12.06.09 - Monkey See, Monkey Do

Maddie loves to play peek-a-boo and Cayden loves to mimic. Should get interesting when his little brother arrives early next year.

12.05.09 - "da godfaaathuh III"

We're in Manhattan this weekend to have our annual holiday dinner with Brian, Emily and Travis. We've all been friends since college and it's so wild to think that Christmas now includes reading How The Grinch Stole Christmas to our little ones! Next year, the number of kids will be doubled! Oh, boy! Oh, boy!

10.11.09 - "da godfaaathuh"

We made a quick trip to Manhattan today for Cayden's second birthday party. For some reason, we missed his first birthday last year. Before we left, Maddie spent some quality time with Uncle Brian, "da godfaaathuh."

07.12.09 - Cayden

Brian and Emily's son Cayden shares one of his toys with Maddie this morning before we hit the road back home. If there's one thing we miss about living in Manhattan (or Topeka, for that matter) it's the Swearingens. Brian is Maddie's godfather and we don't see them nearly often enough. Thanks for hosting us, guys, on Maddie's first trip to Manhattan!

07.11.09 - Anderson Hall

We're in Manhattan this weekend visiting our good friends Brian and Emily and their son Cayden. We ate at a couple of our favorite Aggieville establishments and made a quick trip through campus, where Maddie posed with her new pal Willie Duck, whom we found reasonably overpriced at Varney's but adopted anyway, in front of Anderson Hall, K-State's iconic administration building. In all my time at K-State, I don't think I ever made a feature of anything happening - disc golf, students studying or relaxing, on Anderson lawn. Not too bad that my first Anderson lawn feature is of my very own Maddie girl, who is and will be a Wildcat!

Fight, you K-State Wildcats,
For alma mater fight, fight, fight!
Glory in the combat
For the purple and the white.
Faithful to our colors
We will ever be
Fighting, ever fighting
For a Wildcat victory. Go State!