Monday, September 15, 2014

Highlights continued...

At the end of June the kids and I headed to Telluride to celebrate the 4th and have some sweet family time.   We loved every minute of time with our cousins.
These three!  :) 
We went to the hot springs in Ouray one morning
This was the scene on the way home
 We celebrated Mom's 60th!!   We are blessed beyond measure to have her for our mom!  

 We headed to town for the 4th of July parade



This picture doesn't do it justice but we completed a ridiculous puzzle of the Telluride Ski Map over the course of the week
I got to play golf with my little man and Billy
 Lessons from Billy.  What a view!
:)
A few days after we got home Michael took his board exam.  Which we recently found out he passed!!  Praise the Lord! We celebrated at our new favorite pizza spot.  We were more than thrilled to have him back.    
Then a few days after that we headed to Branson, MO for a week with the Merrick crew.  We were so sad Matthew, Lauren, Emma and Jordan couldn't make it but we had a wonderful week.

We did a lot of swimming



 Some GoKart racing.  This guy was pretty jazzed.  :)
 Ike and his beautiful Mama!
 Nana and the girls in their cute hats.  
 This picture deserves zooming in.   Nana was in it to win it on the race track.  Ha! 
 Daddy had us all excited about the fish hatchery.
 Story time with Nana
 We went to a really sweet baby animal zoo
 where the kids got to feed baby camels...
 and kangaroos...

 and a room full of birds.  



We also got to play a couple rounds of golf.  
 Missing Emma in these.  
 We got to go out on the lake one afternoon

 Kendall liked cruising
 Luke much preferred tubing
 And much to our surprise, Langley loved it too





It was such a fun and relaxing week.   We sure missed the rest of the crew, though.  

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Highlights

A lot has happened since mid April….Ha!  Here goes a quick recap in an effort to keep this little blog alive and to be somewhat up to date before baby GIRL makes her arrival soon!

We celebrated Easter with some of our wonderful friends

Egg hunt chaos

A few of Michael's best buddies from high school came up for a weekend of hunting and fishing...


 and crawfish boiling


I got to get away for a girl's weekend in Chicago
We made a fast and furious trip to Frederick, MD for my cousin's wedding
We made it to DC for a day
The brothers
We danced our feet off at the wedding.  Emily was such a beautiful bride and we were thrilled to be there to celebrate!
Our amazing friends in GR threw us a blast of a going away party…


We found out we're having another baby SISTER!

 HOORAY for more PINK! 
Michael graduated from residency...
 Some of the wives :)
 Annual golf tourney 


 We were so blessed to have both sets of parents come to help us celebrate






 And on that same weekend Luke graduated from Kindergarten!  :)

We celebrated with lunch and ice cream after.
Me and my boy :)  
The moving vans came not three days later.  Whew!  What a whirlwind that was…
One last stop at Jersey Junction
 We smiled through the tears for this one..
 We got a little settled in down here in Kentucky 
 with the help of the wonderful DeeDee!!  
 We found a new ice cream spot. and splash pad.  Not the same but we are embracing newness.

Ok, I've got to stop there before I get too emotional ;) but I'll continue the recap tomorrow...I hope.