The Kirksey Adventures - kirksey

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Christmas in Oregon December 2006

On our drive to Gettysburg
It's not a great picture, but the fall colors were amazing!

countryside of Pennsylvania


Beautiful day


fall


Gettysburg National Cemetary


Monument to Lincoln at the gate


Memorial explanation


Cemetary in the fall


So many monuments and cannons


WWII graves in the cemetary


Jeff in Gettysburg


another view


markers to show unknown soldiers


poetry
The cemetary was full of different markers with poems, quotes, etc.

Gettysburg Address Monument
This is where Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address.

markers of unknown soldiers


Explanations...
In a huge circle around the Gettysburg Address monument is all the Yankee soldiers that died in the war.

National Monument
This is where Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address.

Gettysburg, PA October 2006


This was really amazing to see


Jeff & I in Gettysburg


up close


This is one New York monument
A lot of New York soldiers fought and died in the war and there were many monuments to honor them.

Picture of Lincoln
This is a picture of Lincoln right after he's finished giving the Gettysburg Address.

more markers


East part of the cemetary


Jeff taking it all in


we really never knew...
I never had a concept of how many men fought in the civil war and how many men died for freedom and liberty.

A great battle was fought here


memorial in East Cemetary
There were so many memorials that we couldn't stop to read them all. I'm not sure who this is for.

East Cemetary Hill


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Entry to the National Cemetary


from the cannon's view


Battle Explanation


Another Huge Monument


East Cemetary Hill


To see the scale...


The artistry was incredible


Gettysburg National Cemetary
No Confederate soldiers are burried in the cemetary because they were considered the enemy.

East Cemetary Hill


WWII graves
There are a lot of Pennsylvanian soldiers from WWII burried in the Gettysburg National Cemetary.

Another View


Gettysburg National Cemetary


Fallen Soldier


Patriotism runs deep here


Spanish American War graves


New York Monument


Me in the National Cemetary


It had it's own kind of beauty


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Jeff & I in Gettysburg
This is Jeff & I standing in front of the monument honoring President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. He gave it here.

Jeff & I in Gettysburg, PA 10/06
Standing in front of the place where Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address. Pretty amazing!

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The Kirksey's in Gettysburg, PA
We're in the Gettysburg National Cemetary in front of the place where Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address.

Gettysburg Visitors Center


So old and beautiful!
God really blessed us with amazing weather. I think we were there at the height of the fall colors.

the start of our tour...
This is where the south camped before attacking the union soliders

Old barn in civil war country


Gettysburg National Cemetary


The gate to the cemetery


Where the South Camped


This barn was in the civil war
This barn has been there since the civil war. I can hardly believe it! Such history has happened around it.

looking at a battle field


Looking at Seminary Ridge
This was the direction that the South first marched. It's on the outside edge of town.

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Battlefield


More battle fields
Jeff & I were surprised at the size of area that the battle was fought on. We drove 18 miles through the battle fields.

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Eternal Flame
This was built and dedicated to remember the lives that were lost in order to have freedom and unity.

Eternal Flame
To remember what happened that we might never repeat history in the same way.

Jeff at the Eternal Flame


Eternal Flame


Looking out onto History
This is the view from the Eternal Flame. Battlefields just outside of Gettysburg the town

Eternal Flame monument


Looking @ the town of Gettysburg


the side of the eternal flame


Looking on Gettysburg


Fall colors at Gettysburg


Looking on seminary hill


Civil war farm


The view from Cemetary Hill
Looking across to Big and Little Round Top

Cemetary Hill
The south had a lot of birgades here.

A soldier heading into battle...


Another view...


Confederate memorial


Confederate Memorial


Pickett's march to Round Top
This was a pivitol battle field. 12,000 Confederate soldiers crossed this field and most of them died here.

Another view of the field


Another Southern Monument


Gettysburg, PA October 2006


Battle field view of Round Top


Gettysburg, PA October 2006


Jeff video taping
Jeff took really great video of different areas at Gettysburg and told their stories...

So beautiful!
I couldn't get over how beautiful the fall colors were. What a blessing!

Another view of this monument


Fall in Gettysburg, Oct. 2006


There were miles of rock walls


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Mt. Adams in Washington
We had a front row view of this mountain from the wedding & all the festivities!

Bridesmaids Gifts
Christy got all of us monogramed tote bags from LL Bean...Very Cool!!

decorating the get away car...


Homoncles at Rehearsal


Best Friends
One of God's greatest blessings in our lives

Christy and Maryanne


Maryanne, Christy, and Grace


The Bride & Groom...
Tobin's cool aviator glasses...very "Top Gun" if you ask me. :)

Christy & Tobin at Rehearsal


So happy together


Rehearsal
The wedding was on Tobin's Aunt's property. It was beautiful!

Cool Gazebo...
Tobin & his Dad made this for the wedding. Tobin made Christy a jewlery box out of the same wood as a wedding gift.

It was VERY hot this day...


Corrine & I at Rehearsal Dinner


Fun company, Great food!
We had a great time all hanging out together, even though we'd all just met!

sunset on Mt. Adams
This is the view from the deck of the house where rehearsal dinner was. So beautiful. I miss the Northwest so much.

Gracie and Benjamin
These are Christy's niece and nephew.

Groomsmen gifts
Tobin gave his goomsmen hats, aviator glasses, and some other cool stuff from REI

All the guys


Getting ready the morning of...
Christy's sister did her nails and Cori did her hair...as is homoncle tradition! :)

Enjoying it all


Bridesmaids getting ready
Shannon is missing from this picture

Corrine, Christy & Sarah


Putting the dress on


The Beautiful Bride


The garder
Christy's sisters helping her get ready! Shannon is Tobin's sister and Maryanne is Christy's sister.

Like I said...it was hot :)
We're just helping Christy cool off a little with a fan and getting some nervs out with laughter!!!

First meeting of the day...
Christy & Tobin are way out there by the tree line. They met out there for the first time on their wedding day.

Lots of picture taking!
Hey...who are those two amazing women out there? :)

Christy & Maryanne
Maryanne was Christy's Matron of Honor.

Bride & Bridesmaids


Keeping the dress clean


The wedding party


The wedding party


Figuring out where to put us all
This turned out to be one of the best wedding party pictures I've ever seen.

Tobin seating his parents


The Mom's lighting their candles
Christy & Tobin had their Mom's light the family candles that they would then take and use to light their unity candle.

Here comes the bride...
Christy's Dad walked her down the aisle.

Good Job Christy!!
I have to say, Christy was awesome and calm before this moment. She did a great job with the day and all the emotions!

Giving her away


She's in good hands :)


The ceremony


Priceless moment


saying their vows


Saying their vows to each other


Uh...where's the ring? :)
Michael Bean pulled a great prank. He faked losing the ring and it was so funny!!

With this ring...


I thee wed


Lighting the Unity Candle


Lighting the Unity Candle


Their parents prayed for them


Praying in the ceremony


The Kiss :)


The Kiss!


A well deserved laugh!
Okay...you had to be there but the kiss totally deserved this reaction! We all had to giggle.

