<?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-6387857078664297268</id><updated>2011-10-10T19:57:21.696-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Call Family</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>29</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-5578125442792250737</id><published>2009-04-15T16:30:00.015-05:00</published><updated>2009-04-16T11:02:37.978-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A Happy Easter</title><content type='html'>We had a wonderful Easter! Ethan woke up early and instead of coming into our room to wake us up as he usually does, he looked downstairs and spotted his first egg and hurried right down to see what was inside!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZYkJK0zuI/AAAAAAAAAiE/brEa4I5p5ac/s1600-h/IMG_1771.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325040987372048098" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZYkJK0zuI/AAAAAAAAAiE/brEa4I5p5ac/s320/IMG_1771.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZZ5c-qARI/AAAAAAAAAiM/Drrzd_Kz8is/s1600-h/IMG_1774.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325042452978598162" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZZ5c-qARI/AAAAAAAAAiM/Drrzd_Kz8is/s320/IMG_1774.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He hunted high and low and had very little trouble finding his Easter Basket.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Quintan, on the other hand slept in and was rather oblivious to the fun and festivities&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZStE_RbBI/AAAAAAAAAhE/uNzJYwfp_EI/s1600-h/IMG_1788.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325034543798905874" style="WIDTH: 316px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 243px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZStE_RbBI/AAAAAAAAAhE/uNzJYwfp_EI/s320/IMG_1788.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;but was happy and excited to see the eggs all the same! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="right"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZVPxzNxII/AAAAAAAAAhc/wyTx86gz0Bw/s1600-h/IMG_1799.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325037338966738050" style="WIDTH: 308px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 245px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZVPxzNxII/AAAAAAAAAhc/wyTx86gz0Bw/s320/IMG_1799.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ethan enjoyed all his candy so much he thought he'd try the chalk too:) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;After church we headed up to the Poggio's for a great food, great company, and even more egg hunting!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZVmsqdF8I/AAAAAAAAAhk/Tibo3nUcdy8/s1600-h/IMG_1808.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325037732724807618" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZVmsqdF8I/AAAAAAAAAhk/Tibo3nUcdy8/s320/IMG_1808.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This was serious business, hard hat and all:) &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZWrtwADjI/AAAAAAAAAh0/c4ET2A-aOs8/s1600-h/IMG_1816.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325038918427479602" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZWrtwADjI/AAAAAAAAAh0/c4ET2A-aOs8/s320/IMG_1816.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZXK0GSJxI/AAAAAAAAAh8/x4aVZvBB-WE/s1600-h/IMG_1824.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325039452707497746" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZXK0GSJxI/AAAAAAAAAh8/x4aVZvBB-WE/s320/IMG_1824.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had a wonderful day, playing, eating, hunting and spending time with family, but the hightlight for me came in a few simple words from Ethan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me: what did you talk about in nursery today?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ethan: The big rock.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me: Oh yeah, you talked about a rock?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ethan: Yeah, they rolled it away. They rolled it away and Jesus wasn't there!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I loved hearing his excitement as he told me that the tomb was empty.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am grateful to know that the tomb was empty on that third day and excited about what that means for me and my family. I know that jesus lives.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZTUalF6UI/AAAAAAAAAhM/1IvYVcZTqgQ/s1600-h/IMG_1783.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325035219609577794" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZTUalF6UI/AAAAAAAAAhM/1IvYVcZTqgQ/s320/IMG_1783.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Easter everyone!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-5578125442792250737?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/5578125442792250737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=5578125442792250737' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/5578125442792250737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/5578125442792250737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-easter.html' title='A Happy Easter'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZYkJK0zuI/AAAAAAAAAiE/brEa4I5p5ac/s72-c/IMG_1771.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-4972488911591488095</id><published>2009-04-15T16:07:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-04-15T16:29:54.245-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lucky 6</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZRJbBxShI/AAAAAAAAAg8/gy-6rKAahdw/s1600-h/IMG_1488.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325032831728044562" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZRJbBxShI/AAAAAAAAAg8/gy-6rKAahdw/s320/IMG_1488.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZPYyNucRI/AAAAAAAAAgs/_FJa9wGl8bg/s1600-h/IMG_1478_1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325030896626987282" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZPYyNucRI/AAAAAAAAAgs/_FJa9wGl8bg/s320/IMG_1478_1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZQvPPsJSI/AAAAAAAAAg0/FNrgo6iaP8Q/s1600-h/IMG_1488.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As I sit here and watch the snow accumulate on the grass its hard to believe that almost 1 year ago exactly we were in mexico sipping margaritas, and soaking up the sun to celebrate our 5 year anniversary!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;While we weren't able to hit the beach this year, due to one very attached baby boy and our desire to save for a new house, I'm still so happy to be married to the man of my dreams! Steve is such a wonderful husband, not to mention father. And even though i never would have thought it possible 6 years ago I am more in love with Steve today than I've ever been! Here's to lucky number 6...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-4972488911591488095?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/4972488911591488095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=4972488911591488095' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/4972488911591488095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/4972488911591488095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2009/04/lucky-6.html' title='Lucky 6'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SeZRJbBxShI/AAAAAAAAAg8/gy-6rKAahdw/s72-c/IMG_1488.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-2502911822153754209</id><published>2009-01-16T11:55:00.006-06:00</published><updated>2009-01-16T12:24:47.203-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>A few days ago I ran upstairs to change Quintan's diaper. Normally I can hear pretty well what Ethan is doing downstairs, but I noticed that it got really quiet and I started to get a little suspicious. Still, being in the middle of the diaper change I decided to finish the job before going down to see what Ethan was up to...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is what I found.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;The Offence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Eating Chocolate Cake out of the Garbage &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;The Evidence:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SXDKp8B-1BI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/Ye1DkKdEC7s/s1600-h/IMG_1630.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291952383998219282" style="WIDTH: 268px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 228px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SXDKp8B-1BI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/Ye1DkKdEC7s/s320/IMG_1630.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SXDM9_2k85I/AAAAAAAAAdg/-bsWpZE7HqU/s1600-h/IMG_1629.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291954927644767122" style="WIDTH: 317px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 230px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SXDM9_2k85I/AAAAAAAAAdg/-bsWpZE7HqU/s320/IMG_1629.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;The Culprit:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SXDLmOPBDpI/AAAAAAAAAdY/0UW28_Qqd-g/s1600-h/IMG_1633.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291953419676880530" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SXDLmOPBDpI/AAAAAAAAAdY/0UW28_Qqd-g/s320/IMG_1633.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SXDQiEs1OjI/AAAAAAAAAdw/lhaGOCW3Oww/s1600-h/IMG_1625.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291958845956241970" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SXDQiEs1OjI/AAAAAAAAAdw/lhaGOCW3Oww/s320/IMG_1625.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SXDP2MezDpI/AAAAAAAAAdo/vCe1_EWz9ec/s1600-h/IMG_1625.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-2502911822153754209?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/2502911822153754209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=2502911822153754209' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/2502911822153754209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/2502911822153754209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2009/01/few-days-ago-i-ran-upstairs-to-change.html' title=''/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SXDKp8B-1BI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/Ye1DkKdEC7s/s72-c/IMG_1630.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-5917597405186785463</id><published>2008-12-02T23:48:00.009-06:00</published><updated>2008-12-03T00:08:54.445-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Quintan's Baby Blessing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/STYhTLEn9EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/HrSKcLteFlc/s1600-h/IMG_1372.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275440626784531522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/STYhTLEn9EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/HrSKcLteFlc/s320/IMG_1372.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; We had the wonderful opportunity of blessing our little baby boy, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Quintan&lt;/span&gt;, this last weekend. We are grateful for all who came to join use; it was really awesome to have so many friends and family with us. (We really missed those of you who weren't able to attend.) Here are a few pictures of the special day!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275437390037663042" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/STYeWxQCPUI/AAAAAAAAAD8/L5SeXG5p1dA/s400/IMG_1331.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275437056062658514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/STYeDVGMF9I/AAAAAAAAAD0/CVCS80Wr0Qo/s400/IMG_1328.