupv2mkF9XI/AAAAAAAAB9U/WVeMD3AAflo/s72-c/Dec%2B%252711%2B066.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-1512951116277158957</id><published>2011-12-06T08:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-06T10:13:25.859-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Late Thanksgiving Post</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J4iskrjJSn4/Tt4_TCpYeKI/AAAAAAAAB70/Hgu8u04d4bs/s1600/Dec%2B%252711%2B060.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J4iskrjJSn4/Tt4_TCpYeKI/AAAAAAAAB70/Hgu8u04d4bs/s400/Dec%2B%252711%2B060.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683049376148650146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Yes this is us in November outside with no coats on!!! Doesn't Nashville sound great?!?!  Honestly I have to say, being the Colorado girl I am, I miss the snow at this time of year.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z-Yx8t_G1iM/Tt5TOivZqqI/AAAAAAAAB8M/N41xe3v8M1s/s1600/Dec%2B%252711%2B022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z-Yx8t_G1iM/Tt5TOivZqqI/AAAAAAAAB8M/N41xe3v8M1s/s400/Dec%2B%252711%2B022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683071289097038498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being together with family is the most precious gift anyone can give or recieve!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z-Yx8t_G1iM/Tt5TOivZqqI/AAAAAAAAB8M/N41xe3v8M1s/s1600/Dec%2B%252711%2B022.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WurvEdeCCPo/Tt5TOTGgB6I/AAAAAAAAB8A/kJcd_dGzkvg/s1600/Dec%2B%252711%2B018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WurvEdeCCPo/Tt5TOTGgB6I/AAAAAAAAB8A/kJcd_dGzkvg/s400/Dec%2B%252711%2B018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683071284898957218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fRxwFPBN8AA/Tt5TqPgsggI/AAAAAAAAB8k/Zdfn1_h8LAE/s1600/Dec%2B%252711%2B007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fRxwFPBN8AA/Tt5TqPgsggI/AAAAAAAAB8k/Zdfn1_h8LAE/s400/Dec%2B%252711%2B007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683071764971422210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Wishing all of you a joyous holiday season.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_g_Adx3VvJs/Tt487oOBbZI/AAAAAAAAB7o/pYBrw_nYpYk/s1600/Dec%2B%252711%2B059.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-1512951116277158957?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/1512951116277158957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=1512951116277158957' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1512951116277158957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1512951116277158957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2011/12/blog-post.html' title='A Late Thanksgiving Post'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J4iskrjJSn4/Tt4_TCpYeKI/AAAAAAAAB70/Hgu8u04d4bs/s72-c/Dec%2B%252711%2B060.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-8000120156126623682</id><published>2011-11-20T14:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-21T13:23:09.569-08:00</updated><title type='text'>sweethearts</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZVVQJLtRJok/Tsl5U19-c3I/AAAAAAAAB6Q/_oLs2M4K2TY/s1600/nov11%2B026.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZVVQJLtRJok/Tsl5U19-c3I/AAAAAAAAB6Q/_oLs2M4K2TY/s200/nov11%2B026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677202204268589938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6McOKkNwHXc/Tsl5UnBu9CI/AAAAAAAAB6A/xKNQEIgIu3w/s1600/may%2B11%2B017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6McOKkNwHXc/Tsl5UnBu9CI/AAAAAAAAB6A/xKNQEIgIu3w/s200/may%2B11%2B017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677202200257819682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z5TSBY8efx8/Tsl5UbOkECI/AAAAAAAAB54/qc53MzuHhIU/s1600/may%2B11%2B033.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z5TSBY8efx8/Tsl5UbOkECI/AAAAAAAAB54/qc53MzuHhIU/s200/may%2B11%2B033.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677202197090406434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rkxt8GyULis/Tsl5VbnAMvI/AAAAAAAAB6c/2f2hKJey9rU/s1600/nov11%2B023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rkxt8GyULis/Tsl5VbnAMvI/AAAAAAAAB6c/2f2hKJey9rU/s200/nov11%2B023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677202214372782834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-8000120156126623682?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/8000120156126623682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=8000120156126623682' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8000120156126623682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8000120156126623682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2011/11/sweethearts.html' title='sweethearts'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZVVQJLtRJok/Tsl5U19-c3I/AAAAAAAAB6Q/_oLs2M4K2TY/s72-c/nov11%2B026.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-5092286592824383761</id><published>2011-11-20T13:24:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-20T13:58:43.232-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Thankful for....</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3Rkhvdeobos/Tslzpuh8CQI/AAAAAAAAB48/wG8pzn6v50U/s1600/nov11%2B030.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3Rkhvdeobos/Tslzpuh8CQI/AAAAAAAAB48/wG8pzn6v50U/s400/nov11%2B030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677195965979429122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;                                                                           &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);font-size:180%;" &gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"&gt;My girls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X920QoBAwFg/Tslwi0gYrBI/AAAAAAAAB4k/J5FIk0qvgfY/s1600/nov11%2B012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X920QoBAwFg/Tslwi0gYrBI/AAAAAAAAB4k/J5FIk0qvgfY/s400/nov11%2B012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677192548789562386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;                                                                            &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style=" color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;"  &gt;Fall beauty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w1rnmt7B000/Tslwhx4TTWI/AAAAAAAAB4Y/op9s4jcCRVU/s1600/nov11%2B006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w1rnmt7B000/Tslwhx4TTWI/AAAAAAAAB4Y/op9s4jcCRVU/s400/nov11%2B006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677192530904698210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;                                                                      &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;"  &gt;My little guy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uysV9fA7_NU/TslwhiY6bTI/AAAAAAAAB4I/CJfojj5y_dM/s1600/nov11%2B005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uysV9fA7_NU/TslwhiY6bTI/AAAAAAAAB4I/CJfojj5y_dM/s400/nov11%2B005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677192526746512690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;                                                                    &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:180%;" &gt;    Love, Family&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DGyOjhMPkjQ/TslwhYVjwdI/AAAAAAAAB4A/raQoeWAeGiM/s1600/nov11%2B001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DGyOjhMPkjQ/TslwhYVjwdI/AAAAAAAAB4A/raQoeWAeGiM/s400/nov11%2B001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677192524048089554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;                                                                         &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style=" font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;"  &gt; My bigger guy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-5092286592824383761?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/5092286592824383761/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=5092286592824383761' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5092286592824383761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5092286592824383761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2011/11/thankful-for.html' title='Thankful for....'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3Rkhvdeobos/Tslzpuh8CQI/AAAAAAAAB48/wG8pzn6v50U/s72-c/nov11%2B030.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-2014265507749153823</id><published>2011-11-11T09:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-11T09:55:24.196-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Veterans Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ljsagnm0_Cw/Tr1coSWsGnI/AAAAAAAAB3w/41Y9kP78yLc/s1600/tory%2527s%2Bchris.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ljsagnm0_Cw/Tr1coSWsGnI/AAAAAAAAB3w/41Y9kP78yLc/s400/tory%2527s%2Bchris.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673792952748218994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we all think of soldiers today,  please think of this one and the fiance he left behind, too.  Thanks Chris for your service and sacrifice !! Steve and I and our kids are sorry we never got to meet you.  Tory, you've been so strong, and we're here for you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-2014265507749153823?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/2014265507749153823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=2014265507749153823' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2014265507749153823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2014265507749153823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2011/11/veterans-day.html' title='Veterans Day'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ljsagnm0_Cw/Tr1coSWsGnI/AAAAAAAAB3w/41Y9kP78yLc/s72-c/tory%2527s%2Bchris.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-8150565761386043992</id><published>2011-11-09T11:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-09T11:49:38.732-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog Make-over NEEDED</title><content type='html'>lol How can I make this thing look cute?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-8150565761386043992?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/8150565761386043992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=8150565761386043992' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8150565761386043992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8150565761386043992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-make-pver-needed.html' title='Blog Make-over NEEDED'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-5198930030670954001</id><published>2011-11-08T08:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-08T20:26:54.983-08:00</updated><title type='text'>'Bout time for an update? I think sooo!!!</title><content type='html'>Well... We're moved in.  *Whew* lol &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-imcAU3Fv0Ew/Trn98OJhuOI/AAAAAAAAB3A/mq0zft3Oqa0/s1600/nov%2B11%2B255.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-imcAU3Fv0Ew/Trn98OJhuOI/AAAAAAAAB3A/mq0zft3Oqa0/s400/nov%2B11%2B255.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672844416681883874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is our humble abode.  It still needs some work, but it's got a roof that doesn't seem to leak and running water and electricity.  what more could we ask for to start over in a new state?&lt;br /&gt;The girls have started at their new school, and (according to one of the office ladies, who has had 2 children go through this school) my girls got the 2 best teachers in the school.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am just in awe of the colors around here.  The reds, golds, and oranges!!!  I've never been a big fan of these colors, ahhh I just love them right now!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wldpO3M5yOs/Trn_knOyF5I/AAAAAAAAB3M/k4xvCu52k_8/s1600/nov%2B11%2B248.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wldpO3M5yOs/Trn_knOyF5I/AAAAAAAAB3M/k4xvCu52k_8/s400/nov%2B11%2B248.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672846210121209746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rJqJqgbRvTo/Trn_lEt6j7I/AAAAAAAAB3c/COzk-jyA5mE/s1600/nov%2B11%2B239.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rJqJqgbRvTo/Trn_lEt6j7I/AAAAAAAAB3c/COzk-jyA5mE/s400/nov%2B11%2B239.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672846218036416434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HAHA as I rave about the colors my pics I post don't have much color.  gonna work on getting some better ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all for now folks&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-5198930030670954001?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/5198930030670954001/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=5198930030670954001' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5198930030670954001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5198930030670954001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2011/11/bout-time-for-update-i-think-sooo.html' title='&apos;Bout time for an update? I think sooo!!!'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-imcAU3Fv0Ew/Trn98OJhuOI/AAAAAAAAB3A/mq0zft3Oqa0/s72-c/nov%2B11%2B255.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-6738229804094473870</id><published>2011-09-27T22:31:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-27T22:38:22.607-07:00</updated><title type='text'>just gotta post something</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mw2JaBos5ZM/ToKxiDXej-I/AAAAAAAAB24/XL0_RL2hOvY/s1600/june%2B%252711%2B077.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mw2JaBos5ZM/ToKxiDXej-I/AAAAAAAAB24/XL0_RL2hOvY/s400/june%2B%252711%2B077.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657279280508211170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Miss Em has now lost all 4 front teeth. yes this picture from a while ago (need to take a new one).  &lt;br /&gt;Definitely more blogging to come. This month is sure to be quite memorable, definitely something to blog about.  :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-6738229804094473870?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/6738229804094473870/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=6738229804094473870' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6738229804094473870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6738229804094473870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2011/09/just-gotta-post-something.html' title='just gotta post something'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mw2JaBos5ZM/ToKxiDXej-I/AAAAAAAAB24/XL0_RL2hOvY/s72-c/june%2B%252711%2B077.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-3870916771515230515</id><published>2011-07-13T06:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-13T06:56:48.945-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What A BEAUTIFUL morning!!!</title><content type='html'>This morning I am asking myself "Why don't I get up this early every morning?"  I feel inspired, more clear-headed, just peacefully, joyful.  Is it merely this time of day when the sunshine is so soft and the air still cool?  or is it the peace of the house (absence of yelling or feet running or mommy where's my snack?)?  maybe both and that I get that time to sit down and read my bible...  so many things to ponder  :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peacefully,&lt;br /&gt;Melissa&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-3870916771515230515?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/3870916771515230515/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=3870916771515230515' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3870916771515230515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3870916771515230515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-beautiful-morning.html' title='What A BEAUTIFUL morning!!!'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-6174896782535700366</id><published>2011-06-21T21:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-21T21:50:18.067-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Garden pics</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2BuCR_0pebk/TgFz_h9EpPI/AAAAAAAAB2o/v-Ees_fuXyo/s1600/june%2B%252711%2B117.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2BuCR_0pebk/TgFz_h9EpPI/AAAAAAAAB2o/v-Ees_fuXyo/s400/june%2B%252711%2B117.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620901345218569458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uLG6gYk0-j8/TgFz_fm-6CI/AAAAAAAAB2g/PhkKzA40DFc/s1600/june%2B%252711%2B118.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uLG6gYk0-j8/TgFz_fm-6CI/AAAAAAAAB2g/PhkKzA40DFc/s400/june%2B%252711%2B118.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620901344589047842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gcgs3PgWkYg/TgFz-uk6gFI/AAAAAAAAB2Y/CH_WV62TW_U/s1600/june%2B%252711%2B119.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-51V9ruhMJbU/TgF0ABArlyI/AAAAAAAAB2w/7CLwc1LoOkA/s400/june%2B%252711%2B116.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620901353555203874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-6174896782535700366?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/6174896782535700366/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=6174896782535700366' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6174896782535700366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6174896782535700366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2011/06/garden-pics.html' title='Garden pics'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2BuCR_0pebk/TgFz_h9EpPI/AAAAAAAAB2o/v-Ees_fuXyo/s72-c/june%2B%252711%2B117.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-1251613060566164721</id><published>2011-05-26T09:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-26T14:07:15.782-07:00</updated><title type='text'>An Inspiring, Wonderful Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--c4f06OwowU/Td6Gg_JjKTI/AAAAAAAAB2E/FKGfANUCYX0/s1600/may%2B11%2B014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--c4f06OwowU/Td6Gg_JjKTI/AAAAAAAAB2E/FKGfANUCYX0/s400/may%2B11%2B014.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611070087015639346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's amazing what a couple of hours to recharge can do for you... My sis-on-law and I got a couple 'just mommy hours' yesterday.   Then we took the kids to the splash pad for some fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dAGIKWU12ow/Td6D9EpgaJI/AAAAAAAAB10/SRtd1Sx2tfk/s1600/may%2B11%2B031.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dAGIKWU12ow/Td6D9EpgaJI/AAAAAAAAB10/SRtd1Sx2tfk/s400/may%2B11%2B031.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611067270993307794" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wbellUSdC_k/Td6D9utnTbI/AAAAAAAAB18/sHLViGmjLY4/s1600/may%2B11%2B035.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wbellUSdC_k/Td6D9utnTbI/AAAAAAAAB18/sHLViGmjLY4/s400/may%2B11%2B035.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611067282284826034" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wpsP7LpGclQ/Td6ChRQQB9I/AAAAAAAAB1k/6sjzx0cuXN4/s1600/may%2B11%2B036.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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Don't know what I'd do with out them&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kypZsWCZ-Cc/TWAHpVPMKVI/AAAAAAAAB0U/Wt6k0vToPC0/s1600/FEB17%2B030.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kypZsWCZ-Cc/TWAHpVPMKVI/AAAAAAAAB0U/Wt6k0vToPC0/s400/FEB17%2B030.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575464745341561170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NMI3GAYjYnQ/TWAHpCcnfJI/AAAAAAAAB0M/z8Hb-hzlAEE/s1600/FEB17%2B012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NMI3GAYjYnQ/TWAHpCcnfJI/AAAAAAAAB0M/z8Hb-hzlAEE/s400/FEB17%2B012.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575464740297604242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RnnF_LgETbg/TWAHo6VTHFI/AAAAAAAAB0E/MFDdL0W2KqM/s1600/FEB17%2B059.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RnnF_LgETbg/TWAHo6VTHFI/AAAAAAAAB0E/MFDdL0W2KqM/s400/FEB17%2B059.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575464738119425106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And when I start feeling some self pity that I don't get to go out shopping (without the kids), cuz Hubby's not home to watch them: I remember that the reason he is not home is because he is making it possible for me to have the previledge to choose.  