I have posted some new pictures to my winkflash site. With Amy's help this link on the side should take you to my pictures and it should let you see all my folders. Right now I have three folders there.

I am going to put a few of my favorite pictures here of course, just in case my link doesn't work. This first picture of Emily, Haley and Aiden mirrors the one of Tom and Kathy's kids. Mom has that one as her wallpaper on her computer. The girls were looking at it and I mentioned that I would like to take their picture like that. Haley, at only three, immediately said "so I will be behind Aiden because he will be on the bottom, and Emily will be behind Aiden and me." I was so impressed that she could look at the picture of Thomas, Steven and Lauren and figure out the order of the kids, then how that would be mirrored in her own family. We had fun taking this picture.

This is a picture of RaeLynne and Josh's house in Smolan. It is a really cute house, with a full fenced in back yard. I think it has three bedrooms and a bath upstairs, a living room, dining room, kitchen and full bath on the first floor. The back porch is enclosed and has a washer and dryer on it. The house has central air conditioning and has that great front porch. I think it is a great house.








These next three pictures are of Madi. Here she is with her parents. I liked this picture. Madi is so alert!





This is Madi with one set of her grandparents. I thought this was a particularly good picture of Dan and Jane. Boy don't they look like the proud grandparents!

Just as an aside, I am going to have to do another study when next I am in Kansas. I am going to see how frequently husbands and wives wear the similar colored shirts as both Dan and Jane and Chris and Amy did on the day of these pictures.




Then here is Madi with her great grandparents. What a rich family history this little girl gets to experience!








This final picture was just too precious. This little tiny girl has the complete attention of all three of these guys (Dad, Ray and Chris). You Go Girl, keep up the good work!

Do you remember playing Twister?

I think I figured out how to get you to see my photos from Thomas' birthday. I had forgotten to make them public photos. So try this link:

http://www.winkflash.com/photo/public.aspx?u=LJH916

Beth said she could not link to my pictures, so I have added a few more of them here.

Thomas on his seventh birthday.







Steven loves to say "cheese." Even if I don't ask him to say it, he does the minute it looks like I am going to point the camera at him. But then cheese is one of his favorite foods, I think.








Lauren is such a ham. I asked her if I could take her picture. I expected her to grin big like the boys do and say "cheese". But then she did this pose and I was able to capture it. I was laughing so hard at her. She is adorable.

Thomas turned 7 today! We had fun eating, playing hide and seek, drawing chalk art, and mugging for the camera. I have a few more pictures I will put on the media site I have linked in my previous post. Some of them are really cute (of course the subject of the pictures are always cute!).






Thomas loved his transformer "The Millenium Falcon." He has seen the original three movies and loves them! And of course his Dad is sitting on the couch reciting long quotes from the movies as Thomas is flying the Millenium Falcon around the room! A whole new generation of fans.





I took this picture, and several like it, of the kids sitting on my stairs. Aren't they cute?

I am not sure how to put a link on the side of my blog for my pictures. So I am posting the link right here.

http://www.winkflash.com/photo/public.aspx?u=LJH916

I had the best time in Kansas with my family.

I am going to add a few of my favorite pictures here on the site. But you can see them all through the link above.

This was the first opportunity I had to meet Madi. Please note Beth, I am holding her before you!














These are the four "Greats" together. I had no problem asking them to smile (or say cheese) on this picture. The Zsuzics children just adore Madi!







For some reason I did not get a picture of Madi with her Grandparents together. But I did get some good shots of each of them holding her.




But I did get one of Madi with her Great Grandparents! She is such a doll.












And don't you just love this one of Dad at the shop?







I had such a nice time in Kansas visiting with all the family.