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/STYe_egh-AI/AAAAAAAAAEM/jSiXJ9T9T6E/s1600-h/IMG_1378.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275438089381214210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/STYe_egh-AI/AAAAAAAAAEM/jSiXJ9T9T6E/s320/IMG_1378.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Our precious boy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/STYe0URrpfI/AAAAAAAAAEE/4hYOjO-5rkw/s1600-h/IMG_1367.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275437897656018418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/STYe0URrpfI/AAAAAAAAAEE/4hYOjO-5rkw/s320/IMG_1367.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275438717778977282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/STYfkDeO4gI/AAAAAAAAAEU/er8fQE5Bxw0/s320/IMG_1390.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-5917597405186785463?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/5917597405186785463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=5917597405186785463' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/5917597405186785463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/5917597405186785463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/12/quintans-baby-blessing.html' title='Quintan&apos;s Baby Blessing'/><author><name>Steve</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10135458605235745526</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/STYhTLEn9EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/HrSKcLteFlc/s72-c/IMG_1372.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-5791331304969410170</id><published>2008-10-31T22:56:00.013-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-01T00:44:43.946-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Halloween!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;We had a wonderful Halloween from start to finish! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;We kicked things off with a &lt;em&gt;haunted&lt;/em&gt; breakfast &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;(french toast, peaches and whipped cream ghosts)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;that Ethan devoured like a monster. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvWTukefDI/AAAAAAAAATs/ihns-LmKcLA/s1600-h/IMG_1192.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263536223919438898" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvWTukefDI/AAAAAAAAATs/ihns-LmKcLA/s320/IMG_1192.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvYEtdMNII/AAAAAAAAAUc/9er0zML6vaQ/s1600-h/IMG_1194.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263538164945663106" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvYEtdMNII/AAAAAAAAAUc/9er0zML6vaQ/s320/IMG_1194.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later, 'Joe the Plumber ' joined us for some Skeleton Stew and helped us &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;get ready for a big night of trick or treating.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvaBxTtf1I/AAAAAAAAAUk/sARLqroSK9s/s1600-h/IMG_1206.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263540313463291730" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvaBxTtf1I/AAAAAAAAAUk/sARLqroSK9s/s320/IMG_1206.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvXO9DwjWI/AAAAAAAAAUM/EXKDyizLx3g/s1600-h/IMG_1214.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263537241421024610" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvXO9DwjWI/AAAAAAAAAUM/EXKDyizLx3g/s320/IMG_1214.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;We were hoping that Quintan would make a gruff pirate face for the picture, but he decided to go with sweet and peaceful instead; he's the cutest little pirate I've ever seen!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvWkEAeknI/AAAAAAAAAT0/K2yKtYuNYSc/s1600-h/IMG_1203.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263536504551936626" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvWkEAeknI/AAAAAAAAAT0/K2yKtYuNYSc/s320/IMG_1203.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvXE0iaEzI/AAAAAAAAAUE/4Czi3A_cF1Q/s1600-h/IMG_1236.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263537067334964018" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 321px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvXE0iaEzI/AAAAAAAAAUE/4Czi3A_cF1Q/s320/IMG_1236.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Ethan must have learned early on about 'mans best friend' because again this year he wanted to dress as a dog... what can we say, he &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; loves dogs; and he makes a pretty adorable &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;puppy if you ask me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvXfbc9pzI/AAAAAAAAAUU/xRysmaCasPg/s1600-h/IMG_1216.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263537524457711410" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvXfbc9pzI/AAAAAAAAAUU/xRysmaCasPg/s320/IMG_1216.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvij-F_7yI/AAAAAAAAAU8/8PTP8RFI7Sw/s1600-h/IMG_1223.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263549697104015138" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvij-F_7yI/AAAAAAAAAU8/8PTP8RFI7Sw/s320/IMG_1223.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We also enjoyed passing out candy to trick or treaters, dancing to some of our favorite Halloween hits to burn off the sugar high, and listening to Ethan tell us how much he loved his first &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; Halloween.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I couldn't have asked for a better day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy Halloween!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-5791331304969410170?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/5791331304969410170/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=5791331304969410170' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/5791331304969410170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/5791331304969410170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/happy-halloween.html' title='Happy Halloween!'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQvWTukefDI/AAAAAAAAATs/ihns-LmKcLA/s72-c/IMG_1192.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-4149698803239828175</id><published>2008-10-30T15:48:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2008-10-31T00:28:16.947-05:00</updated><title type='text'>More Fall Fun</title><content type='html'>I mentioned that we went to the Scarecrow Festival a few posts ago but didn't have any pictures to go with it at the time because our camera has been freaking out lately and eating batteries like nothing (&lt;em&gt;sooo&lt;/em&gt; annoying!), but thanks to Jenni and her reliable camera we were able to capture a few shots...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQqDy6OKzaI/AAAAAAAAATM/nyQSRcN4kvk/s1600-h/DSCN1113.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263164025181228450" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQqDy6OKzaI/AAAAAAAAATM/nyQSRcN4kvk/s320/DSCN1113.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Here's Ethan climbing through the "gopans".And having a great time with his Aunt Jenni and Aunt Ashlee! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQqD6fOl6YI/AAAAAAAAATU/hbzIQ3NJr_Y/s1600-h/DSCN1125.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263164155374201218" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQqD6fOl6YI/AAAAAAAAATU/hbzIQ3NJr_Y/s320/DSCN1125.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQqEGDwPZII/AAAAAAAAATc/DGAS-GC9DC0/s1600-h/DSCN1118.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263164354157569154" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQqEGDwPZII/AAAAAAAAATc/DGAS-GC9DC0/s320/DSCN1118.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The following weekend we had a great time at the Poggio's Halloween Party. We also had better luck with the camera and were able to take a &lt;em&gt;few &lt;/em&gt;more pictures (with brand new batteries in) but still by the end of the night the camera was acting up again!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQqIEO6DKII/AAAAAAAAATk/MO5NK0vGXCE/s1600-h/IMG_1145.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263168720838273154" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQqIEO6DKII/AAAAAAAAATk/MO5NK0vGXCE/s320/IMG_1145.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;So unfortunately we didn't get a shot of all the costumes (which I have to say were pretty impressive this year) : caveman and woman, an angle, and rabbit, batman, Teenage mutant Ninja turtle Tinkerbell, a dragon, and my &lt;em&gt;persona&lt;/em&gt;l favorite 'Joe the Plumber' played of course by my very own husband!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQpefACdWJI/AAAAAAAAAS8/3Z1AblcY0BA/s1600-h/IMG_1138.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263123001215113362" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQpefACdWJI/AAAAAAAAAS8/3Z1AblcY0BA/s320/IMG_1138.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQqCd9NOqiI/AAAAAAAAATE/bPZAFb4yaco/s1600-h/IMG_1148.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263162565693712930" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQqCd9NOqiI/AAAAAAAAATE/bPZAFb4yaco/s320/IMG_1148.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The food was delicious, the costumes were fun, and the company was fabulous! Thanks for hosting the party Lis!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;In other happenings, we had a little extra time this morning so I decided to get crafty. ..Here's Ethan working on a windsock. He loves using stickers and especially glue sticks (which by the way got everywhere! but it was worth it )&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQofVolIwXI/AAAAAAAAARs/AMlbv0a9uZs/s1600-h/IMG_1172.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263053571066741106" style="WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQofVolIwXI/AAAAAAAAARs/AMlbv0a9uZs/s400/IMG_1172.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;After completing his first project he was asking if he could use his crayons and scissors. This is what we came up with...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQofqwVWk-I/AAAAAAAAAR8/wopzPRJIzd4/s1600-h/IMG_1176.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263053933925274594" style="WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQofqwVWk-I/AAAAAAAAAR8/wopzPRJIzd4/s400/IMG_1176.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Ethan is turning into quite the little artist don't you think?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Quintan was a &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; helper and enjoyed listening to Halloween music with us while we worked. He's such a happy little guy!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQpa3QvsXrI/AAAAAAAAAS0/hXVqq2-2V4Q/s1600-h/IMG_1181.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263119019970158258" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQpa3QvsXrI/AAAAAAAAAS0/hXVqq2-2V4Q/s320/IMG_1181.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;He's going on 11 weeks now and he smiles giggles and coos &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the time &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;(when he's awake that is. He's been a big sleeper since day one)! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Gotta' love him!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-4149698803239828175?