The Key

So here's a drawing Nathan did for Kelly's birthday last Monday. Unfortunately she's not going to get it until sometime next week... but in advance, I've made this key to interpret what he drew... although you can honestly interpret any way you like. If you click on the picture for the close-up, you'll see the random scattering of words Nathan insisted I help him write.

music by girls (and others)

I'm kind of excited about these ones:

Bat for Lashes (can't embed this one)
-the video's a little... dreamy in an eerie sort of way, and the sound is a little 60s to me, but I like it.





Oh and here's the monster hospital one I was talking to Ian about... if you're curious.

My name is Gumby.

I totally forgot about the camera on my birthday. We all did. So here's me making do.

It was awesome. We had a fun day, then Jared came home, I showered and then we had dinner at Zupa's. Yum. Then we picked up a movie from Redbox and went home. Jared had made me my cake the night before.
Except that it was a chocolate cheesecake.I loved it.Then the kids went to bed, which they were thrilled to do...
and we watched 17 Again. For reals.
Oh, and Shannon babysat the kids last Saturday for a present, my mom got me a Moleskin City Notebook for London, and Jared donated moneys to my travel fund.
Yay! Thanks guys, for a lovely birthday.

Thunder

Today there were a few thunderstorms. While Rylie took a nap, Nathan and I made hot chocolate on the stove and watched videos of lightning on youtube. Lame, I know... but we couldn't see anything outside - we just heard lots of thunder. Anyway, Nathan got a serious chocolate mustache. Enjoy. (I know the second one is pretty blurry, but it was worth it. Trust me.)

Happy Birthday Aaron!

Aaron came over for cake on his birthday. Thanks for letting us act like dorks and giving us a great excuse to eat cake, Aaron!

Bed Thief

Some nights, Nathan likes to sleep anywhere but his own bed. We came upstairs one night after watching Scrubs' reruns or something and found him in ours.Of course, now you see that our bed was not made and that for some reason, the package of toilet paper stayed by my side of the bed for a couple of days. Sad face.

New Stuff: Nathan

Nathan started preschool nearly a week ago. He's been enjoying it. He loves the snacks. And I threw in a couple pictures of Rylie eating raspberries for kicks.

New Stuff: Rylie

Rylie folds her arms for prayer, now. It doesn't usually last long, but it sure is cute.

Monkey Bread Head

Just a couple pictures of Rylie and Jared goofing off. The title of the post is one of Jared's (many) nicknames for Rylie.

Nathan's Birthday

Man I've been such a slacker lately! In pretty much... everything. I'm getting back on track though, slowly but surely. So here are a couple pictures from Nathan's birthday. I'm pretty sure he had a blast. There are more pics here.

Lazy post.

Shannon took some pictures when we went to the park the other day.
Enjoy.
Sorry, we've been pretty busy lately. I'll post bigger and better things soon, hopefully.