Mr. & Mrs. Rummel


Woo Hoo!!


Husband and Wife


Made perfectly for each other!


The Bride & Groom
Christy & Tobin spent the last two years of their relationship doing long distance. They were so ready for this day!

True Love


Christy & Tobin Rummel
they went to Costa Rica for their honeymoon.

July 22, 2006


A Cinnamon Roll Cake


Congratulations Christy!!
We had to have a Homoncle hug that day! :) Our best friend just got married!

Corrine, Cori & I at the wedding


HMS Dream Team of 2001-02
Cori, Corrine, Christy, Me, & Maggie were all on Res Life Staff together our sophomore year at George Fox.

Me with my Parents
My Mom & Dad came to see the wedding and to take me home for the rest of the week.

My bridesmaid dress story
well...the airport lost my lugage that had my dress in it. Long story short my Mom found another dress that worked.

Some of the wedding party


Sweethearts

Downtown Pittsburg
Jeff's boss took us out to a really nice dinner one night and the restaurant overlooked downtown. Very Fun!

This is the view looking left
This is one of three rivers that intersect with downtown Pittsburg.

Feeling Welcome
Jeff and I have felt so welcome and supported already. This is a school that loves God and it's people!

Geneva's campus
Needless to say, Jeff and I are really excited to live in a place that has trees and normal grass...

Center of Campus


The Center of Campus
Isn't it great?

Very Old building :)
The first collegiate basketball game in the nation was played here. Now the gym is used for Geneva's intramurals.

Women's Residence Hall
All students pretty much live on campus for all four years. It's really similar to George Fox that way.

Some Faculty Offices


Geneva's Rugby Field


The Library
This used to be an old church. It's a beautiful building. The bells now ring like clock chimes on the hour.

Library Doors


The bell tower in the Library


The Student Union building


In front of the Student Union


Jeff's building :)


Hello there Mr. Director!
Jeff is the Director of Student Activities at Geneva. He'll oversee all campus programing as well as student government

The happenin' place on campus


View from the Student Union
This is the view off the back of Jeff's building. There are hills of trees everywhere!

City of bridges
Pittsburg and the surrounding areas are just full of bridges. This is looking in the direction of Beaver Falls.

We have a G on the hill


Geneva's Soccer Field


silly rabbit
We saw two rabbits on campus this day!

Old Main
This is a central building on campus that has a lot of the administration in it, as well as a few departments.

Old Main


Geneva's dining hall


Business & Psychology building


More beautiful trees...


The shoe tree
It's a long tradition that when you graduate you leave a pair of your shoes in the tree. The men on campus do it.

The shoe tree


The shoe tree


Chillin' on campus


Lots o lillies
There were so many flowers everywhere on campus. We really like it here!

daisies


another view


Wonderful Color


Leaving campus


so much to see
There's going to be a lot of things for me to paint here. I'm pretty excited about that.

Our new home! :)
This is our new apartment! It's a nice two bedroom place so we'll have a guest room for visitors (hint hint)

The back view
Yay for all the windows! I'm pretty excited for all the light we'll get. Our place in TX is really dark.

Remember the Alamo :)


Here it is...
After Jeff & I went to Austin to see Troy we kept going south to San Antonio. We wanted to see it before we left Texas.

The side of the Alamo


Cool Cactus


the courtyard at the Alamo


It was a little rainy that day


In honor of NASA...
I wore my NASA shirt because the shuttle was suppose to launch that day. Nerdy, I know...but someone's gotta do it! :)*

My super cool husband!


The River Walk
This was so much fun!

We took a boat tour of the river


There were ducks everywhere!


It was really pretty


Old Catholic church down town


The bells were ringing
We heard the bells ring for mass while we were on the river walk which is right below the church.

So many places to eat!
Jeff and I ate at this very expensive jazz restaraunt on the river. It was so fun to celebrate that way!

You can even eat on the boat
Seriously...you make reservations with any restaraunt on the river and they'll set up private dining on one of the boats

bridges and ivy


Hi Jeff!


The river walk was big
We didn't realize how long the river walk was until our boat tour. There is so much history.

so happy together :)


Oldest restaraunt on the River


peaceful


Jeff & I in San Antonio


The San Antonio River Walk

Lots of girls everywhere!


Troy setting up before the show


The Band...


Troy sang back up vocals too


Troy--YOU ROCK! :)
Seriously...I have a very cool brother.

Troy introduced us to everyone


Playin' the keys


Ryan rockin' out
He was a good performer and we enjoyed the music. It was really fun!

Super Hot
Really...it had been a hot & humid Texas day so the stage was really warm. We could feel the heat from it in the crowd!

From the Top


Wailin'


The view from the top floor


These to went to APU together


We love you Troy!


After the show at Katz Diner
We went to this awesome diner downtown Austin after Troy's show was over. It was so good to see each other!

Tony's Retierment Party
We all went to San Diego to visit Traci and be there for Tony's final jump with the Navy Seal Leap Frogs.

Tony getting ready
Tony & Traci are talking to Tony's family who also came in for the party. This is before Tony's first big jump.

Friends
Liz, Traci, & Jenny

Navy Seals
This is a group of Navy Seals that came to participate in Tony's last jump as a Seal and do a huge formation.

Practicing on the ground
The Seal's are praciticing the formation they'll do on land before they go up in the plane.

Pretty incredible
This is the first time this group has done this formation together.

Like Father Like Son
Kirksey's...start your video camera's. :)*

Hi there Dozer!!
Dozer was the life of the party...look how cute he is! He's Traci & Tony's dog.

Traci & Jeff


It's raining Seals!


So high
The formation was so high that we couldn't see it well but they video taped it so we saw it after they all got down.

hangin' out


The landing is awesome
I really liked seeing the Seals land. They come down fast and then slow themselves down until they're just floating.

One after the other...


Preparing the the second jump
Tony went up a second time and did a different formation with a couple of other guys. Traci jumped tandum too!!

First time
This was the first time they'd done this formation.

Walking out to the plane...


We're so excited for Traci!!
It was a surprise for Traci to get to jump that day. So cool to see her do it.

No turning back
The plane is taking off for the second jump and Traci's tandum jump

See ya on the flip side


Tony's second formation
Tony's in the middle of the three parachutes. This was a cool formation to watch.

Coming down


Traci coming down


packing up after the jump
Tony's the one in the middle with the white shirt on.

Hi Traci!!!


Awesome landing!


Coming in after the jump


Traci & Tony


Nice work you two!


Whoo Hoo!
This was Traci's second jump, and Tony's done 3000 jumps. Pretty cool.

San Diego Harbor
Steve, Janet, Jeff & I all spent Saturday morning walking down the harbor and checking out all the boats.

I love palm trees


The super cool Jeff Kirksey


Artistic view


Maritime Museum
There were a lot of boats you could tour including a submarine.

Old ships


We liked the little wood boat


Star of India
This ship is very old and still sails in the harbor.

front view


This reminds me of...
the Pirates of the Carribean. Can't you just see Captn' Jack Black on it?

taking it all in


American Pride


Coronado Island
Saturday afternoon we went and ate brunch on the island and hung out at the beach behind the historic Hotel Del Coronado

This Hotel was beautiful


Straight out of a movie...
Or at least it looked like that to me. I really loved visiting this place!

