Past scenes from a Chicago trip

I LOVE to take pictures, but editing, printing, saving, and storing them off the computer takes more time than I like.

I've been cleaning/storing photos off the computer and trying to catalog ALL my old memory sticks, so I know which pictures are where when I want to see one again.



I found these and couldn't stand to put them away again, so I'm sharing them today.

(They are all pictures from August, 2007, when we were there for one of John's cousin's weddings.)

Blake trying to eat his grandma's cell phone

This is my sister with her two grandsons, Izaac (in the rocking horse) and Blake in her lap.


Blake is 4 months old. Izaac is now 4 YEARS old!

Blake and his great-grandmother are talking things over in her kitchen.


Blake attempting to stuff his whole fist into his little mouth. He almost succeeded...
Here's a 21-second video of Blake trying to chew on his grandmother's cell phone. Blake had been staring at a picture of himself she had just taken.

Marty is HOME!!!

Our son-in-law, Marty, came home to Carroll today and there was a homecoming ceremony at the football field in the hot sun!

He's been deployed since last the first of August last year and spent most of that time in Afghanistan.


The governor of our state attended the ceremony also. (He's in the back left corner of this picture. You can click on it to see it bigger.)