"30,000 photos you say?"

In an attempt to practice posting and uploading photos I thought I'd bond with the laptop while it isn't being used. You see, Bart has started coursework online with DeVry for his Masters in Information Systems Management and I need MY OWN laptop. I swear he corrupts my efforts to email and blog with his constant changes to the computers in our house. I am so technically disinterested that his experimental changes drive me further from any computer communication. Need I tell the blogging world that Bart accidentally formatted our hard drive with ALL of our photos around late June! No worries we had a backup hard drive in our safety deposit box... oops seems that one went to HELL. He was so upset he waited forever to tell me the bad news. See he is awesome with computers and learned that over this spring and summer with building computers from scratch. I hate to diss him but now we had literally 30,000 recovered photos to sort through. SO IMPOSSIBLE, they were recently sorted with a program one of the Daycare dad's wrote. THANK YOU DAVE!! All of that to tell you I am excited to catch up on months of blogging.
Above you'll find our trip to Illinois for a Birthday/Reunion for my MOM and Kira's 2nd, as well as time with my Dad at Fish Lake. Below you'll see a few shots from our visit with Meghan, crazy Eric, and little Ella born in May.

New inspirations

I have taken a long break from the blog and hope to be back for lots longer. For our own records I will sum up each of the last months with some photos. I know my Dad will appreciate the "catch up" attempt. We have had some good visits with Mom/Nana, Holly, Dad/Papa, a huge Reunion at Walker, and an awesome Marriage Conference in Los Cabos, Mexico. My Mom graciously took care of Kira here in Colorado AND all the Daycare boys while we were in Mexico. She is my HERO. We anticipate Dad and my Mom coming out in a couple weeks for some great bonding with their little Kira. She has no competition and I'm sure she likes it that way!! But if I have any say that won't be forever.

I've begged my best friend Meghan for a blog make-over. She gives her blog a face-lift nearly every month! I want to share more concepts for moms and children. We were given a wealth of resources and encouragement from Family Life to share with our friends and community. I have some ideas along the lines of Foster Care that I'd love to share.


Bart's hoping I'll finish this tomorrow and get some sleep. We're off to cut down three trees in the mountains with Kira and our nephew Travis. Should be very eventful knowing my nephew!! Kira had her boots and coat on forever tonight in hopes we would head out soon. I'll write more tomorrow. Love to all our friends and family who never give up on us!