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/4149698803239828175/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=4149698803239828175' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/4149698803239828175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/4149698803239828175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/halloween-happenings.html' title='More Fall Fun'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SQqDy6OKzaI/AAAAAAAAATM/nyQSRcN4kvk/s72-c/DSCN1113.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-8732668635794622969</id><published>2008-10-13T15:07:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2008-10-22T00:14:28.495-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Enjoying October</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt; The first weekend in October brought several inches of snow and lots of fun! We could hardly wait to bundle up and get outside!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SPOujQ8UwcI/AAAAAAAAARc/oBBmzdUgFNE/s1600-h/1st+snow.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256737110938141122" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SPOujQ8UwcI/AAAAAAAAARc/oBBmzdUgFNE/s400/1st+snow.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The snow was beautiful while it lasted but it didn't stay long.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SPOuXuKV0kI/AAAAAAAAARU/Fh0iCDxMTZQ/s1600-h/wwl.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256736912623129154" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SPOuXuKV0kI/AAAAAAAAARU/Fh0iCDxMTZQ/s400/wwl.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luckily things warmed up in time for some Halloween festivities.We went to a local pumpkin patch and we couldn't resist buying a pumpkin almost as big as Ethan! He was so proud of it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SP6yms670QI/AAAAAAAAARk/YMVIar2NWC4/s1600-h/IMG_1137.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259837792778440962" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SP6yms670QI/AAAAAAAAARk/YMVIar2NWC4/s400/IMG_1137.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; We also had a great time at the Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving Point with Jenni and Ashley and carved our pumpkins with family and friends at Paul and Kelsey's annual Fright Fest.(thanks for the fun!) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;(And in case you can't tell from the picture, Steve tried to carve a portrait of Ethan into his pumpkin. He hopes to improve his carving skills for next year when he'll attempt a portrait of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Quintan&lt;/span&gt;:))&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-8732668635794622969?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/8732668635794622969/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=8732668635794622969' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/8732668635794622969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/8732668635794622969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/enjoying-october.html' title='Enjoying October'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SPOujQ8UwcI/AAAAAAAAARc/oBBmzdUgFNE/s72-c/1st+snow.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-3078006126960707129</id><published>2008-09-21T22:07:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2008-09-21T23:14:10.698-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Newsworthy Events</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;Heide reminded me today that it has been a while since I contributed anything to our blog, so I'll try and do my best...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;As I have been sitting here trying to think of any "newsworthy" events in the life of SHEQ (that's short for Steve, Heide, Ethan, and Quintan), I realized that we haven't done a whole lot lately. We've just been trying to keep this new baby of ours alive and healthy; that seems to consume most of our time. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;We did go to Bridal Veil Falls the other day. Provo Canyon has always been one of our favorite places to go, so we made the 3 hour round trip one evening; it was fun, but we were totally exhausted by the time we returned home (we are finding out it is double the work now that we have two boys)! We intended to hang around and stop by to visit friends and family in Provo and drive by some of our old places we lived in as students, but unfortunately we didn't have enough time. Anyway, here are a few pictures:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248683568820083522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/SNcR5anzW0I/AAAAAAAAACw/AZrjDP64kIA/s400/IMG_1012.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248684114420021474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/SNcSZLI9uOI/AAAAAAAAAC4/AmOo6_RcSIM/s400/IMG_1017.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248684626630277490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/SNcS2_RZ-XI/AAAAAAAAADA/gonjc1iSzBo/s400/IMG_1011.JPG" border="0" /&gt;Note the bike in the background. We got the bike carrier a couple of weeks ago and Ethan loves to ride in it. I tried to put one of the neighbor boys in with Ethan the other day (because it fits two) and he said in a panic as I was putting the other boy in "no, no". I put him in anyway and told Ethan we were just going around the block. After a few yards he began try cry! He either really likes his personal space or cherishes our one on one time (or maybe the kid hit him while I wasn't looking).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SNcbQpL39YI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ABgPwWG18kw/s1600-h/IMG_1049.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248693863471117698" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SNcbQpL39YI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ABgPwWG18kw/s400/IMG_1049.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-3078006126960707129?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/3078006126960707129/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=3078006126960707129' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/3078006126960707129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/3078006126960707129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/09/newsworthy-events.html' title='Newsworthy Events'/><author><name>Steve</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10135458605235745526</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/SNcR5anzW0I/AAAAAAAAACw/AZrjDP64kIA/s72-c/IMG_1012.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-8347323173170277177</id><published>2008-09-16T22:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-09-16T23:29:55.706-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Big Thanks</title><content type='html'>For those of you who may not have heard, we moved to Utah this summer. We have been meaning to post this little bit of news for the past month or so, but it's been difficult to find time as life has been very much a whirlwind lately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, let me paint the whole picture by rewinding to the middle of July when we were still living in Danville, I was 33 weeks pregnant and Steve was still working at the local hospital as the facilities director. We were living life and preparing for the baby when a job opportunity in Layton, Utah unexpectedly popped up. It was a very good opportunity, Steve was intrigued by the position and we were thrilled to think we could return to live in Utah closer to our siblings (and Ethan to his cousins). Still, it wasn't an easy decision; while Danville wasn't the greatest of places, and certainly not somewhere we wanted to settle down and raise our family, we really enjoyed the slow paced lifestyle and especially enjoyed living close to my Mom, Frank and John!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a few days of much prayer and fasting we decided, with only 7 weeks until the baby was due (which ended up only being 4), to pack up and head out West.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steve received an official offer July 16th, and drove away in the Uhaul four days later! How is this possible you may wonder? I wondered the same thing myself...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As soon as my &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mom &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;found out that I was trying to pack up the entire house in 4 days at 33 weeks pregnant she changed her weekend plans and and she and &lt;span style="color:#333399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frank&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; packed their bags and arrived in record time! Frank packed our entire kitchen, while my mom organized and packed up bedrooms and bathrooms, and made sure the house was spotless before we left. They also took plenty of time to play with Ethan which was the greatest help of all! And as if that weren't enough, they took great care of me and Ethan for a week and a half while Steve did more dirty work!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, out West my sisters were ensuring that we had a soft place to land when we arrived!&lt;br /&gt;We used &lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lorri's&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; expert eye to choose one of the three houses we found online for us to rent (and I might say that she chose the &lt;em&gt;perfect one)&lt;/em&gt;! She took time out of her busy life to fight traffic and scope out the Layton area for us!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Alissa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was quick to ask how she could help, and when she found out I was most concerned with finding a good Dr. she got on the phone and set up an appt. for me with her obgyn. This &lt;em&gt;greatly&lt;/em&gt; reduced my stress level!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of my least favorite things to do is to ask people to go out of their way to pick me up from the airport; &lt;span style="color:#6633ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;Janell&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;immediately offered to pick us up (she must be sick of it since she lives close to the airport); but her willingness meant &lt;em&gt;so much&lt;/em&gt; as I know it's not an easy thing to do with two kids and such a busy schedule!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My bothers-in-law &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Marco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Josh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; also fought traffic after a long days' work to help Steve empty the Uhaul (which was not an easy task considering the monstrous piano we recently inherited)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My awesome little brother, &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;John,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;transported Ethan and me 3 hours one way to the Chicago airport; and he didn't just drop us off: he parked, helped us carry in all our stuff, and made sure I made it safely through security before he embarked on another 3 hour drive back to Wisconsin! Then, when I lost my cell phone in the airport, he was the one to call, and call, and call until someone finally picked it up. If it weren't for him I'd still be phoneless!