Summer Bliss and Family Fun in Wisconsin

We ventured to Port Washington with the boys beginning of July to see my side of the family and share in the celebration of Katja's baptism (our new niece, remember??). Andria and I are officially godmothers and I am honored and humbled ....thank you, Kierstin and Tim.....

Beautiful baby Katja.....

....Anyway, it was a great trip and the weather was absolutely FANTASTIC!!! I, quite frankly, did not want to leave and enjoyed the break from the insane Texas heat. I got to see every one of my nieces and nephews that I love so, so very much and had such a fun time playing with them. The problem is, it never seems to be enough time whenever we go home and the trips always go by way too fast.....sigh......We had a pizza party one night, among other things, the baptism, and time to just enjoy family. We also took Justin and Collin to see David and Chicago (for the first time) for a couple of nights (that's my next post....have patience....) So, I'm going to throw in a few "highlights" pictures below, but will have a slideshow up in the corner by the weekend for your viewing pleasure ....lots to see.....actually, putting this together tonight makes me miss Wisconsin more than ever :( .....On the plus side, I'm sure I won't miss it so much in January when they are shoveling snow and I'm enjoying hiking around Lake Travis (glass half full, glass half full ;) ....And now, for the highlights:

Connie and Frank (the pizza professionals!) with Mom and Dad ....this couple makes THE BEST pizzas ......they come to you, make the pizzas on-the-spot (custom order) AND do all the cleaning up ......what a deal :)

Dad ("the boat") and the grandkids "water-skiing" (Jonas, Roman, Lucia, and Benjamin) ...I love this picture!

My triplet bro, David, in his eternal five-year-old state ...oh, stinker boy --some things never change!!! haha......

Jonas and Art playing ring toss :)

Justin, Andria, and Collin ....in a cougar moment??!!

a blog-worthy image of Lisa and Marsh!!

The Byster!!!! (I captured a perfect Byster moment, I do believe.....)

Myself and Andria, the godmothers-to-be, at the baptism....

..the necessities for my and Andria's stilthouse sleepover (photo taken from inside the stilthouse in Mom and Dad's backyard).....yes, that is indeed liverwurst in the plastic bag.......nothing like a glass of Pinot and a slice of 'wurst.....you'll have to check out the slideshow for the rest of the classic pics from this particular evening!

my sweetie and me awaiting a fabulous homemade blueberry pancake breakfast (Mom and Dad, you're the best!!)

C'mon dad, where are the pancakes??....having some good laughs before sending Andria and Ash off and back to Colorado :)

......so these are just the highlights. I'll try and get the slideshow up so you can truly "experience" our trip.....but for now, peace ....I'm out!! (seriously)

July, the Crazy Month

...I can't believe it's July 31st today and I haven't made one single blog post for the entire month yet. ....Well, I guess I'll blame Marsh because that's what spouses do to one another ;) ....we have done quite a bit of traveling and family get-togethering (not a word, but sounds good), so that hasn't made hiding away and updating the blog all that simple. Plus, Marsh had the camera and was responsible for downloading the plethora of pictures we took (oh yeah, it's a lot!!!). But I'm going to make a stab at it tonight and hope to have some new slide shows up in the right hand corner as they really do need to be updated anyway. We were in Wisconsin, Chicago, St. Petersburg (yep, Florida ....the other hot end of the country this time of year), and I spent a few nights in Colorado to attend The Police concert at Red Rocks, unfortunately without Marsh but with Andria and friends .....it was phenomenal!! ...Anyway, Matt still needs to send me some pictures, but I'll try and download the ones I took from my picture phone. ....Hang in there for some fun new stuff :)