Kevin and Jelly's dog dish

When Kevin visits Grandma's house, he inevitably ends up crawling until he discovers Jelly's dog dish and food so Grandma moves Jelly's food while Kevin is around and replaces it with a plate for Kevin with a snack prepared just for him - just like she did when Megan was his age! Kevin's pretty content with this!

a new cousin!

Garrison was born in March 2008 and brought his parents to visit at the end of June. We spent time together at a climbing wall in town along with a variety of other activities. Emma, Andrea, and Megan are excited to have a cousin and Nate and I are thrilled to be an Aunt and Uncle! Here's to many more wonderful times shared together!



Kevin with Uncle Geoff
Megan tries to climb

and Kevin just stands
but Andrea and Emma are real experts at climbing!

The five grandkids all together!

Ali's new job!

Ali at her new job at Gandolfo's!

Goodbye to our growth group -

Before we made our move across state lines, we had a going-away party with our growth group. We're so thankful for these friends with whom we have spent so much time together. All 5 couples in our growth group had a baby this year - a life change that was so much fun to share together. Kevin is the oldest of the babies. Here they are all together - except Ava!



Abby, Kevin, Regan and Isaac

Nate's new truck

Nate got a truck off of craigslist to drive to work at his new job. The guy who owned it before us named it Josie so I guess that's the name we'll keep. It's worked out pretty well for us already since it hauled a rather heavy load to our new home for us last week.