Go Cardinals!!

Well tomorrow is the Super Bowl. Ainsley will be watching it with her boyfriend Miller and I am sure we will get some great pics. Thinking about the Steelers in another Super Bowl is depressing. Cleveland Browns fans HATE the Pittsburgh Steelers! They are the number one rival of our poor Browns who will one day go on to win the Super Bowl. So GO CARDINALS!!!!

I had to post pictures from the Cleveland Browns game Moss went to the Sunday before Christmas. For those of you who have never been to northeast Ohio in the dead of winter, you can see it is mighty cold! The temperature with wind chill was below zero at the game. So cold that the beer turned to slush a few minutes after it was poured. Moss said that when that wind would whip off the lake and blow the foam off the beer, the foam would turn to ice particles. Before we went to the Browns/Steelers game back in 2005 I had told Moss it would be cold unlike anything he had ever felt before - that game ended up being 65 degrees! He has never let me or my family forget that so we were all thrilled he finally got to experience one of the coldest games in recent Browns history.

Here are some pics of the "beer margaritas."

My brother Todd, Moss, brother-in-law Ben and my brother Alex freezing at the game - they left at halftime to watch from the warmth of a local bar. They didn't miss much since the Browns didn't even score that whole game!

Ainsley's laugh

Ainsley has a great laugh! She used to just giggle but now she has that fun laugh where she cackles and shrieks. It is the sweetest sound in the world! I just wish I could capture it on video. She becomes so enthralled with the camera that she won't laugh! Here is a cute picture of her on the changing table which is her favorite place to laugh and talk to us.

Family far away...

I just wanted to share a few family pics we took while in Ohio at Christmas. It was the first time since March that my whole family was together - and we had two very special new additions! Ainsley and her new little cousin Maddox! Maddox Bradley Reed was born on my birthday, November 22nd. He and Ainsley are 4 months apart. My sister Tara and I are so excited that they are so close in age. Now if only we lived closer so they could see each other more often! Tara, Ben and Maddox are in Missouri where Ben is in the Army. They will be moving sometime next year but they don't know where yet. It all depends on where Ben is stationed, which could be anywhere from Alaska to Europe to somewhere else in the continental US. My brother Todd lives in Chicago and my brother Alex lives in Ohio and works for my dad. I miss them all every day. I feel so blessed that I have such a close relationship with my family. It's a comfort when I get homesick and start to think about how far away we all live. Hopefully we'll figure out a way to see each other more than once or twice a year.

Ainsley is mobile!

Ainsley is growing so fast! She has learned how to scoot backwards. Before we know it she'll be crawling all over the place! Check out this video we took of her making her way across the floor.


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Daddy's Little Rebel

Ainsley and Moss watched the Cotton Bowl together on January 2nd. Moss' lucky charm was so excited that he just had to take some cute pics of her. Even Scout got in on the action. Needless to say we are all pumped up for next season already! Moss is counting down the days until kickoff.

Time to blog!

Well, we have decided to start a blog. Hopefully this will be an easy and fun way to keep everybody updated on what's new with us as a family. It will also give our family and friends who don't live nearby a chance to see Ainsley grow and change. Thanks for checking in with us! I'll do my best to update often!