The Hotel Del Coronado


We took Dozer to play


So cute!
Everyone kept stopping us to pet him and ask questions. Everyone loves Dozer!

Fun at the Beach


Jeff & Sarah


In front of the hotel


Steve & Janet at the beach


The Ocean!!!
We haven't seen the ocean for two years so both Jeff & I were totally excited!

Jeff & Sarah in San Diego


Having fun


trouble with the framing
We had a little trouble getting the camera at the right angle...so we tried a few times.

The Kirksey Kids
Jeff, Traci & I on Coronado Island. This was Jeff's birthday...HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFF!

Sunday at the San Diego Zoo


such beautiful animals


All Zeebras have unique stripes
No one Zeebra's stripes are the same as anothers. God is so awesome how He made things!

Eating lunch


Dinner time


Look at those horns!


Beautiful Birds


It was a hot afternoon
A lot of the anminals were sleeping in the shade when we first got to the zoo.

Tucan Sam!


Elephants


These guys were dusty


Lions


Kowala Bears


Don't mess with me


We saw Panda Bears!!


Sleeping like everyone else


Aren't they wonderful?


Baby in the tree tops
The three month old baby panda was sleeping on the branches of a tree.

rolling around


Coolin' off for a bit
We stopped to have frozen lemonades. Yum.

Flamingos and ducks


We took the tram across the zoo


It took us really high


Jeff & I in the tram


Janet & Steve


Polar Bears


Taking a nap
We saw them playing in the water earlier and that was really fun.

Hey there Pumba! :)*

Troy's apartment in Cali
He shares this place with other musicians so the amount of gear laying around is amazing.

Troy & Mom
Pam & Mike went down to visit Troy and go to Trisha & Tyson's graduation.

Troy's piano


Troy playin' his Keys


Like I said...a lot of gear!


Trisha getting ready


Trisha earned a MDiv from APU
(It's a Masters of Divinity)

Gotta have the Buck


mmmmm....good.
Now Troy can wake up. :)

Trisha walking up to the stage
She's the cute blonde one in the middle.

Almost there!


Trisha getting her diploma!
Congrats Trisha! This is pretty awesome!

hanging out after the ceremony


joyful


The Allies family
These are some of my favorite people in the world.

Trisha with her roomates


The Allies
Grandma Rose, Meghan, Trisha, Tyson, Doyle, & Debbie

That's one good lookin' crew :)


Silly


Trisha & Troy after graduation


The Welstad's
Mike and Pam (Troy's folks) with Trisha and Troy after graduation.

Grad Party
Trisha & Tyson had a grad party in between their ceremonies. Trisha graduated in the morning & Ty graduates that night.

They had it in a park near APU


checkin' out the rock star hair


good friends & family


Grandma Rose, Doyle, & Trisha


fun times


Aren't these so beautiful?
I love the color!

hangin' out


Trish & Ty opening presents


This is one of the best parts!


Super cool


It's nice to be together


Trisha got some jewelry


and a DVD...


Sisters


Troy's newest hair style


more presents


Troy & Trisha
Trisha put her gown & hood back on for pictures after Tyson's graduation that night.

Trisha & Grandma Rose


Taking pictures


Tyson with Grandma Rose
Congratulations Ty!!

The Allies after Tyson graduates


long time friends
Heres Tyson with Troy & Jen. They all grew up together in Salem and then all went to APU together.

Tyson is so smart!!
He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training. (Ty- correct me if I said that wrong)

Hi Tyson! :)


hangin out


modern technology in action


Congratulations!!


The Allies after graduation


You guys rock!


What a great day!


the Graduates with Grandma Rose


So special


Family picture time


Such an awesome family


May 6, 2006
We're so proud of you Tyson & Trisha! You've worked so hard.

The Masters Hood
The red is for Divinity and the maroon & black are for APU's school colors.

You look great Trisha!


Good friends


The end of one journey...
& the start of another. Trisha is working w/ a church in Pasadena & Tyson is applying to grad school 4 physical therapy.

Jeff & his Mom
This is right before Jeff's hooding ceremony.

Jeff & his Dad


Missy, Josh, Jeff & I
This is at Jeff's hooding ceremony with his cohort the night before graduation.

Dub Oliver & Jeff
Dub is one of Jeff's professors and the VP for Student Life here at Baylor. We love Dub! :)

Jeff & I at his hooding ceremony


Jeff & his sister Traci


Dinner at the hooding ceremony


Jeff recieving his hood
This is Dr. Martha Lou Scott & Dr. Dub Oliver with Jeff. They were his professors.

Jeff speaking at the ceremony
Jeff spoke a few words of thanks and introduced his family before recieving his hood.

Jeff recieving his hood
The blue is for a Masters in Education and the hood also has green & gold for Baylor's school colors.

Another Cohort pic...


It's a hood, it's a cape, it's..
Three friends pretending to be superman. Hey, when you have your Masters degree anything is cool, right? :)*

Jeff & Alicia


Jeff & Trey Guinn


Missy, Leslie, & Sarah
Missy & Leslie are in the same Masters program as Jeff, just one year behind.

Jeff, Tim Powers, & Cason


The Kirksey's after the ceremony


hangin' out


The whole family
Pam & Mike Welstad, Jeff, Sarah, Traci, Janet, & Steve Kirksey. The whole family came for Jeff's graduation! Very cool!

Jeff & Traci on graduation day


Steve & Janet
We rode the Waco trolley to graduation.

Jeff & Sarah


Sarah's parents, Mike & Pam


Jeff right before graduation
Jeff graduated with a Masters of Science in Higher Education Administration with and emphasis on Student Services.

Baylor's graduation, 5-13-06


We got there really early


Jeff & his cohort at graduation


getting ready to get the diploma


Almost there...


Jeff receiving his dimploma!!!


walking across the stage
Jeff's the one on the far left

Jeff's walking off the stage


Congratulations Jeff!


We're so proud of you!


Friends


Jeff & Sarah at Graduation


Sarah, Jeff & Karin


Jeff & his family, so excited!!


Jeff getting a hug from his Dad


The Kirksey's


The Kirksey's & the Welstad's
Jeff's family and Sarah's parents all came to celebrate graduation! It was so great to all be together.

Graduation Party at Karin's
We threw Jeff a graduation party at Karin's house on Sunday. It was fun!

Great friends came!


Two worlds collide...
Our parents were able to meet our "Waco Family".

Hi Dad! :)*


Pam, Jill, Missy, & Scott


Our Waco family photo
Karin Klinger, Jill & Scott Wade, Missy Davis, Jeff & Sarah Kirksey, & Kevin Dougherty.

Some family fun :)


Steve, Janet, & Traci Kirksey


Kirksey family, May 2006


Jeff & Josh Kusch at the party


Welstad's in Crawford, Texas
also known as the Western White House. We hung out with the Bush's for the day.

The Yellow Rose in Crawford, TX
This store rocks! You should see some of the funny stuff inside...well, just keep looking at the pictures & you will.

