Swimming with Landon

Yesterday we had a very fun day with Landon and Leann swimming at our gym pool. Landon is quite the swimmer and encouraged Elli in her swimming skills as well (she has been taking lessons the last 2 weeks to get over the fear of water). What a great day! Thanks, Leann, for these pics.

Elli's Ergo

Elli has her own Ergo (baby carrier) now. She actually loves to put baby in the carrier in front, like she was carried for so long, and kiss her and walk around and multitask. She is already such a great mommy to her baby. Also, she loves to squat when I take a picture of her...silly!

Colorado!!!!

Can we say, "Fun times with Family?!" To top off our month o' travels, we enjoyed time with family in the mountains. We had a blast hiking, celebrating Mike's b-day, celebrating July 4th, enjoying a children's museum and playing and playing! Elli was in heaven with her older cousins, Bethany and Abby. They spent every moment entertaining her and she had a pasted smile the whole week (not to mention the fun she had with Grandma and Grandpa). By the end of the week, she would wake up saying, "Bethny? Papa? Mama (grandma)?" My favorite time was one night we decided to change the rules for a card game and we had 10 seconds to pick our cards from 4 decks. All of our choices were surprisingly awful, so we laughed and laughed until I almost threw up and others needed Depends. It was one great week!

canvas photos

winkflash.com rocks! or i should say, amber walters (http://aleighphotography.blogspot.com) rocks! we had family photos taken in january by her and winkflash ran a 40% off sale so we purchased some canvases for our stairway. love them!! for the big 20x30, it was only $54! can't wait for our Vikram's photo shoot to join Elli's! I know, I know, we are still deciding on a name for our little guy...I think we have one, but want to make sure:)

San Fran

Elli and I tagged along Paul as he had to go to a conference in San Francisco. We had a great time, though it was surprisingly cold. Some highlights include a children's museum, ferry ride to Sausilito, China town, meeting our friend, Donna Creesman and eating amazing....i mean amazing food!!! I am talking thai crepes, gyros, tikka masala, honey walnut chicken from china town and the best farmers market across the street every other day with awesome fruit. We have to give Elli's guardian angel some due credit--as we were getting off a public transit cable car, we didn't realize we got dropped off in a bus lane and a bus came flying by, inches from Elli. The rest of the trip we praised God that we were safe!

Farewell...sniff sniff sniff

Saturday was the farewell party to the Parkers...so sad to see them go. They are leaders of our couples Bible Study and Karen was leader of our women's study. They are an amazing family who absolutely so much fun and we are sad to say good-bye. Watch out Cheyenne, WY!

In Memory of my Uncle Tom

http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/96739179.html

My uncle Tom passed away on Friday. He was a wonderful family man and he will be greatly missed. He was also a Kansas TV icon, known as Major Astro and "Rodney". KAKE TV had a nice video about him last night (link above).