Cheese!

Would you believe she's actually saying, "cheese!" ?
One of the more recent mornings when she woke up not very happy and quite clingy. She had to take her special seat and watch mommy make breakfast. She's a pistol.

Anyway, come see us soon. If you want to drop a comment to any of these posts, sorry for the "word fill in." Some dufus left an advert for a stupid site on one of the more recent posts.

She's a witch in training, ridin' that broom! Just in time for Halloween!

Warts 'n All

Just to prove to you that daddy isn't overly bashful about his scruffy appearance on the weekends. It's easy when I know where the eyes are really drawn to. There I am with my Montana tee-shirt...I'm actually posting this from my room in Montgomery, Alabama, and getting ready to hop a flight tomorrow to visit Montana for a couple days.

Stickers!

If you can't tell, or haven't noticed, we have been long overdue in updating this site. Seemed at first there was someone's thunder we didn't want to steal...can't remember, cuz soon enough, it no longer felt appropriate to celebrate the wonders of our life in the face of Katrina and Rita and others. It all adds up to sloth and entropy, my twin demons.

Anway, if you didn't know, stickers are in with 2-year olds. We succumbed to no longer using stickers just for potty training rewards...they are useful to fend off the little beast when we need to make dinner, wash dishes, or work in general. That, and they are also preferable to her other addiction of the moment...band-aids (whose idea was it to get her princess band-aids, and pooh band-aids, and blues clues band-aids?). Eesh.

Yep, at least she likes tomatoes. I am just glad she isn't yet associating the tomatoe with the dude from Veggie Tales! She posed well for this shot... very vampire-like.

Happy Birthday Veronica! We love you! 

Yes - we are alive and well and really enjoyed Yellowstone. Here is Veronica putting her piggies in the Yellowstone River. It was cold! I don't think we'll be posting all 100+ pictures, but we sure did see some fantastic sights. 

This is the courtyard at the San Xavier Mission just outside Tucson. Beautiful old mission presently undergoing renovation. It was actually interesting to see the damage caused by the great number of birds over the years that nested in the various Saints and such. Missions are neat though. Let's see - I am home in Georgia now, and Veronica's latest addition to vocabulary is "My"...so it's My Evan this, or My Elmo, My whatever. Cute. :) 

I just got back from Tucson, AZ where I attended the AAMVA Region IV Conference (see www.aamva.org if you don't know what an AAMVA is). Great meeting, beautiful area - it was really nice to see so many old friends I have not seen in years. It's also nice to see such a large gathering of civil servants who actually have a passion about their job and doing things better. Commiseration is always good, but so is problem solving. Anyway - Tucson was a little hot...I guess it got up around 110F each day I was there, but it's a dry heat. :) (It really does make a difference...but so does air conditioning.)

94!

If she won't brag, I'll do it for her - Jen took the GA real estate exam yesterday and scored 94%!Congratulations Jen! I guess that means the pressure is really on now, eh? :) I was invited yesterday evening to dinner with friends here on the project in Helena, MT. We went to dinner at an establishment only accessible by boat - I'll have to update this post later with the name. I want to say Indian something something, but it's not quite sticking. The lake was beautiful and we had it mostly to ourselves because most of the boaters who would have come from Helena were scared off by thunder, lightning, and hail that hit the town as little as a couple hours before we hit the water - zapped the electric a couple times in the office and caused a bunch of us to loose works in progress. We all forgot cameras for the outing though - I guess I'll have to finagle an invite from our host again when I get Julie, Jen and Veronica out next month!

Action shot 1: I forget what she was laughing at, but she just picked up the telltale sounds of a big jumbo from the nearby airforce base. She likes to point out airplanes and birdies as they fly overhead. 

Action shot 2: "Boss! The plane, the plane!" 

Action shot 3: post-airplane sighting.

Mommy is putting Veronica's hair up to prepare her for model action poses. Cookie is very interested in the background. That, or she's really hoping a banana dreamcicle will slip from a pair of little hands. 

Veronica and mommy enjoying banana dreamcicles on a beautifal Marietta father's day weekend. Yes, you can actually tell that the grass is growing out beyond the sod! I understand our nextdoor neighbor's son cut our back lawn for us on Monday...can't wait to see how it looks. :) Actually, by the time I see it again, I won't know the difference...which is probably good...in a way.