Highlights include Eileen’s and Promise’s Birthday Parties, a visit to Grandma and Grandpa’s house and Ann and Paul’s house. Visits from Lucy; Sara; Great Gram; Christina, David, and Joshua; Bryce; a black swallowtail; Aunt Peggy, Uncle Glenn, Aunt Betsy, Uncle Chip, and Austin; Mari-Anne, Bruce, and Amy; and Aunt Anna W and Mr. Carl. Also [...]
Read more →I’m planning a separate post for our big March adventure, a 3 day visit to Grandma and Grandpa’s house. Here’s the rest of what was going on in March: Uncle Max came by for a visit. Anna enjoyed playing ball with him. And now we know where the genes come from for sticking your tongue [...]
Read more →Being as it’s the end of April, here are some links to February’s photos. Anna made a photo book for Aunt Megan’s 30th birthday, which was at the beginning of March. It’s now in Idaho with Aunt Megan, Anna’s one and only true Aunt! Becky and Aunt Anna M came to visit, and enjoyed playing [...]
Read more →Here’s what we were up to in January. Rachel, a college friend, came to visit us. Our favorite Anna moment was when Anna had a toy in each hand. The dilemma came when Rachel offered her a third toy. Anna looked at her left hand, looked at her right hand, then leaned forward and grabbed [...]
Read more →LaLaLa, doing my morning workout with my duckie… Enter Grandma (grandmother #1). We play with my stacking cups. Still, a quiet, peaceful morning. “GramC” (known to the world as Cindy, GramE’s best friend) wants to come over and play. We play with my stacking cups. She’s grandmother #2. GramE, of course, can’t miss the fun! [...]
Read more →This Christmas, we missed Christmas Eve Vigils, and, in fact, all church services. I really missed them. It really drove home for me that going to church is not out of obligation–it’s out of need. I need to be reminded of the Living God. I need to be reminded of the miracle of God becoming [...]
Read more →Greetings! Here’s a whirlwind tour of December, pre-Christmas festivities. If you want to see more pictures, click through on the links, or just bypass my commentary and see December’s photos. I just know you’re sitting at the computer like me, right? I’m wearing my blue beanie in support of web standards. (Yes, my daddy is [...]
Read more →As I write this post two months after the fact (heh), I remember how nice it was to be back at my parents’ house for Thanksgiving. Max made the trek out, and, as is tradition, brought friends, James and Lucy (who was knighted “Chinese Lucy” and I “American Lucy”). Anna slept over at Grandma and [...]
Read more →Here are my favorites from our November gallery so far. If you’re an Anna photo junkie, I upload photos to our Smugmug page before I write a blogpost, and you can subscribe to the RSS feed here. Anna the bookworm, reading a book about Albert Einstein from Aunt Megan: Anna was really (really) ready to [...]
Read more →A surprise baby shower for Ruth, which was a mini ’06 girls reunion: Surprise successful! Ruth and Tiyona catch up while Sam and Sarah ready the table Anna squared Flying baby!
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