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My sister-in-law,&lt;span style="color:#999900;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;Jenni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ccccff;"&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;offered to help unpack and came down to keep Steve company while he was here for a few days by himself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And last but definitely not least, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steve,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; being the sweet and hard working husband that he is made the 27 hour drive by himself &lt;em&gt;twice! &lt;/em&gt;After he arrived the first time he unloaded everything that he could unload by himself from the Uhaul and unpacked our &lt;em&gt;entire&lt;/em&gt; house (and made sure it was clean for when Ethan and I flew in from my mom's)! Then he returned to IL to finish up one last week of work before making the drive again (only this time he drove straight through the night arriving at about 4:00AM so we could finally be reunited after the two longest and craziest weeks of our life)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that is how a cross-country move in four days is possible!&lt;br /&gt;We literally could not have done it without all the love and support of our family and friends. I feel so blessed to have such a great family and wish I was better at expressing how much I really appreciate all of them. Thank you so much!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-8347323173170277177?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/8347323173170277177/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=8347323173170277177' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/8347323173170277177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/8347323173170277177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/09/big-thanks.html' title='Big Thanks'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-1789514858248577906</id><published>2008-09-14T11:19:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2008-09-14T12:40:33.602-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My boys</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SM1LS40td0I/AAAAAAAAAQk/Sy1BEq9nr5Q/s1600-h/IMG_0928.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245931928819693378" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SM1LS40td0I/AAAAAAAAAQk/Sy1BEq9nr5Q/s400/IMG_0928.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I just can't let this rare moment of free time pass without gushing a bit over how much I love being a mother and of how wonderful my little boys are!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SM1JiJmzANI/AAAAAAAAAQc/6TAbp3TUZ8c/s1600-h/IMG_0904.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245929991999520978" style="WIDTH: 403px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" height="300" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SM1JiJmzANI/AAAAAAAAAQc/6TAbp3TUZ8c/s400/IMG_0904.JPG" width="375" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Ethan has grown up so much in the past few weeks I can hardly believe it. He is spouting off new words every day and keeps us laughing around here as he has his own little way of doing things. Some of our favorite Ethan-isms:&lt;/p&gt;If he sees food that he wants he asks,"Eat it? Bite it?"&lt;br /&gt;He likes to put the word 'big' in front of everything: "big book, big rock, big bite" and our personal favorite, "big gumkun biiiig" aka pumpkin. I guess he's trying to get ready for Halloween...&lt;br /&gt;He loves to throw a ball (baseball or not) and yell "stieke" (aka: strike) ...he's quite the baseball fan!&lt;br /&gt;Ethan loves having Quintan around and is very aware of how his little brother is. As soon as Quintan makes the slightest little noise Ethan automatically says, "cying, Tintan cying, sad". We explain to him that sometimes Quintan just makes noise that he's not always crying . Now he says "Tintan happing" (happy) or "seeping" (sleeping).&lt;br /&gt;Ethan has recently learned about petting animals since we are in walking distance to a private petting zoo (aka: a farm with friendly goats, horses and chickens) and now he asks, "pet baby, pet him?" when he wants to rub Quintan's head. We're working to improve the terminology:) , but love that he's so interested in his little brother!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is also learning how to count. Unfortunately, he hasn't been able to get past the number 2. He just says, "one, two, nine, seven". I'm sure it will come around soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SM1IuxKiUsI/AAAAAAAAAQU/eZRYdsvjkqk/s1600-h/IMG_0919.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245929109265208002" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SM1IuxKiUsI/AAAAAAAAAQU/eZRYdsvjkqk/s400/IMG_0919.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Quintan is just as sweet as can be! Today is his 4 week birthday and he's eating and growing like a weed! He's up to 9 lbs now and has thoroughly impressed the Dr. with his ability to gain weight. Our little Quin travels all over with us and sleeps like an angel aside from the rude awakenings of his immature digestive system. We're hoping his body works out the kinks asap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am so blessed with two wonderful sons and love being home to help and watch them grow!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-1789514858248577906?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/1789514858248577906/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=1789514858248577906' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/1789514858248577906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/1789514858248577906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/09/my-boys.html' title='My boys'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SM1LS40td0I/AAAAAAAAAQk/Sy1BEq9nr5Q/s72-c/IMG_0928.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-2848262673707884885</id><published>2008-08-21T15:17:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-08-25T11:55:45.542-05:00</updated><title type='text'>He's Here!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quintan Elijah Call&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;was born Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 8:09 am weighing 7.0 lbs measuring 20.5 in.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;We went into the hospital around 2:30 am last Sunday and Heide was already dilated 6cm by the time we got there. the delivery went smoothly; she only had to push 4 times to complete the delivery. The recovery is going well for Heide and Quintan and we're all thrilled to have them home!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;There will be more pictures to come...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237069097367708882" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SK3OmMzHJNI/AAAAAAAAAP8/UlS6C81XlEQ/s400/new+arrival.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SK3P1UkYMsI/AAAAAAAAAQE/L498iZdGElU/s1600-h/IMG_0843.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237070456663061186" style="WIDTH: 396px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" height="300" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SK3P1UkYMsI/AAAAAAAAAQE/L498iZdGElU/s400/IMG_0843.JPG" width="326" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SK3QcawOzEI/AAAAAAAAAQM/7uMhxIm1HP8/s1600-h/my+guys.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237071128338287682" style="WIDTH: 397px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" height="300" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SK3QcawOzEI/AAAAAAAAAQM/7uMhxIm1HP8/s400/my+guys.JPG" width="335" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-2848262673707884885?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/2848262673707884885/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=2848262673707884885' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/2848262673707884885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/2848262673707884885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/08/hes-here.html' title='He&apos;s Here!'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SK3OmMzHJNI/AAAAAAAAAP8/UlS6C81XlEQ/s72-c/new+arrival.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-4442100475783826655</id><published>2008-06-22T21:37:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T21:57:00.858-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Summa Summa Summa Time...Summa Time!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;Summer is in full swing and we are definately enjoying it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214900686250228562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/SF8Mi17iu1I/AAAAAAAAAB8/kC2XyMuChSM/s320/IMG_0580.JPG" border="0" /&gt;Just takin' in the view&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/SF8MvUW07wI/AAAAAAAAACE/GwKwDg0b9VQ/s1600-h/IMG_0609.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214900900576161538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/SF8MvUW07wI/AAAAAAAAACE/GwKwDg0b9VQ/s320/IMG_0609.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Watermelon...YUM!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214903380956347554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/SF8O_sfi_KI/AAAAAAAAACU/dDX-smLeDT8/s320/IMG_0574.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Our little monkey!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214904179250690642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/SF8PuKXv-lI/AAAAAAAAACc/WkrJ-kurgpI/s320/IMG_0582.JPG" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;For all those who've been requesting pics of my growing belly...30 weeks and counting .&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214901022712607778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/SF8M2bWbNCI/AAAAAAAAACM/iPAVpqg3uaM/s320/PDRM0043.JPG" border="0" /&gt;All tuckered out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;(This picture was actually taken back in April, but I couldn't resist!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-4442100475783826655?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/4442100475783826655/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=4442100475783826655' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/4442100475783826655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/4442100475783826655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/06/summa-summa-summa-timesumma-time.html' title='Summa Summa Summa Time...Summa Time!'/><author><name>Steve</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10135458605235745526</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/SF8Mi17iu1I/AAAAAAAAAB8/kC2XyMuChSM/s72-c/IMG_0580.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-1216843596610900663</id><published>2008-05-18T21:49:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-05-18T22:15:08.488-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Golf</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/SDDvhl_leFI/AAAAAAAAAB0/NIMCsGSefCI/s1600-h/golfer_angry.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201920930026453074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/SDDvhl_leFI/AAAAAAAAAB0/NIMCsGSefCI/s200/golfer_angry.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;Last week I played in a golf tournament with 3 other co-workers; after hitting one of my drives over the fence into interstate &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;traffic&lt;/span&gt;, a second into a river, and a third into an &lt;em&gt;occupied&lt;/em&gt; golf cart, I realized that golf may not be my sport. The problem I have with golf, number one, is that it is not enjoyable; I don't think a game can be considered a sport if you can wear khakis and never break a sweat. Number two, it's too expensive and time consuming to secure a half competent skill level. And with a 17 month old and second on the way, extra money and time are something I don't have a lot of. