103 Days Until Dr. Mara!

We've almost hit the home stretch. Roughly 100 days until Dr. Mara Syring! We were talking about what she'd want as a graduation gift and she decided on a nicer camera (a DSLR). Allison had gotten one she did the research on, and Mara really liked the picutres it took, as well as the ease of use and automatic settings (since we are pretty green in the area of photography). We picked up a Nikon D3100 and have been filling up the SD card on a regular basis...:) A lot of the pictures are random...mostly us playing with apeture, shutter speed, f-stop, etc. We have also taken a TON of Rohan; as if his life wasn't well documented already. We've been really happy with the pictures, and can't wait to take it outside, into the mountains!
Speaking of mountains, we capped of this weekend with a hike in South Mountain. Mara's Uncle Mike, and cousin Steve were in town to visit Mara's grandpa (who had a stroke last week, but is doing AWESOME now!). It was a nice way to cap off a weekend of hiking, climbing, running, working out, raquetball, and friends having babies!
The latter was due to BOTH the Caldwell's and the Fritz's having babies. Pete and Beth had a boy (Chayton Richard Fritz), and Greg and Nicole had a girl (Mila Emmaline Caldwell). Both parents sound like their doing great. We did get to meet baby Mila, and Rohan has her name down pat now. He was really curious about her and like to poke her and say "Baby". We can't wait to meet Chayton too!

Mila Emmaline

Chayton Richard

Not much happening this week. We have the PGA tournement (Phoenix Open) next door, so that's always fun...:) Next week Michelle comes out, so we'll have some great hikes and runs planned for then.
Not a TON of pictures since we sucked at getting any with our camera and Mila, and the new camera has been used mostly experimentally...there will be more, I promise!


Rohan playing with a flashlight when he supposed to be taking a nap...:


Rohan Climbing At Amberwood Park before we met the family for supper: