New Blog Idea: Family Recipe of the Week

Family,

My mom was visiting last weekend for a family wedding. Steph had recently shared a recipe with my mom that was met with rave reviews.  This led to an idea for all of Yous Kids... "The Yous Kids Recipe of the Week."

Here's the concept: each week, one volunteer family is responsible for posting one recipe on the family blog. Hopefully this way, we can share the gift of good/new food with each other.  After we've got a few of you signed up, Steph and I will start with the afore mentioned killer recipe: Cheesy Chicken Crescent Rolls.

If you'd like to sign up for this, please comment on this post.

Heads - up

It's that time of year - magazine sales for school! The kids receive "wonderful" prizes if they fill out at least 7 postcards to send to people at least an hour away from us. If you fit the criteria, you'll receive one. Feel free to ignore it. If you're itching to buy a magazine, give me a call. Thanks!

Sawyer Crawling

shiny phone + music playing = baby army crawl motivation

Stiches

Yeah... it's a long story.

Sawyer 6 Month Photos

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while.  Steph and I  had an idea to hire a friend of ours who's a professional photographer (among other art-type things) to come to our house and take Sawyer's 6 month pictures.  We had previously done the JC Penny thing, and had a terrible experience- so we wanted to give this a shot.

We were very happy with how these turned out.  I've included most of our favorites, but as Grandma Kathy Gesch points out... can you really pick just a few?

Anyone potentially interested in free picture downloads of these pictures (or the other 128 pictures that he took!) can do so by clicking here.

A cross-country journey

Yesterday I arrived safely in New Haven, CT - the site of my next two years of education. Everything went more or less according to plan - four and a half days of driving with a one and a half day break in Chicago to see some members of the family. In all I think I averaged around 30 mpg, paid at least $27 in tolls, plus a speeding ticket from one of Indiana's finest.

In the next week and a half I will interview fourteen times for summer positions next year, complete a write-on competition for the law journal, find an apartment, and begin orientation at the law school.

Below I give a brief photo-travelogue of my journey across the country.

My friend Eric drove with me to Chicago

Utah at its best

The car was packed to the gills

Colorado (we stopped at a water park in Denver right before this)

All you need to see of Nebraska

Scranton, PA - For those of you who are Office fans, I made sure to stop at "Poor Richard's" pub, which is located inside a bowling alley

New York

My temporary home

YALE OR BUST

After brokering a deal for his Pepperdine Apartment and mattress, loading all his earthly belongings into the car, and programming the Magellan GPS, Alex, and his travel chaperone Eric, began the long journey East. (Rumor has it Eric was sent along to avoid a long layover in Las Vegas.) We thought they would arrive earlier in the day but they let time slip away while playing at a water park en route. We caught up with Alex in his travels across the country at Aurelio's Pizza in Homewood, IL tonight dining with some of his favorite relatives!
(posted by Mike)

Holland Fest Weekend

On the weekend of August 25th, I had nine friends (including Liz and Karley!) up to Cedar Grove to celebrate Holland Fest and participate in the 2 Mile Holland Fest Run. Sam Staal took second overall in the two mile in a blistering time of 10 minutes and 40 seconds! He also landed first place in his age group and brought home a huge trophy. My friends especially thought it was great that my dad narrated the whole parade to the entire town. We had a great time and I loved showing off Cedar Grove.