To choose between being a stay-at-home-Mom or working outside of our home.  And to me that is priceless.  I count it one of my greatest blessings to be able spend my days with my kids.  Which allows to hear Ryan every time pronounces a new word for the first time.  Or watch the process of Emily learning to read.  Or see all of Kiera's hundred expressions (she makes me laugh, I think, almost everyday).  So here is to my husband (words can't express how much I love him, hence the absence of a adjective in front husband)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z1YG0FzgSKk/TWAOXp7Ag9I/AAAAAAAAB0c/dhxUrAOKjTQ/s1600/FEB17%2B039.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z1YG0FzgSKk/TWAOXp7Ag9I/AAAAAAAAB0c/dhxUrAOKjTQ/s400/FEB17%2B039.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575472138237805522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mmmm...  I have more blessings to count, but my heart is full now, so I'll save those for later. &lt;3&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-6854502958293368279?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/6854502958293368279/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=6854502958293368279' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6854502958293368279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6854502958293368279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2011/02/whats-on-my-heart.html' title='Counting Blessings'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kypZsWCZ-Cc/TWAHpVPMKVI/AAAAAAAAB0U/Wt6k0vToPC0/s72-c/FEB17%2B030.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-1835471792252613353</id><published>2011-02-17T12:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-17T14:49:14.047-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tree Climbers, Picnic, and Tea Parties....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dv4IoF0L9YI/TV2jrYrixtI/AAAAAAAABz8/bb89G2u3L4A/s1600/FEB17%2B020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qCegWKD4mKc/TV2LC-d8amI/AAAAAAAABx8/EqcNupclfXo/s400/DSCN1855%255B1%255D" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574764796999133794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z5UOB4eJhLA/TV2LCm1oMAI/AAAAAAAABx0/p3upInfQaTo/s1600/DSCN1857%255B1%255D"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z5UOB4eJhLA/TV2LCm1oMAI/AAAAAAAABx0/p3upInfQaTo/s400/DSCN1857%255B1%255D" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574764790656020482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-1835471792252613353?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/1835471792252613353/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=1835471792252613353' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1835471792252613353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1835471792252613353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-post.html' title='Tree Climbers, Picnic, and Tea Parties....'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dv4IoF0L9YI/TV2jrYrixtI/AAAAAAAABz8/bb89G2u3L4A/s72-c/FEB17%2B020.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-6499789852169685142</id><published>2010-09-15T21:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-15T21:50:10.429-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Will the Days Slow Down?</title><content type='html'>Why on earth I thought I'd have more free time after the girls started school?.?.?.?&lt;br /&gt;You're guess is as good as mine.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good news: K gets to start riding the bus to/from school, tomorrow.  YAY! cross off one daily activity.  Now if I could just get this time management thing figured out I might get somewhere with the 'free time'   hahaha&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-6499789852169685142?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/6499789852169685142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=6499789852169685142' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6499789852169685142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6499789852169685142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/09/will-days-slow-down.html' title='Will the Days Slow Down?'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-3234641722287512464</id><published>2010-08-19T22:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-19T22:11:38.271-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog Help? please :)</title><content type='html'>does anyone know how to get the post dividers a little bigger?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-3234641722287512464?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/3234641722287512464/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=3234641722287512464' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3234641722287512464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3234641722287512464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-help-please.html' title='Blog Help? please :)'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-2772511925760803406</id><published>2010-08-15T21:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-15T21:26:56.652-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Is there anything more satisfying???</title><content type='html'>The moment I saw you I wanted to hold you,&lt;br /&gt; and keep you warm on a cold gray morn.&lt;br /&gt;The moment I held you I want to kiss you,&lt;br /&gt; and welcome you on the day you were born.&lt;br /&gt;~this is from lullabye &lt;br /&gt;As I was rocking fussy baby to sleep tonight I started to tear up a little.  Isn't it wonderful to love what you do?  to feel so completely like you are doing what God put you on this earth to do, so fulfilled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TGi9x2yU-gI/AAAAAAAABxM/CYL_deJ1LGY/s1600/aug.+13th+070.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TGi9x2yU-gI/AAAAAAAABxM/CYL_deJ1LGY/s400/aug.+13th+070.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505859208678275586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-2772511925760803406?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/2772511925760803406/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=2772511925760803406' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2772511925760803406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2772511925760803406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/08/is-there-anything-more-satisfying.html' title='Is there anything more satisfying???'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TGi9x2yU-gI/AAAAAAAABxM/CYL_deJ1LGY/s72-c/aug.+13th+070.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-299004972898488420</id><published>2010-08-13T21:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-13T21:39:46.479-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TGYd7Xp1wiI/AAAAAAAABxE/_hYI-ScLGxc/s1600/aug.+13th+065.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TGYd7Xp1wiI/AAAAAAAABxE/_hYI-ScLGxc/s400/aug.+13th+065.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505120500306002466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TGYd7JrrKJI/AAAAAAAABw8/sT6T1rxpmsQ/s1600/aug.+13th+067.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TGYd7JrrKJI/AAAAAAAABw8/sT6T1rxpmsQ/s400/aug.+13th+067.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505120496555600018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TGYd6_Fvv_I/AAAAAAAABw0/sIiW3pmbIJ8/s1600/aug.+13th+068.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TGYd6_Fvv_I/AAAAAAAABw0/sIiW3pmbIJ8/s400/aug.+13th+068.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505120493712162802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-299004972898488420?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/299004972898488420/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=299004972898488420' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/299004972898488420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/299004972898488420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TGYd7Xp1wiI/AAAAAAAABxE/_hYI-ScLGxc/s72-c/aug.+13th+065.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-8318172906043555089</id><published>2010-07-21T21:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-21T22:03:53.867-07:00</updated><title type='text'>funny little boy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TEfQ4CnJ0uI/AAAAAAAABws/vGbM6BxoH48/s1600/july+454.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TEfQ4CnJ0uI/AAAAAAAABws/vGbM6BxoH48/s400/july+454.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496591531421324002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TEfQ3-K4xmI/AAAAAAAABwk/ttkozwEqbSg/s1600/july+453.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TEfQ3-K4xmI/AAAAAAAABwk/ttkozwEqbSg/s400/july+453.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496591530229024354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TEfQ3XT9vnI/AAAAAAAABwc/aCWGC4cAMC4/s1600/july+452.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TEfQ3XT9vnI/AAAAAAAABwc/aCWGC4cAMC4/s400/july+452.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496591519798115954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes that is a V8 juice in his hands, and he would drink it if he could get it open!!! LOL&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-8318172906043555089?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/8318172906043555089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=8318172906043555089' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8318172906043555089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8318172906043555089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/07/funny-little-boy.html' title='funny little boy'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TEfQ4CnJ0uI/AAAAAAAABws/vGbM6BxoH48/s72-c/july+454.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-2114400719010034337</id><published>2010-06-26T07:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-26T16:30:34.575-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Balloon Rally</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCYOPlfG8eI/AAAAAAAABwU/FPGKmfTDVko/s1600/ballon+Rally+443.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCYOPlfG8eI/AAAAAAAABwU/FPGKmfTDVko/s400/ballon+Rally+443.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487088856920945122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCYOPI_Vw8I/AAAAAAAABwM/h_lV-msVp9c/s1600/ballon+Rally+444.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCYOPI_Vw8I/AAAAAAAABwM/h_lV-msVp9c/s400/ballon+Rally+444.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487088849271505858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCYOOyOwGoI/AAAAAAAABwE/TFTEldj-bUI/s1600/ballon+Rally+433.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCYOOyOwGoI/AAAAAAAABwE/TFTEldj-bUI/s400/ballon+Rally+433.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487088843162131074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCYOOKJwiRI/AAAAAAAABv8/7HUtidbT5Io/s1600/ballon+Rally+442.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCYOOKJwiRI/AAAAAAAABv8/7HUtidbT5Io/s400/ballon+Rally+442.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487088832403769618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-2114400719010034337?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/2114400719010034337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=2114400719010034337' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2114400719010034337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2114400719010034337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post_26.html' title='Balloon Rally'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCYOPlfG8eI/AAAAAAAABwU/FPGKmfTDVko/s72-c/ballon+Rally+443.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-3059527899338976537</id><published>2010-06-24T22:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-24T22:49:42.661-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Water park</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCRDW3215lI/AAAAAAAABv0/MayZBRFOTpg/s1600/water+park+K.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCRDW3215lI/AAAAAAAABv0/MayZBRFOTpg/s400/water+park+K.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486584306274264658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCRDWkIZiDI/AAAAAAAABvs/wCv0gESPirI/s1600/water+park+E.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCRDWkIZiDI/AAAAAAAABvs/wCv0gESPirI/s400/water+park+E.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486584300979193906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This are a little blurry, cuz they came form my phone, but here they are.  We wen to the splash pad and little river in downtown St George tonight.  Fun to let the kids play.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-3059527899338976537?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/3059527899338976537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=3059527899338976537' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3059527899338976537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3059527899338976537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/06/water-park.html' title='Water park'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCRDW3215lI/AAAAAAAABv0/MayZBRFOTpg/s72-c/water+park+K.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-1081266075068921335</id><published>2010-06-24T22:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-24T22:29:30.163-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Totally Hilarious Car</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ-gcq1yZI/AAAAAAAABvc/8GTuwp2Bcso/s1600/june+031.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ-gcq1yZI/AAAAAAAABvc/8GTuwp2Bcso/s400/june+031.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486578973216721298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We saw this in Vegas when we were there a couple weeks ago...&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-7837d5ac0ccd4634" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v13.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D7837d5ac0ccd4634%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330121505%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D80930372C0B8CAFE3341EDD28E50D9251B590F9B.6544494A6F04BD679B9842F1C20F952391B99F72%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D7837d5ac0ccd4634%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3D5Xp_zcNyknPE_FBB_1-KPwVDrpw&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v13.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D7837d5ac0ccd4634%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330121505%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D80930372C0B8CAFE3341EDD28E50D9251B590F9B.6544494A6F04BD679B9842F1C20F952391B99F72%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D7837d5ac0ccd4634%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3D5Xp_zcNyknPE_FBB_1-KPwVDrpw&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this very short video was all I got of the side, but here is the back.  Crazy , huh?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-1081266075068921335?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/1081266075068921335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=1081266075068921335' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1081266075068921335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1081266075068921335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/06/totally-hilarious-car.html' title='Totally Hilarious Car'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ-gcq1yZI/AAAAAAAABvc/8GTuwp2Bcso/s72-c/june+031.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-1417998316583930150</id><published>2010-06-24T22:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-24T22:19:01.819-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Opps More Memorial Day pics</title><content type='html'>some great pics I accidentally left off the Memorial Day Weekend post&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ7kPYdIZI/AAAAAAAABvU/5AKodZDfUl8/s1600/june+015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ7kPYdIZI/AAAAAAAABvU/5AKodZDfUl8/s400/june+015.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486575739834540434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ7jlAA6cI/AAAAAAAABvM/nPIZ409ozsg/s1600/june+014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ7jlAA6cI/AAAAAAAABvM/nPIZ409ozsg/s400/june+014.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486575728457738690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ7jIvUKbI/AAAAAAAABvE/qGAdDmTpkZg/s1600/june+013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ7jIvUKbI/AAAAAAAABvE/qGAdDmTpkZg/s400/june+013.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486575720871504306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-1417998316583930150?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/1417998316583930150/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=1417998316583930150' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1417998316583930150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1417998316583930150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/06/some-great-pics-i-accidentally-left-off.html' title='Opps More Memorial Day pics'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ7kPYdIZI/AAAAAAAABvU/5AKodZDfUl8/s72-c/june+015.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-4203629290513842628</id><published>2010-06-24T22:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-24T22:18:32.569-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cute shirts</title><content type='html'>their shirts say "Nothing can split us up."  thought they are perfect for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ6t8euVyI/AAAAAAAABu8/FfWwoqoUz7I/s1600/june+021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ6t8euVyI/AAAAAAAABu8/FfWwoqoUz7I/s400/june+021.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486574807047624482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ6tK7UQZI/AAAAAAAABu0/1sbgDxlnm1U/s1600/june+020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ6tK7UQZI/AAAAAAAABu0/1sbgDxlnm1U/s400/june+020.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486574793745777042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-4203629290513842628?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/4203629290513842628/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=4203629290513842628' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4203629290513842628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4203629290513842628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post_24.html' title='Cute shirts'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ6t8euVyI/AAAAAAAABu8/FfWwoqoUz7I/s72-c/june+021.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-2844369537179848928</id><published>2010-06-24T22:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-24T22:10:26.978-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lasagna Encounters of the First Kind....</title><content type='html'>HAHAHAHA  this is from a while back. It is the first time I ever feed Ryan lasagna.  I thought he might not like the sause but he loved it!!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ406bAYaI/AAAAAAAABus/_wA-oYTHf1Y/s1600/june+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ406bAYaI/AAAAAAAABus/_wA-oYTHf1Y/s400/june+007.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486572727730987426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ4z4YPtMI/AAAAAAAABuk/A1rtrAiYIkQ/s1600/june+008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ4z4YPtMI/AAAAAAAABuk/A1rtrAiYIkQ/s400/june+008.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486572710002668738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-2844369537179848928?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/2844369537179848928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=2844369537179848928' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2844369537179848928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2844369537179848928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/06/lasagna-encounters-of-first-kind.html' title='Lasagna Encounters of the First Kind....'