Fourth of July

We spent Fourth of July in Atlanta with Paul's Uncle Glenn, Aunt Beth and Cousin Abby. Good fun and good food!

A few vids

Evelyn using her Riverdance skills.

Evelyn has a (mostly) funny habit of yelling at creatures and objects; trying to bend them to her will.

Kathryn is very ticklish and has the most adorable little chuckle.

Farewell to Dayton

After almost three years we said farewell to Dayton, OH and all of our dear friends there. Here are a few pictures from our last weeks there.

Our time in Ohio began with a freak wind storm and ended with a freak hail storm. Here is one of the hail stones that fell in our yard and hour or so after the storm (so it had melted down some). There was extensive damage to windows and cars in our neighborhood. Thankfully we were safe.

Evelyn catches up on some light reading.

Evelyn gets to hold one of Aunt Barby and Uncle Phil's new chicks.

Evelyn and Claire hold the Metzlers' kittens.

Getting ready for our last Sunday at Redeemer

Evelyn and Claire wearing fairy skirts and playing in the hose.

Uncle Andrew's Graduate

In May we traveled to Birmingham for the Trifecta: Andrew graduated from UAB, Poppy turned 60 and Mother's Day! It was a good trip. Evelyn was particularly excited about the graduation because it involved balloons, confetti, a band, and a dragon (mascot). However, she had a hard time getting the vocabulary right, so she went around asking if she could hold the graduate balloons.

Aunt Priscilla with her nieces.

Grammie holds Kathryn after the graduation.

Evelyn helps Poppy blow out the candles.

Happy 60th!

Family photo at the graduation. Poor Grammie has a broken foot.

Evelyn is taking it all in.

Evelyn "helps" Uncle Andrew hold his graduation balloons.

Evelyn Speaks

Evelyn has always been really verbal and it seems that now she chatters almost constantly. We understand about as much of her stream of consciousness as we do Joyce or Faulkner! However there are moments of lucid hilarity. Here are a few:

One night when singing "Amazing Grace" before bed, Evelyn sings with gusto "....that saved a wretch like YOU!!!!" and points straight at Kathryn (then 2 months old).

We recently visited Paul's Aunt and Uncle in Atlanta. They have three dogs that Evelyn loves! Evelyn was sitting on the potty when one of the dogs wandered up to the bathroom door. She informed him politely, "Sparky, I need some privacy."

On a recent visit to the park on a blustery day, she faced into the wind and demanded at the top of her voice, "STOP WIND-ING!"

Evelyn spent the first inning of her first baseball game asking when she would get to play baseball. She didn't realize that going to a baseball game meant watching others play.

SPRING!!!! (sort of)

Spring in Ohio has been slow in coming this year. We have learned that you can't always trust the groundhog and sometimes March can come in and go out like a lion! But we have had some nice days. One Sunday afternoon we got to enjoy some real spring on a friend's trampoline.

Evelyn loves trampolines!!!!

A couple of pictures from St. Patty's Day

Another blurry smile from Baby Kathryn.

Graduation!

At the end of March, Paul completed the task that brought us to OH. He graduated with a Master's degree from the Air Force Institute of Technology. The ceremony took place in the Air Force Museum right next to a giant B-52 bomber! The planes all around really made the ceremony quite impressive.

The Master walks :-)

Paul's family came up for the graduation and stayed for Kathryn's Baptism.