Traci & George W.


Give George a Kiss...


Jeff & Traci


Like I said...weird stuff.


Typical Texas pet?


We need to get out of Texas!


American & Texas pride
Since TX was once its own country, it's the only state that's allowed to fly it's flag at the same height as the US flag

Sarah & her Mom


a painting Sarah did for Baylor


They all have to do with Calling


Sarah with her artwork
These hang in the VP for Student Life's office at Baylor.

This is Sarah's favorite


Dr Pepper was invented in Waco
Did you know that when it was first invented that Dr Pepper was called "a Waco". Pretty funny, huh?

The Dr Pepper Museum


We had Dr Pepper floats
Did you know at Baylor they have Dr Pepper Hour every Tuesday at 3pm the whole school year? Free DP, can't beat that!

Jeff & his sister Traci


Jeff & Traci on graduation day


We're so proud of you!


Jeff & Traci


Jeff & I outside the Kirksey RV


Steve & Janet heading home
Steve & Janet came to visit for a week and it was hard to say goodbye. We love you guys!!

The cool RV
The Kirksey's came down to TX in their RV. Very cool! :)

Steve, Janet & Jeff


Huh? Who let this guy in here?


The Brownings...
They were the folks that wrote "how do I love thee, let me count the ways..." Baylor holds a lot of their works here.

Mike & Pam checkin' it out
There is a sculpture of the Browning's hands in the alcove where people propose.

My Dad takes a lot of pictures!
I guess that runs in the family, because so do I!

Mike & Pam Welstad
It was so fun to have our parents down here for the week!

The Pied Piper in stained glass
Robert Browning actually wrote the Pied Piper story for a little friend who was at home sick.

Just looking...
I think Jeff & I did and saw more in the last 10 days with our family that we had the whole 2 years we lived here in TX!

We think this is funny...very TX


Rudy's BBQ, a real TX experience


BBQ is smoked meat
When we first moved here we quickly found out that in TX, BBQ is smoked meat and 'grilling' is hamburgers and hot dogs.

This place is fun
They give you a hunk of meat on a peice of wax paper and several slices of white bread. Pretty fun & full of TX culture

Another local hot spot
I know it doesn't look like much but this place has the best kolaches in the world. It's bread w/ ham & cheese inside.

Dad loved this place!
It's all homemade...can't beat that.

Pam, Sarah, & Mike
Family photo at Baylor.

Jeff & Sarah - May 2006


Sarah & her parents, Mike & Pam


Jeff in his office
Jeff worked at a Graduate Assistant in New Student Programs for the last two years.

More of Jeff's office...

NASA's Visitor Center
Mom & Dad took us on a behind the scenes tour of NASA that lasted 4 hours. It was pretty amazing!

Space Suit


cocpit of the shuttle


We left for our tour from here


The Space Station
This is a model of what the space station will look like when it's finished in 2010

Astronauts training in the pool
This is where astronauts train for weightlessness. The 2 chords on top of the water are the astronauts training.

Largest pool in the world
This is the largest pool in the world and it has full scale duplicates of the shuttle & parts of the space station in it

They have a team of divers
A team of divers work w/ the astronauts. They spend at least 6 hours under water at a time when they're training here.

The pool is 40 feet deep


underwater pictures
This is a picture of the astronauts training under water that day. They have cameras down there to watch them.

Practicing repairs
The two astronauts training that day will be going to live on the space station in the next few months to do repairs.

Building the space station
This is a huge picture of three astronauts doing a space walk to build the space station. That's just amazing to me.

The underwater world of space
I just couldn't get over how incredible the training environment in the pool was. You can see a lot of the equiment here

Mission Control
For security reasons Mission Control was built with no windows. You're looking at something top secret

Inside Mission Control
This room is Mission Control for the space station. They're controlling it from this room & talking w/ the astronauts.

Where are they?
These screens keep track of where the space station is in orbit. It circles the earth every 45 minutes.

Mission control works long days
The top people in Mission Control work 12 hour days and there is someone there 24 hours a day every day.

Astronaut in the space station
This is a live video feed of one of the astronauts living in the space station right now, talking to Mission Control

Mission Control for the shuttle
This is where it all happens for the space shuttle. This is Mission Control for the launches & shuttle missions.

Talking to Mission Control
This astronaut is talking to mission control about the inventory and supplies on the station.

Another pic of Mission Control
We weren't allowed to use flash photography in most of the places we went, that's why it's all a little blurry.

They are going to fly a lot
NASA is going to do 16 shuttle flights to finish building the space station by 2010. They had a training drill that day.

Mission control screens
Mission Control is an intense place. They had a training drill to simulate a shuttle mission that morning

Bill Foster oversaw Columbia
Bill is the man that deals with the take off and landing of the shuttle. He was the one in charge when Columbia happened

Bill Foster, Ground Control Ops
This man came to talk to us and he's working in Mission Control for a long time. He's overseen 23 shuttle missions.

The two men on the space station
This is Commander Pavel Vinogradov from Russia & Flight Engineer Jeffrey Williams from the US talking to Mission Control

Where they test everything
This chamber is where they test satalites, equipment, etc. to see if it can handle the extreem temperatures of space.

This is the door to the chamber


Big & Extreem
They can get this chamber so hot & so cold that it emulates space. They also have the ability to take away all oxygen

A second chamber
In this chamber they test all the space suites and things like that. It can get to minus 450 degrees.

Jeff & I in front of the door
This should give you a small idea of how big this thing actually is.

The next stage of space travel
This is a prototype of the next shuttle that the astronauts will go into space with. They train in this room.

This is a prototype of a robot
This robot can thred a needle. It's pretty advanced even if it looks kind of funny. They want it to go into space.

Everything old is new again...
NASA is moving back towards Apollo style shuttle/rockets because they had so much success and few problems.

A piece of the space station
This is the piece of the space station that the astronauts in the pool were training to fix.

A piece of the space station
This whole room was filled with training models of the space station, shuttle, etc. As well as a test area for new stuff

Space Station modules


Picutre of the Shuttle cargo bay


Cargo module
This is the gray thing in the previous pic of the shuttle's cargo bay. Supplies up to the space station in this.

part of the space station


Space Station diagram
This shows the different pieces of the space station and how they'll be put together and it shows the countries involved

We saw the middle astronaut!
The middle astronaut was in this room training to be back up for Expedition 14 (the next group to live at space station

More space station training
We weren't allowed to go inside but there was a high level group from the government that went in.

World endevor
I had no idea how many countries were involved in the building of the space station. It could be parts or astronauts,etc

A German Cosmonaut
This man has logged a lot of hours in space. He was leading around the government group.

Pretty Big
When the space station is all done you'll be able to see it with your naked eye during the day. It's that big.

Shuttle training
This is a full scale version of the shuttle that the astronauts train in.

Docking training
This is a model of the nose of the shuttle that pilots use to train to dock onto the space station

round green thing...
The is what we've been using to send up supplies to the space station. We fly from Russian soil right now

Your looking at a testing area
This is an area we weren't permited to go into. They're doing testing, training, etc. back there.

