Wrapping up the past few months...

Okay so although we have sent out pictures and uploaded to Facebook.. we have failed to keep the blog up to date in the past few months. This will be a nice big post in an attempt to summarize everything from July to now (the end of October). I'll probably break this up a bit:


July 2009- 4th of July and return to Minnesota for FANA weekend.

So we traveled back to Erin's hometown for 4th of July for the sake of good ol' hometown fun. It was "brisk" that day!



These are from the parade in Perry, IA



He needs to stop judging my hat.



Erin's sister Jenny, her husband Jeff, and their kiddos Abby and Caleb came for a visit all the way from Texas. Erin's cousin Amy also drove over from Ohio to get all of the little cousins together.







The Vogtlin visit also prompted an entire family stay at a cabin in central Iowa. Good times!








Following this visit, Erin and Lucas traveled to Minnesota for the annual FANA fundraiser weekend. If you faithful followers recall, we received our referral for Lucas at one of these events last year- so obviously this was a big deal to us!

The picture below was taken about 5 minutes after our friends Kary and Peter learned they had twin boys waiting for them down in Colombia (they are still there working through the process by the way...)



Ted wasn't able to get away from the hospital for the weekend so Nancy was my date :-)



There was a family picnic also.. where Lucas sported his Colombia soccer jersey. Too bad it was so cold!



On that Sunday we went to the FANA Mass that gave us such precious memories from the previous year! Lucas even got to pay a visit to the founder of his orphanage, Mercedes de Martinez who changed his life forever.







That completed the first leg of the Minnesota trip. More pictures in next post!