I have 3 e-mail accounts. I set the last one up on my own. I check my e-mail daily and I even respond to personal messages in a timely fashion. I know how to forward e-mails, do bcc, cc and I'm pretty certain I know what a jpeg is. I've uploaded pictures to wal-mart and my cell-phone is usually charged. I even learned recently how to answer my voice-mail. Things really got crazy this week when Scott set up my facebook page, complete with questionable political views on my profile and a dreadful and unapproved photo of me after the RUSH triathlon. Honestly all of this is a little empowering for this stay-at-home mother of four with a lapsed teaching certificate. So while I usually defer to Scott to lead my hand through cyberspace today I decided I was just going to do this blog thing on my own.

Here's a little photo of my children outside the remarkable Salt Lake Public Library this summer. L-R: Owen (4), Harry (7), Elliott (1) and Madi (9). They're all really adorable, especially when captured in the quiet stillness of a photograph, although I think you can sense just a bit of their energy. Their gain in energy seems always to be my loss!

This morning after a 5:15 run I hurried to get everyone ready for school---dropped Madi off at the Middle School for Fiddle Club, ran Harry and Owen to the Book Fair at the elementary school, bought books, dropped Owen off at Preschool, ran back to the middle school to hear Madi fiddle for a little Halloween concert (she's quite the virtuoso) and then back to home to dress-up Elliott for the Halloween story time at the library, back to the preschool for their mini-bake sale (4 pumpkin cookies made by a bevy of chubby preschool hands and 4 quarters later) and then off to the storytime with two little boys. Home to clean up the morning mess and take a breather until 5pm. The dawn of Halloween. We plan to trick-or-treat in two neighborhoods which means I'll be on candy elimination patrol for the next couple of days. We've got one sea-monster, two jedi-warriors and 'Red' from the movied Hoodwinked in tow. Photos to be posted---soon.

So whether you enjoy reading this or it's just a little page of our family's story I'm looking forward to keeping up this newest dive into the technology pool.