Another view of the shuttle
I couldn't believe how big this plane was.

An Astronaut
There was another astronaut showing the government group around with the German Cosmonaut. You can't see it very well...

The nose of the shuttle docking
This is the training shuttle nose in the position that it would be to dock onto the space station.

NASA Space Shuttle


Apollo 13
This is in "historic mission control." This is a plaque that the crew of Apollo 13 gave to the team at Mission Control

This is what the plaque said
It was an incredible feeling being in the same room where so much history has happened.

Mission Control technology
This was cutting edge in the 60's. Pretty incredible how far we've come.

Jeff sitting in Mission Control
This is where person who oversaw the flight operations sat for all the first space missions.

Gene Kranz plaque


Mission Control Plaque
Each mission has a plaque that the NASA artist helps them to create. They become the crew patches.

Historic Mission Control


Apollo 1's plaque


Jeff, Mike, Pam & Sarah
We're sitting in the flight director's station.

Gene Kranz seat
This is where all the hard decisions have been made over much of the space program.

Jeff & I taking it all in


This flag has been on the moon
I thought this was really cool. This flag was on the moon at some point. I didn't get the whole story but it's special.

The flag
All the flags they take to the moon or in space have a wire across the top of them so they look like their flying.

Entering Mission Control
This is the lobby of Mission Control. The elevators only go to three floors but there are other floors in the building.

Mission Plaques
Each mission has a plaque that the crew helps design with the NASA artist. They're very symbolic and held in great honor

leaving Mission Control
This was the last stop for us on our 4 1/2 hour VIP behind the scences tour. It was a great gift, thank you Mom & Dad!

Not area 51 but...
Very cool to find out there are secret floors in this building. I'm sure they're not that secret, just high security.

We had fun being VIP's for a day

George H. W. Bush Library
Sarah's Dad took us to President Bush's library at Texas A&M on Saturday, May 20th.

The Library entrance
Dad was so excited to be here. He has a goal of visiting all the presidential libraries someday. This is number 4 or 5.

Museum & Library
This part of the Library is the muesum portion. We didn't actually get to see the presidential documents section.

Jeff, you're a star! :)*
(He'll hate that I said that...hee hee)

Big list of important people...
This has all the people that Bush served with in the White House.

Oil Painting
I thought this painting was great. It's depicting the crutial hours of decision making concerning Desert Storm.

Huge model train exhibit
Okay...we definitely hit the right day for my Dad! :) Union Pacific had a huge model train exhibit going on.

Here's some of the track


President Bush's train
Union Pacific just made President Bush his own train car. Here's a model of it. The colors represent Air Force One.

The President's #41 & 43
This is President Bush with his son. The painting was incredible, very life like. It captured them well.

Dad & Jeff looking around
There was so much to read and see. We read a lot of letters that Bush sent to his children & parents.

no flash blurry photography
Sorry about the blurry pictures! I tried to keep my camera steady but some will look like this.

The President's office chair


Raising campaign money
This is a pic of the current President Bush raising money for his grandpa's campaign for the senate. Prescott Bush won.

Space, CIA, China...
President Bush has an incredible resume. He worked with the United Nations, CIA, etc. There was a lot to learn here.

A lot of years in Washington DC
President Bush was in the White House for 12 years...8 as VP and 4 as President.

A piece of the Berlin Wall


Air Force One


This was a comfy plane
There were pictures of the grandkids all sleeping on the couches in Air Force One. Very fun!

Beautiful Sculpture
This sculpture is symbolic of the freedom that happened when the Berlin Wall was torn down.

Beautiful grounds
Barbara Bush has a rose garden, they have a fishing pod, horse shoe pits, and walking trails.

We went for a walk in TX heat :)


Library & Conference building
This is where all the Presidental documents are held as well as a big conference facility.

Presidential Grave Site
President Bush & Barbara will be burried here. Their daughter Robin, who died at 3 yrs. old is already burried here.

Presidential Seal & Texas Stars


Robin Bush's grave
President Bush's daughter Robin died of Lukemia when she was a little kid. She was between George & Jeb.

Interesting
We thought it was interesting that George Bush didn't put his H.W. initials in his name.

Walking into the flower garden


Back side of the library


Bush quote on back of library


Daisy's in Barbara's garden


Some of Barbara's Roses


It was 95 degrees that day
These flowers are really hardy. They can stand pretty high temps.

I thought these were pretty...


We saw two turtles in the lake
This guy watched us walk all the way around him. He was funny!

They hid well in the moss


Jeff & I in front of the Library


It was bright that day!


Dad & I at the Bush Library


Dad & I.
I love you Dad! It was so fun to see you and hang out with you this week!

Jeff & I with Baylor's mascot


Jeff, Elisa, & Keane
This is Jeff with his supervisor Keane, and their boss Elisa.

The real thing...
We took out the trainer with photoshop on the other picture. :)* It looks cooler

New Student Programs
This picture time with the bear was for Orientation Weekend for the transfers.

On our way to the Art museum...


Jeff watching the entertainment
At lunch we were sarinated by a all women mariachy band.

The Art museum's cafe window


Here's the band


Inside the museum
Not sure I was supposed to take this but it was a very cool museum!

Outside the museum
It was windy that day! The art museum in right is the heart of down town Dallas

Jeff & I
We were standing in front of a beautiful mosaic mural! Look at that color :)

I was pretty excited to be there


Texas sunset on the drive home


It was pretty


It's gone...


My Valentine!


Lenny Kravitz with my cousin!
Lenny Kravitz visited my Aunt's church in Eugene! Jessica is on the far Right.

Friends hanging out together! :)
Lesley on her floor at Fox with her best friend Amy & Amy's boyfriend on V-day.

Baylor Welcome Weekend Group January 2006
This group of students helped Jeff welcome all the new transfers to Baylor

Troy tickling the keys at the Lovelite show in February 2006
Troy playing a show in Hollywood

Ben watching Troy's gig
Our cousin Ben (far left) stayed w/ Troy for a few days & saw him perform in LA

Troy playing the Lovelite show
Troy at his keyboards performing. He's a rock star!

Williams family
This is Sarah, Grant, and Rhett right after he's born. They are all so wonderful

Rhett & Sarah
Sarah and her new little boy

The Red Head on the Right...
My best friend Christy ran her first marathon in Virgina this March! Go Christy!

Yay for Christy and Tobin! :)
These 2 awesome & brilliant people are getting married this summer on July 22!!

Washington Monument
Jeff went to DC for a confrence over spring break.

Washington Monument up close


World War II Memorial


awesome quote


WWII Memorial, Montana column


Lincholn Memorial


Lincoln Memorial
We have no idea who the 2 guys are. They got into the picture when Jeff took it.

Inside the Jefferson Memorial


Georgetown's campus


The academic with his pipe...
Jeff, Scott, and Mike all bought pipes in DC and smoked them at Georgetown! :)*

Jeff is so cool


The Declaration of Independence
A bunch of people looking at the Declaration of Independence. Pretty cool.

Mike, Scott & Karin
Chillin' on the steps of the National Archives building.

