February 2023

Pictures sent with valentines

Part of Luke's birthday present was a trip to Dayton, Ohio to visit 

Jack Orton.  

We went to the National Museum of US Air Force

The boys picked back up like no time passed.  

The Ortons are such great friends.

The kids' valentines

Liza Jay was born on February 15th

Oscar had a doctor's appointment in Mexico and brought us back tacos.

There was a big conference here in San Antonio. 

People came from all over, even our friend, Rose, from Germany.

Ryan was a speaker.

More Nutmeg cuddles

Luke and friends did UIL for Orchestra and made perfect scores

Another bath: She hates it.

Young Men's birthday dinner for Isaac

Grandma, Wendy and Adeline came for a visit

Ryan noticed that Nutmeg is camouflaged with our floor

 

JANUARY 2023

For Luke's birthday, we took the kids out of school for 2 days and went to Kalahari.  We were so lucky to have the Lindemans join us.  It wasn't crowded and we celebrated with Shipley donuts.  We have an 11 year old LUKEY. 

Teaching the kids how to clean the bathroom

Nutmeg is growing up

Bran was presenting his dissertation here and so his whole 

family joined us. 

Nutmeg's first bath with us.  

We couldn't get over how she looked drowned rat.

Tessa's new obsession is to microwave marshmallows.

Mimzy gave Luke this bookmark.

Here the kids noticed that he has a penis.

Ned had a TDY in San Antonio! 

Ryan took him on a bike ride along the riverwalk.

And then the Olsens stopped by.  Tennille's parents live

here and they are moving back to Germany. 

Braddock is days away from serving a mission in Milan, Italy.

Playdate with the Hans

 

We love our little girl

Ryan discovered P. Terry's

Young Men's activity was learning about gardening.

Tessa prefers to sleep with Nutmeg

Luke wanted a Nerf war birthday party.

It was impossible to find a free Saturday so we picked early release

Tuesday.  Go figure that school was cancelled because ice. 

I was so worried about having eleven 11 year olds in my house.  

Becky came up with the great idea to have it at the church.

It was still a little cray cray with eleven 11 year olds. 

Luke is loved and has a lot of good friends.