Missing Scott

With almost all of them

My younger brother...by all of 19 months....came home from LA a week and a half ago so the latter part of our week was spent with him here. After making the rounds in Dallas he made the 3 hr trip from Fort Worth with Mother to come spend some of his time home with us. So it is that we spent the last 1/2 of the week just enjoying the sweet presence of his dearly missed company. He may live in LA these days but when we're together it's as always...as if no time has ever elapsed. The bond only strengthens throughout the years as we both grow and the friendship from childhood exists long into adulthood. Familiarity, camaraderie, humor, the memories of the past and the fun of the present....the depth we have in understanding everything about each other. How different the lives we live...the worlds in which surround us. LA actor/model living in a sea of faces, drowned in an ocean of concrete, scantily clad girls on miles of beaches.....as I sit and write surrounded by no less than 3 crowing roosters, dirt roads, cactus, dust, jeans and boots, rattlesnakes, 8 rowdy, entirely wet, laughing children waving at the 3 cars that have ventured out on this cool, windy spring day. How different our worlds but how close we remain.


I love that he loves our children like he does. The greatest compliment came as we talked on the phone this past week and he made the comment that he is taken with our crew....that they're each individually intelligent, entertaining, intriguing, well spoken, humorous, well behaved and enough to make him want his own. He said they make even the hardest of hearts rethink not having children. Maybe so. Who knows. He has limited interaction with any children these days so sometimes I think he expects the little ones to be a bit of a nuisance that interrupt constantly. I love that everytime he leaves he sings their praises and provides nothing but encouragement to us in our endeavors of raising this crew. It's encouragement to the soul when all of the training, time, energy and effort put into them becomes apparent to others...that we are not the only ones who enjoy the company of our crew....that they have the ability to be enjoyable to others....especially the ones you love the most.

Daddy joined us all on the 2nd day of Mother and Scott's visit so some of the pics were taken by Daddy...some from Scott's phone.


I miss him.

Uncle Scott's #1 fan

Uncle Scott and Evye

Gavin

Garrison

Garrett

Still Garrett...with his huge, blue, puppy dog eyes.

Everybody...minus the never stationary Ivye-girl. Grant sporting his new knee pads. These things only come off of him long enough for him to shower. I am quite convinced that if it was not a forced issue he'd be quite content to shower with them on too. He even sleeps with them on.

w/ Grant

Evye and sweet baby girl

Ev and Garrison