6 mo. recap...sorta

Well, let's just say the blog is a little out of date. I've been inspired by Sarah's newly active blog: http://sarahmay77.blogspot.com/.

Things sped up at the end of '07 and haven't really let up since then. First, it was preparing the old house to go on the market. Sooooo many projects that we had been intending on completing "one day" had to be completed before we went back to MI for Christmas vacation (which was wonderful, by the way).

Then, we put the house on the market and every evening is spent cleaning up clutter and getting phone calls saying someone wanted to come by and view the house. Yes, EVERY day. I'm not complaining. We were blessed to have a contract on the house in 4 days. 3 weeks later we were moving out. Backing up a little bit, we had our eye on a house in the Evandale Elem. school district for some time and were lucky enough that it was still on the market when our house went under contract. We immediately started working to get that house and it worked out perfectly. So, our new address is 3076 Wanda Woods Dr. Atlanta, GA 30340. Look it up in Google Street View. Well, you can't exactly. You can get within 4 houses of ours and see pretty much the whole neighborhood we live in, but our short street is not covered. Still, Google street view is pretty neat. Here's a link to the view from the end of my street: http://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http:%2F%2Fmw1.google.com%2Fmw-ms%2Fcode%2Fmapplet.xml&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=33.879769,-84.226921&spn=0.005113,0.007499&z=17&cbll=33.87761,-84.22729&panoid=8TKvIQemqisfbtgK59HUCQ&cbp=1,349.9034269546112,,0,-10.577596747067241

Of course, once we bought the new house there was all the work moving and then all the work that had to be done around the new place. Baby-proofing is a tedious, but very necessary task. Especially when your toddler is a gifted climber.

Now, Allison is almost here. Laura and I are really excited and looking forward to meeting her. Barely over a week away now! Wow. It's amazing how much our lives have changed over the last 2 years. It's been wonderful.

I'll do my best to post some house pictures in the next couple of days and get some updated photos of Katie. Obviously, once Allison is born I'll be adding a bunch of her pictures here too.

In the mean time, here's a link to a Picasa web album we recently uploaded. It has many pictures taken over the last couple of years that we need to get printed. Laura's still working on sorting through all our digital photos to determine which need to be printed. Good luck to her...we have a MASSIVE amount of pictures store on the computer. http://picasaweb.google.com/mlsommer1/LauraSPicsToPrint?authkey=MpGtuaLn1WI

Always Revel in the Glory of God's Creation

Fall in Atlanta

Katie's New Trick

Now, when Katie's full, she starts stacking her food on her head. Nice.

Katie's Birthday

Been busy lately and didn't get a chance to throw up any pictures from Katie's birthday last month. Here they are...better late than never right?

Sharing cake with aunt Jill.

Katie at the Georgia Aquarium

Here's Katie having fun at the Georgia Aquarium during the recent Volunteer Appreciation Night on Wednesday, Nov. 7th.

Katie Lauging Hysterically

Fort Yargo State Park - Winder, GA

A Plethora of Perfect Pictures!

Yes Katie, that's a lot of new pictures!

Sorry to take so long to update the pictures on the blog.
Katie is doing well. She's pulling herself up and standing all the time now. She's still a big goof ball and enjoys laughing at her parents. She's eating lots of different baby foods now 3 times a day. She went to the doctor today and is an even 17lbs.

She is currently resting up in eager anticipation of the arrival of Grandma & Grandpa Sommer tomorrow.

I hope everyone is doing very well. We are blessed daily in so many ways and pray the same for all of you.

Don't forget that you can click on the pictures for a larger view!

Do these make me look dorky?

Ever wonder what a 5 month old would look like in glasses? No, well here you go anyway!

More Giggles

Katherine



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Katie Giggling!

She loves to laugh! ...that is until you point a camera at her. :-)

Katie having fun!



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Katie Pictures!
Here she is just hangin' out in the living room playing with her toys.
Isn't she photogenic?

New Mobile Blog

I started a new personal blog over at: http://sommermobileblog.blogspot.com/

Why? Well, I didn't want to fill up the family blog with a bunch of pointless blather. However, if you're into reading my rather pointless blather then feel free to check out the site from time to time. The idea behind this particular blog is that I can post to it from anywhere with my mobile phone. So far, it has been working well.

If you want, you can set up your own phone to post to the family blog. Just type "blogger mobile" into google and you'll be sure to find lots of details on how to blog from your phone with pictures & text. It's a pretty easy one-time setup and then all you do is send your multimedia message (MMS, Verizon calls it picture messaging) to "go@blogger.com" and it'll automagically post to the blog. Again, you have to set it up first before that'll work.

Later!
Matt - http://sommermobileblog.blogspot.com

Happy Birthday Dad!

Happy birthday dad! I hope you have an enjoyable b-day. I'll be thinking of you and we'll have Katie give you a call on the video phone tonight.

St. Patrick's Weekend in Atlanta

Well I had a great weekend in Atlanta visiting Matt, Laura, Katie and all of my friends. Katie is so active now from the last time I saw her in December! I can't believe how quickly she's growing. Kind of sad that I can't be in Atlanta to see her and spoil her rotten.

My weekend consisted of playing with Katie and Jazz, saying goodbye to my apartment, consuming adult beverages in moderation ;), getting a kangaroo costume!, an adventure to Midtown Towing with 8 friends, and lots of eating!

I hope to get back for another visit soon. I miss my ATL life, but love the new adventure in Lansing.

Atlanta Hunger Walk

Laura, Katie and I participated in the Atlanta Hunger Walk again this year. Well, it was the second time for me and Laura, but Katie's first! She was filling in for the other Sommer girl who participated in last year's event (that's you Aunt Lisa!!!)

Here's a picture of Laura, Julie, and Katie as we just got started from Turner Field downtown.

The weather was fantastic again this year. Perhaps it could have even been a few degrees cooler. I believe it was around 78 and it was quite sunny the whole time. We all had a great time. Katie was quite interested in all the action.


Here I am with Katie and Joanna looking on. You can see Jason & Jennifer (partly) Brewster and their kids plus Mark Fields just behind me. We had quite good participation of Grace Lutheran members again to help raise money and awareness for those who are food insecure in Atlanta.

New Katie Pictures!