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCQ406bAYaI/AAAAAAAABus/_wA-oYTHf1Y/s72-c/june+007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-5524553808823521837</id><published>2010-06-22T21:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-22T22:34:35.368-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Riverton 2010</title><content type='html'>Kiera's mini birthday party&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGZxkeJn7I/AAAAAAAABuU/BUZ9bMwAdWs/s1600/june+083.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGZxkeJn7I/AAAAAAAABuU/BUZ9bMwAdWs/s400/june+083.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485834897996750770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We got to see Uncle Daren...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGZxJpOXgI/AAAAAAAABuE/p6ZAhSVn9yI/s1600/june+065.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGZxJpOXgI/AAAAAAAABuE/p6ZAhSVn9yI/s400/june+065.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485834890795441666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGZwnqVo1I/AAAAAAAABt8/xdN9JNXhYW8/s1600/june+076.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGZwnqVo1I/AAAAAAAABt8/xdN9JNXhYW8/s400/june+076.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485834881673306962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGYQQ7muBI/AAAAAAAABt0/PPfhdiOy5z8/s1600/june+066.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGYQQ7muBI/AAAAAAAABt0/PPfhdiOy5z8/s400/june+066.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485833226304272402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the attendees of the little b-day party...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGYPH3T1vI/AAAAAAAABtc/WcLK20C2u9c/s1600/june+090.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGYPH3T1vI/AAAAAAAABtc/WcLK20C2u9c/s400/june+090.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485833206690469618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGYOhOKnJI/AAAAAAAABtU/eIPzlloipRI/s1600/june+084.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGYOhOKnJI/AAAAAAAABtU/eIPzlloipRI/s400/june+084.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485833196317351058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGXDoPlNSI/AAAAAAAABtM/JqLJdizYi2U/s1600/june+049.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGXDoPlNSI/AAAAAAAABtM/JqLJdizYi2U/s400/june+049.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485831909712147746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGXDN2fURI/AAAAAAAABtE/fJbpxQVZRKw/s1600/june+079.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGXDN2fURI/AAAAAAAABtE/fJbpxQVZRKw/s400/june+079.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485831902627582226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGXC05z7vI/AAAAAAAABs8/o_OqyNHe3vo/s1600/june+045.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGXC05z7vI/AAAAAAAABs8/o_OqyNHe3vo/s400/june+045.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485831895930629874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGV0oh2QrI/AAAAAAAABsk/xxWDe6qG3sY/s1600/june+056.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGV0oh2QrI/AAAAAAAABsk/xxWDe6qG3sY/s400/june+056.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485830552579097266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGVzM-DUYI/AAAAAAAABsU/Dw9BLaYrGdA/s1600/june+092.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGVzM-DUYI/AAAAAAAABsU/Dw9BLaYrGdA/s400/june+092.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485830528001331586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGVyCYEdyI/AAAAAAAABsM/Sn3SCGmMopo/s1600/june+094.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGVyCYEdyI/AAAAAAAABsM/Sn3SCGmMopo/s400/june+094.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485830507977799458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The many expressions of Kiera&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGTdwyn8bI/AAAAAAAABrU/nCHEwac5bsc/s1600/june+048.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGTdwyn8bI/AAAAAAAABrU/nCHEwac5bsc/s400/june+048.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485827960636699058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGTdRYE0tI/AAAAAAAABrM/CFova2me1Jg/s1600/june+046.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGTdRYE0tI/AAAAAAAABrM/CFova2me1Jg/s400/june+046.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485827952203846354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGTdGj5J1I/AAAAAAAABrE/FTo9ae0ih3w/s1600/june+058.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGTdGj5J1I/AAAAAAAABrE/FTo9ae0ih3w/s400/june+058.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485827949300623186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGTcq_SNiI/AAAAAAAABq8/VpNq2oY06Wg/s1600/june+057.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGTcq_SNiI/AAAAAAAABq8/VpNq2oY06Wg/s400/june+057.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485827941899318818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGPX1zKNlI/AAAAAAAABqM/V_K2izfUeHg/s1600/june+050.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGPX1zKNlI/AAAAAAAABqM/V_K2izfUeHg/s400/june+050.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485823460855395922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGPDTdCeCI/AAAAAAAABqE/VLci830WFc8/s1600/june+051.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGPDTdCeCI/AAAAAAAABqE/VLci830WFc8/s400/june+051.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485823108038424610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGPC2FiGPI/AAAAAAAABp8/HBd54kyDIHc/s1600/june+052.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGPC2FiGPI/AAAAAAAABp8/HBd54kyDIHc/s400/june+052.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485823100155205874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGPCgxcKyI/AAAAAAAABp0/E-jnmwhHAP4/s1600/june+053.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGPCgxcKyI/AAAAAAAABp0/E-jnmwhHAP4/s400/june+053.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485823094433786658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGPBouHDWI/AAAAAAAABpk/kShOXk8akC8/s1600/june+040.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGPBouHDWI/AAAAAAAABpk/kShOXk8akC8/s400/june+040.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485823079387434338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-5524553808823521837?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/5524553808823521837/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=5524553808823521837' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5524553808823521837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5524553808823521837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post_9619.html' title='Riverton 2010'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGZxkeJn7I/AAAAAAAABuU/BUZ9bMwAdWs/s72-c/june+083.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-4776596830832783154</id><published>2010-06-22T21:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-22T21:31:22.266-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A good investment...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGMXAVY1YI/AAAAAAAABpc/igvWDc3kDQU/s1600/june+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGMXAVY1YI/AAAAAAAABpc/igvWDc3kDQU/s400/june+001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485820147968562562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGMWaqHkdI/AAAAAAAABpM/mlQ04vClBk0/s1600/june+096.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGMWaqHkdI/AAAAAAAABpM/mlQ04vClBk0/s400/june+096.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485820137854964178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGMVqRwsOI/AAAAAAAABo8/9gqVML4nLrw/s1600/june+098.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGMVqRwsOI/AAAAAAAABo8/9gqVML4nLrw/s400/june+098.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485820124867899618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-4776596830832783154?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/4776596830832783154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=4776596830832783154' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4776596830832783154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4776596830832783154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post_22.html' title='A good investment...'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCGMXAVY1YI/AAAAAAAABpc/igvWDc3kDQU/s72-c/june+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-6248221463588065119</id><published>2010-06-21T22:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-21T23:05:29.678-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Birthday Kiera!!!!</title><content type='html'>Thinking back 4 years ago... We were on 2 different floors in the hospital, and all I wanted to do was go see you.  I wanted to hold you, but I could do that either for a while. You were sooo tiny, and we we're all worried about you.  Six weeks early, but look at you now?!?!?!!?  You'd never know.  Love your brother and sister,  though I think maybe you fight with her more often than love her.  Quick to smile and pretty quick tempered too.  Bold, curious, creative, adventurous.... &lt;br /&gt;You make me smile I love you precious girl!!!!! &lt;3&lt;br /&gt;one of Kiera's latest fashions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCBPQkHRsaI/AAAAAAAABo0/PijuMlQCeJE/s1600/june+101.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCBPQkHRsaI/AAAAAAAABo0/PijuMlQCeJE/s400/june+101.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485471492127961506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-6248221463588065119?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/6248221463588065119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=6248221463588065119' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6248221463588065119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6248221463588065119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/06/happy-birthday-kiera.html' title='Happy Birthday Kiera!!!!'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TCBPQkHRsaI/AAAAAAAABo0/PijuMlQCeJE/s72-c/june+101.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-3690324564041033821</id><published>2010-06-03T06:15:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-03T06:16:06.327-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New pics of the hair cut</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TAerEbAZ-mI/AAAAAAAABos/KCoejSMRsRY/s1600/june3+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TAerEbAZ-mI/AAAAAAAABos/KCoejSMRsRY/s400/june3+002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478535564176783970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TAerEG8cSPI/AAAAAAAABok/HiYbMQsUJUU/s1600/june3+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TAerEG8cSPI/AAAAAAAABok/HiYbMQsUJUU/s400/june3+001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478535558791448818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-3690324564041033821?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/3690324564041033821/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=3690324564041033821' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3690324564041033821'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3690324564041033821'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-pics-of-hair-cut.html' title='New pics of the hair cut'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TAerEbAZ-mI/AAAAAAAABos/KCoejSMRsRY/s72-c/june3+002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-3749001336336969378</id><published>2010-06-01T15:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-01T23:33:13.145-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Birthday Ryan!!!!!</title><content type='html'>Blah.. that was a quick shot after the haircut, we'll get a better one tomorrow...&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TAX6vy2lF-I/AAAAAAAABoU/uL8FyILy0Qk/s1600/june+1+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TAX6vy2lF-I/AAAAAAAABoU/uL8FyILy0Qk/s400/june+1+002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478060220777568226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A year has already passed.  How can that be? &lt;br /&gt;What can I say about this little love bug?  quite the cuddler.  Loves sweet potatoes, chicken pot pie, and  homemade chicken noddle soup.  Walking around with mommy, not quite on his own yet.  Sure loves his sisers!!!! Has to give them hugs and kisses every night. And WOW he lights up when he Daddy walks in the room!!&lt;br /&gt;He got his first hair cut today.  (Picture to come)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TAWErjRXmAI/AAAAAAAABoE/Aqi1CuAGsTo/s1600/may+148.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TAWErjRXmAI/AAAAAAAABoE/Aqi1CuAGsTo/s400/may+148.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477930405503408130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TAWErH5fm8I/AAAAAAAABn8/QU_s_FEQKVw/s1600/may+571.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TAWErH5fm8I/AAAAAAAABn8/QU_s_FEQKVw/s400/may+571.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477930398155512770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-3749001336336969378?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/3749001336336969378/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=3749001336336969378' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3749001336336969378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3749001336336969378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post.html' title='Happy Birthday Ryan!!!!!'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TAX6vy2lF-I/AAAAAAAABoU/uL8FyILy0Qk/s72-c/june+1+002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-3375163526386658351</id><published>2010-05-31T22:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-31T22:22:23.591-07:00</updated><title type='text'>It Wont Be Like This For Long</title><content type='html'>In the car the other day we heard the song It Wont Be Like This for Long, by Darius Rucker  (the led singer for Hootie and the Blowfish turned country star). It gets me everytime!  I told Emily I really like this song.  She noticed I was tearing up, and and asked why I like it so much.  I explained that it reminds of her, and that she wont be my little girl for very long.  "Mmmmm..." she says then in her most convincing, it's-really-ok-mom voice she says "I'll be 5 for a really long time." tears in my eyes I answer, "I know it seems like a really long time to you, but it goes by in a blink of an eye, to me."  :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-3375163526386658351?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/3375163526386658351/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=3375163526386658351' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3375163526386658351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3375163526386658351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/05/it-wont.html' title='It Wont Be Like This For Long'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-9008708156534111204</id><published>2010-05-31T21:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-31T22:03:54.546-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Memorial Day Weekend</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASOmP4a9XI/AAAAAAAABn0/lHiQpNcdqcY/s1600/may+577.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASOmP4a9XI/AAAAAAAABn0/lHiQpNcdqcY/s400/may+577.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477659834538718578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASOllyUepI/AAAAAAAABns/jCRz9wJPYvQ/s1600/may+578.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASOllyUepI/AAAAAAAABns/jCRz9wJPYvQ/s400/may+578.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477659823238838930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A race&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASL9jGcbSI/AAAAAAAABnk/_Qp_OofwsRQ/s1600/may+563.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASL9jGcbSI/AAAAAAAABnk/_Qp_OofwsRQ/s400/may+563.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477656936299916578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;" yeah!! I won!!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASLRP_54hI/AAAAAAAABnU/Bgb53-eekWM/s1600/may+564.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASLRP_54hI/AAAAAAAABnU/Bgb53-eekWM/s400/may+564.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477656175257969170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Let's go again. I'm ready..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASLQrap20I/AAAAAAAABnM/2qZQzeZHn-M/s1600/may+561.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASLQrap20I/AAAAAAAABnM/2qZQzeZHn-M/s400/may+561.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477656165438053186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Little man watching Daddy out the window&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASLQR3ODAI/AAAAAAAABnE/RB2SUQYc7jo/s1600/may+573.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASLQR3ODAI/AAAAAAAABnE/RB2SUQYc7jo/s400/may+573.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477656158578543618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steve and Ken finished the roof on the shed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASLPnxk3JI/AAAAAAAABm0/oiVKJeTUGUM/s1600/may+560.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASLPnxk3JI/AAAAAAAABm0/oiVKJeTUGUM/s400/may+560.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477656147280583826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-9008708156534111204?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/9008708156534111204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=9008708156534111204' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/9008708156534111204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/9008708156534111204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/05/memorial-day-weekend.html' title='Memorial Day Weekend'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASOmP4a9XI/AAAAAAAABn0/lHiQpNcdqcY/s72-c/may+577.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-8161908095665656182</id><published>2010-05-31T08:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-31T21:13:41.808-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Our Little Camper</title><content type='html'>Steve's been fixin' up this lil 23 foot camper.  It's been fun.  Look forward to camping this summer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Before&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASDflXaKbI/AAAAAAAABms/bFqBm4NF78U/s1600/may+078.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASDflXaKbI/AAAAAAAABms/bFqBm4NF78U/s400/may+078.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477647625418844594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;After&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASDfQYz2oI/AAAAAAAABmk/V9ebDKZvoRA/s1600/may+565.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASDfQYz2oI/AAAAAAAABmk/V9ebDKZvoRA/s400/may+565.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477647619787577986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Before&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASDe5N4kCI/AAAAAAAABmc/yx2rqdfJB_I/s1600/may+080.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASDe5N4kCI/AAAAAAAABmc/yx2rqdfJB_I/s400/may+080.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477647613567733794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;After&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASDetAT3PI/AAAAAAAABmU/pKeuAYfsV_A/s1600/may+566.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASDetAT3PI/AAAAAAAABmU/pKeuAYfsV_A/s400/may+566.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477647610289577202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-8161908095665656182?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/8161908095665656182/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=8161908095665656182' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8161908095665656182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8161908095665656182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post.html' title='Our Little Camper'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/TASDflXaKbI/AAAAAAAABms/bFqBm4NF78U/s72-c/may+078.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-4129267992740803554</id><published>2010-05-08T13:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-08T13:37:46.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pure Sweetness</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S-XLj4OlH8I/AAAAAAAABkE/aKAR3NIJzDY/s1600/may.