Sunday, July 27, 2014

California 2014!

We loved being with family! 



We loved driving in a Tesla!

We loved celebrating Aaron's birthday!

We loved being with family!





We loved watching the cousins play together!

We loved being in Bennett's open-plan home!

We loved being with family!



 




We loved going to Stanford!

We loved Mary's sleek new floors! 

We loved being with family! 



We loved the Sweet Shoppe!

We loved the ocean!

 We loved hanging out!
We loved eating out at our relatives' favorite places!
We love all of you!

We really miss you.

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Holly, Jolly, Holiday World

Our annual trek to Santa Claus, Indiana - land of extremely hot, non-Christmas-like weather - was last week.  For the first time, E&M invited a friend!  The good news is they all seemed to have a lot of fun; the less good news was that that meant Steven and I had to drive separately.

Lots of roller coasters were ridden and the lines were happily short.  Michael and Steven wowed all spectators with their basketball hooping abilities and we came home with five sports banners as prizes.


The girls saw some allegedly cute guys and Michael tried to photo bomb me and Steven.

We hope that one year some of you can join us!  



Sunday, July 6, 2014

Elizabeth, European traveler

We ate at a seafood restaurant.  Emily and Shelby
ate fish with the fishes' faces attached.
We are at Capri.  The water was amazing!!!
These comments are by the lovely Elizabeth!


Laura took this picture;
Mom has it up in our home and her office.
Our last night with our tour guide, Emilio. 
He is not in the picture.
We each ate a pizza
that was bigger than our face.





This is everyone in the Ky. contingency!





This was the very coolest place. 
We heard a story about prostitution
and saw a brothel. 
We also met a stray sheep puppy
and pet it a LOT. 
We probably should have
gotten tetanus shots afterward.

All dressed up for dinner on the cruise ship.



We saw the Coliseum. 
We could see it from our hotel!
We did a looooooot of walking!
There were bunches of strawberries
everywhere - I was with Laura. 
She wrote about it on her blog. 


Best part of the entire trip was
getting to be with Aunt Laura.



Saw this with Aunt Laura. 
Love Aunt Laura!
View from a Greek island;
we walked for a long time on the beach
and got lost.
We also ate chicken gyros that night.
This was our first sighting of land
after we left on the cruise ship!


After walking up stairs for 30 minutes,
we saw this theatre.
Still with Aunt Laura.
The views were like a postcard.




 

At the airport, about to leave for the US. 
Our last day.
What an experience it was.