last posting of the year???

"There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces you meet;"

Sad News

On October 19th, Jason's mother passed away. Enjoy these incredible pictures of a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt... What a woman!

Here's the obituary posted by the Funeral Home - HERE.

Hungarian vacation

We finally have a couple of new stamps in our passports thanks to our decision to attend Michael and Eszter's wedding in Hungary. We had a beautiful time enjoying walking the city of Budapest, drinking palinka, sampling the local fare (mmmmm venison stew), meeting new people and reconnecting with some former aquaintances, kicking butt in bocce, perfecting the Hungarian phrase for "I would like two more Jagermeisters please," dancing till dawn and then some, and, very importantly, sleeping until we woke up on our own accord. Please note we couldn't have done this without the generous offer from Grandma Stanley - aka abuelita or "beeta" as Lucia says - to stay with the kids. The last pictures below are from our return to Milwaukee. As jetlagged as we were, there was a bit of time to take abuelita to a Brewers game and one more night of story time together.

Block Partying and Baby Girl turns TWO

Summer is in full swing as we have our block party; Lucia has her birthday party; Jack meets his junior kindergarten teacher; and, mom and dad prepare for a trip to Hungary without the bambinos. We've got some great pictures to share and hopefully we'll have lots more after our short little trip.

99 pictures downloaded from the camera today

I'm sure many people have this issue with digital cameras: so many pictures taken, so long to download them and to share them. In this batch, you'll see grandpa nudge's visit, crazy hat day, our refurbished bench, Jack @ the farm, playing in the backyard, Kat's TRES LECHES birthday cake and our NEW little shade garden. Woohoo! We'll be sure to take many pictures of our summer adventures, but we can't promise fast turn around times on the downloading.

Breakin' in Spring

Spring Break is over and we are back to work, but we had a nice relaxing week.
We went "up North" for a few days and enjoyed sunny days chasing bubbles and watching the sunset over the frozen lake! Grandpa Nudge also came out for a few days and kept us company...overall it was a great vacation - as long as we don't include our NCAA brackets.

Come on SPRING!!!

Ugh - winter is still sticking around. The forecasters called for light snow showers totaling maybe an inch the other day and they got it pretty wrong. Dada walked up the driveway through about 4 inches. Our days have been spent mainly inside going to museums, the domes, open gyms and the like. Mama has been as patient as can be with us - dealing with our sicknesses and our high energy level. Enjoy this latest batch of pictures that help to tell the story.

Christmas 2009

We're so glad 2009 ended and a visit from Mack, BB and Callista helped us beyond belief. The holiday vacation is just about over, but we've made the most of our time by going to the domes, visiting the Sprecher brewery, making yummy food, eating said food, scraping ugly blue paint off beautiful wood, installing a new kitchen faucet, weathering incessant colds, sniffles and the occasional pink eye, shoveling a little bit of snow, lamenting the cancelation of Dollhouse, making snow people on top of snow pyramids, spending a bit of time with awesome friends and neighbors, and, celebrating the arrival of BABY BEATRIX STANLEY SANDER. In short, 2010 has started off normally and may it continue to be so for you and yours!!