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S-XLj4OlH8I/AAAAAAAABkE/aKAR3NIJzDY/s400/may.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469001139760734146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-4129267992740803554?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/4129267992740803554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=4129267992740803554' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4129267992740803554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4129267992740803554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/05/pure-sweetness.html' title='Pure Sweetness'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S-XLj4OlH8I/AAAAAAAABkE/aKAR3NIJzDY/s72-c/may.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-7061492110554217475</id><published>2010-05-06T21:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-06T21:49:43.787-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My Paycheck  (Thanks Renee)  :)</title><content type='html'>I just read a friend's (Shepard News) latest blog post.  She reminded me of why I love what I do.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S-OUwbqxGlI/AAAAAAAABj8/zNMg0pDWtwY/s1600/may+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S-OUwbqxGlI/AAAAAAAABj8/zNMg0pDWtwY/s400/may+012.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468377932339681874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kiera announced she was going to go play in the back yard.  Here's what I found when I went to check on her a couple minutes later. "Whatcha doin?"&lt;br /&gt; I ask.  Her first response was "the rock are thirsty.  I'm giving them a drink."  then a couple minutes later (we were still outside)  it changed to "the rocks need a bath.  This is their bath in here." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S-OUv-LrtUI/AAAAAAAABj0/rkYQ9bDokDw/s1600/may+011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S-OUv-LrtUI/AAAAAAAABj0/rkYQ9bDokDw/s400/may+011.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468377924424676674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S-OUvVslvDI/AAAAAAAABjs/jle3UgahMiM/s1600/may+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S-OUvVslvDI/AAAAAAAABjs/jle3UgahMiM/s400/may+003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468377913556843570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Emily, the new mother.  She picked up a roly poly.  "Mom, can I keep it? What can I put it in?"  I gave her a baby food jar.  "What do roly polies eat?  Do they drink anything?  What do they like to play on?  Mom will you take a picture of me and my new baby?"  Who knew kids could be so entertaining.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S-OUuwhRalI/AAAAAAAABjk/c2COQPaPIlM/s1600/may+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S-OUuwhRalI/AAAAAAAABjk/c2COQPaPIlM/s400/may+002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468377903577262674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S-OUuBdhWjI/AAAAAAAABjc/rBGAnPwFiTE/s1600/may+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S-OUuBdhWjI/AAAAAAAABjc/rBGAnPwFiTE/s400/may+006.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468377890945063474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This little boy just loves both of his sisters dearly!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-7061492110554217475?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/7061492110554217475/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=7061492110554217475' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7061492110554217475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7061492110554217475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/05/emily-and-her-new-baby-kiera-and-her.html' title='My Paycheck  (Thanks Renee)  :)'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S-OUwbqxGlI/AAAAAAAABj8/zNMg0pDWtwY/s72-c/may+012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-2837457166346966375</id><published>2010-04-26T21:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-26T21:58:18.907-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Emily cracks me up this morning</title><content type='html'>We recently heard a commercial for some kind of fun thing that was going to be down town.  We only heard the last little part of it. &lt;br /&gt;So on the way to school today...&lt;br /&gt;Emily: "Mom, Can I ask you a question? (she says that all the time lately)&lt;br /&gt;Mom: "yes Dear"&lt;br /&gt;E: "Remember that commercial about free games and food venders and...?" (there a whole bunch of stuff)  "When is that?"&lt;br /&gt;M: "I don't know Babe.  I didn't hear that part of the commercial."&lt;br /&gt;E: "OH." :( and a pause "Well is it tomorrow?"&lt;br /&gt;M: "Don't know Sweetie."&lt;br /&gt;E: "Is it tonight?"&lt;br /&gt;M:  "I don't know." (shrug +eye contact)&lt;br /&gt;E: "Maybe it is the day after tomorrow. Is it that day?"&lt;br /&gt;This is when I started to crack up.  "I really don't know Emily."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She seem to be convince if she kept asking, she'd hit the right day then I'd Know. &lt;br /&gt;It made me laugh, and that's good for a Monday morning.  Well and we had green lights ALL the way through town. :D&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-2837457166346966375?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/2837457166346966375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=2837457166346966375' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2837457166346966375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2837457166346966375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/04/emily-cracks-me-up-this-morning.html' title='Emily cracks me up this morning'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-327485356626931057</id><published>2010-04-26T21:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-26T21:36:18.363-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Family B-B-Que last weekend</title><content type='html'>Brooke took some really great pictures when they were up here last weekend.  THANKS BROOKE!!!  yeeeeahhhh.... I'm just getting them on.  That's me! Usually runnin' behind.  :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZoFq1wQRI/AAAAAAAABis/t1VEH99Aedk/s1600/IMG_5334.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZoFq1wQRI/AAAAAAAABis/t1VEH99Aedk/s400/IMG_5334.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464669644469059858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZnUCAic1I/AAAAAAAABik/je05TTNNJk8/s1600/IMG_5337.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZnUCAic1I/AAAAAAAABik/je05TTNNJk8/s400/IMG_5337.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464668791694848850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZmvkXNo2I/AAAAAAAABh8/kiCHLZCtvM0/s1600/IMG_5303.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZmvkXNo2I/AAAAAAAABh8/kiCHLZCtvM0/s400/IMG_5303.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464668165261599586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZmvURyRCI/AAAAAAAABh0/1whnlGo2Iok/s1600/IMG_5294.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZmvURyRCI/AAAAAAAABh0/1whnlGo2Iok/s400/IMG_5294.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464668160943866914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9Zmu4dnvhI/AAAAAAAABhs/49wBZpJrVv8/s1600/IMG_5344.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9Zmu4dnvhI/AAAAAAAABhs/49wBZpJrVv8/s400/IMG_5344.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464668153477316114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZmuvAwGjI/AAAAAAAABhk/pZRZLfICtWk/s1600/IMG_5315.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZmuvAwGjI/AAAAAAAABhk/pZRZLfICtWk/s400/IMG_5315.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464668150940310066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZmuVzJteI/AAAAAAAABhc/eAP64_A6vGM/s1600/IMG_5351.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZmuVzJteI/AAAAAAAABhc/eAP64_A6vGM/s400/IMG_5351.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464668144172381666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZlsSdfTMI/AAAAAAAABhU/CA5So7EsEZ8/s1600/IMG_5361.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZlsSdfTMI/AAAAAAAABhU/CA5So7EsEZ8/s400/IMG_5361.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464667009404849346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Off to the park...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZlsBOLWvI/AAAAAAAABhM/MyoAz4BKk8A/s1600/IMG_5363.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZlsBOLWvI/AAAAAAAABhM/MyoAz4BKk8A/s400/IMG_5363.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464667004777224946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frog huntin'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZlrgXVXoI/AAAAAAAABhE/-AHzqJtxscU/s1600/IMG_5364.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZlrgXVXoI/AAAAAAAABhE/-AHzqJtxscU/s400/IMG_5364.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464666995957259906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZlrQVYxII/AAAAAAAABg8/IGUozj01pbM/s1600/the+girls.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 89px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZlrQVYxII/AAAAAAAABg8/IGUozj01pbM/s400/the+girls.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464666991654126722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZlrHgBJWI/AAAAAAAABg0/sYlOmVttb24/s1600/IMG_5355.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZlrHgBJWI/AAAAAAAABg0/sYlOmVttb24/s400/IMG_5355.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464666989282796898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Don't Kiera and Cole look a like?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-327485356626931057?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/327485356626931057/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=327485356626931057' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/327485356626931057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/327485356626931057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/04/family-b-b-que-last-weekend.html' title='Family B-B-Que last weekend'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S9ZoFq1wQRI/AAAAAAAABis/t1VEH99Aedk/s72-c/IMG_5334.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-5923170771782957702</id><published>2010-04-14T21:35:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-14T21:46:43.270-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parks'/><title type='text'>One of the coolest parks in St George</title><content type='html'>This is Pioneer Park.  It's a fun place to hike around in.  Cool rocks to climb up on, and an awesome view.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aZTKHfIyI/AAAAAAAABgs/Uf-a_m93Gro/s1600/april+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aZTKHfIyI/AAAAAAAABgs/Uf-a_m93Gro/s400/april+007.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460220152645624610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aZS3ROISI/AAAAAAAABgk/-7B_U3prm-o/s1600/april+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aZS3ROISI/AAAAAAAABgk/-7B_U3prm-o/s400/april+009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460220147586179362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aZSt4ZLAI/AAAAAAAABgc/OlXK_mIAa6U/s1600/april+010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aZSt4ZLAI/AAAAAAAABgc/OlXK_mIAa6U/s400/april+010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460220145066126338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aZSJwdV4I/AAAAAAAABgU/oMGZF2p-fgs/s1600/april+011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aZSJwdV4I/AAAAAAAABgU/oMGZF2p-fgs/s400/april+011.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460220135369168770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aZR_o_tjI/AAAAAAAABgM/ogXj85hnoAA/s1600/april+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aZR_o_tjI/AAAAAAAABgM/ogXj85hnoAA/s400/april+012.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460220132653512242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aYNVHZp5I/AAAAAAAABgE/JT70CSOWV9Q/s1600/april+013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aYNVHZp5I/AAAAAAAABgE/JT70CSOWV9Q/s400/april+013.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460218953007212434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aYMv4OTzI/AAAAAAAABf0/WEV1JhhB1lA/s1600/april+017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aYMv4OTzI/AAAAAAAABf0/WEV1JhhB1lA/s400/april+017.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460218943011442482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aYMGCgC6I/AAAAAAAABfk/vVYRL8Za4lU/s1600/april+019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aYMGCgC6I/AAAAAAAABfk/vVYRL8Za4lU/s400/april+019.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460218931780258722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-5923170771782957702?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/5923170771782957702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=5923170771782957702' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5923170771782957702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5923170771782957702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/04/one-of-coolest-parks-in-st-george.html' title='One of the coolest parks in St George'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aZTKHfIyI/AAAAAAAABgs/Uf-a_m93Gro/s72-c/april+007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-8238986255534527955</id><published>2010-04-14T21:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-14T21:49:42.965-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Let's rock and roll</title><content type='html'>I walk in to the kitchen this morning, to find Kiera doing Ryan's hair for him.  LOL!!  Really, already? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aWYlUiyDI/AAAAAAAABfc/UaWmItDXFTQ/s1600/april+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aWYlUiyDI/AAAAAAAABfc/UaWmItDXFTQ/s400/april+005.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460216947312609330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just gettin inta stuff...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aWYHb4d2I/AAAAAAAABfU/5lhiydrrcWE/s1600/april+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aWYHb4d2I/AAAAAAAABfU/5lhiydrrcWE/s400/april+002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460216939290326882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A view of this little punkin head's curly locks.  :D HAIRCUT TIME!! :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aWX01ZEOI/AAAAAAAABfM/rf3TnONEydM/s1600/april+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aWX01ZEOI/AAAAAAAABfM/rf3TnONEydM/s400/april+003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460216934297047266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-8238986255534527955?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/8238986255534527955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=8238986255534527955' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8238986255534527955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8238986255534527955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/04/lets-rock-and-roll.html' title='Let&apos;s rock and roll'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S8aWYlUiyDI/AAAAAAAABfc/UaWmItDXFTQ/s72-c/april+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-7683254873769521147</id><published>2010-04-12T21:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T21:44:44.531-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ryan Update</title><content type='html'>Ryan's Doc. referred us to this place called The Learning Center.  So far I am very pleased with them.  A lady came out and did an evaluation on Ryan, at our house.  She said " He is basically a 12 month old form the waist up, and a 7 month from the waist down.  He is advanced in language, fine motor skills, and cognitive skills, but behind in social/emotional, and gross motor skills.  How did such a gap develop?  I'm not quite sure, but it does make a lot of sense to me.  So we're working on he gross motor skills (crawling, sitting himself up) first and them we'll go from there.  I'm very hopeful... :D&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-7683254873769521147?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/7683254873769521147/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=7683254873769521147' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7683254873769521147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7683254873769521147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/04/ryan-update.html' title='Ryan Update'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-951217404359759646</id><published>2010-04-09T21:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-09T21:05:47.067-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Da'ya think we'll ever be done? (Moving in)</title><content type='html'>feels like we're getting closer.  Hope we actually are.&lt;br /&gt;Found a fun new nightly activity.  There is a bike trail that start near our new house. It runs a long a little creek with tons of frogs, and goes by a park.  That's all we saw of it tonight anyway.&lt;br /&gt;Yep think I'm gonna like living over on this side of town... :D&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-951217404359759646?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/951217404359759646/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=951217404359759646' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/951217404359759646'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/951217404359759646'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/04/daya-think-well-ever-be-done-moving-in.html' title='Da&apos;ya think we&apos;ll ever be done? (Moving in)'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-6394683770729607907</id><published>2010-04-07T20:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-07T21:00:16.067-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Birthday,  The Arts Festival and moving all in the same weekend</title><content type='html'>Why does all the exciting stuff happen all at once? Haha&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71T3P4i2BI/AAAAAAAABfE/mBMLU8YphmA/s1600/april+2+066.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71T3P4i2BI/AAAAAAAABfE/mBMLU8YphmA/s400/april+2+066.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457610532064516114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71T2e0aZ8I/AAAAAAAABe8/JSh_uW4pPlY/s1600/april+2+064.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71T2e0aZ8I/AAAAAAAABe8/JSh_uW4pPlY/s400/april+2+064.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457610518893848514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71T17Ai6nI/AAAAAAAABe0/4MQi2oaepHY/s1600/april+2+063.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71T17Ai6nI/AAAAAAAABe0/4MQi2oaepHY/s400/april+2+063.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457610509281061490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71T1n6JH9I/AAAAAAAABes/m8LGR6QACn8/s1600/april+2+067.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71T1n6JH9I/AAAAAAAABes/m8LGR6QACn8/s400/april+2+067.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457610504153931730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71TW3r7YvI/AAAAAAAABek/EoU-tbT0nWA/s1600/april+2+068.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71TW3r7YvI/AAAAAAAABek/EoU-tbT0nWA/s400/april+2+068.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457609975813333746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71TWneAx1I/AAAAAAAABec/Purak8MpeyI/s1600/april+2+062.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71TWneAx1I/AAAAAAAABec/Purak8MpeyI/s400/april+2+062.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457609971459999570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71TWMlYLMI/AAAAAAAABeU/qlKzB-Tolrc/s1600/april+2+060.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71TWMlYLMI/AAAAAAAABeU/qlKzB-Tolrc/s400/april+2+060.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457609964243135682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71TVr_Ke_I/AAAAAAAABeM/URtd_JM2lII/s1600/april+2+043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71TVr_Ke_I/AAAAAAAABeM/URtd_JM2lII/s400/april+2+043.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457609955492920306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71TVNu9VFI/AAAAAAAABeE/ctd5PuO30Xs/s1600/april+2+072.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71TVNu9VFI/AAAAAAAABeE/ctd5PuO30Xs/s400/april+2+072.