Home Sweet Home

Logan has been de-throned and we tried to bribe her with a new toy...conveniently she can now chew on a french poodle.

My many faces

and believe me, I have many many more......

New Baby = No Sleep??

Looks like they're doing just fine to me!

Gram and Pops

E. has to wait a few weeks to meet her other set of grandparents due to her not-so-timely arrival 12 days late!

C'est une fille!!!

Praise God,

Eloise Janine was born at 2:59 pm on Wednesday, Sept. 3rd.

She weighed in at 8 lbs and was 20 in long.

Here are some shots of her first few hours.

We got some wheels......so we headed on a road trip

A vacationing family from church lent us their car for a couple of weeks while they are away. It has been so incredibly great to have the freedom of a car (especially to avoid the smelly metro this time of year!) My mom, her neighbor Amanda, Alan and I headed south of Paris to a chateau called Vaux-le-Vicomte and then on to Fontainebleau. We enjoyed lunch, walking around town and sitting by a canal in the woods of Fontainebleau.

The ladies were cooling off by dipping their feet in the canal. I was too afraid that if I got down on the ground I wouldn't be able to get back up or else fall into the water!

La Tour de France

Alan and I got to watch the finish of the Tour de France on the Ave des Champs Elysees. We had to plant ourselves about 3 1/2 hours prior to the racers' arrival to get good seats! After arriving from the south and riding through Paris, they rode up and down the Champs Elysees 7 or 8 times to the finish line at the Place de la Concorde. Here's the leader wearing the yellow jersey.
He had a one minute five second lead going into the final stage, so he just had to stay with the rest of the pack to win the tour.

A shot of the peloton

Um, is he adjusting your brakes at 30+ miles an hour??