Summer sure is grand!

Long time no update. Things have been busy, so the fastest way for me to say anything is with pictures. I've been enjoying a week at home and living up the summertime. Tara left for Romania yesterday. She's gone until the end of August and working closely with the Staab family in the city of Bucharest. (Pssst, it's her bday Sat. Send a greeting to Tara...)

at the airport Wed

hot summer days

IA countryside

out at the farm last Sat for a cousin's shower

Aaron pulling the horse-cart with Sam

last Monday after a good game of capture the flag with friends

One of my favorite people: Oma Alette

Memorial Day weekend in WI

with the Neu fam

Milwaukee Public Market on a rainy day

Memorial Day parade, etc.

and even a perfect day to plant stuff in Nicole's garden...

Lake Michigan on a fine Saturday in May


with my grandparents on a visit home


gotta love Chicago


My Bible Study Fellowship class this year was incredible. I learned alot and
am grateful to the Lord for the people He brought across my path.

March, April, May

May tulips!

Gina Novotny/Woody Robertson wedding in Holland, MI - April 28

and the fun place I stayed:

first boating of the season back in April

Julia Cope/Garret Brink wedding back in March - South Carolina

snapshots from the past month...

Several weekends ago

Tanya and Lejla visited Chicago earlier in January so the whole fam
came in and stayed at Trutza's. On a subsequent weekend and one
of the coldest days of the year, cross-country skiing up in WI  with
deathly windchills...

items from Valentine's banquet

snow scenes from the past couple days... except for the pics that I
didn't bother to take of cars in the ditches last Fri/Sat on my drive home