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I started playing golf when I was a senior in college because it seemed every other professor encouraged students to golf: "it's the sport of business" they said, "and a lot of business is done on the golf course" they affirmed. So, not wanting to be the odd one out in the world of business, I &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;bummed&lt;/span&gt; some old clubs off a friend (props to Eric if he is reading this) and starting playing. I learned, however, this week that my reputation as a "man of business" is much stronger when I am not hitting golf balls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-1216843596610900663?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/1216843596610900663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=1216843596610900663' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/1216843596610900663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/1216843596610900663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/05/last-week-i-played-in-golf-tournament.html' title='Golf'/><author><name>Steve</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10135458605235745526</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/SDDvhl_leFI/AAAAAAAAAB0/NIMCsGSefCI/s72-c/golfer_angry.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-3673755136793691361</id><published>2008-05-11T20:57:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2008-05-12T13:16:32.735-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Natural Born Athelete?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;So we all know that Steve loves sports right? I must admit that I enjoy some sports as well but I've tried to take special care that Ethan not be brain washed into thinking he has to play and love sports just because he's a boy and &lt;em&gt;that's what boys do&lt;/em&gt;. We like to expose him to a lot of different activities in hopes that he'll grow up to be a well adjusted child.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Lately it seems that all our efforts have been in vain. Yes, Ethan still loves an occasional story (if it involves a ball) and he's content to play in the dirt for a few minutes, but his real love is sports!He wants nothing more than to be outside with a ball (or bat) in hand, or as he says , "play, play, play, play!" (increasing in volume and inflection each time he says it so we know he really means it).  See for yourself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Exhibit A: Baseball&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199307575236521794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SCemsUv4b0I/AAAAAAAAAPQ/gRuIZsz-cjs/s320/IMG_0498.JPG" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;Exhibit B: Bocce Ball&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199306978236067618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SCemJkv4byI/AAAAAAAAAPA/4FuXJ1onMOU/s320/IMG_0482.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Exhibit C: Kick Ball (slightly less happy because he's not &lt;em&gt;outside&lt;/em&gt; playing ball)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199307991848349522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SCenEkv4b1I/AAAAAAAAAPY/6misg_O-sRI/s320/IMG_0511.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Is it just in the genes???&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-3673755136793691361?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/3673755136793691361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=3673755136793691361' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/3673755136793691361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/3673755136793691361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/05/natural-born-athelete.html' title='Natural Born Athelete?'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SCemsUv4b0I/AAAAAAAAAPQ/gRuIZsz-cjs/s72-c/IMG_0498.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-9160534367826298625</id><published>2008-04-13T20:12:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-04-13T21:04:20.785-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It's a Boy!</title><content type='html'>Heide had her ultrasound on Monday; from what we could tell, it looks like a boy! We were both kind of expecting a girl, but we were obviously wrong. I'm just excited to be in a family now where the boys outnumber the girls. I used to hate family reunions because there were like 50 girl cousins and like 2 boy cousins. Just for complaining, though, I'm sure we will end up with 2 boys and 3 girls when it is all said and done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, the following picture is an artist's rendition of what "baby boy #2" should look at by 3 years of age.  This was all very scientific and was based upon the ultrasound pictures, so I think it should be right on.  We'll see...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188914146486743058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SAK57JdXcBI/AAAAAAAAAO0/JYEgPqwTRcU/s320/cartoonboy.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-9160534367826298625?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/9160534367826298625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=9160534367826298625' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/9160534367826298625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/9160534367826298625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/04/its-boy.html' title='It&apos;s a Boy!'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/SAK57JdXcBI/AAAAAAAAAO0/JYEgPqwTRcU/s72-c/cartoonboy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-6054090529865890248</id><published>2008-04-07T12:09:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-04-07T21:26:56.147-05:00</updated><title type='text'>my 2 cents</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;So, Steve wanted to do the update on our vacation, but i can't let this opportunity pass without expressing my love and appreciation for him. We have had our share of ups and downs over the past 5 years but Steve has been my constant through all of it and I really can't imagine my life without him. He doesn't always think so, but he really does know what I need when I need it whether it be a joke and a laugh , a good cry on a strong shoulder, a swift kick of encouragement, or a long embrace of love. Marriage really does keep getting better and I'm so happy to be married to my perfect man!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_rWvLGloQI/AAAAAAAAAOs/fy8wSI3gSuY/s1600-h/hottie+(2).jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186694026793165058" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_rWvLGloQI/AAAAAAAAAOs/fy8wSI3gSuY/s320/hottie+(2).jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I also want to express my love and appreciation for my mom who so willing watched Ethan for us so that we could enjoy a carefree time! Ethan has become rather attached to "maa-ma" and paa-pa" and they showed him a wonderful time while we were away! Thank you so much for taking such good care of our little man, he can't wait to see you again!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_rSB7GloPI/AAAAAAAAAOk/D2t6_Grr8J8/s1600-h/IMG_0379.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-6054090529865890248?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/6054090529865890248/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=6054090529865890248' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/6054090529865890248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/6054090529865890248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-2-cents.html' title='my 2 cents'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_rWvLGloQI/AAAAAAAAAOs/fy8wSI3gSuY/s72-c/hottie+(2).jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-2753061719310908634</id><published>2008-04-06T21:17:00.015-05:00</published><updated>2008-04-06T23:06:45.293-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Viva Mexico!!!</title><content type='html'>March 28&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; marked our 5 year wedding anniversary, so we took a trip to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Puerto&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Vallarta&lt;/span&gt;, Mexico to celebrate. We had an amazing time! Here are a few pictures:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mOfrGloJI/AAAAAAAAAN0/lcqsbPYLB_Y/s1600-h/IMG_0467.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186333120691282066" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mOfrGloJI/AAAAAAAAAN0/lcqsbPYLB_Y/s320/IMG_0467.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Here's a "bird's eye" shot of the resort (I obviously didn't take this), but it gives you a feel for how beautiful it was there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mKrrGloHI/AAAAAAAAANk/vM_Q9EJcCdY/s1600-h/vallarta.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186328928803201138" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mKrrGloHI/AAAAAAAAANk/vM_Q9EJcCdY/s320/vallarta.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Here we are outside our room, enjoying the sunset. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mHI7GloFI/AAAAAAAAANU/dKBN6hKu3ds/s1600-h/IMG_0435.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186325033267863634" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mHI7GloFI/AAAAAAAAANU/dKBN6hKu3ds/s320/IMG_0435.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;We enjoyed both the food and the views at the restaurants!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mW9rGloLI/AAAAAAAAAOE/LX_Yo0URXSE/s1600-h/IMG_0415.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186342432180379826" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mW9rGloLI/AAAAAAAAAOE/LX_Yo0URXSE/s320/IMG_0415.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;We spent a day kayaking and exploring some of the cliff sides; to our &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;surprise&lt;/span&gt;, we found a family of Iguana's hanging out on the beach!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mYerGloMI/AAAAAAAAAOM/hBg2GpTb7Iw/s1600-h/IMG_0403.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186344098627690690" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mYerGloMI/AAAAAAAAAOM/hBg2GpTb7Iw/s200/IMG_0403.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mYoLGloNI/AAAAAAAAAOU/Rpta0Nujlbg/s1600-h/IMG_0397.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186344261836447954" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mYoLGloNI/AAAAAAAAAOU/Rpta0Nujlbg/s200/IMG_0397.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Heide&lt;/span&gt; especially loved the native flowers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mZGbGloOI/AAAAAAAAAOc/vBw4fjQ3mrg/s1600-h/IMG_0389.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186344781527490786" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mZGbGloOI/AAAAAAAAAOc/vBw4fjQ3mrg/s320/IMG_0389.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Most of all, the trip just reminded me how much I love &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Heide&lt;/span&gt;. She is so beautiful in so many ways, and I thank my Heavenly Father every day that He blessed me with such an amazing wife. She gives me such support and comfort, and I appreciate her more than I can express. The last 5 years have been the best of my life, and I'm very happy we took this trip to celebrate our marriage and our love for one another.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-2753061719310908634?