Gatlinburg, TN

Somehow, Toni managed to get all of us from Sara's side of the family (excluding Paul and Jodi since they just moved back from Germany) together in Gatlinburg, TN for a family weekend. She found us an awesome cabin in the middle of the Smokey Mountains that had bedrooms for all of us, a hot tub, pool table, air hockey, full kitchen, three decks, etc.
It was also our first trip in an airplane with Ethan, which went really good on the way there and really bad on the way back. Next time our flight will have to correspond a little better with nap times or something. He did also end up with a cold after coming home. His first cold ever though which is pretty good for being 7 months old.
A lot of our time was spend playing with the kids though. Elise and Ethan were the only entertainment we really needed. Elise had just started walking and Ethan was mostly sitting there watching her walk circles around here....very cute. They were also very good about sharing their toys with each other.























I think we all decided that Toni's planning the next vacation for us all too!!! ;)

New Job

Steve has been on a job hunt for many months now and finally got a new job for Quality Tool as their IT Manager. It is a big step up from his last job with more responsibility and more opportunities to learn. It has been a crazy schedule though between working long hours at his new job and still helping out with his old job until his position is filled. Needless to say, Ethan and me have been spending a lot of evenings home alone without Daddy, but we know it's temporary and a great new job for him.

Corina Genevieve!!!

We are proud to announce that we are aunt and uncle again!!
Corina Genevieve Muhr was born to Dan and Elizabeth on June 17th at 8:42pm, 7lb 9oz, 21 inches long and lots of black hair.
Four generations of Muhr's. Great-Grandma Doris, Grandpa Merlin, Daddy Dan and Corina.
Grandma Carol and all her grand kids...happy and grumpy!
Proud new Parents!!! We're so happy for you three.

Sara's 30 Years Old

My 30th Birthday started out really early. I picked up my parents at the airport just after midnight. (They were on their way back from NC.) Mom suggested going out for a quick breakfast to celebrate my birthday and let me open some presents since it was June 3rd already!
We ended up going to IHOP, which was really busy actually, and eating breakfast and opening presents.
Here I'm opening the infant carrier that mom and dad got for me and I'm also sporting my new earrings and nail polish that John and Stacie sent along for me. It was a great way to start my birthday.
That night Steve took me out to a fancy French restaurant, Muffulletta's, where the food was really good even though you weren't quite sure about what you were eating .
Dessert was delicious and small...just right after a big meal.

We then went to go see "Prince Caspian" before heading back home to take over our parenting responsibilities and let my parents go home for the night after having watched Ethan for us.
The celebrations continued on the next day when Beth, Ezra, and Elijah were in town and we had supper with them at Oma and Opa's.
Ethan had such a good time just hanging out with his "cousins" and mostly just starred at them. It was very cute.
By the way, what do you call the relationship between my cousins and my kids...are they "second cousins" or "cousins once removed"?