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What? It's August?

Well well, I hope I actually still have an audience, LOL! It amazes me how much more time flies with two kids rather than one. Or maybe just how much more I sleep...

At any rate we actually didn't have too busy a summer.

So first order of business is adding new photos to our Flickr account. Hoping it works okay the first time today.

A lot has happened. Logan has moved from crawling (with what seems to be a family method of crawling with one knee on the ground, and one knee up ready to pounce) to cruising, and now just this week he walks between pieces of furniture and between people! WOW.


Both boys love playing with cars and trains and just paling around in general.  I write this post today knowing that I *should* make two more posts in the next week - one for Logan's first birthday (tomorrow!!) and one for Jack's first day of school. Wish me luck. Hoping to get it done before Christmas.

We had a visit (well, technically Grandma and Grandpa had a visit) at the end of June from Scott's Aunt Brenda and his cousin Andrew. It was a lot of fun. Andrew even convinced Scott to go zip-lining. I don't even know if that is a real word. Zip-lining. *shiver*. We had a lot of fun visiting with them when they weren't adventuring all over Colorado!

Jack, Andrew, and Logan. I don't think Andrew looks too nervous!

The kids both loved Aunt Brenda! (So do we)

We also had a nice visit from Nonie and Papa Sudar in July. It was good to see them again. We were able to get a lot of important things done - like the family photos their kids gave them for their Anniversary in December. See? I'm not just slow at blogging. Here's one that was cute of all of us. Robert is my brother, if that wasn't obvious. :)


Standing: Dena, Scott, Nonie, Papa, Natalie, Robert
Sitting: Logan, Jack, Emerson, Reese

We also had some shots taken of the boys, as we were already planning to do when Logan was about 9 months old (to compare of course). I almost made it at 11 months old!

Jack and Logan 2012 (3 and 11 months)


Jack 9 months

 Otherwise things are going OK. Scott is still at Lockheed Martin. If any of you saw the Mars landing, he did have a hand in that project. Way back in '07 or'08 he did a stress test on the heatshield. Needless to say he was pretty excited to see it worked as it was supposed to. Yay!

I'll have more later I hope so I'll sign off for now and work on uploading photos.

Until Next Time!

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  1. HappyGrama8/18/12, 6:05 AM

    THIS member of your audience is still here! I loved the news and photos. Beautiful people! Mary

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