Great Grandparents

I'm so glad everyone likes the blog idea. I was going through all of the pictures on the camera yesterday and thought it would be fun to post some of Brody's great grandparents. He has been very luck to be able to meet two great grandmothers and his great grandfather. He also met his great great grandmother Margaret. Before we left California we took Brody to Benicia to meet his great grandma Eunice (Toots) Boriskin. It was quite the emotional day. Toots has Alzheimer's and doesn't really know who any of us are any more. But it was amazing to see her with Brody, she wanted to hold him and kept blowing him kisses and asking questions about him. It was a very special moment.

Toots and Brody

Judy, Joel, Jessica, Mark, Toots and Brody

Jessica, Toots, Judy and Brody

Then when we were moving from California to Texas, my parents suggested they drive Brody and I from Taos to Austin so we could stop off in Clovis and visit my grandparents. They were so excited to see him. I haven't been able to visit my grandparents for a couple of years and wasn't sure when we would see them next so it was important to make the trip. Here are a few pictures from the visit.

Lorraine, Jessica, Diane and Brody

Roger, Jim and Brody

Lorraine, Jim and Brody

Lorraine and Brody

This is Brody's Great Great Grandmother Margaret. This picture is really amazing because their are five generations in this picture.

Well those are Brody's Great Grandparents. I think it was very special that he got to meet all of them!

First Post

Ok so this is new to me. I thought I would start a blog so family and friends could see what we are up to now that we live so far away. I will try to post as often as I can. I will post pictures and try to keep everyone updated on all the different things we do throughout the week. You can post comments or just read along for fun. So here it goes...

We have settled into the new house. All of the boxes have been unpacked and all of the rooms have a least some furniture in it. We have hung most of our pictures and just have a few minor projects left to do. We are saving some of the hard stuff for when Batman (Bernd) comes to visit. I will try to take some pictures of the house in the next week or so. My memory card on the camera is full and I haven't had time to download all of the pictures.

We had our first overnight guests last weekend. Matt and Abbey came to visit. We BBQd some of Mark's steaks, for those of you who haven't heard Mark bought like 60 steaks from a door to door meat sales man. Then we played cranium until the wee hours of the morning. It was a lot of fun and a pretty wild and crazy night for us old married people. Brody was his usual good self and just sat in his swing and watched us be silly. He is getting so big. Here are some recent pictures of him.

I guess that's it for my first post. Let me know what everyone thinks I would love feedback!