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457609947371885650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-6394683770729607907?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/6394683770729607907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=6394683770729607907' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6394683770729607907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6394683770729607907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/04/birthday-arts-festival-and-moving-all.html' title='A Birthday,  The Arts Festival and moving all in the same weekend'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S71T3P4i2BI/AAAAAAAABfE/mBMLU8YphmA/s72-c/april+2+066.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-7753802847334424365</id><published>2010-04-02T21:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T08:13:05.843-07:00</updated><title type='text'>To Emily... With Love,  Mom</title><content type='html'>Five years ago right about this time you were set on my tummy, and I saw you for the first time.  You were the most amazing thing I'd ever seen.  The most wonderful thing I'd ever felt.  And I cried and I cried and I cried.  Tears of joy!  You've grown so much!! Through the time it was just the 2 of us living in Panguitch,  with Grandma Johnalee, and then in our little tiny cabin.  And you were such a trooper for those 9 weeks Mommy was in the hospital.  You've seen 2 babies come and move in to our home, and you let them moved right in to your heart, too didn't you?  &lt;br /&gt;I love how you love to go to school.  You even try to convince me that your not sick when you are, because you don't like to miss school.&lt;br /&gt;I love the way you sing "HEY SOUL SISTER..." &lt;br /&gt;I love how you love your sister and brother.&lt;br /&gt;It amazes me how grown up you are, but I love that sometimes you still crawl up into my lap and want me to rock you.&lt;br /&gt;I love that you are curious and always wanting learn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;YOU&lt;/span&gt; my brown eyed, precious girl... my sweet one and only    &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt; Emily&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-7753802847334424365?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/7753802847334424365/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=7753802847334424365' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7753802847334424365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7753802847334424365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-emily-with-love-mom.html' title='To Emily... With Love,  Mom'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-1211353730987814878</id><published>2010-04-01T20:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-01T20:54:51.726-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Where's my brain? Has anybody seen it?</title><content type='html'>I went all day today thinking it was the last day of March.  Even AFTER I saw that it was april 1st and wrote 4-1-10 on something.  Seriously????  Emily even told me " I think there is a bird flying around up in there. pointing to my head.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-1211353730987814878?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/1211353730987814878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=1211353730987814878' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1211353730987814878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1211353730987814878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/04/wheres-my-brain-has-anybody-seen-it.html' title='Where&apos;s my brain? Has anybody seen it?'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-1819699476397609911</id><published>2010-03-30T21:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-30T21:50:50.323-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A conversation with Kiera</title><content type='html'>Kiera (several times over the last few days): Mommy I think i need a hair cut.&lt;br /&gt;Mommy: oh?  Your hair is so beautiful.  I like that you have lots of it.&lt;br /&gt;K: ok. We're gonna let it grow forEVER  and EVER...so then I'll really have a lot of it.&lt;br /&gt;M: :D&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-1819699476397609911?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/1819699476397609911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=1819699476397609911' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1819699476397609911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1819699476397609911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/03/conversation-with-kiera.html' title='A conversation with Kiera'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-5306237662660418811</id><published>2010-03-27T20:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-27T20:56:30.281-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sweet sisters,  fancy macaroni, and cheese and a happy boy....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S67SK6FKzCI/AAAAAAAABd0/oUDzerc9BGg/s1600/march+10+021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S67SK6FKzCI/AAAAAAAABd0/oUDzerc9BGg/s400/march+10+021.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453527283623709730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S67SKmFdtHI/AAAAAAAABds/HtIo-uYmd_4/s1600/march+10+023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S67SKmFdtHI/AAAAAAAABds/HtIo-uYmd_4/s400/march+10+023.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453527278256239730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Got this from pioneer woman. made a few little tweeks. the girls love it!!!!   Love love love her blog!!!  really want her cookbook&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S67SKVtMd3I/AAAAAAAABdk/Kdb0cGYpI7s/s1600/march+10+024.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S67SKVtMd3I/AAAAAAAABdk/Kdb0cGYpI7s/s400/march+10+024.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453527273859479410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well he was happy, now he's sick again.  :(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S67ROrcSwjI/AAAAAAAABdE/8cuZ6z7iK1s/s1600/march+10+029.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S67ROrcSwjI/AAAAAAAABdE/8cuZ6z7iK1s/s400/march+10+029.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453526248902017586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S67ROOgqNCI/AAAAAAAABc0/VXwBqnjiQwo/s1600/march+10+041.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S67ROOgqNCI/AAAAAAAABc0/VXwBqnjiQwo/s400/march+10+041.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453526241135703074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S67RN3_N2LI/AAAAAAAABcs/vJRAr5lk2fY/s1600/march+10+038.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S67RN3_N2LI/AAAAAAAABcs/vJRAr5lk2fY/s400/march+10+038.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453526235089852594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-5306237662660418811?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/5306237662660418811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=5306237662660418811' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5306237662660418811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5306237662660418811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/03/sweet-sisters-happy-boy-and-fancy.html' title='Sweet sisters,  fancy macaroni, and cheese and a happy boy....'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S67SK6FKzCI/AAAAAAAABd0/oUDzerc9BGg/s72-c/march+10+021.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-1231130203288765355</id><published>2010-01-10T22:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-10T22:23:05.021-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Good Buddies</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0rDHHdOSII/AAAAAAAABck/helSEr1cUdY/s1600-h/1-10-10+026.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0rDHHdOSII/AAAAAAAABck/helSEr1cUdY/s400/1-10-10+026.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425363228149303426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ryan checking out baby Heston&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0rDGkvUdzI/AAAAAAAABcc/8-8xwniaIOA/s1600-h/1-10-10+023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0rDGkvUdzI/AAAAAAAABcc/8-8xwniaIOA/s400/1-10-10+023.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425363218829965106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ashley at our house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0rDGUNEsqI/AAAAAAAABcU/kB242Zr9Z4o/s1600-h/1-10-10+031.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0rDGUNEsqI/AAAAAAAABcU/kB242Zr9Z4o/s400/1-10-10+031.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425363214391358114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0rDGNPge9I/AAAAAAAABcM/qLyLRbo3OYY/s1600-h/1-10-10+032.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0rDGNPge9I/AAAAAAAABcM/qLyLRbo3OYY/s400/1-10-10+032.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425363212522519506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Stevie and Big Heston working on the truck. actually they painted the interior.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-1231130203288765355?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/1231130203288765355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=1231130203288765355' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1231130203288765355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1231130203288765355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/01/fun-times-with-ashley-and-grandma.html' title='Good Buddies'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0rDHHdOSII/AAAAAAAABck/helSEr1cUdY/s72-c/1-10-10+026.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-3058435964715707648</id><published>2010-01-10T21:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-10T22:13:42.183-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Just some piczzzzzz.......</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0rBjhp5oFI/AAAAAAAABb0/23fFj_-sYVo/s1600-h/ry+at+grams.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 210px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0rBjhp5oFI/AAAAAAAABb0/23fFj_-sYVo/s400/ry+at+grams.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425361517194879058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0q-qxALpeI/AAAAAAAABbs/CHGeH9GPo44/s1600-h/12-2-09+035.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0q-qxALpeI/AAAAAAAABbs/CHGeH9GPo44/s400/12-2-09+035.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425358343039067618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0q-qiJzcRI/AAAAAAAABbk/6QZpu-oPmuU/s1600-h/1-10-10+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0q-qiJzcRI/AAAAAAAABbk/6QZpu-oPmuU/s400/1-10-10+012.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425358339052892434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0q-qPsbvHI/AAAAAAAABbc/gWteirnPKqQ/s1600-h/1-10-10+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0q-qPsbvHI/AAAAAAAABbc/gWteirnPKqQ/s400/1-10-10+009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425358334097865842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Thought I'd snap a pic before i throw this load in the wash  :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0q-p6qde5I/AAAAAAAABbU/35oUNV1PLpM/s1600-h/1-10-10+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0q-p6qde5I/AAAAAAAABbU/35oUNV1PLpM/s400/1-10-10+007.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425358328452447122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0q-pTQuL0I/AAAAAAAABbM/B4a4E5Z6PN4/s1600-h/1-10-10+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0q-pTQuL0I/AAAAAAAABbM/B4a4E5Z6PN4/s400/1-10-10+002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425358317875507010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-3058435964715707648?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/3058435964715707648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=3058435964715707648' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3058435964715707648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3058435964715707648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html' title='Just some piczzzzzz.......'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/S0rBjhp5oFI/AAAAAAAABb0/23fFj_-sYVo/s72-c/ry+at+grams.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-4760531654982385144</id><published>2010-01-01T23:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-01T23:22:38.473-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy New Year!!!!</title><content type='html'>I didn't reflect much, as in the norm for me, on the new year's eve.  I am however looking forward.  What will this year hold for us?   I do wonder, but not to worry, we will stay close and under His wings.  :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-4760531654982385144?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/4760531654982385144/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=4760531654982385144' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4760531654982385144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4760531654982385144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2010/01/happy-new-year.html' title='Happy New Year!!!!'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-913168814342128045</id><published>2009-12-20T22:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-20T22:43:56.191-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Sy8YQmAOZ1I/AAAAAAAABbE/gG5deNUByuY/s1600-h/12-6-09+257.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Sy8YQmAOZ1I/AAAAAAAABbE/gG5deNUByuY/s400/12-6-09+257.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417575550108460882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Sy8YQWLbesI/AAAAAAAABa8/xM-5yt40yzE/s1600-h/12-6-09+259.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Sy8YQWLbesI/AAAAAAAABa8/xM-5yt40yzE/s400/12-6-09+259.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417575545860487874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Sy8YQE6I5TI/AAAAAAAABa0/2NAwEmOEcHk/s1600-h/12-6-09+258.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Sy8YQE6I5TI/AAAAAAAABa0/2NAwEmOEcHk/s400/12-6-09+258.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417575541224564018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-913168814342128045?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/913168814342128045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=913168814342128045' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/913168814342128045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/913168814342128045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post_20.html' title=''/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Sy8YQmAOZ1I/AAAAAAAABbE/gG5deNUByuY/s72-c/12-6-09+257.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-8242371519406777449</id><published>2009-12-06T21:54:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-06T22:05:11.723-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Alittle bit of our busy weekend</title><content type='html'>Sweet sisters&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SxyZhUmBfnI/AAAAAAAABas/lTcV2JXBt-w/s1600-h/12-6-09+247.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SxyZhUmBfnI/AAAAAAAABas/lTcV2JXBt-w/s320/12-6-09+247.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412369649935416946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More Sweet Sisters&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SxyZhGh6hcI/AAAAAAAABak/o3znvCZXduY/s1600-h/12-6-09+251.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SxyZhGh6hcI/AAAAAAAABak/o3znvCZXduY/s320/12-6-09+251.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412369646160086466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SxyZgzTQrgI/AAAAAAAABac/pt_Orstaews/s1600-h/12-6-09+248.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SxyZgzTQrgI/AAAAAAAABac/pt_Orstaews/s320/12-6-09+248.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412369640998350338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Sweet Fellowship&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SxyZgdDybxI/AAAAAAAABaU/hVCWWzLC7gY/s1600-h/12-6-09+252.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SxyZgdDybxI/AAAAAAAABaU/hVCWWzLC7gY/s320/12-6-09+252.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412369635027873554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-8242371519406777449?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/8242371519406777449/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=8242371519406777449' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8242371519406777449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8242371519406777449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/12/alittle-bit-of-our-busy-weekend.html' title='Alittle bit of our busy weekend'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SxyZhUmBfnI/AAAAAAAABas/lTcV2JXBt-w/s72-c/12-6-09+247.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-7314661393534102411</id><published>2009-12-02T13:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-02T14:04:30.574-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SxbkReJqnYI/AAAAAAAABaI/H2mlejxQFyU/s1600-h/12-2-09+037.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SxbkQJH1WHI/AAAAAAAABZo/LGd2rsDXyaM/s320/12-2-09+009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410762968310044786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-7314661393534102411?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/7314661393534102411/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=7314661393534102411' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7314661393534102411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7314661393534102411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SxbkReJqnYI/AAAAAAAABaI/H2mlejxQFyU/s72-c/12-2-09+037.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-3556735832744584236</id><published>2009-11-13T14:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T14:08:01.895-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Yay! Blog list update thingy is fixed!!!</title><content type='html'>Now you'll all know that I am still blogging :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-3556735832744584236?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/3556735832744584236/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=3556735832744584236' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3556735832744584236'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/3556735832744584236'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/11/yay-blog-list-update-thingy-is-fixed.html' title='Yay! 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SvpQRg96YII/AAAAAAAABZY/haslcP6_bFs/s320/11-09-09+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402718964821942402" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I'm tired!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SvpQRdqdA1I/AAAAAAAABZQ/jqKLxjy4SAY/s1600-h/11-09-09+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SvpQRdqdA1I/AAAAAAAABZQ/jqKLxjy4SAY/s320/11-09-09+005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402718963935019858" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SvpQQwp2MAI/AAAAAAAABZI/f-NmYlm9EXI/s1600-h/11-09-09+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SvpQQwp2MAI/AAAAAAAABZI/f-NmYlm9EXI/s320/11-09-09+003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402718951852879874" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is rock and rolling.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-7502689153311202808?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/7502689153311202808/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=7502689153311202808' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7502689153311202808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7502689153311202808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/11/ryans-gonna-be-gettin-around-pretty.html' title='Ryan&apos;s gonna be gettin&apos; around pretty soon!!'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SvpQSGzG9rI/AAAAAAAABZg/JyVsAYo7j5A/s72-c/11-09-09+004.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-4082115098374366298</id><published>2009-11-02T08:55:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-02T09:04:05.887-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Emily's first day at a new school</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su8PatTBD6I/AAAAAAAABZA/TwF0X0q5Sls/s1600-h/11-1-09+022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su8PatTBD6I/AAAAAAAABZA/TwF0X0q5Sls/s320/11-1-09+022.