Little Elephant!

Luca's first Halloween! He was an elephant! Pretty much nothing better than this!

Walk to the Pond!

Our new kitchen look!

A few more...

(These photos were taken by our good friends Aaron and Kim Adamson)
 
 
 
 

First Snow and More...

Just some fun photos from the month of October. Lucy's first real snowfall (in her little purple squampkey outfit), Halloween as the pink panther, a bath (after getting very stinky), and Lucy working on her tech skills so that she can roll with the williamson boys.

Luca in the leaves!

S.F. Days 2, 3, 4 continued . . .

This girl and her dog were zooming around the park at about 30 miles an hour!
GOCar Tours! Electric, GPS operated, and they speak 5 languages!
Is this Paris? No, its at the Legion of Honor, a lovely hilltop museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.
For the ceramists in the family, here's a muesum collection piece - the porcelain is double layered with the outer layer delicately pierced all over with a lattice design.
The Golden Gate Bridge view from the Legion of Honor.

S.F. Days 2, 3, 4

While Mike spent these days immersed in the world of Filemaker never seeing beyond the hotel walls, Elaine figured out the bus system and only missed a bus stop connection once (which resulted in a 2 hour walk through the Golden Gate Park and ended at the Pacific Ocean, so rather fortuitous in terms of scenery!) Overlooking view of the front yard of the DeYoung Museum with large safety pin sculpture.

DeYoung Museum collection pieces.View from the tower at the museum overlooking the park next door and one of S.F.'s hills off in the distance.
Lots of cool trees like this in S.F.

S.F. Day 1 continued . . .

A Chinese Junk at the maritime museum.
Look . . a National Weather Service monitoring station!
A mighty big anchor.
Taking home a bit of the Pacific Ocean.
Trying to row to the Pacific Ocean?

Sunny San Francisco

Day 1: Papa and Mama rode the cable cars, enjoyed the maritime museum on the wharf, got our first S.F. sunburns, and captured a bit of the Pacific waters.
How they turn the cable car at the end of the line.
Here is the cable car view at the top of Lombard St. - the crookedest street in the world - the sign on the right is an accurate description of the street's character.

Mr. Banjo Man played great music!
Segway tours are popular in S.F.

Here are some of the pictures from our honeymoon. Sorry it took so long.
















This made us think of JJ!







This is the famous rock formation at the tip of the baja peninsula. On one side is the Sea of Cortez and on the other is the Pacific Ocean.

We went to see it in a "glass bottom boat." The boat was more of a dirty, plastic hole boat, but it was still very fun!



There were birds and seals!













The beach was right outside our hotel and we spent a lot of time playing in the waves, which were HUGE! We never went more than about 10 feet out.
Plus, Jeff was convinced there were sharks...



Our beautiful hotel room and the view from out balcony.

For fun!

Luca at his best!

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Possibly my favorite photo of my guys! :)

Bouncing around

This is one of Luca's favorite places of entertainment!

Last day of summer

Our last day of summer. Morning time. Floor time. Our little guy is getting so big!

Lucy Goo...

So What Came . . . ?

The RAIN . . . pouring into the basement, pouring into buckets quickly placed under the "turned on faucet wall"
an evacuation took place . . .
and the next moring, look how the buckets were bulging . . .
This was the culprit . . . a backed up city drainage channel that poured through this opening, over the sidewalk and down the hill, into the front yard, and down into the basement.

More Star Pics

Lucy, the original snugglebug.
And these boppies are great for keeping me snug!

Lucy showing off her leggings!

Buttons and More

Here is Dad and Mary Wilder at the Armchair Auction booth at the National Button Convention in Denver. After three days there, we enjoyed an evening at Betony and Tim's where Peach Upside Down Cake got rave reviews! But Lucy of course was the star of the show!



All went to bed stuffed and happy with no premonition of what was to come . . .

Burlington, Colorado Carousel

How many years have we driven by Burlington, CO on I70 without knowing that this fabulous carousel is in the town - and you can ride it for only 25 cents!




The Geese and the Wilders and I went to the National Button Convention in Denver, and we stopped and rode the carousel going and coming!

Move In Day

Here are pics from the Lawrence apartment move-in day. All went very smooth with the rental of the Uhaul. I didn't get any pics of the actual move-in as it all happened so quickly!

Fired Up!

Pippin had quite a succesful kiln firing earlier this month.



Can you guess who was the recipient of all this lovely ceramic ware?!

Swimming and other fun stuff!

Story time and Zebra!

Story Time!

Holding Papa's finger makes it just that much better!

Yeah! This is my zebra!

Sometimes I'm not too sure what's going on!

Mmmm...sucking on my fist and holding my zebra!

whew....that was tiring!

After a bath

ere are some of Luca's favorite faces these days! He especially loves blowing spit bubbles as he kicks his legs wildly and waves his arms as fast as he can! This was just after bath time, hanging out on the floor on his bath towel.

Grandmama's Photo Album

Could babies and moms please come back to Kansas and stay awhile!
Lucy with the curly hair and tired after bathtime.
Wide-eyed Lucy after bathtime!
See! Luca's practicing his wing movement to fly back to Kansas!
Are we there yet?

What a Wonderful Wedding!

Just a few pics I had on my camera - what you see is about all I took that day - guess I was too busy doing decorating, etc.!


And wow! how about those siblings that get this pair these cool getaway vehicles?!

Sir Drake and his Captain

Here's the knight and his captain prior to the voyage.
Having completed a successful journey to the new land, what wouldn't fit on the ship was hauled in from the local Goodwill.
Sir Drake advised Milo of his rank.
This cage is not suitable furnishing for a proper knight.
Aaaaarooooooooo!!!!!