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/2753061719310908634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=2753061719310908634' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/2753061719310908634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/2753061719310908634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/04/viva-mexico.html' title='Viva Mexico!!!'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mOfrGloJI/AAAAAAAAAN0/lcqsbPYLB_Y/s72-c/IMG_0467.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-4608837102641140227</id><published>2008-04-06T19:28:00.010-05:00</published><updated>2008-04-06T21:14:07.420-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Updates and Easter Eggs</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;Needless to say I'm &lt;em&gt;a little&lt;/em&gt; behind on blogging and since we've returned from Mexico the requests for pictures and updates have been pouring in (from all four of you who read this!) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;So, first things first... We enjoyed a wonderful Easter with Grandma Vicki and Grandpa Frank who came to visit for the weekend. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_l6b7GloDI/AAAAAAAAANE/L235Z6g7fi0/s1600-h/IMG_0374.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186311066034217010" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_l6b7GloDI/AAAAAAAAANE/L235Z6g7fi0/s320/IMG_0374.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Ethan was thrilled to discover his Easter basket in the morning and very quickly caught on to hunting eggs, dashing from one egg to the next to enjoy the hidden graham crackers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_l3sLGloAI/AAAAAAAAAMs/FKDyIsQ98qA/s1600-h/IMG_0369.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186308046672207874" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_l3sLGloAI/AAAAAAAAAMs/FKDyIsQ98qA/s320/IMG_0369.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;He was less than thrilled when the hunt was over and the eggs were no longer filled with yummy treats! All the same we had a very enjoyable day and Steve and I enjoyed our own little treats from the Easter bunny too. We had a delicious ham dinner and got creamed on our final night of euchre but had lots of laughs anyway...Good times.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_l4jrGloCI/AAAAAAAAAM8/dfMn93dxIBA/s1600-h/IMG_0366.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186309000154947618" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_l4jrGloCI/AAAAAAAAAM8/dfMn93dxIBA/s320/IMG_0366.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Our big guy got lots of good walking practice while grandma and grandpa were here and now he's off and running, gaining more independence every day! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mAoLGloEI/AAAAAAAAANM/Wndu_EhULpw/s1600-h/IMG_0348.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186317873557381186" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_mAoLGloEI/AAAAAAAAANM/Wndu_EhULpw/s320/IMG_0348.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-4608837102641140227?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/4608837102641140227/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=4608837102641140227' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/4608837102641140227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/4608837102641140227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/04/updates-and-easter-eggs.html' title='Updates and Easter Eggs'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R_l6b7GloDI/AAAAAAAAANE/L235Z6g7fi0/s72-c/IMG_0374.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-1841639415638957177</id><published>2008-01-29T13:07:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-01-29T13:29:06.129-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Ethan's Favorite Pastime</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R5961TqE17I/AAAAAAAAAMc/ZCoC8LCAomU/s1600-h/IMG_0222.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160978754218284978" style="CURSOR: hand" height="190" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R5961TqE17I/AAAAAAAAAMc/ZCoC8LCAomU/s200/IMG_0222.JPG" width="150" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R596LzqE13I/AAAAAAAAAL8/l1orU_WrHwY/s1600-h/IMG_0219.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160978041253713778" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R596LzqE13I/AAAAAAAAAL8/l1orU_WrHwY/s200/IMG_0219.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R599NjqE18I/AAAAAAAAAMk/w2JajHkATEY/s1600-h/IMG_0220.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160981369853368258" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R599NjqE18I/AAAAAAAAAMk/w2JajHkATEY/s200/IMG_0220.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R596rzqE16I/AAAAAAAAAMU/_ryXPf-XNWI/s1600-h/IMG_0221.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160978591009527714" style="WIDTH: 153px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 188px" height="179" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R596rzqE16I/AAAAAAAAAMU/_ryXPf-XNWI/s200/IMG_0221.JPG" width="148" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-1841639415638957177?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/1841639415638957177/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=1841639415638957177' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/1841639415638957177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/1841639415638957177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/01/ethans-favorite-pastime.html' title='Ethan&apos;s Favorite Pastime'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R5961TqE17I/AAAAAAAAAMc/ZCoC8LCAomU/s72-c/IMG_0222.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-7976669750639422062</id><published>2008-01-13T21:30:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-01-13T22:13:43.191-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Daddy's Little Helper</title><content type='html'>We took Ethan to get his one year pictures a few weeks ago (I was really hoping to go with "Glamour Shots", but we just couldn't find one close enough... maybe next year). Here are a couple of our favorites:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155173136077176722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4rap2uEP5I/AAAAAAAAALU/iF_TxJB_8Fk/s200/1.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155173389480247202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4ra4muEP6I/AAAAAAAAALc/CPhAtth0NfE/s200/8.jpg" border="0" /&gt; "Santa" brought me a sweet bench press for Christmas, so I've turned our spare bedroom into a "weight room". Ethan was my little helper as I put it together (he was especially handy with the electric screw driver):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155177237770944450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4reYmuEP8I/AAAAAAAAALs/LwMwMU4_wcE/s320/IMG_0139.JPG" border="0" /&gt;I'm hoping this new bench press will help me get back into "glory days" form. Here's a picture of my bicep; I'll take another picture in a couple months and let you decide if all my hard work is really paying off...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155178616455446482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4rfo2uEP9I/AAAAAAAAAL0/Dd5CZNuC8w4/s320/bicep.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-7976669750639422062?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/7976669750639422062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=7976669750639422062' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/7976669750639422062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/7976669750639422062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/01/daddys-little-helper.html' title='Daddy&apos;s Little Helper'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4rap2uEP5I/AAAAAAAAALU/iF_TxJB_8Fk/s72-c/1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-2124002211319567388</id><published>2008-01-06T19:29:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-01-06T22:47:34.102-06:00</updated><title type='text'>A Christmas to Remember</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;We had a wonderful Christmas in Wisconsin, here are a few highlights from our trip...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4Gl1muEPwI/AAAAAAAAAKM/GKHY0vhV2_U/s1600-h/Merry+Christmas.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152581789033971458" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4Gl1muEPwI/AAAAAAAAAKM/GKHY0vhV2_U/s320/Merry+Christmas.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;As always, there was plenty of time for fun and games!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;This year we added to the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;repertoire&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Wii&lt;/span&gt; and Guitar &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Hero's&lt;/span&gt;, but &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;still enjoyed some of our old favorites too:Catch Phrase, Taboo, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Encore, Cranium, and we can't forget mom's favorite, Oodles.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4GquGuEP1I/AAAAAAAAAK0/aMo37QLaIRk/s1600-h/IMG_0035.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152587157743091538" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4GquGuEP1I/AAAAAAAAAK0/aMo37QLaIRk/s320/IMG_0035.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4GjWWuEPuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/ENfzKKKn9Og/s1600-h/pool!.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152579053139803874" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4GjWWuEPuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/ENfzKKKn9Og/s320/pool!.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Ethan d&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;iscoverd&lt;/span&gt; his new favorite game...and learned &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;a few tricks of the trade from his Grandpa Frank!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4GjOWuEPtI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/9_A-lvMCObc/s1600-h/learning+from+granpda.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152578915700850386" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4GjOWuEPtI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/9_A-lvMCObc/s320/learning+from+granpda.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4GiumuEPsI/AAAAAAAAAJs/j2ut9sOFMxY/s1600-h/champions.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152578370240003778" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4GiumuEPsI/AAAAAAAAAJs/j2ut9sOFMxY/s320/champions.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Steve and Mom were this years 'Top &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Banana&lt;/span&gt;'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;pool tournament winners and they couldn't have been happier!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Steve is still talking about his "shot of the century"!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4Gm2muEPyI/AAAAAAAAAKc/xqiFSL6aryA/s1600-h/IMG_0033.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152582905725468450" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4Gm2muEPyI/AAAAAAAAAKc/xqiFSL6aryA/s200/IMG_0033.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4GnGWuEPzI/AAAAAAAAAKk/b5M8xRrGylQ/s1600-h/IMG_0115.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152583176308408114" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4GnGWuEPzI/AAAAAAAAAKk/b5M8xRrGylQ/s200/IMG_0115.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;We also had plenty of time to relax which included a girls day out for &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;pedicures (we wish our other two girls could have been &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;there to enjoy it with us)! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4GkemuEPvI/AAAAAAAAAKE/fwi8wzUUBg4/s1600-h/pedicures.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152580294385352434" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4GkemuEPvI/AAAAAAAAAKE/fwi8wzUUBg4/s320/pedicures.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're so grateful for the time we had to spend with family and &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;to remember and celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-2124002211319567388?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/2124002211319567388/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=2124002211319567388' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/2124002211319567388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/2124002211319567388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/01/christmas-to-remember.html' title='A Christmas to Remember'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R4Gl1muEPwI/AAAAAAAAAKM/GKHY0vhV2_U/s72-c/Merry+Christmas.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-6328083532381222735</id><published>2008-01-01T22:14:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2008-01-01T22:46:04.937-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy 1st Birthday Ethan!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R3sQSmuEPlI/AAAAAAAAAIg/wcuVXhpaRFM/s1600-h/happybirthday.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150728510645747282" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R3sQSmuEPlI/AAAAAAAAAIg/wcuVXhpaRFM/s200/happybirthday.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150728046789279282" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R3sP3muEPjI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/RZ_jExuV1AA/s200/2007_1219birthday20003.JPG" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R3sVI2uEPoI/AAAAAAAAAI4/wmRvylhy2RM/s1600-h/2007_1219birthday20006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150733840700161666" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R3sVI2uEPoI/AAAAAAAAAI4/wmRvylhy2RM/s200/2007_1219birthday20006.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R3sVgWuEPpI/AAAAAAAAAJA/PYFXLxQLDxc/s1600-h/2007_1222birthday50006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150734244427087506" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R3sVgWuEPpI/AAAAAAAAAJA/PYFXLxQLDxc/s200/2007_1222birthday50006.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R3sULmuEPnI/AAAAAAAAAIw/Mpb42Phv31o/s1600-h/2007_1222birthday50005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150732788433174130" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R3sULmuEPnI/AAAAAAAAAIw/Mpb42Phv31o/s200/2007_1222birthday50005.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're finally catching up on our blog and wanted to start with Ethan's birthday. It was a very busy day as I tried to make it perfect for Ethan and Steve tried to do the same for me (since we share a birthday). Nonetheless, Ethan loved the party hats, the noise makers, the balloons and the gifts. Actually, I think the only thing he didn't love about his birthday was the cake (I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that it was sugar free ha ha)...he may only be one year old but he knows what he likes (and doesn't like for that matter). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Happy Birthday Ethan!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Love,  Mom and Dad&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-6328083532381222735?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/6328083532381222735/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=6328083532381222735' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/6328083532381222735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/6328083532381222735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2008/01/happy-1st-birthday-ethan.html' title='Happy 1st Birthday Ethan!'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/R3sQSmuEPlI/AAAAAAAAAIg/wcuVXhpaRFM/s72-c/happybirthday.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-1218474351738117767</id><published>2007-12-02T22:16:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-03T16:37:29.413-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas Lights and Minor Explosions</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;Sorry it's been so long since our last entry... we've been busy getting things ready for Christmas (you know... tree, presents, and outdoor lights). Speaking of outdoor Christmas lights, I put them up yesterday and I about froze to death. Here are some pictures of Heide and me putting up the lights: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/R1OHuSsN9lI/AAAAAAAAABI/xEMajmPe5lQ/s1600-R/2006_1201October060012.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139600829120902738" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/R1OHuSsN9lI/AAAAAAAAABI/ClV2VnAyI20/s320/2006_1201October060012.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh, whoops. This was last year in Texas (&lt;em&gt;slight temperature difference&lt;/em&gt;)! (Heide was also 9 months pregnant... how time flies).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, it was fun having family here for Thanksgiving (Kim and Jeff and the kids... Curtis and Linda). I think they all had a good time. I know Mom was disappointed that I came from behind and pulled of the "W" in bowling! I wanted to make sure this memory was never forgotten (mostly I wanted a picture of me and my sweet bowling shoes that I got from BYU's Game Center mechanic before he threw them in the trash) so I had Heide take a picture: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/R1OJWCsN9mI/AAAAAAAAABQ/H7MsxIS_Iqc/s1600-R/2007_11231124070005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139602611532330594" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/R1OJWCsN9mI/AAAAAAAAABQ/kvj9Am7tis8/s320/2007_11231124070005.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And to wrap up this weeks entry... I couldn't leave out a picture of me burning leaves. Only in Danville, IL is it still legal to burn leaves (and trash) within the city limits. (I'll eave out the part where I poured gasoline on the pile of leaves to get things started and then melted my arm hair off after a "minor" explosion). I might just try bagging the leaves next year!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/R1OKbCsN9nI/AAAAAAAAABY/NnvPx0iDBgs/s1600-R/2007_11231124070003.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139603796943304306" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/R1OKbCsN9nI/AAAAAAAAABY/Hd3OXO00Beo/s320/2007_11231124070003.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-1218474351738117767?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/1218474351738117767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=1218474351738117767' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/1218474351738117767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/1218474351738117767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-lights-and-minor-explosions.html' title='Christmas Lights and Minor Explosions'/><author><name>Steve</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10135458605235745526</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/R1OHuSsN9lI/AAAAAAAAABI/ClV2VnAyI20/s72-c/2006_1201October060012.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-5258161360623407740</id><published>2007-11-11T21:51:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T22:09:23.767-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Tearin' Up the Dance Floor, Just Like Old Times...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Raise-Smart-Kids"&gt;www.wikihow.com/Raise-Smart-Kids&lt;/a&gt; says that musical instruments can "lower stress that is destructive to... kid's brains." We have not been too concerned with Ethan's stress level, but figured it couldn't hurt to get him started early. So, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Heide&lt;/span&gt; "busted out" her sweet recorder from one of her music classes. As you can see from the picture below, Ethan was a real nature!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/RzfQbqxR-FI/AAAAAAAAAA4/40h7F8XNQE8/s1600-h/2007_1027halloween0001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131799474168002642" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/RzfQbqxR-FI/AAAAAAAAAA4/40h7F8XNQE8/s320/2007_1027halloween0001.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Some may know that &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Heide&lt;/span&gt; is our ward's Young Women's president; so we had the chance to attend a Stake Dance this weekend. We didn't stay long, but I did have &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;enough&lt;/span&gt; time to get a little dancing in (Ethan especially loves to dance... he shakes his head like Stevie Wonder)! We luckily brought our camera and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Heide&lt;/span&gt; got a good shot of me "&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;tearin&lt;/span&gt;' up the dance floor"... just like old times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/RzfSY6xR-GI/AAAAAAAAABA/pMX-9FMrZPU/s1600-h/breakdancer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131801625946617954" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/RzfSY6xR-GI/AAAAAAAAABA/pMX-9FMrZPU/s320/breakdancer.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-5258161360623407740?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/5258161360623407740/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=5258161360623407740' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/5258161360623407740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/5258161360623407740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2007/11/tearin-up-dance-floor-just-like-old.html' title='Tearin&apos; Up the Dance Floor, Just Like Old Times...'/><author><name>Steve</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10135458605235745526</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/RzfQbqxR-FI/AAAAAAAAAA4/40h7F8XNQE8/s72-c/2007_1027halloween0001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-3925041430419386705</id><published>2007-11-05T21:10:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T21:53:50.134-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Discovering Leaves</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RzB5DZbIMqI/AAAAAAAAAGo/9V7GEQ837xE/s1600-h/2007_1101leaves20005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129733074846233250" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RzB5DZbIMqI/AAAAAAAAAGo/9V7GEQ837xE/s320/2007_1101leaves20005.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our back yard has become filled with leaves now that Fall has finally hit in Illinois; Ethan loves to play in them, so we couldn't resist racking up a few piles and taking some pictures of the little guy in action. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He is getting so big and we just can't get enough of him. He's always busy reading his books, unpacking the cupboards, or exploring his surroundings; but he's never too busy to cruise over to his "mama" and "dada" for a quick cuddle or two before he's off again. We are so grateful to have such a sweet little boy!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/Ry_by5bIMpI/AAAAAAAAAGg/YbCD3bfPgKQ/s1600-h/2007_1101leaves0001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129560168052830866" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/Ry_by5bIMpI/AAAAAAAAAGg/YbCD3bfPgKQ/s320/2007_1101leaves0001.