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399551429750886306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su8PaWOeQyI/AAAAAAAABY4/g91Mge5Cup4/s1600-h/11-1-09+021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su8PaWOeQyI/AAAAAAAABY4/g91Mge5Cup4/s320/11-1-09+021.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399551423557813026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-4082115098374366298?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/4082115098374366298/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=4082115098374366298' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4082115098374366298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4082115098374366298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/11/emilys-first-day-at-new-school.html' title='Emily&apos;s first day at a new school'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su8PatTBD6I/AAAAAAAABZA/TwF0X0q5Sls/s72-c/11-1-09+022.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-1553414635794533641</id><published>2009-11-01T21:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-02T08:55:12.263-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Day In Pictures</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su5qfyBeruI/AAAAAAAABYg/PoBSIs5Zh6o/s1600-h/11-1-09+018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su5qfyBeruI/AAAAAAAABYg/PoBSIs5Zh6o/s320/11-1-09+018.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399370097500270306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su5qfiySl_I/AAAAAAAABYY/nmwNWZkkmb0/s1600-h/11-1-09+019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su5qfiySl_I/AAAAAAAABYY/nmwNWZkkmb0/s320/11-1-09+019.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399370093410031602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su5qfJij7EI/AAAAAAAABYQ/HSZS2DJMJSw/s1600-h/11-1-09+010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su5qfJij7EI/AAAAAAAABYQ/HSZS2DJMJSw/s320/11-1-09+010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399370086633172034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su5qeyXSxdI/AAAAAAAABYI/p6NB9XVMoWw/s1600-h/11-1-09+011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su5qeyXSxdI/AAAAAAAABYI/p6NB9XVMoWw/s320/11-1-09+011.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399370080411895250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su5qegy_IYI/AAAAAAAABYA/tE1BCfeHITo/s1600-h/11-1-09+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su5qegy_IYI/AAAAAAAABYA/tE1BCfeHITo/s320/11-1-09+012.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399370075696210306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su5pg9rLWkI/AAAAAAAABX4/Q0qbwQ6BnJA/s1600-h/11-1-09+015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su5pg9rLWkI/AAAAAAAABX4/Q0qbwQ6BnJA/s320/11-1-09+015.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399369018296195650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su5pgttCurI/AAAAAAAABXw/Jtr2B4h1l3M/s1600-h/11-1-09+017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su5pgttCurI/AAAAAAAABXw/Jtr2B4h1l3M/s320/11-1-09+017.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399369014009051826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-1553414635794533641?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/1553414635794533641/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=1553414635794533641' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1553414635794533641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1553414635794533641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-in-pictures.html' title='A Day In Pictures'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Su5qfyBeruI/AAAAAAAABYg/PoBSIs5Zh6o/s72-c/11-1-09+018.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-6977677710066761296</id><published>2009-10-30T21:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T21:21:52.764-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Randomness......</title><content type='html'>Just random pics of the kids.  Some of these are kinda old, but here they are... :)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu6SBH6mlI/AAAAAAAABXo/9ZN5LSLb420/s1600-h/10-29-09+157.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu6SBH6mlI/AAAAAAAABXo/9ZN5LSLb420/s320/10-29-09+157.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398613397035719250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu6R_RYa_I/AAAAAAAABXg/Cipaaa2Qv2Q/s1600-h/10-29-09+143.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu6R_RYa_I/AAAAAAAABXg/Cipaaa2Qv2Q/s320/10-29-09+143.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398613396538551282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu6RjXod1I/AAAAAAAABXY/6uFvC27aP80/s1600-h/10-29-09+141.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu6RjXod1I/AAAAAAAABXY/6uFvC27aP80/s320/10-29-09+141.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398613389048575826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Uuuwww kisses!" haha actually he likes kiss usually :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu4Qjvdk3I/AAAAAAAABW4/8RKK1Ey2dWo/s1600-h/10-29-09+136.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu4Qjvdk3I/AAAAAAAABW4/8RKK1Ey2dWo/s320/10-29-09+136.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398611172945400690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu4QYrGqUI/AAAAAAAABWw/6rI2WjtK3XY/s1600-h/10-29-09+132.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu4QYrGqUI/AAAAAAAABWw/6rI2WjtK3XY/s320/10-29-09+132.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398611169974331714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu4QHWcdrI/AAAAAAAABWo/A_aFfPRwgd8/s1600-h/10-29-09+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu4QHWcdrI/AAAAAAAABWo/A_aFfPRwgd8/s320/10-29-09+009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398611165324277426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu4P9R4E5I/AAAAAAAABWg/_Jd2H7NkXWs/s1600-h/10-29-09+013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu4P9R4E5I/AAAAAAAABWg/_Jd2H7NkXWs/s320/10-29-09+013.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398611162620760978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu4PditXUI/AAAAAAAABWY/0by3OL62TKE/s1600-h/10-29-09+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu4PditXUI/AAAAAAAABWY/0by3OL62TKE/s320/10-29-09+006.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398611154101427522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-6977677710066761296?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/6977677710066761296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=6977677710066761296' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6977677710066761296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6977677710066761296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post_30.html' title='Randomness......'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Suu6SBH6mlI/AAAAAAAABXo/9ZN5LSLb420/s72-c/10-29-09+157.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-6262624704168562459</id><published>2009-10-01T15:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-01T15:29:09.002-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The girls class</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SsUs_88cJxI/AAAAAAAABWM/6El5EjPWw2I/s1600-h/e+and+k%27s+class.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 216px; height: 145px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SsUs_88cJxI/AAAAAAAABWM/6El5EjPWw2I/s320/e+and+k%27s+class.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387762006421677842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-6262624704168562459?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/6262624704168562459/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=6262624704168562459' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6262624704168562459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6262624704168562459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html' title='The girls class'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SsUs_88cJxI/AAAAAAAABWM/6El5EjPWw2I/s72-c/e+and+k%27s+class.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-1683270338488691259</id><published>2009-09-25T09:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-25T09:33:24.800-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A very happy baby  make mommy very happy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Srzwes9DqFI/AAAAAAAABWE/4tWrE0bHdL4/s1600-h/ryan+smilr.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 210px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Srzwes9DqFI/AAAAAAAABWE/4tWrE0bHdL4/s320/ryan+smilr.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385443664682264658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-1683270338488691259?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/1683270338488691259/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=1683270338488691259' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1683270338488691259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1683270338488691259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-post_25.html' title='A very happy baby  make mommy very happy'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/Srzwes9DqFI/AAAAAAAABWE/4tWrE0bHdL4/s72-c/ryan+smilr.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-433775107785473929</id><published>2009-09-04T09:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T09:59:48.946-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ryan 3 months</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SqFF0IWe_WI/AAAAAAAABV8/bn7kEAMAI1k/s1600-h/8-31-09+023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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About 30 balloon ascend each morning (fri, sat, sun).  There is a parade, food vendors, inflatable rides and balloon glow.  On Sat. night there is live music.  The main street (highway 89) is blocked off, and a dozen or so a the balloon get set up on the street.  Then they light 'em up.  It's really cool to see.  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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 160px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SjRHRtErBLI/AAAAAAAABTI/DWmJ-bAk5Vw/s320/th_ryanoden071.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346977027078161586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SjRHRcVJyeI/AAAAAAAABTA/d8I7mzIqN5Q/s1600-h/ryanoden010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 160px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SjRHRcVJyeI/AAAAAAAABTA/d8I7mzIqN5Q/s320/ryanoden010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346977022583884258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-6485248287476590168?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/6485248287476590168/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=6485248287476590168' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6485248287476590168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6485248287476590168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/06/presenting-mr-ryan-oden.html' title='Presenting Mr. Ryan Oden'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SjRI3CmPorI/AAAAAAAABT4/9g6jqQJvuws/s72-c/ryanoden049.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-6797184102036968881</id><published>2009-05-22T18:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-22T18:02:36.067-07:00</updated><title type='text'>38 Week Pic</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/ShdLIhb-q0I/AAAAAAAABSA/xCCtpRrRbKo/s1600-h/5-22-09+226.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/ShdLIhb-q0I/AAAAAAAABSA/xCCtpRrRbKo/s320/5-22-09+226.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338818493057772354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-6797184102036968881?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/6797184102036968881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=6797184102036968881' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6797184102036968881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6797184102036968881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/05/38-week-pic.html' title='38 Week Pic'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/ShdLIhb-q0I/AAAAAAAABSA/xCCtpRrRbKo/s72-c/5-22-09+226.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-1356808033877818005</id><published>2009-05-19T14:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T15:36:28.472-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My Precious Emily...</title><content type='html'>4 years old already.  How has 4 years gone so fast?  Already done with your first year of preschool. Tying your shoes all by yourself.  And boy do have a mind of your own!?!?!?!  Sometimes I look at you, and think your too smart to be only 4.  You love to play hopscotch, go fish, old maid, blow bubbles, go for walks with Mommy and Kiera, jump on the trampoline, play in your little pool, or have a book read to you .  You'd rather not have your hair done, stay at home for a whole day, or pick up toys.  Hesitant to try new food, but once you do you usually like it.  Love spaghetti and lasagna, and surprisingly you like a lot of fruits and vegetables.  You start crying if you ever see me crying. There was time when it was just you and me.  You were my first baby, and now your oldest girl.  You are amazing, funny, unique, smart, tenderhearted, beautiful, inquisitive... precious to my heart.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-1356808033877818005?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/1356808033877818005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=1356808033877818005' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1356808033877818005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1356808033877818005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-precious-emily.html' title='My Precious Emily...'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-62222472188825098</id><published>2009-05-19T14:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T14:54:49.249-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Good Laugh</title><content type='html'>Kiera's really started to sing a lot, lately. Mary Had a Little Lamb seems to be her favorite. So when John and Jim came to visit and have dinner Saturday, she was preforming, as usual.  As they were leaving  and saying goodbye, she starts again.  Except this time it went (with the same tune of course) "Mary had a John and Jim, John and Jim, John and Jim."  Now that's her favorite song, likely because of the reaction she got from everyone within hearing distance.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-62222472188825098?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/62222472188825098/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=62222472188825098' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/62222472188825098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/62222472188825098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/05/good-laugh.html' title='A Good Laugh'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-5802549440916434113</id><published>2009-05-05T11:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-05T10:41:23.821-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kiera at home with Mommy</title><content type='html'>Kiera and I enjoy our time just the two of us.  Emily will be out of school soon, and then shortly after we'll be joined by one more. Savoring these moments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnY1KLWAgI/AAAAAAAABR4/xFYv34rKqIg/s1600-h/4-30-09+013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnY1KLWAgI/AAAAAAAABR4/xFYv34rKqIg/s320/4-30-09+013.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330530041746293250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnY1OGLh1I/AAAAAAAABRw/MUYhTYwVUgM/s1600-h/4-30-09+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnY1OGLh1I/AAAAAAAABRw/MUYhTYwVUgM/s320/4-30-09+012.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330530042798376786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnY0wIka4I/AAAAAAAABRo/euF1fybI_Wc/s1600-h/4-30-09+011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnY0wIka4I/AAAAAAAABRo/euF1fybI_Wc/s320/4-30-09+011.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330530034755332994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-5802549440916434113?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/5802549440916434113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=5802549440916434113' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5802549440916434113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5802549440916434113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/04/kiera-at-home-with-mommy.html' title='Kiera at home with Mommy'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnY1KLWAgI/AAAAAAAABR4/xFYv34rKqIg/s72-c/4-30-09+013.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-2743504908061997525</id><published>2009-04-30T09:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T09:55:05.750-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A wild pansy????</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnWrFBj6EI/AAAAAAAABRg/kdTMU_l2l5U/s1600-h/4-30-09+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnWrFBj6EI/AAAAAAAABRg/kdTMU_l2l5U/s320/4-30-09+009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330527669541136450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This pansy is my garden.  Since we've lived here I've planted iris, roses, petunia, violets, ivy, mint, sage, strawberries, and many vegetables; but not a single pansy.  Where did it come from???  I'm  bewildered.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-2743504908061997525?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/2743504908061997525/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=2743504908061997525' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2743504908061997525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2743504908061997525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/04/wild-pansy.html' title='A wild pansy????'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnWrFBj6EI/AAAAAAAABRg/kdTMU_l2l5U/s72-c/4-30-09+009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-4415719075401934918</id><published>2009-04-30T09:43:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T09:46:11.869-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kiera's napping place</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnVgFFTqBI/AAAAAAAABRY/cce9UR11ei0/s1600-h/4-30-09+008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnVgFFTqBI/AAAAAAAABRY/cce9UR11ei0/s320/4-30-09+008.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330526381066659858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kiera likes to lay on the towels on the shelf in the bathroom.  Guess she takes after me.  Most of the time I could sleep just about anywhere.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-4415719075401934918?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/4415719075401934918/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=4415719075401934918' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4415719075401934918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4415719075401934918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/04/kieras-napping-place.html' title='Kiera&apos;s napping place'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnVgFFTqBI/AAAAAAAABRY/cce9UR11ei0/s72-c/4-30-09+008.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-8710616207038490886</id><published>2009-04-30T09:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T09:32:50.902-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Our snow storm (couple weeks ago)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnRltxLFFI/AAAAAAAABRQ/nur8N0YFFk0/s1600-h/4-30-09+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnRltxLFFI/AAAAAAAABRQ/nur8N0YFFk0/s320/4-30-09+002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330522079840900178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnRlZFdPsI/AAAAAAAABRI/hB3yfIpVrow/s1600-h/4-30-09+004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnRlZFdPsI/AAAAAAAABRI/hB3yfIpVrow/s320/4-30-09+004.