Technical difficulty

For some reason, we aren't able to upload any pictures on our blog!!!! Mom says she will have to try again or try another computer. We promise that there will be photos soon.

We're back...

After taking the remained of the summer off, we are officially back to our blogging duties. Sorry that we disappointed our loyal followers with our brief vacation. We now accept updating our blog as part of our weekly homework. Anyway, Mom's camera is dead and pictures cannot be uploaded at this time. Mom said she promises to help us put some new photos up this weekend.

The rest of our summer flew by! The highlight of our summer was our photo shoot with a photographer from Iowa. Mom tried for six months to book our pictures. They turned out great! If anyone is ever looking for a great photography, we highly recommend Kathy McCloy. She travels all around the country and may end up in your neck of the woods sometime. Check out her photography website at www.kathymccloy.com. The site also has her calendar and contact information on it. She also has a blog and is much better at updating it than we are. Her blog is www.kathymccloy.typepad.com. Mom will try to post some of our pictures from our session here as well. She is truly worth the money. She spent approximately two hours with us and took about 700 pictures. She then edited those down to 40 some for us to pick from. Of course Mom is a sucker for a good picture and bought all of them (well, the digital negatives).

We finished summer school and had a week of rest time before school started again. We hung out at home all week and celebrated Jake's 10th birthday. Mom baked a cake for our private family party. We also got to go out to eat at Red Lobster for the birthday celebration. Good times.

School is off to a great start. Next week is ISTEP+ and Syd gets to take it for the first time. Jake is trying to see if he can maintain his past record of obtaining pass plus status on both sections. Keep your fingers crossed. Syd's teacher is Ms. Jane Tennis and she is SO FUN! Her room is right across the hall from Mom's and she loves to sing and teach us silly cheers and stuff. Remember Schoolhouse Rocks? Ms. Tennis has taught us a lot of the songs from it. Jake's teacher is Mrs. Susan Pickard again this year. In case you are wondering, no I did not flunk the 3rd grade. Mrs. Pickard loved her whole class (especially me) so much that she looped with us. That means she moved to 4th grade with us. Kenna and Owen have started going to daycare for the first time ever. Grandma said she couldn't watch us anymore. We guess that's what happens when you get old. Miss Donna is our new teacher and we LOVE her. She is Dad's friend Brian's (who he works with) mom. She has had a daycare forever. Dad's friend Gary also takes his little boy Ben to Miss Donna's.

Well, stay tuned for more from the Funkhousers. We promise to be better bloggers.

All We Got Were...

Cookies! At least Auntie E was thoughtful enough to pack these cookies from Josie's reception for us. Believe it or not, but Mom was able to get them through security, in a carry-on, on both of her flights, the car ride home, and to us in one piece. Good job, Mom!
Mom also thought she would torture us with this picture of Henry and Caroline. They got to go to the toy store and play with the life size Lego man. All we got to do is sit around the house with boring, old Dad and go to Grandma's while he worked Colts Camp. Oh, did we mention that the fire department had to come to Grandma's house while we were there on Sunday? Her stove caught on fire while she was trying to bake us brownies. That was the highlight of our weekend.

Cleveland Rocks (except when we aren't there)

Here we are happy because we thought Mom's plane trip to Cleveland would involve us. We were very wrong and very disappointed!
Mom crept out of the house at 6:00 Saturday morning to go see the Holman family. She doesn't look like she misses us very much. We know she was crying on the inside. Nana, Auntie E, and Josie miss us too.
Pretty baby! As Uncle Rob said, "Catholics 1, the Dark Side 0". Welcome to the church, Josephine.
Henry is smiling, but Josie knows we aren't there to celebrate her baptism. This makes her sad. Caroline is starting to figure out that things would be more fun if we were at her house.
Henry finally is missing us. Oh well, we'll see him again soon.

Wheels

It was a great night to show off our wheels. I'm such a big boy (even though I still need training wheels on my ride).
Grandparents, take note. My bike is just on the verge of being too small for me. It is about time for some new wheels.
I got this new bike as an early birthday present from Grandma and Grandpa Funkhouser. Now I just need a new belt so my boxers won't show.
Please, Bucky, can I drive your new car? I don't have a big girl bike, but I would look great behind the wheel of your new Nissan.
Uncle Bucky, you finally made it to our blog! Congratulations on this important accomplishment. We think this is more exciting than any old car!

A side note: Mom is leaving us tomorrow to fly to Cleveland. She thinks going to Auntie E's house for Josie's baptism is more important than spending Saturday and Sunday with us. She promises to take lots of pictures for us and to even post a few on our blog when she returns. Look for an update Monday evening.

4 + 2 Friends = 1 Mom Over the Edge!

How crazy is our Mom? She let Damon and Crimson come over to play after summer school. It made for quite an interesting afternoon. Here they are swimming in the pool with Syd.
I couldn't handle all the Hannah Montana karaoke and splashing, so I hung out on my swing set alone. Smart boy!
Since Mom doesn't let us have friends over very often, I decided to do something I don't do very often as well-- SMILE!
Ooh, nothing like a Popsicle after a hot afternoon of running around like a mad man.
Needless to say, I got a bath after my afternoon snack.

Get In Gwen's Pool!

Thursday after summer school, we went to Mom's friend Gwen's house to swim. She needs our help stirring up the pool because she doesn't get to use it very often. I was more than happy to swim a few laps and do a few cannonballs for her!
I didn't really feel like swimming today. Instead, I enjoyed playing with Gwen's grandkids' toys. Don't tell Jackson and Emerson that I touched their stuff. Boy, Jackson's life jacket is a perfect fit. Mom, can I go off the diving board now?

Please note that there are no pictures of Mom, Gwen, or Mom's other friend Deb in their swimsuits. They did get in the pool and splash around with us though. You also won't see any photos of Jake due to the fact that his swimsuit kept "accidentally" falling off every time he went off the diving board. Poor thing. I guess he needs smaller trunks!