Our Home

Here are some pictures of our new place! I've been waiting to take them until we were more satisfied with how it looks.

1. Look at what we look out at our front door! And we play tennis all the time. It's fun!

2. Our living room. Note the curtains we bought in Morocco. And if you ever visited us before, you'll see some very familiar pieces.

3. Our dining room and kitchen. We just finished getting all those pictures up. And our magnets from traveling the past couple of years let us imagine that we're in Europe or Morocco again!

4. It would be a Blake and Carol bathroom without the world map shower curtain. And a new feature...if you come and visit us, you get to put a star on any places you have ever visited!

5. Walk in closet! And an ingenious way to hang earrings...thanks Nat!

6. Our sad, bare bedroom...that's always the last on my to-do list.

Family Picture Out-takes

Mostly courtesy of Katie!

Family Pictures

It's been a long time since my family actually had some good pictures taken of us. So, in honor of us all being in America at the same time, we took some. Here are some of the best ones. My Uncle Gary was nice enough to take these for us...he's the one with my Dad. Cute brothers, huh?

Ping Pong Tournament

Every year that we go to Okmulgee, we have a ping-pong tournament. Here are some of the pictures. Paul and Laurie were the come-from-behind champions!

Rainy Weekend

This was the first Fourth of July weekend that it poured rain most of the time. But we made the most of our time! Check out these pictures of us playing mud volleyball! And after the game was over, Blake and Katie took a plunge in the pond. I didn't join because I'm not really fond of parasites!

Fishing With Papa Bill

For the fourth of July, my entire family goes to Okmulgee where we have a whole weekend of all kinds of fun. I'll post more on that later, but on Friday night, Blake and I were the only ones there. So we got Granny and Papa Bill all to ourselves. We went fishing and between the three of us caught three fish. Blake caught one and Papa bill caught two on one line. He acted all non-chalant about it, but I thought it was pretty incredible! Anyways, it was fun and it definately got us ready for the rest of the awesome weekend!

New Nephew

Blake's brother had a baby while we were gone and since they live in Seattle, we had not had the chance to meet him yet. So, here he is! All the way from Seattle...Charlie! He's pretty cute. Anyways, Blake's brother and his family came into town and we had a grill-out and got to hang out. It was fun!