Happy 4th of July!

We really enjoyed dinner/hanging out with Brian, Leann and Landon at the Ski Lodge tonight. Elli loves watching Landon and waves her hands uncontrollably. Landon decided to imitate her and it was hilarious! Thanks, Mia Warren, for the cute outfit:) BTW, Elli took her first few crawls today! We better start babyproofing this house!

New Home and Crazy Hair

This is our new residence in Texas! We are starting to feel at "home". I had to put a pic of our bedroom view because I think the fav thing of our new home is the oak tree outside our window. A cardinal and red/blue bird have made the tree their home as well as fly into our windows many times a day, but have not learned that they will get hit by a window...definitely not the smartest birds. Our friends, Brent and Maggie, who live 2 doors down have made us feel so welcome. We have gotten to join neighborhood/mommy Bible Studies and social events with them. Makes the transition actually fun!

Elli's First Swimmng Experience

OK, so last Friday was one of the funnest days in Texas so far. I met Leann and Landon and her bro Ryan at the Hyatt by our house. Talk about a resort! It was beautiful! We hung out and Elliana dipped into the pool for the first time. She loved it! Thanks for inviting us!

Elli Rescusitating Dolly

When we were in Kansas last week, we looked over to see Elli giving "mouth to mouth" to grandma's doll. I think she has the "head chin tilt" down:) Poor girl, this is what you get from 2 medically minded parents.

I will blog a pic of our home and life in Texas some day! It was nice that the packers took all of our stuff out of boxes, but that just means everything is in unorganized piles throughout the house. We are still searching for Elli's crib components.

What was funny was that the first day of our arrival, everyone had to tell us their "creature stories". The neighbor across the street told us how they are dealing with scorpions and spiders in their bed. Our dear neighbor friends, the Feldts, told us about Griffin, their 2 year old finding a coral snake by their back door. So the first night we were here I barely slept and the first people we called, as a spider crawled across my countertop, was pest control! I am feeling so much better now.

Welcome William Andrew Banz

Julia and Bryan welcomed William into their lives early Monday morning! I can't wait to meet this little one!

Sold: Two 4-Runners and a House

We are offically Nomads... we praise God for all of this! We are so excited to have a contract on our Denver home and after many 360s in front of semi's and getting to know the ditches of Colorado/Utah, I especially was ready to say good-bye to our 4-Runners. So...a rented grand prix took us to San Antonio and tomorow we close on our house and Friday the movers move all of our goods in. We had a WONDERFUL weekend in Kansas en route to the big state with Elli (and us) loving time with Grandpa, Grandma and Mike & Tina's fam. We got to relax after the month 'o craziness. Pictured is Elli making a funny face that she only did Saturday night. Good thing Tina got it on camera.

Green Bean Girl

Elli LOVES green beans! She loves them more than fruit or anything else...or maybe she just loves wearing green beans:)