___: At the Bradshaw house

“What’s been going on around the Bradshaw house lately?” you might ask. Well . . .

Running

Even though neither Michael or I have ever been runners, apparently we have a cross country family.

Courtland wishes he was already old enough to be on a cross country team like his big brothers,
but he enjoys the Running Club at his school.

Cooking:

Ceramics at school:

Eating from our garden:

I couldn't believe how many passion fruit the vine produced this season! Passion
fruit has become a staple of my daily diet, and now that we're finally nearing the
end of this season I don't know what I'm going to eat with my eggs for breakfast anymore.

Figs!

The passion vines are getting a few new flowers already!

Reading (and Sleeping)

Supporting our favorite new missionary: Sister Caudill

Trumpet:

Hosting the pasta party for the HS cross country team: cooking pasta for 75 hungry teenagers is quite the event!

Making a photo collage to create a jig saw puzzle for Grandma Faun’s upcoming birthday:

Gymnastics:

Celebrating birthdays with Grandma:

Mountain Biking group:

Ice Blocking:

Kolby’s youth group went ice blocking one evening. But it’s surprisingly hard to find a grocery story or gas station around here that sells ice blocks anymore. So we froze our own.

Scout Campouts:

(Michael got to take them for Isaac’s first scout campout, and Camden’s last campout with the 11 yr old scout group before he moved up to the Deacons).

Date Nights:

We went with a couple friends this weekend and walked all around Balboa Park one evening.

Family Photos:

This is the proof of the portrait we ordered of the boys. They’re all getting so big!

Sleeping in Boxes:

Rock Climbing:

I finally got some climbing shoes!

Digitizing:

I finally but the bullet and decided to take the time to digitize the whole collection of photos that we have that came from the home of my grandparents, Carl John Spohr Jr. & Beverly Frances Monk Spohr. It’s slow work, scanning them all at hi res, front & back (when there’s anything on the back of the photo), labeling the original photos if we know the names of the people in them, backing up all the digital copies, and then uploading them to familysearch.org so they can be shared with the family & other genealogy researchers. It’ll take a while, but it’ll be worth it when I finally get them all done!

Doing a little photoshop project for my mother in law:

Before:

After:

Doing a little photoshop project for me:

Theresia Ott, the little sister of my 2nd great grandma Anna Marie Ott Spohr. Theresia was about 4 in this picture taken in Cincinnati after the family came from Bohemia. She died at age 8. This is the only known photo of her that we’ve found so far.

Before: