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Christmas in Illinois, Aidan turned two.

drove back from california; went camping in Arizona.

Fall in Illinois. We took a road trip out west, passing through Denver before staying a few weeks in California.

Our last month in Switzerland! Becka went to CERN, the weather got colder, and we were too busy to take pictures

mom and jeana came to visit us!

chris started his humanities school...aidan enjoyed his "mogie ackle"

Chris communications school ended; we explored a little more of Switzerland.

We moved to Switzerland.

It's almost Spring! Lot's of outdoor pics

In Illinois.

We spent time in California before returning to IL.

We were in IL at the beginning of the month; we drove to CA and spent Christmas there.

our favorite pics of the city.

We left Amsterdam in late November and had Thanksgiving in IL.

It's fall now and it definitely feels like it! That means a lot of playing indoors and a lot of pictures of Aidan!

Aidan is eight months old, we move in with a Dutch host family

aidan is smiling a lot! he loves to do different activities like reading, swimming, swinging, and playing.

Aidan is almost three months old; we moved to Amsterdam.

Wow- we've become people who take way too many pictures of their kids. But he's just so cute-it's hard to resist. If this keeps up for the next 18 years, we are going to have a serious photo management problem!

Born December 24, 2007. These are pics up to a week old.

Just some random pictures from this fall, including some from Illinois, California, and Kentucky.

From Sept. 25-27, 2007, we drove from Becka's parents house in Southern California to the Lone Pine/Bishop area in the Sierras. I climbed Mt. Whitney, we caught up with friends, and then stopped by the ancient bristlecone pine forest on the way back to the LA area. To echo John Muir, going to the Sierras always feels like going home.

These are pictures taken during August 2007. Becka did her TESOL in Montana, and when I returned from Africa, I drove out there to pick her up. We stayed there for a week and checked out Glacier National Park and a few other sites. Then we drove back to IL, passing through Yellowstone National Park. These are a few pics from that trip.

These pics were taken during a short visit with my brother Jon in August 2007. He was working at Mkhuze game reserve in South Africa.

These are pics we took during a safari (day-trip) to the crater. I definitely felt the limitations of our camera with these, but there are a few good ones. Since i wasn't using a high-zoom lens, the pics should give you a good idea of how close we actually were to the animals.

These pictures are from January-July 2007, taken while we were working in Arusha, Tanzania.

These pictures were taken during three different trips to Burundi: Aug 2005, Sept 2006-Jan 2007, and July 2007.

These pics were taken during an outreach to India in May/June 2005

These are pictures during 2005-2006 when we were staff with ywam south australia.

These are some pics from our "wilderness" discipleship training school in fall 2003/winter 2004. This was my first experience with ywam, and where becka and I first met. We spent our lecture phase backpacking through the sierras, death valley, arizona, and utah. Our outreach was in Kyrgyzstan. Originally on 35mm.

These were taken during a short-term trip in 2002. This was my first experience working cross-culturally, and probably still one of my favorites. PNG has to be one of the most amazing places on earth. This was before I had a digital camera, so these pics were taken on a 35mm and scanned.