Engaged!!

Our Yana is getting married!!! We have mixed emotions...

We think he is very lucky and he seems really sweet, but...

We really don't want them to do anything about it until we get back from the States next summer! We just CAN'T miss the wedding! I want to make her promise to wait, but I'm thinking that might be a little selfish on my part...

Aubrie is Seven!

During my vacation from blogging, Aubrie turned 7!

It is so hard to believe that she is old enough to go to school and grow new front teeth.

If I could keep any of them little forever, it would be her, though Brooklyn is running a close second!

She asked for cheesecake for her actual birthday

and a cake with a deer on it for her party...




I couldn't figure out how to make a deer,

so I compromised with a rendition of India, our dog.

Aubrie has been so generous with the American Girl she got for her last birthday letting her little sister, Brooklyn, play with her to the point of permanent "bad hair day"!
So, we decided to pass Josephina on for good and let Aubrie have a new one.
For her party she wanted to make crowns
and sock puppets.


Cady & her horse

Aubrie & her pig

Silas Broberg

& his creature

This is Megan.

She was Aubrie's BEST present this year. Aubrie hasn't usually had girls her age in the different places that we have lived. Since birth Cassidy & Gabby, her cousins, have been her only close friends. While they are STILL her BESTEST friends (she misses you guys!) she now has Megan. Megan's family has moved to our city to work... not just for language school. That means we may have her around for more than 2 years (all of this does NOT mean that she has forgotten the boy who was her age and only here for language school... she misses you, too, Micah!).

Wouldn't you know...

I don't know whether you would attribute it toMurphy's Lawor the desire to prove someone wrongor just crazy coincidence...
But just as soon as I pushed "post" on my last installment, my camera and computer came to some kind of agreement and I got all my pictures back!
So, I will share them as they come to me, but don't expect things to be chronological.That would be asking WAY too much!



Imagine this coming at you at 60mph!

Okay, not quite "u-shaped" but DEFINITELY un-Useable!

Cady was in the very back seat, but after the initial shock, we found only a tiny little scratch on her leg.