After the 4th, we went to Roosevelt and stayed with Grandma and Grandpa White. The tree house was the favorite place to play.

Cute pics with uncle Jake.

Rock band was of course enjoyed by all. Especially these two.
please double click on this. You have to see Angelica's face up close!

THE MACKAY REUNION!
We didn't have batteries for most of the reunion and have only these few pictures as proof we were there. Here Aunt Kathy is helping Liam and Anna make prints of their hands for leafs on the family tree.

Train Rides! Liam was soooo excited for this. In fact, he tends to get a little over excited for things and ends up banging his head into the edge of a brick column. Yes, there was blood but no stitches luckily.

Well the end is nigh, for those of you who have kept up with this blog. We finished off with Slovakia and back to Prague. This is the view from a roof window in our loft in Prague. Things I won't forget.... the smell of Cigarette smoke and pastries and.... pretty much everything. It was fabulous and I can't get it out of my head. I'm determined to live there at some point. Anyway, enjoy the rest of the pics and look forward to seeing more of our little family again from now on.

Outside of Prague is what tourists who know about it call The Bone church. In the 1700's the graves that were buried under this church started to rise out of the ground. So the people solved the problem creatively and used their bones to decorate. I kind of think they went all out. Some of these bones are from the 12th and 13th centuries. It was incredible but somehow we left feeling a little dehumanized. I don't know why.

On a lighter note... I caught these two shots in the cemetary outside of the church. I love that bird.

The Jewish quarter of Prague. The Jewish cemetary was amazing. Under each of these piled in headstones are graves 12 bodies deep. We actually avoided the high priced viewing and saw it from the museum of modern arts bathroom window. It was better than anything we would have paid for and the museum was awesome too.
I love the cute Nuns behind me in this picture.

I loved this view of the New City in Prague.

All I have to say about Bratislava is this.......
I'll do Slovakia quite simple. We rode trains and toured castles in one of which was this painting. Also a royal treasury which contained a crocodile head which this guy brought back from some foreign crocodile infested land and told everyone he had slain a dragon. They all believed it of course.

I don't know why, but I love these pictures.

Anna turned one year old on June the First. I can't believe she's not a baby anymore. It went much too fast. She loves to play games and is always attracted to exciting and fun things. She loves to find clothes or towels and put them over and behind her head and then wear them like a shawl. Sometimes they end up on her head and she just wears them around the house like that. She's so cute with Liam's underwear flopping around on her head. She's really brave and trusting and always leans in towards Liams face with a sigh of contentment touching cheek to cheek or foreheads. We love her.

Liam worked hard on decorating Anna's birthday hat and he loved decorating her cake all by himself.

Anna's working on walking and was excited for her new scooter. Liam was a little more excited though.

PS. Thank you to Aunt Katherine for the cute bunny coat. It's fabulous.

Liam and Anna were graciously taken care of by Their Grandparents' Elton while we were away. Liam thoroughly enjoyed himself.