Marine One flying into DC


Marine One landing
Jeff got to see Marine One landing at the White House

White House


Back of the White House


another view


The Wade Family
Scott & Jill holding baby Avlynn for the first time. She was born 3/30/06.

Diadeloso Tug-o-War
Student organizations have a huge tug-o-war contest through out the day.

Diadeloso or "Day of the Bear"
This is a day that Baylor takes off to celebrate having fun as a community

Karin & Jeff at Dia
The theme was "snowdia" but the snow didn't work out too well in the Texas heat.

It was in the 80's and stormy!
It decided to rain a little that day, but not hard so we all stayed to play.

Weird...
Every year they bring in a hypnotist. Our friend says it doesn't really work.

Lesley and Ryan at Spring Formal
Lesley, Ryan, and two friends at Spring Formal.

Lesley and Ryan at Spring Formal 2006
Lesley at GFU's Spring Formal dance with her boyfriend, Ryan Bundy. Very cute!

Jeff & I at the BTC Banquet
The Baylor Transfer Council had their end of the year banquet and it was great!

The Baylor Transfer Council 2006


Sanam & Tracy help lead BTC


The core BTCer's :)
These students made the transfer council what it is. We are so proud of them!

BTC having fun...


Our table & Jeff's capstone
Jeff did weeks worth of research and then wrote four almost 48 hours straight.

The morning of the Capstone
This is the morning that Jeff presented & defended his capstone for his Masters.

Jeff & Missy Davis, Co-Advisor's
Jeff & Missy were the advisors for the Freshman Class Council's Service group.

FCC Service Leaders 2005-06
Eric Piper, Missy Davis, Laura Blalock, & Jeff were the leadership team for FCC

Good team & good friends!


We love these two!!
We framed the last t-shirt of the year for Piper & Laura as a thank you.

The Dougherty's going home!
Ryan & MeredithThey were able to take Quinn home after one month in the hospital

Jenness cousins Spring 2006
These are my cousins and a couple of their friends. Very cute!

Jenness Family Spring 2006
Andy, Patty, Jessica, Kayla, Rebecca, Kaci, Cassy, Heather, Amy, & Haley.

Lightning behind Pat Neff
On Friday night 5-5-06 we had a tornado and huge storm hit Waco.

Right before the storm hit...
This was right before the tornado/storm hit. It was awesome and scary. I've never been in a storm that big before.

Jeff's Cohort being silly
This is the Cohort that Jeff has gone thru his Masters program with. This was their last time all together.

Hey, Sic em' Bears! :)
This group is awesome and the world of student life is small so hopefully we'll get to see everyone again at some point

Me at my desk


My nativity set


The Sarah's in the SACS office
This is my friend Sarah who I love! She's pregnant and due at the end of Feb.

Lesley making spice cake


Mom making bread for Dad


My Daddy-O :)


Ollie


Mom's Santa Claus village


Dad with his bread!
Dad was really excited to get homemade bread that Mom made.

Mom, Lesley & I made cookies


Lesley and her spice cake


Mom and Dad's new furniture


Welstad Christmas Tree


Jeff and his Mom
They're standing outside of Heaven Sent.

Kirksey Christmas Tree


Jeff in his parents living room


Steve and Janet's house in MT


Main street in Townsend, MT


Jeff hanging out and resting


Carol College in Helena, MT
We walked around this school while we were at home.

Jeff throwing a snow ball at me


a dorm at Carol


In the middle of campus


Carol has a great football team


This is the drive into town!


More beautiful mountains


Jeff and his dad on the computer


They're playing a farming game


Hunting for a herd of Elk
We saw the sunrise while looking for the huge herd that came down from the hills

It was breathtaking!


The morning was so fresh


The cows in the morning


Isn't the sky beautiful?


I took this picture for my Dad
He likes cow pictures! :)*

The Flynn farm


A pivit on a farm


This is 15 minutes from home
Jeff's parents live in a beautiful place surrounded by mountains.

Farm land outside of Townsend


Steve reading


Janet preparing the turkey


I made pies for the family


Jeff helps me


The finished pies


Jeff and I on Christmas day


The Kirksey side
This is Jeff's uncle Mike, his dad Steve, and his Grandpa Sam.

The Kirksey side
We're hanging out with the cousins, Mark and Cody in the living room

Mark, Jeff, and Cody
They played a lot of cards together.

The Kirksey's
This is us with Jeff's grandparents, Sam and Anne

Aunt Cindy and Grandma Anne


The Regan's
This is Janet's side of the family. This is Kade, our newest cousin!

This is Rachel, Kade's Mom :)
We think she's wonderful!!

Janet and Tony
Tony is Kellan's dad. Kellan is the other newest cousin.

This is Kellan


Lois and Kim
Kim is married to Tony and is Kellan's mom. Lois is our aunt & Kellan's grandma

Cory and Kellan
Cory is Kellan's uncle and is Kade's dad.

Steve's Christmas present


Steve & Janet's present from us


Back to Oregon!
Jeff and I went back to Oregon Dec.26-Jan.3. This is Lesley in her new scarf!

Jeff and Trisha
We went to Kyle and Christina's house to open presents and eat dinner together

There's a lot of us!
Christina wanted to take a picture of how many people we got around their table!

My Dad and I :)


getting ready to eat
Kyle and Troy were being silly and Mom and Christina were getting dinner ready

The Gap Ad pose...


The Welstad kids :)


Opening our big present


Mom & Dad got us a video camera!
Thank you Mom and Dad! We love it!

Troy playing piano for Grandma


Grandma Brooks listening to Troy
Troy plays the piano for Grandma where she lives in Eugene at Christmas time

Corrine lighting candles
Krissy Hanson, now Findely, got married on Dec. 30. Corrine was a candle lighter

We sat really close to the front
We were right behind the camera guy!

Krissy and Sean taking communion


The Kiss


cutting the cake
The ceremony and reception were held at Beaverton Four Square Church

Jeff's friends from Fox
Eugene Hodges, Linsey Jo Williams, Jeff & I, Becca Freitag, Beth & Matt Tibbs

Christy and Tobin
Christy is one of my best friends! We threw her a bridal shower over the break

The shower


Best Friends :) (the Homoncles)
We have grown up so much since we met each other almost five years ago.

The Bride & her bridesmaids


Jeff & I repainted a bathroom
We did this in a day an a half! We painted and sprused up the upstairs bathroom!

The "before" pictures
Mom was excited for us to do this! We love projects like this too!

The " After" pictures
We picked an aqua color that was bright but had punch!

We added a shelf & white things
The white really made it look beachy and fun!

Observing the finished product


The Allies reading "the poem"
Every year we have a prank war with the Allies at Christmas. They won this year.

They decorated our lawn
The snow man was huge and they drapped old chrismas lights everywhere! So fun!

The threat of next year...
The poem said they did a good job this year, but next year look out...

New Years Eve
We had a huge Bunco party on New Years Eve. It was a blast!

