New House!

Now that we've had a month to settle into our new house . . . here are some pictures!

 The perfect spot to sit and read the mail . . .

 Living room to your right as you walk in

 In the living room, facing the front door

 Dining room, looking out to the back yard

 Kitchen, with two cute models I found

Family room off the kitchen (leads to garage and to sun room, shown below)

We're still on the lookout for furniture for this room, but we think it's going to be a fun spot for entertaining!

For now, it serves an important purpose: home to Luke's 5th baby :)

Our back yard is basically a forest!

Here is one of the friends we've made back there (we've also seen a vole, a chipmunk, and of course lots of squirrels and different kinds of birds).

Sarah and Alex enjoying lunch in the tree house!

Going upstairs to the master bedroom . . . 

 View from the master bath window

Abby's room

 Katie's room (did you guess?)

Alex and Sarah's room

 Kids' bathroom

Basement guest bedroom and Luke's Man Cave. Come stay with us, and you can roll right out of bed and work out on the rowing machine or review radiology cases on the big screen--or do both simultaneously, as Luke does. What a deal!

March 2014

Here are some highlights of the busy month of March!


Abby's orchestra concert


A snowy hike (no change in loyalty here--it was the only hat I could find!)


Then it was off to Utah . . .

. . . to celebrate this awesome couple! (gorgeous wedding photography courtesy of David Newkirk)



First stop: Pops and Grannie's house, where Katie made friends with Grannie's moose :)


Olivia and Sarah at the park (mountains purposely not cropped out--we LOVED seeing them!)



Lunch on the train at Shiver's


Abby, Katie, Lucy


The 2013 cousin buddies--Bethany and Caleb ("Aunt Carrie, can't you just let us eat breakfast in peace?")


Adorable Beth at the park


Hands down, this was the highlight of the entire trip for Alex: playing cars with Pops and Grannie!


. . . and this was one of Abby and Katie's


Caleb thoroughly enjoyed himself at Cafe Rio . . . and nearly destroyed the place. As Liza was dutifully sweeping up the disaster, a nurse that she works with walked in. He told her, "You really need a nurse to clean all this up!" :)


Hiking with second cousins Anna and Gracelyn


Bowling with Emie and Bayla


Emie and Katie


Zoo day! (Andrew and Emmy looked thrilled, don't they?)


Sarah loved climbing on this elephant


Lucy and Katie


Abby got to attend the rehearsal dinner with us in Park City. Here we are with Teisa, Lara, and Rachel (Will's sister).


The Big Day!!


Super-twirly dresses


The bridesmaids


The groomsmen


The siblings


Lara and her flower girls (Sarah, Bayla, Emie, Katie, and Abby)


Lara and her ring bearers, Reid and Alex


Walking down the aisle








(yes, many attempts were made to do Sarah's hair!)


Great-grandpa Jokisch with Scott and Nora


What a beautiful setting!


Mr. and Mrs. Kieffer


Abby and Katie had fun dancing with their second cousins--here are Anna and Joy


Grannie and Sarah with second cousin Jacquelyn


Deer Valley


Farewell sparklers with the Kuzma and Garvert cousins--Joy, Elly, Nicole, Gracelyn, Katie 1, Katie 2, Adam

Whew! What a trip!! It was fabulous to be part of Lara and Will's big day and to see so many loved ones.



Back in Cincy . . .

Katie with a her "Taj Majal" painting at Art Night


Abby with her learning fair project on owls (I was proud of how hard she worked to finish it a week early, before our big trip.)


Another fun family hike!