Uncle Taddow's big helper

Here is Andrew helping uncle Taddow with a few things on Grandpa's new deck.

Tennis Lessons

Madi and her favorite cousin McKay are in their second season of Tennis lessons, they are loving every minute of it, and actually getting pretty good, we think Mckay has enjoyed the last two weeks better because he's not the only boy!

Madi enthusiastically waits her turn!

One of her favorite things to practice are volleys.

Happy 6th Birthday Mazie

Mazie turned 6 Today, Happy Birthday Mazie! She must be the luckiest 6 year old in the world. We celebrated her birthday two times, once with uncle Jeff on Sunday at Grandma Pat's then we had a little party for her today at Brick Oven. The Balloon guy at Brick Oven is the best, the kids are always excited when he's there, this is them with their balloons.

Madi got a turtle, mazie a dragon fly, Ellie got Bell, and Andrew a blue motorcycle.

Some of mazie's favorite gifts were... new Heelys, a new backpack, pink batting gear( from her boy cousins) some new clothes for school and a gift card to Build a Bear!
Happy Birthday Mazie, we love you!

Office Party

We had a fun office party last night, we ate good food and played water balloon games at Dr. Crawford's house. We won the balloon toss, Rick cheated a little but it was innocent. We have an awesome office full of really fun girls! I admit I still don't know everyone yet but Rick loves work, and it's been a great last 6 months! I look forward to getting to know all of them even better soon.

Dr. C and Missy

Kim and Scott

Annie and Randy

Dr. C and Andy

Harry Potter

Tuesday afternoon we were invited by Ricks brother Mike, through Novell to go to a sneak preview of the new Harry Potter movie "Order of the Phoenix" it was great, we recommend everybody watching it.

Europe 2007

This summer we had the amazing opportunity to go to Europe with Ricks brother and his wife. I took so many pictures it was hard to decide which ones to share, here is a list of some of the fun things we did and saw. The Tower of London, Big Ben, Parliament, Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Wicked, The Crown Jewels, Open air bus tour, The Louvre, Notre Dame, Arc De Triomphe, Disneyland Paris, Versailles, The Champs, Mus'ee De Orsay & the Eiffel Tower.

These cute little red phone booths were all over London

The Tower of London tour was one of our favorites, we met a funny local by the name of Clint who told us all kinds of silly facts about the Royal family and the exact meaning of the word

"Codswallop"

Big Ben

We were able to get tickets to the musical Wicked, it was great!

I fell in love with the SMART CAR! I wanted to put it in my pocket and take it home, word on the street is that they'll be in the states soon, I have to have one.

This is rick enjoying his English Eclair

Eiffel Tower

Rick decided not no climb the 668 stairs with us to the top of the Eiffel Tower, he thought reading Harry Potter would be more fun.

Notre Dame was Awesome! we were at the top when the bells started to ring, we didn't see Quasimodo, but he sure has a nice set up!

This is one of the Gargoyles from Notre Dame.

The Chateau of Versailles

Some say you can spend days at the Louvre, Two hours was plenty of time for us! One thing we did enjoy was a Davinci Code Tour Jodi found on line, we hit the main things like the Mona Lisa and the inverted Pyramids.

The Arc De Triomphe