To the nunnery with you!

We had our first family vacation this past week. We went to Alton, Il to see Sr. Chiara make her first profession. It was a great time! Dave headed back to Lincoln on Tuesday while Eliza and I stuck back with the rest of the family at Karissa's house in Atchison until Saturday when we moved Austin into school at Benedictine. We had some definite family bonding time! I will let the pictures tell the rest of the story.

                                                     Ready to Go!

                                    Finally Eliza meets her namesake!

                                                The whole Family

                                Blessed with an incredible friendship!

Eliza met a new friend; a little boy who was 1 week younger than her.  She wasn't very interested. She must have been thinking about how much she wants to join the convent:)

She doesn't seem happy about her pre-determined vocation. In our defense it does say "per God's will" beneath. You can't see it because the skirt is covering it.

                     Loving the pool with Grandma and Grandpa

                     We had a wonderful picnic at the lake in Atchison

       We were visited by ducks. I love this picture (courtesy of Joe)


I forgot to have Dave leave the stroller behind, so we picked up a cheap $5 stroller at the thrift store. Karissa said she could recover it, no problem. 3 hours later....Tada! She did a great job. It turned out SOO cute!

                          Future Benedictine student? Gotta love the hat!

Dropping off my baby brother at school. Wow I feel old, and a little bit sad. At least he has 3 wonderful women to worry about him!
 

Videos

A couple new videos. First..the back scoot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9pWfl-LRbc

Second, the new noise Eliza discovered. A little creepy and Exorcist sounding in my opinion, but still hilarious. (She does it the loudest right before the end of the video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnIGiCmCGy0

Life is Good

Sunday was Dave's Birthday. I got him the X-box game he has been wanting (a decision I've regretted since). And Eliza picked out a really cool gift for him too. As you can see, they both really enjoyed it.

                              Eliza's Wonderful pick for Dad

   Dad excitedly explaining the types of construction machines to Eliza

It was truly priceless watching them read this book together. Dave would name the machine and Eliza would look at the picture and laugh and smile. I think they have read it about 10 times already :) Of course, Dave had to point out that the book was titled incorrectly. It's called "Diggers" when apparently only 1 of the machines in the book actually digs. Haha. That's Dave for ya. But I must say, Eliza really knows what she's doing this early on by picking Dad a gift that SHE can enjoy too :)

A couple weeks ago, we went to our first county fair in Wahoo. There was a big (very LONG) parade before the fair. They threw out a lot of candy for the big kids. I wondered how Eliza would like it. But, as you can see, she could care less. She was too concerned about chewing on her book.

I decided to try a Baby Einstein video on YouTube to see what Eliza would think of it . She LOVED it! She laughed and kicked her legs at her favorite parts.  I think that I need to buy her a couple, but for now we'll just wach the free videos.

                                          Enjoying Baby Neptune

On Saturday, we leave for Alton, Illinois to attend Sr. Chiara's (Liz's) first profession. This will be our first FAMILY vacation with Miss Eliza and I cannot wait for Eliza to meet her namesake for the first time! I am sure I will have LOTS of pictures to post after the trip.

House Update: After weeks of battling with the contractor who poured the basement walls(he didn't want to redo them even though they needed it desperately....he decided to pour them in the 70 mph rainstorm) we are finally back on track! Now its just getting the floor done and then FINALLY time for framing. The whole ordeal put us 3 weeks behind schedule! Uhhhh!