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RzB7Z5bIMsI/AAAAAAAAAG4/zq8HcoqwAYI/s1600-h/2007_1101leaves20006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129735660416545474" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RzB7Z5bIMsI/AAAAAAAAAG4/zq8HcoqwAYI/s320/2007_1101leaves20006.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RzB8XZbIMtI/AAAAAAAAAHA/P1Aj-dxU9So/s1600-h/2007_1101leaves0007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129736716978500306" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RzB8XZbIMtI/AAAAAAAAAHA/P1Aj-dxU9So/s320/2007_1101leaves0007.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-3925041430419386705?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/3925041430419386705/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=3925041430419386705' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/3925041430419386705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/3925041430419386705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2007/11/discovering-leaves.html' title='Discovering Leaves'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RzB5DZbIMqI/AAAAAAAAAGo/9V7GEQ837xE/s72-c/2007_1101leaves20005.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-1215399456142488458</id><published>2007-10-31T21:57:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-10-31T22:53:44.228-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Halloween</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RylEqJ7aj8I/AAAAAAAAAGY/coCcX58bsmE/s1600-h/Halloween_Day+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127705141748338626" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RylEqJ7aj8I/AAAAAAAAAGY/coCcX58bsmE/s320/Halloween_Day+003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt; We would have posted pictures earlier but Steve mistakenly folded our camera up in his camping chair after our ward Halloween party and it took us a week to find it. So, now that we've relocated our camera we're back in action. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Ethan thoroughly enjoyed his first Halloween, partly because while we weren't looking he scrounged up some nerds off the floor and got his first taste of candy; he also stole a few licks off of a little girl's sucker. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;He proved to be a great little puppy!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RylEcJ7aj7I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/JD1Z_aCYMsw/s1600-h/Halloween_Day+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127704901230170034" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RylEcJ7aj7I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/JD1Z_aCYMsw/s320/Halloween_Day+002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RylENZ7aj6I/AAAAAAAAAGI/GcNOORB8cE8/s1600-h/2007_1031halloween20004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127704647827099554" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RylENZ7aj6I/AAAAAAAAAGI/GcNOORB8cE8/s320/2007_1031halloween20004.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here are this years  pumpkins: Mr. Spider and Ms. Tara Fied.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-1215399456142488458?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/1215399456142488458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=1215399456142488458' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/1215399456142488458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/1215399456142488458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2007/10/happy-halloween.html' title='Happy Halloween'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RylEqJ7aj8I/AAAAAAAAAGY/coCcX58bsmE/s72-c/Halloween_Day+003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-4461209223053423742</id><published>2007-10-21T23:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-10-21T23:07:54.060-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sweet Blog</title><content type='html'>So... Heide built it (a sweet blog) and people have come; but hopefully they keep coming! To ensure this I promised Heide that I would help keep this thing updated; you know, hip and jiggy, so all the young whipper-snappers will want to check out this "sweet blog" day after day (actually, the goal is to update it weekly but maybe it will take seven looks before boredom sets in).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This week has been filled with "crap" work, trying to get this new house we are leasing up to "par". So, because of the overwhelming work load, I didn't have time to take any new pictures for this week's posting (hopefully we'll have some sweet Halloween pictures next week). I did, however, teach Ethan how to cuddle with his "da-da".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/RxwhoSL9h_I/AAAAAAAAAAw/qhMzhSm4hfk/s1600-h/2007_1014recorder0006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124007452001273842" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/RxwhoSL9h_I/AAAAAAAAAAw/qhMzhSm4hfk/s320/2007_1014recorder0006.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;And as I was thinking about the other pictures that I could potentially post (because nobody just posts one picture) I thought about a snap shot I took of Galveston Bay in Texas. Every time I see this picture flash across our computer screen (our screen saver runs through our picture files) I debate whether or not I should classify myself as a semi-professional photographer. You decide... (but keep in mind this is the only picture I have ever taken that falls into this category, so if you decide I am not worthy of this title, there is little hope left)!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/RxwhKCL9h9I/AAAAAAAAAAg/Q74ulqu4maE/s1600-h/2006_0711Image0002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124006932310230994" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/RxwhKCL9h9I/AAAAAAAAAAg/Q74ulqu4maE/s320/2006_0711Image0002.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/RxwcVSL9h7I/AAAAAAAAAAU/pvpUAtg5tjc/s1600-h/2006_0711Image0002.JPG"&gt;[Photo]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/RxwaUyL9h6I/AAAAAAAAAAM/55I4UoFpgkg/s1600-h/2007_1014recorder0006.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-4461209223053423742?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/4461209223053423742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=4461209223053423742' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/4461209223053423742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/4461209223053423742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2007/10/sweet-blog.html' title='Sweet Blog'/><author><name>Steve</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10135458605235745526</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_mLBEwxjgLio/RxwhoSL9h_I/AAAAAAAAAAw/qhMzhSm4hfk/s72-c/2007_1014recorder0006.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-4819175157211730140</id><published>2007-10-18T09:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-10-18T17:42:35.544-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A Welcomed Break</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RxffRB5Y-sI/AAAAAAAAAGA/voi2VrPnroc/s1600-h/2007_1013pumkin0001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122808584817146562" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RxffRB5Y-sI/AAAAAAAAAGA/voi2VrPnroc/s320/2007_1013pumkin0001.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The past few weeks have been a whirlwind since we moved into our new place (sanding, painting, cleaning, unpacking, organizing...)! so Saturday we finally decided to stop the madness and take a little break to enjoy the fun and festivities that accompany our &lt;em&gt;favorite&lt;/em&gt; time of year. &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We took a trip to the pumpkin patch/apple orchard and were thrilled with what we found!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;There were wagon rides, corn mazes, pony rides, face painting, pumpkin painting, goats to feed and much much more. We pet the goats and horses, tasted the most delicious doughnuts and apple cider, and of course picked our very own pumpkins ,which was &lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;by far&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Ethan's favorite part! (Who knew that pumpkins could be so exciting?!?) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He squealed in delight when he saw &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122771583673891442" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/Rxe9nR5Y-nI/AAAAAAAAAFY/DMSRn1QTO6U/s320/2007_1013pumkin0007.JPG" border="0" /&gt;the pumpkin patch and and squirmed until we let him down to crawl around. It didn't take long for him to choose his very own little pumpkin and I must say, he chose a good one!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm not quite sure what it is about pumpkins that he loves so much&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RxfeVB5Y-pI/AAAAAAAAAFo/uCPdxDGRgaU/s1600-h/2007_1013pumkin0004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122807554024995474" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RxfeVB5Y-pI/AAAAAAAAAFo/uCPdxDGRgaU/s320/2007_1013pumkin0004.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but he still squeals in delight every time we open the front door because he knows his pumpkin is right outside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are so many things we love about this time of year, (cool weather, beautiful colors, crunching leaves, jeans and sweaters, hot chocolate...) but there is nothing greater than experiencing the wonder and excitement of it all with Ethan!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/Rxfc4B5Y-oI/AAAAAAAAAFg/RmUe0capGrk/s1600-h/2007_1013pumkin0003.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122805956297161346" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/Rxfc4B5Y-oI/AAAAAAAAAFg/RmUe0capGrk/s320/2007_1013pumkin0003.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-4819175157211730140?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/4819175157211730140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=4819175157211730140' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/4819175157211730140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/4819175157211730140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2007/10/welcomed-break.html' title='A Welcomed Break'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_Tdxv0hlJvPI/RxffRB5Y-sI/AAAAAAAAAGA/voi2VrPnroc/s72-c/2007_1013pumkin0001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387857078664297268.post-7462146147466894869</id><published>2007-10-14T19:42:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-10-14T20:41:37.810-05:00</updated><title type='text'>FINALLY!</title><content type='html'>Okay, okay, I know it's taken me a while to get this blog up and running but better late than never, right?!?&lt;br /&gt;We'll try to keep this updated regularly and hope you enjoy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6387857078664297268-7462146147466894869?l=the-call-family.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/feeds/7462146147466894869/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6387857078664297268&amp;postID=7462146147466894869' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/7462146147466894869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6387857078664297268/posts/default/7462146147466894869'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-call-family.blogspot.com/2007/10/finally.html' title='FINALLY!'/><author><name>Heide Call</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02779431316207780298</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
