Thursday, June 25, 2009

FAMILY pictures


Well, we had requests for MORE pictures of US and less of where we've been/what we've been doing....SO, for all those throngs of fans: here you go! :)







These were all taken about two years ago at a park in Ohio.



We tried to pick a sunny day, but a short rain storm came through...it was VERY exciting while the thunder and lightening was crashing around us!
When it cleared up, we took the rest of these pictures.


































One to save for Halloween!

























And no family photo shoot would be complete without the family tree! What a bunch of nuts!














Saturday, June 20, 2009

Girls Night Out (Paris)



Well, we had the Hoskins (mom & daughter) come visit from our last ward in Ohio




Here they are at the Cinquen-
tinaire monument.



Indoor skiing was fun.


Future mom's having to deal with peeing babies! It's the Manneken Pis (Dutch for little man urinating).



At the Eiffel tower (girls night out in Paris!).











Sacré Coeur cathedral


















Notice the Mona Lisa between them (at the Louvre).






Eating escargot at a side-walk café (NOT!).















Notre Dame cathedral.
















This a shot of them at the "Grand Place" in Brussels.


















They got to see ALL the major sites in Paris, and did it in two days & one nite (20 hours of site-seeing); as well as the sites here in town. They will also admit to SOME shopping, but I won't know how much until the credit card bill comes in!!!

Picture to the left is Emily on her first day arriving at our new house (the one we just moved into on 6 June).

More to come when Valerie returns from Ohio in a month, and we're headed to Mallorca island off the Mediteranian coast of Spain in late August.