Kara got baptized

Well, I'm behind again, but honestly, who's surprised? I went 2 weeks without a post. It's been pretty busy though between my work travel, the family reunion / birthday extravaganza, and Kara's baptism, so maybe you can cut me some slack.

The San Antonio weekend went pretty well. Kara and Kathy didn't get to stick around very long because they had to head up to Waco for Aunt Rachel's graduation from Baylor (Congrats Rachel!!) but she did get to meet the other half of her family which was good

The baptism was good....Kara didn't cry at all during the whole thing and was very inquisitive about what was going on after being presented to the church. She did manage to drop a couple of big poops during the service after being up front. It was pretty funny because I think people could hear it 5 rows back, it was so loud!

After the service, we took a couple of big group photos of the whole family...always a lot of work, but we managed :-)






I wanted to post a lot more pictures, but my camera wasn't used for any picture taking that weekend, so I'm relying on others to provide the graphical content....once I get the other pics, I'll get them up here.


Other Kara related news...she's figured out that she has fingers and that she can grab stuff with them this past week. She's grabbing everything in sight and putting everything in her mouth. She's also started to laugh a lot lately too. She was playing tug of war with Kathy the other day and she thought it was just the greatest thing in the world - laughing and giggling like there was nothing funnier. I've got a video of it so maybe I can get it uploaded sometime this weekend.

Olympic distraction

Sorry I haven't posted in over a week. I've been caught up in watching the Olympics...lots of good action going on. Have you seen the badminton tournaments, it doesn't get any better than that! :-) Actually, it was pretty interesting to watch, that little bird shuttle can fly over 140 mph...I had no idea.

If you haven't been keeping up with the Olympics, the swimming has been pretty amazing, world records being broken almost every race, the USA winning gold in a majority of the races, and Michael Phelps winning 9 career gold medals with more races to come. If you missed the Men's 400 meter relay, you missed an awesome race. USA won gold, just beating out France...who by the way was doing some trash talking saying they were going to "Smash the USA."

I also just watched the men's gymnastic team win bronze which was unexpected and quite a feat for them, and a myriad of other events over the last few days. We tried to enter Kara into the frog jumping competition, but apparently it didn't make the Olympic ballot...she would have been awesome at it, or at least cute

Now that you've had your Olympic highlights, what's going on with the family? Well last weekend we went to San Antonio to visit with the family. Kara got to meet her Prichard kin for the first time and also hung out with Bobby, Rhonda, and Grandma Rita. This past weekend, Grandpa Steve had an office party at his house and we did some boat riding, boat towing (old blue wasn't so faithful this weekend), attempted boat sinking (I tried to sink the Malibu by forgetting to put a drain plug in), and some cruising (on Sunday once we were done with the other shananigans). Everyone made it to work in one piece on Monday so I'd say all-in-all, it was a successful lake weekend :-).

This week will be a big event as well. My dad's 50th birthday is coming up, as well as my grandpa's birthday, and there's going to be a big party in San Antonio for my dad when he flies in from Phoenix to see my mom. It should be a fun weekend and an opportunity for the rest of my family to meet Kara. But the fun doesn't stop there...nope, this apparently has to be the busiest weekend of the year, because in addition to this party, Kathy's sister Rachel graduates from Baylor on Saturday in Waco. So Kathy and Kara can't stay for the Saturday party unfortunately and will be going to Waco for the graduation. Congrat's to Rachel!!!

But wait, there's more! We'll throw in the Awesome Augger, the extendo reach bit, and 2 knee pads for just $19.99. You'd think you were listening to a Billy Maze commercial, right? :-) But wait, there *is* more. To top the weekend off, we're also having Kara's baptism at our church that Sunday. I'm not sure how many folks are going to come up for that, but I think a lot of the family is planning on it.

So we'll be all over the map this coming weekend, but I'll try to get pictures posted of the whole thing so you know how it went. Wish us luck, cause I have a feeling it's going to be a long week! Hopefully naps in the clean cloths will help get us through it :-).