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330522074288832194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnRlGTDqKI/AAAAAAAABRA/9m59RvLfMv4/s1600-h/4-30-09+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnRlGTDqKI/AAAAAAAABRA/9m59RvLfMv4/s320/4-30-09+006.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330522069245601954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnRkxxdnBI/AAAAAAAABQ4/akLGnD267DI/s1600-h/4-30-09+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnRkxxdnBI/AAAAAAAABQ4/akLGnD267DI/s320/4-30-09+003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330522063735987218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-8710616207038490886?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/8710616207038490886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=8710616207038490886' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8710616207038490886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8710616207038490886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/04/our-snow-storm-couple-weeks-ago.html' title='Our snow storm (couple weeks ago)'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfnRltxLFFI/AAAAAAAABRQ/nur8N0YFFk0/s72-c/4-30-09+002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-8454497405125664601</id><published>2009-04-27T13:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-27T13:35:35.756-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sweet Girls</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfYW9XaLmvI/AAAAAAAABQw/4j4HnkttiUw/s1600-h/1-16-08003-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 177px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfYW9XaLmvI/AAAAAAAABQw/4j4HnkttiUw/s320/1-16-08003-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329472452551219954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An old picture that was in my photobucket album.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-8454497405125664601?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/8454497405125664601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=8454497405125664601' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8454497405125664601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8454497405125664601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/04/sweet-girls.html' title='Sweet Girls'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SfYW9XaLmvI/AAAAAAAABQw/4j4HnkttiUw/s72-c/1-16-08003-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-1186975927665414431</id><published>2009-04-26T13:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T13:55:17.852-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Little Mr. Oden Update</title><content type='html'>Well, doing alright.  Counting the days 'til I can safely deliver in Panguitch.  :)  If my water was to brake in the next 18 days,  they would fly my to Provo to deliver the baby.  They assume (up until 37 weeks) that the baby might need the NICU.  I've been having a few contractions here and there, but nothing has gotten too serious.  So we just keep taking it easy.  I'll try to get a new pic posted soon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-1186975927665414431?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/1186975927665414431/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=1186975927665414431' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1186975927665414431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1186975927665414431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/04/little-mr-oden-update.html' title='Little Mr. Oden Update'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-1165122093078908505</id><published>2009-04-11T13:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-19T15:51:41.010-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A conversation just overheard...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Emily:&lt;/span&gt; "Ok, you want to get married?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Kiera:&lt;/span&gt; "Yes"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;E ("reading" a book):&lt;/span&gt; "Ok, step #1, Hmmm, ok.  step #2, Ahha. Ok, now I know how to married you. &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;And then you have a party&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;Where she came up with that I have no idea. Isn't it funny kids imaginations?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-1165122093078908505?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/1165122093078908505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=1165122093078908505' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1165122093078908505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/1165122093078908505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/04/conversation-just-overheard.html' title='A conversation just overheard...'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-321400097605164027</id><published>2009-04-07T21:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T22:01:31.320-07:00</updated><title type='text'>finially B-day pics as promised 4 days ago...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SdwvIdVHO8I/AAAAAAAABQQ/eqjnpbzfnFQ/s1600-h/emmy%27s+birthday+010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SdwvIdVHO8I/AAAAAAAABQQ/eqjnpbzfnFQ/s320/emmy%27s+birthday+010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322180682003725250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SdwvIKhTF8I/AAAAAAAABQI/pRVxizP0lJs/s1600-h/emmy%27s+birthday+013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SdwvIKhTF8I/AAAAAAAABQI/pRVxizP0lJs/s320/emmy%27s+birthday+013.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322180676954560450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SdwvH0s6WbI/AAAAAAAABQA/k6RXpk1h4cg/s1600-h/emmy%27s+birthday+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SdwvH0s6WbI/AAAAAAAABQA/k6RXpk1h4cg/s320/emmy%27s+birthday+009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322180671097690546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SdwvHkpTgJI/AAAAAAAABP4/H5HJ76ya-co/s1600-h/emmy%27s+birthday+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SdwvHkpTgJI/AAAAAAAABP4/H5HJ76ya-co/s320/emmy%27s+birthday+002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322180666787594386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SdwvHWYFm5I/AAAAAAAABPw/0Oo6VS-kbjs/s1600-h/emmy%27s+birthday+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SdwvHWYFm5I/AAAAAAAABPw/0Oo6VS-kbjs/s320/emmy%27s+birthday+005.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322180662957284242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-321400097605164027?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/321400097605164027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=321400097605164027' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/321400097605164027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/321400097605164027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post.html' title='finially B-day pics as promised 4 days ago...'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SdwvIdVHO8I/AAAAAAAABQQ/eqjnpbzfnFQ/s72-c/emmy%27s+birthday+010.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-7800944386335678274</id><published>2009-04-02T13:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-02T13:32:30.370-07:00</updated><title type='text'>HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILY!!!!</title><content type='html'>Today is Emily's birthday.  She was somewhat confused when I told her happy birthday this morning, because we had her birthday party on Tuesday so Grandma Johnnalee and Pop could come.  I think shes got it now.  Anyhow... We had homemade pizza, cake with dirt and worms (oreo crumbs and gummy worms), ice cream, and plenty of gifts from each set of grandparents, and Daddy n Mommy.      will post some pics tonight.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-7800944386335678274?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/7800944386335678274/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=7800944386335678274' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7800944386335678274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7800944386335678274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-birthday-emily.html' title='HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILY!!!!'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-4901425244215027178</id><published>2009-03-20T21:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-20T21:46:10.933-07:00</updated><title type='text'>First Day of Spring</title><content type='html'>Absolutely gorgeous here today!!! The girls and I had our first picnic in the backyard today.  I got to start cleaning out my planter box with iris and 2 roses bushes.  I hope the roses live.  I didn't get them cover with hay or anything before we got all that snow.  Sitting out enjoying the day I can hardly believe it's still March.&lt;br /&gt;Hope it's this nice again in 2 weeks for Emily's B-day...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-4901425244215027178?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/4901425244215027178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=4901425244215027178' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4901425244215027178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4901425244215027178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/03/first-day-of-spring.html' title='First Day of Spring'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-2168930611955629423</id><published>2009-03-10T19:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T20:02:19.200-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SbcpKPAQ7XI/AAAAAAAABPo/v7S1NOIVtpI/s1600-h/3-9-09008-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 113px; height: 110px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SbcpKPAQ7XI/AAAAAAAABPo/v7S1NOIVtpI/s320/3-9-09008-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311759541309861234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not much to post lately. It snowed pretty good last night, and melted off a lot today.  New pic of the girls...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-2168930611955629423?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/2168930611955629423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=2168930611955629423' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2168930611955629423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2168930611955629423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-much-to-post-lately.html' title=''/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SbcpKPAQ7XI/AAAAAAAABPo/v7S1NOIVtpI/s72-c/3-9-09008-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-5980984384829638830</id><published>2009-02-28T22:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-28T22:53:06.469-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Kids with a Box</title><content type='html'>I love to see children use their imaginations.  To see them take joy in simple things.  Still it always amazes me that will play with a box for hours, yet things that we spend money to give them cannot hold their attention half as long.  This (is paradox the right word?) always brings a smile to my face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SaotO_nwArI/AAAAAAAABPg/svTbKr_YNmM/s1600-h/2-28-09+014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SaotO_nwArI/AAAAAAAABPg/svTbKr_YNmM/s320/2-28-09+014.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308104846429127346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SaotO_lO63I/AAAAAAAABPY/hbrx2k4KS1M/s1600-h/2-28-09+013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SaotO_lO63I/AAAAAAAABPY/hbrx2k4KS1M/s320/2-28-09+013.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308104846418570098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SaotOqPdj2I/AAAAAAAABPQ/-rrh8Q-k1hY/s1600-h/2-28-09+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SaotOqPdj2I/AAAAAAAABPQ/-rrh8Q-k1hY/s320/2-28-09+009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308104840690110306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, Emmy is in there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SaotONXOxoI/AAAAAAAABPI/xgpDUx5XaK8/s1600-h/2-28-09+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SaotONXOxoI/AAAAAAAABPI/xgpDUx5XaK8/s320/2-28-09+012.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308104832938067586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SaotN084XOI/AAAAAAAABPA/kdLlVx6JtJA/s1600-h/2-28-09+011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SaotN084XOI/AAAAAAAABPA/kdLlVx6JtJA/s320/2-28-09+011.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308104826385095906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-5980984384829638830?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/5980984384829638830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=5980984384829638830' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5980984384829638830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/5980984384829638830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/02/kids-with-box.html' title='Kids with a Box'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SaotO_nwArI/AAAAAAAABPg/svTbKr_YNmM/s72-c/2-28-09+014.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-8974909056175157945</id><published>2009-02-17T13:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-17T13:37:15.605-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A little sigh of relief...</title><content type='html'>If my memory is correct, today is as far along as I was with Kiera when my water broke.  A day short of 25 weeks, and so far no car accidents, tumbles down the stairs or any other major (or minor) scares.  So we're doing good.  :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-8974909056175157945?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/8974909056175157945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=8974909056175157945' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8974909056175157945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8974909056175157945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/02/little-sigh-of-relief.html' title='A little sigh of relief...'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-2804314165660146815</id><published>2009-01-28T16:45:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T16:54:48.218-08:00</updated><title type='text'>22 Weeks</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SYD-UiSmasI/AAAAAAAABO0/Nkvx7lpAJTI/s1600-h/grandma115.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 97px; height: 160px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SYD-UiSmasI/AAAAAAAABO0/Nkvx7lpAJTI/s320/grandma115.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296512790543362754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well today marks 22 weeks. It's going well so far, just prayin' it'll be smooth sailing the whole way.   :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-2804314165660146815?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/2804314165660146815/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=2804314165660146815' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2804314165660146815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2804314165660146815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/01/22-weeks.html' title='22 Weeks'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SYD-UiSmasI/AAAAAAAABO0/Nkvx7lpAJTI/s72-c/grandma115.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-575009137680261360</id><published>2009-01-27T22:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T22:03:36.638-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Fun Day</title><content type='html'>I got my wisdom teeth pulled out today.  Feeling pretty good. ;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-575009137680261360?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/575009137680261360/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=575009137680261360' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/575009137680261360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/575009137680261360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/01/fun-day.html' title='Fun Day'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-7651285841527402013</id><published>2009-01-25T21:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-25T22:32:14.506-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Randomness</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SX1XYNiwDKI/AAAAAAAABOk/vbEGvA5MZn0/s1600-h/Picture+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SX1XYNiwDKI/AAAAAAAABOk/vbEGvA5MZn0/s400/Picture+009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295484810321464482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;My little pirates.  "Arrgggghh!!"  This was a craft project we did.  The idea came from Kids craft weekly.  Thanks Jessica.  I found that site on her blog. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SX1XXzICkxI/AAAAAAAABOc/EG-SrmSELE0/s1600-h/Picture+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SX1XXzICkxI/AAAAAAAABOc/EG-SrmSELE0/s400/Picture+003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295484803230110482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SX1XXs49HII/AAAAAAAABOU/sbGILjixzUk/s1600-h/Picture+011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SX1XXs49HII/AAAAAAAABOU/sbGILjixzUk/s400/Picture+011.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295484801556225154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SX1XXqRVNKI/AAAAAAAABOM/XCgtM0nL2Tk/s1600-h/Picture+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SX1XXqRVNKI/AAAAAAAABOM/XCgtM0nL2Tk/s400/Picture+005.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295484800853161122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-7651285841527402013?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/7651285841527402013/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=7651285841527402013' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7651285841527402013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7651285841527402013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/01/randomness.html' title='Randomness'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SX1XYNiwDKI/AAAAAAAABOk/vbEGvA5MZn0/s72-c/Picture+009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-6929241830715719493</id><published>2009-01-16T12:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-16T13:42:42.684-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tea Party</title><content type='html'>Emily loves this tea set she got from Gramma Johnnalee.  She always wants to have tea parties.  She invites Kiera and Mommy for real tea with sugar and cream.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SXD9acL95mI/AAAAAAAABN8/FBxZpw2L1wY/s1600-h/tea+party+004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SXD9acL95mI/AAAAAAAABN8/FBxZpw2L1wY/s400/tea+party+004.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292008192845145698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SXD9aI5ddtI/AAAAAAAABN0/_oVTzXEip5g/s1600-h/tea+party+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SXD9aI5ddtI/AAAAAAAABN0/_oVTzXEip5g/s400/tea+party+005.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292008187667248850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SXD9Z7uyFII/AAAAAAAABNs/396XRmpPemM/s1600-h/tea+party+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SXD9Z7uyFII/AAAAAAAABNs/396XRmpPemM/s400/tea+party+006.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292008184132801666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SXD9ZhtYSKI/AAAAAAAABNk/BNn01ucz6Go/s1600-h/tea+party+010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SXD9ZhtYSKI/AAAAAAAABNk/BNn01ucz6Go/s400/tea+party+010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292008177147594914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SXD9ZYscXfI/AAAAAAAABNc/qb03Uczbdp4/s1600-h/tea+party+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SXD9ZYscXfI/AAAAAAAABNc/qb03Uczbdp4/s400/tea+party+012.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292008174727749106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-6929241830715719493?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/6929241830715719493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=6929241830715719493' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6929241830715719493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/6929241830715719493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post_16.html' title='Tea Party'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SXD9acL95mI/AAAAAAAABN8/FBxZpw2L1wY/s72-c/tea+party+004.