Mom and Dad


DJ, Lesley, and Paul at table 6
Table 6 is the one you don't really want to be at! :)* It's the end table

Dave, Lesley, and Debbie


Me and Wendylyn
We've been friends since we were 9 years old! Wendy is just another Welstad :)

Corrine, Tyson, Sherman, & Deana


Mom & I
It looks like Wendy is trying to stop kyle from giving us rabbit ears...

Meghan, Doyle & Gabby
We had an awesome mix of people from church, Fox, and growing up.

Troy and I being silly


Lesley and Dad


The boy's are wrestling!
They really enjoyed being together again! Can you tell?

Tyson's got Kyle


The Welstad's and the Allies
These are some of our best family friends! We all grew up together

Fun Times!
We had a Welstad/Allies war on who could win Bunco. Neither of us really did. :)

Life long Friends
Wendy, Kyle, Troy, and I. Troy and Kyle made wieird faces...it's so them! :)*

Meghan was our New Year's girl!
She brought her own little bottle of sparkling apple cider to celebrate! :)

Troy and Trisha


The view from the loft
We had 22 people at the bunco party!

The Allie's and Wendy at table 1
The Allies dominated the head table for awhile!

Best Friends :) (the Homoncles)
We have grown up so much since we met each other almost five years ago.

Me and Wendylyn
We've been friends since we were 9 years old! Wendy is just another Welstad :)

Kyle & I at the Bunco Party!


The head table


Lesley and I


Jessica and Kayla
The Faught family get together on Jan. 2 at the Welstad house

Jeff and Lesley hanging out


Heather, Kara & Andy Jenness


The Boy's playing X-Box
So while everyone else was upstairs, Kyle, Troy, and Russell played video games

This feels like home to me :)
My Grandpa H, Mom, and Aunt Janet in the kitchen making dinner. I love you guys!

Faught Family get-together
There was 25 of us at my parents house for dinner.

Heather, Kara, Lesley, Jeff, Amy
We played a lot of cards that day.

Jeff using our new video camera


Amy and Cassy


All the cousins and Grandpa H


Grandpa and his grandkids


One more picture... :)


Grandpa H & his daughters
Pam, Janet, and Patty with their Dad Howard

This is a great picture!


Playing the game Hoopla


Dodge family
Russell, Alex, Janet, Rex, and Lauren

Smile!


Dodge family


Troy & Kyle: aka "trouble" :)*
These two jumped in front of Alex & Lesley while they were taking a picture

Welstad family
We are missing Christina & Trisha in this picture.

Giving Mom & Dad ears!


Lesley and Alex


Padington's Pizza...
The best pizza in the whole world! We had to get some before we all left

Trisha came over for dinner


My wonderful husband


Grandpa H & Kyle


Troy is so cool! :)


Troy & Lesley making faces at me


Lesley's b-day present from us


Welstad kids
We love each other!

This is Mom's cat, Cleo


It was nice to be home


Lesley & I with her painting
I painted a stain glass window for her

Lesley, Jeff & I


Jeff & I's friend, Matt
Matt is the president of the Baylor Transfer Council, and Jeff is his advisor

Jeff & I with the Bear
We had our picture taken with one of our school mascots! It was so cool!

Lady or Joy...
Our bear's names are Lady and Joy. I'm not sure who we had our picture with.

A fellow Oregonian
The bears come from Bandon Oregon

Welcome Weekend 2006
This was part of the orientation weekend for all the new transfer students

Isn't this funny?
The bears sit like this sometimes...

This is the bear trainer


Jeff & I
I tried to crop this picture up a little.

One more time...


Welstad kids
We love each other!

Welstad kids
We love each other!

Welstad kids
We love each other!

Lesley and Alex


Welstad family
We are missing Christina & Trisha in this picture.

Lesley & I with her painting
I painted a stain glass window for her

One more time...


Jessica and Kayla
The Faught family get together on Jan. 2 at the Welstad house

Lisa and Christina


Sisters
Christy and Maryanne at the shower

Shannon and Andrea


Marty Rummel


Sarah and Corrine


We ate breakfast food and coffee


The girls looking at their rings


Christy's pile of awesome gifts!


Ruth Miller


The start of the gum game...
We asked Christy 25 questions about Tobin. If she got one wrong, she ate gum.

It's getting harder... :0)
Christy has a small mouth so all those pieces of gum start to hurt pretty quick

This is probably piece 6...
Remember Christy...Tobin's favorite color is green, not gold. ;)

The wad-o-gum
Christy did really well. She only missed 7 out of 25. It could have been worse!

Meet Benjamin.
This is Ruth's son, Christy's nephew. Isn't he wonderful?

part of the gum game...
This is a little out of order.

Opening gifts!


Everyone watching Christy
The shower was at Andrea's apartment in Tualatin. Thanks Andrea!!

A spa treatment gift.
The theme for the shower was "Around the Clock."

Cool stuff
Each person brought a gift for a specific time of day. Morning, noon, or night.

Whoo Hoo! Lingerie for Christy!
This was a night time gift :)

It was fun to see the variety...


More lingerie
Nice work Corrine!

Look at Christy's face...
That should say it all!

Ruth wrapped this
Isn't it beautiful?

So cool! Great colors too!


How exciting! :)


Christy is so special


This is fun...


massage stuff...good call!


Christy and Lisa


Cute! Great job Lisa! :)


The wrapping looked beautiful


The heart shaped things are...
To make hear shapped eggs or to crack eggs in a bowl on.

Awesome throw


Fun times


These are Christy's colors


Great Tea Pot!


Fun candle!


a matching sugar bowl


little salt & pepper shakers


you put the candle on this...


Something was funny :)*


A book of wisdom
We went around & each person shared a piece of life advice or wisdom w/ Christy

Christy & her bouquet


Corrine sharing her advice


Ruth sharing wisdom


Andrea listening


Marty sharing her wisdom


Best Friends


Christy and Christina


The Bride & her bridesmaids


The Rummel women :)


Christy & Andrea


The Miller Women & Benjamin too


Christy, David, and Lisa


Everyone at Christy's shower
minus Christina who had to leave a little early

The Bride and Groom
Christy and Tobin

The Bride & Groom


Different version, same picture


Homoncles old school style


The Bride & her Bridesmaids


Miller Women & Benjamin too!


Christy and Andrea


Bright Bouquet


Christy & Tobin


Sarah & Corrine


Maryanne & Christy


Rummel Women


Christy & Tobin

Troy in Texas!


Taking pictures in Crawford


Chillin' with the Indian


Inside the Yellow Rose store
We found some random "only in Texas" stuff in here!

Armadillow beer holder....


A deer butt for sale??
Where are we again? Oh yeah, we're in Texas. So weird!

We're looking for Bush...
Trying to act friendly before the strike.

We're all one big family.


Ooo....ooo....ooo....
Dubya and T monkey'n round

The classiest place in Waco...


Dude...


Which one of us is the Vampire?
Troy is so silly!!

Coming home from the store


Troy's tired...


Jeff helping with dishes
We made a lot of pies that day

Here are my pumpkin pies! :)


I was proud of this...
It's the best apple pie I've ever made!

Up close...


Troy still asleep...at noon.


