I know, I know it's been a year, but this is cool.

Recently I had the privilege of traveling to Port-au-Prince, Haiti to visit two project sites that I am currently working on. The company I work for (USKH) is doing the civil engineering design work on the rebuild of St. Francois de Sales Hospital and a new physical rehabilitation center in Port-au-Prince. The projects are being done in coordination with the architects of MSAADA (my dad's firm). I feel very lucky that I can be part of projects like these!

It was a very interesting (in a good way) trip, but very short. The infrastructure of the city is still in chaos in many places. Getting many of these facilities back on track is still a long way from being done. It's a one step at time process and is very interesting to work in an environment where you have to change the way you approach a project. For example, we take for granted here that we can just hook up to city water or sewer. Bringing basic services like clean water to a 200-bed hospital takes on a whole new dimension!

I did get to see quite a bit of the city and meet some very nice people. I could go on and on with a description, but I'll just share a couple picture. I have tons!!

This was the gate to the house where I stayed. Complete with armed guards!

The view from the office I worked out of.

The collapsed 5-story pediatric ward of St. Francois-de-Sales

Rubble of a ward at the hospital

Shanty houses on the hillside above the rehabilitation site

Halloween!

Kennet carved "Wild Thing" from "Where the Wild Things Are"
He also carved a "Dora the Explorer" pumpkin for Elsa!

Good friends Kolt, Ragan, Cade, Kambel and Elsa

Elsa the Kitty-Kat had a wonderful time getting dressed up on Halloween!

Getting ready for all the fun!

Cute picture!

Elsa went to daycare on Friday as a Gopher Cheerleader!!

Go Gophers!!!

Fall Fun!!

These are pictures from fall trips to Greenbluff, WA for pumpkins and on a train ride in Ione, WA. Both were fantastic fall outings with gorgeous fall colors, great pumpkins, and wonderful food like apple pancakes and pumpkin donuts! I love fall!!! There is one picture of Brittany and I on our birthday in October. We had a great night out in downtown Spokane!

Elsa's 2nd Birthday!!

Elsa turned 2 on August 26! Yes, we are really behind on the blogging obviously! We had a fantastic birthday weekend with Poul, Susanna, Marian, Anna, and my parents Bryce and Barb all in town for the weekend! We had our family and friends together for the party. Here is Elsa's "My Little Pony" cake.
The kids did a pinata at the end of the party and it was a great time!!

Family photo at the party. We had the b-day in the park here in our housing development. It was a very nice day!!

Anna and Elsa enjoying the birthday cake!

Elsa and Anna playing in Elsa's new play kitchen she got from Kennet and I for her birthday!

Having a great time opening her presents!

Papa Bryce reading to the girls on the couch.

Marian, Anna, Elsa and I in Riverfront Park. We took the girls to the carousel.

Giant snowcones were a huge hit!!

Getting ready for our carousel ride!!

AOPi Reunion in Bozeman!!

Ryen, Kelsi and I getting caught up on Friday night!

Tawny and Adrian enjoying their wine at a fantastic new restaurant in Bozeman called WeeBees. Yes, we let Adrian into the AOPi reunion!! LOL!

Kelsi, Tawny, Ryen, Geiger and I out at the pub crawl on Saturday! What a great time!

Ryen, Becky and Tawny at WeeBees.

Kelsi and I getting ready to drink our flights of wine! Good times.

Ryen and I close-up!

Becky and I went back to Bozeman for the Alpha Omicron Pi 90's Reunion in late July. We had an incredibly great time seeing all our "sisters!" The weekend was packed full of fun. We went to the dessert/drinks philanthropy event Friday night, played (and won) a golf tournament (Yay team Becky, Betsy, Brandi & Kevin), and went out for dinner and a pub crawl to all of the bars in Bozeman on Saturday night. We spent time touring the house to see what had changed and what was the same. Thanks again Brandi and Kevin for letting Becky and I stay with you guys! It was such a great time to re-connect with great friends and such a fun trip down memory lane. Cari Boltz and Chantel did an amazing job organizing the weekend! I can't wait to do it again sometime! It sounds like we even inspired the Kappa Sigs to try for a reunion next summer!

July Fun!!

July was a fantastic month! We spent a lot of time at Flathead Lake at the cabin both over the 4th and again later in July when the Cranes were up from New Mexico for their vacation. Elsa and I stayed over in Montana that whole week and had a great week with Mom, Dad, the Cranes, Britt and Cameron. Becky and I also took in the AOPi reunion in Bozeman and had a wonderful time, but that is a whole other blog one of these days and of course more pictures. Anyway, here are pics from 4th of July and vacation week at the cabin!!
Elsa loved her holiday cake!

Bryce and Drew (our nephews) and Elsa at the cabin. They had a great time playing together!!

The Cranes! Becky with Bryce and Stuart with Drew!

Mom, Becky and I with the kids in Missoula.

Britt and I with Elsa at the cabin.

Grammy Barb with Elsa enjoying the beautiful weather!

Ready for another boat ride!!

Daddy Kennet with Elsa on the waverunner, she loved it!

Papa Bryce taking Elsa for another ride!!

Elsa loves the water!! We played in and out of the lake for a week and she never got tired of it!

Finally a picture of the 3 of us!!

Yay!

Kennet and Elsa relaxing on the 4th of July.

My cousin Sarah with Elsa.