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-7808232996414192666</id><published>2009-01-06T16:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-06T16:45:06.972-08:00</updated><title type='text'>It's a BOY!!!!!!!!!</title><content type='html'>Had my ultrasound today.  Everyone in town says our ultrasound tech is really good, and he was pretty convincing to me. He was right about Kiera, so I think I'll believe him.  :)  We are more excited than words can express.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-7808232996414192666?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/7808232996414192666/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=7808232996414192666' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7808232996414192666'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7808232996414192666'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/01/its-boy.html' title='It&apos;s a BOY!!!!!!!!!'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-119353744381528994</id><published>2009-01-02T20:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-03T21:41:09.220-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Possibly the Girls Favorite Gift</title><content type='html'>Kiera and Emily absolutely love their art kits.  Crayons, markers, colored pencils, water color paint, scissor, paper, and glue.  They have so much fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7tSAGnpzI/AAAAAAAABMs/DIZt0PmmTg8/s1600-h/1-1-09+063.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7tSAGnpzI/AAAAAAAABMs/DIZt0PmmTg8/s320/1-1-09+063.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286923906100733746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7tSES24tI/AAAAAAAABMk/S1VPBksqKL8/s1600-h/1-1-09+061.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7tSES24tI/AAAAAAAABMk/S1VPBksqKL8/s320/1-1-09+061.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286923907225805522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7tRh9pRwI/AAAAAAAABMc/JTnUb27AMb0/s1600-h/1-1-09+060.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7tRh9pRwI/AAAAAAAABMc/JTnUb27AMb0/s320/1-1-09+060.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286923898010027778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-119353744381528994?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/119353744381528994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=119353744381528994' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/119353744381528994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/119353744381528994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/01/possible-girls-favorite-gift.html' title='Possibly the Girls Favorite Gift'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7tSAGnpzI/AAAAAAAABMs/DIZt0PmmTg8/s72-c/1-1-09+063.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-2286397743451599770</id><published>2009-01-02T20:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-02T20:39:06.303-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sledding</title><content type='html'>Brooke, Cole, Steve, the girls and I went sledding a couple weeks ago.  So fun...  We have a great place to sled here in Panguitch, and it seems like nobody else knows about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7q3I7getI/AAAAAAAABMU/vX1gRvEqiGQ/s1600-h/1-1-09+056.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7q3I7getI/AAAAAAAABMU/vX1gRvEqiGQ/s320/1-1-09+056.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286921245590321874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7q2zDluQI/AAAAAAAABMM/N9ELCtpTcig/s1600-h/1-1-09+054.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7q2zDluQI/AAAAAAAABMM/N9ELCtpTcig/s320/1-1-09+054.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286921239718639874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7q2jlIDUI/AAAAAAAABME/szqb_Tv-Nfk/s1600-h/1-1-09+052.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7q2jlIDUI/AAAAAAAABME/szqb_Tv-Nfk/s320/1-1-09+052.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286921235564334402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7q2TywMgI/AAAAAAAABL8/7ysbXCjZtgE/s1600-h/1-1-09+049.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7q2TywMgI/AAAAAAAABL8/7ysbXCjZtgE/s320/1-1-09+049.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286921231326523906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7q2M7pIfI/AAAAAAAABL0/UJ86Rh5AMQ0/s1600-h/1-1-09+048.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7q2M7pIfI/AAAAAAAABL0/UJ86Rh5AMQ0/s320/1-1-09+048.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286921229484761586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-2286397743451599770?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/2286397743451599770/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=2286397743451599770' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2286397743451599770'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/2286397743451599770'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/01/sledding.html' title='Sledding'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7q3I7getI/AAAAAAAABMU/vX1gRvEqiGQ/s72-c/1-1-09+056.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-8796427488587661118</id><published>2009-01-02T18:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-02T18:53:19.471-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Winter Fun</title><content type='html'>Well... it was fun for the first few days.  not so much anymore. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7P4tIH9SI/AAAAAAAABLs/22a8GFCerLI/s1600-h/1-1-09+038.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7P4tIH9SI/AAAAAAAABLs/22a8GFCerLI/s320/1-1-09+038.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286891585672836386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the mini snowwoman we built.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7P4Zl_ajI/AAAAAAAABLk/aitM_IDMBMw/s1600-h/1-1-09+036.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7P4Zl_ajI/AAAAAAAABLk/aitM_IDMBMw/s320/1-1-09+036.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286891580429396530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7P4DCcX8I/AAAAAAAABLc/ztZXXMlbuV0/s1600-h/1-1-09+037.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7P4DCcX8I/AAAAAAAABLc/ztZXXMlbuV0/s320/1-1-09+037.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286891574374719426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-8796427488587661118?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/8796427488587661118/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=8796427488587661118' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8796427488587661118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8796427488587661118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post_02.html' title='Winter Fun'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7P4tIH9SI/AAAAAAAABLs/22a8GFCerLI/s72-c/1-1-09+038.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-8967321390812652994</id><published>2009-01-02T17:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-02T17:53:12.505-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hams</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7DXwvJ9GI/AAAAAAAABKY/-dDd1t8sbP4/s1600-h/1-1-09+069.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7DXwvJ9GI/AAAAAAAABKY/-dDd1t8sbP4/s320/1-1-09+069.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286877825566635106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are our little girls as Jan. 2nd 2009. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;New Years Resolution: &lt;/span&gt; Keep up on blogging.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-8967321390812652994?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/8967321390812652994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=8967321390812652994' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8967321390812652994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8967321390812652994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2009/01/hams.html' title='Hams'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SV7DXwvJ9GI/AAAAAAAABKY/-dDd1t8sbP4/s72-c/1-1-09+069.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-942615198097819118</id><published>2008-11-09T07:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-18T15:13:21.365-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Oden's Update</title><content type='html'>It's been a while... I haven't fallen off the face on the earth, just the blogger wagon for a bit.  I'm back with big news.  I'm pregnant!!!  the girls are very excited.  Emily told me one day that if we have a boy we should name him&lt;br /&gt;"Frank Johnson".  not sure if she meant that first and middle name or what, but she was so happy with herself, I could help but laugh.  so that's kinda the baby's nickname for now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-942615198097819118?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/942615198097819118/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=942615198097819118' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/942615198097819118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/942615198097819118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2008/11/odens-update.html' title='Oden&apos;s Update'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-7519310334213346973</id><published>2008-08-27T08:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-27T08:44:09.974-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Emily, Our little school girl</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SLV2Qh6V9LI/AAAAAAAAA0s/sB7tX2O1yWg/s1600-h/DSC03824.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SLV2Qh6V9LI/AAAAAAAAA0s/sB7tX2O1yWg/s320/DSC03824.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239223767868503218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SLV10BjKUaI/AAAAAAAAA0k/MpMRQNYrp7I/s1600-h/DSC03822.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SLV10BjKUaI/AAAAAAAAA0k/MpMRQNYrp7I/s320/DSC03822.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239223278144999842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-7519310334213346973?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/7519310334213346973/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=7519310334213346973' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7519310334213346973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7519310334213346973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2008/08/emily-our-little-school-girl.html' title='Emily, Our little school girl'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SLV2Qh6V9LI/AAAAAAAAA0s/sB7tX2O1yWg/s72-c/DSC03824.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-7853304199261037072</id><published>2008-08-14T18:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-14T18:38:15.436-07:00</updated><title type='text'>It's always a treat to get a card in the mail</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SKTdf7HqXhI/AAAAAAAAAzY/pJIW7SYz0aA/s1600-h/8-14-08+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SKTdf7HqXhI/AAAAAAAAAzY/pJIW7SYz0aA/s320/8-14-08+007.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234552207426870802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Emily reading their card from great grandma Pearl, to Kiera.  Thanks Grandma, We miss you too.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-7853304199261037072?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/7853304199261037072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=7853304199261037072' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7853304199261037072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7853304199261037072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2008/08/its-always-treat-to-get-card-in-mail.html' title='It&apos;s always a treat to get a card in the mail'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SKTdf7HqXhI/AAAAAAAAAzY/pJIW7SYz0aA/s72-c/8-14-08+007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-4838549661367984685</id><published>2008-08-05T10:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-05T10:47:56.313-07:00</updated><title type='text'>3 Children I Love</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/8-05-08017-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/8-05-08017-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-4838549661367984685?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/4838549661367984685/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=4838549661367984685' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4838549661367984685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/4838549661367984685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2008/08/3-children-i-love.html' title='3 Children I Love'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-387001990178934935</id><published>2008-07-25T13:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-29T12:54:37.423-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I Got Tagged.                   : )</title><content type='html'>Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.* Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.* Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. I like to quilt.  I currently have about 5 projects going.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. I have 2 daughters, whom I love dearly!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.I do not have a "job" outside our home, but as any mother can tell you a 2 and a 3 year old, 3 meals/a day, dishes, laundry and picking up toys constantly are plenty of work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. I have a garden (that's not doing particularly well this year).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. We have 8 chicken. They lay eggs, and the girls love to collect them (the eggs that is).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. I'd like to travel more often.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. The longest I've ever been in the hospital is 9 weeks (64 days).  I've only been in 3 other times, all lasting less than a day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://thethirdblock.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Deana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jasonandsarahsanderson.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Sarah&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://shepherdnews.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Renee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bouncingmarty.com"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Mollie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://kevnjess2006.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Jessica&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://mandyandmatt.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Mandy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://mikeandamanda.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Amanda&lt;br /&gt;For some reason it won't publish the links.  I have the links on this screen (editing post), but it doesn't show on my blog. oh well...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-387001990178934935?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/387001990178934935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=387001990178934935' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/387001990178934935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/387001990178934935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2008/07/share-7-facts-about-yourself-on-your.html' title='I Got Tagged.                   : )'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-8379007822279026854</id><published>2008-07-16T13:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-16T13:39:32.113-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kiera's Birthday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08525.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08525.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The big kids were so gracious to help.  :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08524.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08524.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You can do it, Kiera"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08520.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08520.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08522.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08522.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-8379007822279026854?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/8379007822279026854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=8379007822279026854' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8379007822279026854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/8379007822279026854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2008/07/kieras-birthday.html' title='Kiera&apos;s Birthday'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-7575436819302256929</id><published>2008-07-16T13:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-16T13:40:37.681-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Riverton 2008</title><content type='html'>Can you guess where they are heading????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08501.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08501.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08495.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08495.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08519.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08519.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08493.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08493.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08505-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/lissaann87/7-11-08505-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had a little fun on photobucket with this one.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-7575436819302256929?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/7575436819302256929/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=7575436819302256929' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7575436819302256929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/7575436819302256929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2008/07/riverton-2008.html' title='Riverton 2008'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3475620981856059281.post-673944465283802275</id><published>2008-05-27T15:35:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-21T09:18:26.584-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Photo Shoot  by Emily</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SDyNTJi8mHI/AAAAAAAAAuc/mWR565s1w0U/s1600-h/5-13-08+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SDyNTJi8mHI/AAAAAAAAAuc/mWR565s1w0U/s400/5-13-08+005.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205190629452978290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SDyNTZi8mII/AAAAAAAAAuk/QRZgk9oOlm0/s1600-h/5-13-08+004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SDyNTZi8mII/AAAAAAAAAuk/QRZgk9oOlm0/s400/5-13-08+004.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205190633747945602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was a while ago, I just forgot to post it.  Emily has a little play camera and she was telling Kiera how to sit so she could take her pictures.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3475620981856059281-673944465283802275?l=steveandmels.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/feeds/673944465283802275/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3475620981856059281&amp;postID=673944465283802275' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/673944465283802275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3475620981856059281/posts/default/673944465283802275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://steveandmels.blogspot.com/2008/05/photo-shoot-by-emily.html' title='Photo Shoot  by Emily'/><author><name>Melissa O.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SCIihrqRvrI/AAAAAAAAAr8/2JqBOPoQ8k4/S220/5-6-08+005.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_4TrD260lgpY/SDyNTJi8mHI/AAAAAAAAAuc/mWR565s1w0U/s72-c/5-13-08+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