Starting Thanksgiving Day


We had dinner at the Wade's
This is Scott's leather chair that Jeff would love to have :)

Troy texting after dinner...
Everyone loved him! He played a few songs on the piano for us after we ate.

Our friend Karin Klinger
She doesn't like pictures all that much but let me take one anyway!

The Awesome Jill Wade
Jill is an amazing cook and made the whole meal for us. She's wonderful!

Scott and his Dad Ron
Scott's parents, and his aunt were there for Thanksgiving too. It was fun!

My family
It was so great to have Troy here for Thanksgiving!

Troy at the Waco airport
Troy went home Friday morning.

This says...
"Waco, Texas. Life as it should be." It made us all laugh!

Troy and I right before he left


Heading back to L.A.

My fall bouquet


Our Apartment
All clean and decorated for fall! I love the colors.

The bookshelf
This is our family picture place! Do you like the pumpkin and corn? :)

Right outside our front door
We've been trying to grow mums this fall.

Jeff's desk


Our flowers up close!


Our Apartment
Regency Square #178

Aren't tea cups wonderful?


Our beautiful table!
We'll never take this for granted. Isn't it wonderful?

The table up close :)


The strongest man in the world!
AKA Jeffrey S. Kirksey, graduate student at Baylor University.

Jeff refinished this chair
This chair was from good will and was painted white! It looks so beautiful now!

Our media center! :)*


Up the stairs to our bedroom
This is my picture corner. Can you tell I like pictures?

The half bath down stairs
This tiny bathroom was fun to make cute!

The upstairs bathroom
We had fun and painted our bathroom. A little color does so much!

The rest of the half bath...
This is the full view. We love it b/c it has a washer and dryer!

More pictures...
I kinda like these folks :)

Our bedroom
This is the multipurpose room! It works.

Some more people I love...


Our beautiful quilt


The Homoncles
These pics are from Corrine's wedding this summer.

Omicron Delta Kappa Induction
This is Jeff saying the pledge to enter Baylor's chapter of ODK.

FCC Service retreat
This is the Freshman Class Council group that Jeff helps advise.

FCC Service Leaders
This is Jeff with Missy, Laura, and Eric. They are the leaders of FCC Service.

ODK honor society induction
This is the group of 2005 new ODK's and two professors that spoke.

Jeff accepting his ODK pin


Jeff, Cason & Annie
We went to an event called Asian Fest put on by the Asian Student Association

Jeff and I at his ODK induction


Dana, Trey, and Jeff
These three are in the same cohort and were all inducted into the honor society

Dana accepting her ODK pin


Baylor Homecoming 2005
This is the spirit rally before the bonfire is lit.

The bonfire just after it's lit


Lighting the bonfire
Baylor's Chamber of Commerce members light the fire.

So Hot!


getting ready for the parade
The Freshman Class Council is getting ready to be on their homcoming float.

Jeff and I at the Bonfire


The Baylor Bear Balloon
This was the other parade thing that FCC got to carry. Cool, hun?!

Getting ready for the parade
It's really early, about 3:30am

It was cold that morning


Getting the balloon up


The parade crowd at campus


One of the awesome floats

Corrine in her wedding dress
Corrine married Zach Strandy on August 6, 2005

Bachelorette party
We went on a sunset boat ride in Bellingham Bay for one part of the evening! :)

Chirsty and I at rehersal dinner
We had fun being together!

Field of Cosmos
This is a field of flowers in Indiana. My friends Andy & Jenny took it.

Corrine's bachelorette party
Corrine had to wear a crown we made and cary a funny picture of Zach on a stick

Corrine's bridesmaids and candlelighters
Here we are at the park for pictures the day of the wedding. It was beautiful!

Christy and Tobin are engaged!
The week after Corrine & Zach got married, Christy and Tobin got engaged!

Homoncles at Christmas 2004
Can you tell we're all tired? We all met early in the morning.

Sr. Mary Veronica (Staci)
This is Staci, Jeff's cousin, with some of her students in Minnisota.

Jeff sprained his ankle
It was a really BAD sprain right in the middle of the summer (2005)

He couldn't walk on it
Jeff was on crutches for about 6 weeks and it was the height of his work season!

The Dickson's
This is Andy, Jenny, and Lilly in Indiana. Andy was my jr. high youth pastor.

Traci, Steve and Janet in NYC
They're on their way to Africa for a 10 day missions trip!

Wendy and Emily in Cairo, Egypt
Wendy went to visit Emily in Cairo a year and a half ago (I think)

Short, straight hair
Just showin it off!

Wendy in Egypt 2004


Wendylyn kissing the Sphinx


Traci and Tony at Preakness
Tony is a Navy Seal Leap Frog and does the sky diving formations at big events

Christy and Tobin are engaged!!
Here's a close up! Tobin proposed on top of a rock they just climbed in CA

Traci and Steve in Africa 2005


Traci and Tony


Tony's jump at Preakness


Traci & Tony at Preakness
They're standing with Tony's sister

Traci and Tony

Meeting for the first time
Kyle & Christina got married on June 26, 2004. This is the first time they saw each other the day of their wedding.

Waiting for his Bride


So handsome! :)


So Special


It was a beautiful day!
God blessed us with the most beautiful sunny June day. The wedding was at a vineyard in Dundee, on top of the mountain.

Beautiful


Mr. & Mrs. Welstad
Christina looked absolutely beautiful. Everything did that day! It was a great wedding.

The edge of the vineyard
This is the view that we had from the ceremony and reception. It was pretty breathtaking.

Sweet Love


Lot's of picutres were taken!


Did you know...
That Kyle's name (Kyle Thomas) means the handsome twin? Pretty cool.

True love


close up


Happily Ever After

Jeff & Sarah's wedding
The homoncles & the first husband! These are my 2 best friends, Corrine & Christy with Jeff & I at our wedding reception

Two of my favorite people!
Christy & Corrine at Jeff & I's wedding, July 26, 2003.

Getting ready & goofing off!
We decided not to use these columns in the decorations so the homoncles had a little fun with them.

Christy & Tobin being silly
This is after the wedding....

Homoncle at GFU football game
I think this was our junior year... 2002-03. We were watching & cheering for our first football game since 1969. We won!

Getting ready
We were getting ready for my wedding. You can't tell, but I was an emotional wreck! They took good care of me. :)

Spring formal Jr. yr. April 2003
We went as a group to Spring Formal that year. This is right before the 3 of us left for our missions trip to Brazil.

Fox friends wedding shower
My homoncles threw me an awesome shower in Macy basement. So fun! This is spring semester 2003.

Res Life Christmas, Dec. 2002
All three of us did res life. This is at the annual res life Christmas party our jr. year. Corrine helped plan it.

Res Life traning
This is res life training fall semester of our jr. year, 2002.

Chillin'


We should be professionals... :)
This is the homoncles embarassing their datees with our goofy and amazing dancing abilities! April 2003.

Christy & Tobin
After Jeff & I's wedding. They helped a ton!

Christmas time...senior year?
I'm not sure, but I think this is our senior year. We're at a christmas party in Villa Rd house Dec. 2003

Aren't we beautiful? :)*


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