news from the pacific

Just thought I would do a quick update. We had fun in Australia (despite the torrential rain) and now we are enjoying NZ. Here is a link to a pic of us "cuddling" a koala. http://photo.koala.net/2105003663en.htm


It was actually kinda scary, but feeding the kangaroos was really fun, Eli and Sylvie both loved it. Here is one pic of that, but I'll add more pics later.









In other news, Eli is finally walking!! He just really started yesterday and he has taken up to ten or 12 steps. He thinks he is big stuff now. And, of course he continues to add to his vocab. Some recent additions are Horse, toys, thirsty, please, and Wallaby, but he can pretty much repeat anything we say.

Mother's Day

I had a great Mother's Day weekend. On Saturday we had a successful garage sale and then spent the evening together. On Sunday we spoke at church and we got to spend lots of time playing with Eli, who has finally started taking some steps. We also got to talk to Doug in Argentina, which was lots of fun. He's doing great and getting lots of bullseyes, ha ha. My boys were very good to me as you can see. Eli picked the little purple flowers himself.







This is Eli eating some of the pie my Dad made us. He did the cooking last night and it was yummy!

Love & Sanding

This is when we were in the middle of sanding, which took us 2 1/2 days. Derek did most of the work, but I did help quite a bit on this project, unlike the shower, which was all him. He is a stud and I love him! It was hard work, but fun to work together. Thanks to Mom, Heather, and Joey for helping with Eli.







This is the finished product (I think). We think it looks really good.


I better give a shout out to Derek's awesome shower too or I'll get in trouble.



Before and After