The newest member of our family!

Graham Warner Eliot is here!

Colin and Katie's precious boy was born Wednesday, March 25th at 8:53pm. He weighed 7lbs 14oz and is very healthy. Katie is also doing well. She and Graham will be coming home from the hospital today. Below are pictures of our newest addition!

SA Vacation!

Well, just last week I got home from a two week vacation to South Africa with my two of my friends. We had a blast! It was great fro me to see some of my friends and family there. I missed them dearly! We went cage diving with the great white sharks and caving in Cape Town and took a road trip accross the western half of the country! It was great and we stayed safe! I'm glad to be home, but wish I could be back home in Africa again. Bitter sweet to say the least. Here's just a few of the photos (I'll be adding more as I get them from my friend's cameras so check back).

Photo taken just outside of Boomslang Cave

Inside Boomslang Cave (we brought candles with is)

The Hill Family in Cape Town

Cape Argulas. The most southern point of africa where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet.

Hi Everyone!!!

Oh my gosh! Life is getting away from me it seems. I finally had sometime to sit down and breath. Let's see where to start it is a busy year already. I am making a career move. I left Walgreen's and have some offers on the table but I haven't quite decided what I'm going to do. Steve is playing a ton of tennis and really enjoys getting out on the court with friends and also with Tara and Dax. We spent 6 kid-free-days in Maui in October and I would recommend it to anyone. It was awesome. We can't wait to take the kids.

Tara is a senior. WOW! She will graduate in May and is heading to UNM. She is editor of the yearbook for the second year and is playing number one on the tennis team for the fourth year in a row. Also she was on Homecoming Court this year, it was totally cool.

She's a great girl and we are really blessed to have such a terrific teenager.
 

And as for our little guy, Dax is growing so fast.

He loves everything boy, football, cars, tools, you name it. And he still remembers the owl from the Rice game we went to in El Paso. Every night at bedtime when we do the alphabet he says "O is for Owl like at the football game."  We miss you all and I love that we can catch up this way but I really think we need to think about taking sometime and getting together. It would be fun!!!! We have plenty of room and everyone is always welcome!

St. Louis Eliots Post-Holiday Holiday Blog

Greetings from St. Louis!

Thanks to you who posted early and got our blog initiated. Not surprisingly, it appears that the younger cousins (at least the twenty-something crowd) is quite proficient and comfortable with blogging and didn't hesitate to post. We have enjoyed reading the posts and catching up on what exciting things you are doing and look forward to the others.

LIFE IS GOOD! Here we are in St. Louis, MO ... the home of so many Eliots in the past 200 years. W.G. was recently featured in a magazine here as one of the "most influential persons in St. Louis history". I regret that I haven't investigated much into the St. Louis Eliots nor have I pursued looking up anyone in the area. We have, however, been to Wash U and seen the plaque which honors the founding father of the intially named Eliot Seminary. He wouldn't have a University named in his honor and demanded naming it after our first president. I have also been to the "Eliot Room" at a historic brewery in town - Schlafly's (still investigating who the brewpub named the room after). I plan to put more effort into it in the future; if any of you historians get the urge to come up here, you are certainly invited.

In June of '07 Katie and I moved from Edmond to St. Louis in pursuit of a spot in a graduate endodontic training program. I completed a one-year residency at a local hospital and then was accepted into the program at Saint Louis University (SLU). I'm still a dentist--which I consider to be a dream job, but I now specialize in endodontics--which is a dream-dream job for me; it has been fun realizing my occupational "sweet spot".

Katie left a great position at OU only to land an even better position at SLU as full-time faculty and co-director of the dietetic internship. She enjoys the classroom where she teaches Food Science, Clinical Systems Mgt., and Health Care Ethics; she has been to El Salvador in a coordinated effort with a hospital there; and she somehow has turned into St. Louis' nutrition media darling. On top of everything, she continues to work on her PhD (2012?).

Our experience here has been amazing. We have been blessed with meaningful friendships, a great church and fulfilling careers. We truly have much for which to be thankful.

We would invite you all to come stay with us, but our guest bedroom was recently converted to a nursery. In March we will be welcoming our first, Graham Warner Eliot.

We wish you all a great 2009!

Colin and Katie