Dreaming...

On this rainy day I'm dreaming of our vactation two years ago to St. John...

Buds

Evan and I have been making the most of this beautiful un-August like weather.
Tuesday we had a picnic lunch and some swinging time with our
friends. Here are a few pictures of the boys in their swings.
I think they are having fun!
We were too!

Exceptionally smart moms carry hats when it is very sunny out.
I will be putting a hat in my diaper bag momentarily...

New toy!

So we had an exciting new appliance purchase this week!!..…unfortunately, it wasn’t something that I was actually looking forward to. Nope, not a flatscreen TV, not a Wii, not even a new coffee maker. This was more of the “we have a crisis” sort of purchase.

I was at a work dinner on Monday night at a pretty nice place, and was feeling good about the seafood trio I had just ordered. Then, Ginny calls me 3 times in a row, back-to-back – which I knew was a problem since the first call I thought, “geez, she knows I’m at dinner”, and the second call I thought, “OK she just didn’t leave a voicemail the first time”, but then the third got my attention. 3 in a row basically is the equivalent of marriage 911. So I stepped away from the table, walked to the front of the restaurant, and answered…to which Ginny quickly informed me that we had a “flood under the house.” My response was first to burst into an uncontrollable sweat, and then to ask, “what do you mean a flood?!?” To which Ginny responded, quite logically, “I mean a FLOOD…there is water pouring out of the crawl space door!!”

Just what you want to hear, especially when you’re at a dinner like this. Ginny got the main water shutoff closed, and then after probably .0001 seconds of trying to rationalize how I could call a plumber and stay at the dinner, and then let Ginny feed Evan, put him to bed, handle the plumber, AND make a decision about what to do (OK maybe it took more like 2 minutes), I told the table I had to jet…and then walked at high speed about 5 blocks to my car. When it’s 95 degrees outside, and you are already sweating, I had another flood on my hands by the time I got to my car.

Anyway, it went pretty well from there – Ginny arranged the emergency plumber so that when I got home, all I had to do was to figure out that the hot water heater had busted, and then I met the plumber and got everything squared away to get it all replaced the next day. The old hot water heater was pretty old, so not only did we need a new heater, we needed a bunch of work done to get it up to code. So the next day, I had an awesome cold shower in the morning and then we had a plumber, an electrician, and a junk-haul-away guy at the house, and by the afternoon we had hot water again.

And that’s how we got our sweet new appliance – owning a home is fun! Here’s the new machine…good times!

Game Day

Yes, tonight is only the first preseason game of the year, but "Baby Jake" is ready for some football! In the meantime, he has been enjoying spending his time playing with his reflection in the mirror...

Its Uncle Walter!

Last night my big little brother came over for birthday dinner and hang out time.
It was fun for me to see these two together...

Gus was in heaven.
Everyone loves Uncle Walter...

6 month fun

Friday was Evan's .5 birthday!
Here is what he looks like in all his six month glory!

At six months old, Evan loves to move!
He wants to investigate everything that catches his eye.
He loves to laugh and squeal
and is quick to give a two toothed smile.
If I could pick one word to describe him right now
...which is difficult b/c there are so many words...
it would be joy. Pure and simple joy.