new blog site

david's sister created a blog that we can all share

our part can be found at: http://chitovie.wordpress.com/tag/nolanmila/

so i will be updating there instead of here from now on.................

nolan plays steel drum

here is nolan playing the drum at the children's museum last monday

cool paint smocks

i made these art smocks for my kids out of old plastic bags

i fused the bags together using an iron (between pieces of paper) to make a virtually indestructible plastic "fabric" and sewed them


mila's best friend modeling nolan's smock

mila turns 4

we had a wonder pets party - mila got a lot of pink things for her birthday this year!

swiss day

we went downtown to the daley plaza for the swiss day celebration with alp horns and yodeling

creation station

our trip to colorado! amazing trip - over 2000 miles with 22 people in 5 days

nolan's preschool graduation

pictures are a little blurry - sorry
graduation was at the beginning of june

bushnell highlights

here are some pictures of our last few trips in bushnell!

overnight with glow sticks

Here are some great pictures of our family overnight in may

without flash:




with flash:

motorcycle sunday

our band men & angels backed up our friend tommy ogle today at warehouse church's motorcycle sunday

complete with a motorcycle blessing! it was fun

here is one of our favorites

dereck and connie perkins

wonderful time
at the perkins' farm
at dereck and connie's wedding





my personal favorite is this one where
i must have been fussing at one of my kids!
caught on camera....