Thursday, October 15, 2009

Father and Son


Taggie


Here's Micah with his little taggie blanket that my friend Tracy made for him. Thanks, Trae!

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Labor Day Weekend--Monday

And on Monday evening we left to go back east. It was Micah's first plane ride. He pretty much slept the whole way.








Labor Day Weekend--Sunday

Our good friends the Rickstrews were home visiting from Texas for a couple of weeks. Luckily, we got to spend some time with them before we left to do some visiting of our own. Tracy and the boys, Riley and Abram, came out earlier in the week and Tom came out Labor Day weekend. Cato and E also made it back to Humboldt for a visit that weekend as well. Friday night we had a gathering of friends over Loretta's enchiladas at the Manka/Hebert residence and orange brownies for dessert. On Sunday, we celebrated Riley's 4th birthday at Sequoia Park. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures from the Rickstrew's visit except for these pics of Cato and Micah at Riley's party.






Labor Day Weekend--Saturday

It was my friend Cristina's wedding. She's one of my friends from high school. She moved up to Oregon a couple of years ago, and that's where she found her honey. I'm so glad she came home to get married. It turned out to be a beautiful day despite rain in the morning and it was lovely to see old friends. And Micah did so well! Some of "the girls"--me, Ginny, Crisitina, Crystal, and Brandy.

Reception at Moonstone Beach...view from the beach house.



Party favors.
Place cards for the "Herberts".



Our beautiful family!









Monday, October 5, 2009

In the last month or so...

It's been a little while since my last blog post. Since then we had a visit from friends now living in Texas, then we went back east for three weeks. On our way home, Micah and I stopped off in Stockton for my Aunt Charolene's 80th birthday celebration. Now we're home and the countdown for our return to Niger has started (oh my!). We will be driving down to San Francisco on the 20th of this month, flying out the 21st, and arriving in Niger the 22nd. Hopefully this time we'll be staying longer than six weeks!