Vacation Part 1 - Baltimore continued..

We were trying to get a picture of all the kids together, smiling, and paying attention.... I think by the time we got Nathan to actually come over and join the girls, the girls were gone onto the next thing. The girls are super cute though, aren't they?

Katie is going to love me for this one, but it was such a cute picture of the both of them that I had to put it on here.

This was a typical shot of the kids all climbing and doing their own thing. They loved climbing on the big anchors. We were just grateful that we didn't have any kids overboard!

Vacation Part 1 - Baltimore

I am going to post our trip to Pennsylvania in parts because I have way too many pictures to put in one post -- Nor do I have the time to do it all now - so here is Part 1....
At the end of June we went to visit our friends Katie and Ben in Pennsylvania. We flew into Baltimore so we decided to spend the rest of the afternoon at the Inner Baltimore Harbor and see some sights. The picture above is from the 27th floor of the Baltimore World Trade Center (who knew they had one). It was windows all the way around so you could see Baltimore in any direction for miles. I just realized that the building is in the picture below with the ship - convenient.

Above is a picture of the U.S.S. Constellation. We were able to tour this ship. It had four levels - the hull (bottom), the sleeping/hang-out quarters (third level), the gun room with kitchen and dining room at the end (second level) and the top level of the ship with the sails, steering wheel and some more guns (cannon's). We called it a pirate ship for Nathan's benefit -that made it more exciting.

It is kind of hard to see, but in the picture above to the write of the boat that says Chesapeake is a submarine. We also toured the sub. It was neat for the kids to see all the different rooms -torpedo, sleeping, kitchen, command center....etc.

Here we are with our friends. They drove down to meet us in Baltimore so that we could eat dinner together in the Harbor. We should have gone to the restaurant that was recommended by the locals, but trying to be a little more wise with our spending we opted for the restaurant that was cheaper and without a long wait. Actually it had no wait which should have been our first clue - I don't think any of us have ever had worse service or worse food. Oh well, you live and you learn. Next time we'll splurge on the good food. :o)

It's great to be Eight!

I cannot believe that it has been 8 years since Alexys was born! Time has flown by. She has grown and amazed us with her sweet personality, beautiful qualities and her cuteness.

Here is a picture of Lexy when she was just a few days old. She is wearing the outfit that Aaron picked out for her the day we found out we were going to have a baby girl!

Here she is all dressed in white ready to be baptized. What a beautiful girl!


All dressed in her baptismal clothes with her daddy.


After Lexy's baptism we went back to our house to open birthday presents from the family. Here is a picture of all of us including my grandmother (my dad's mom). It was such a special day and we were grateful that everyone was there to share it with us.