January 26, 2014

  Whenever I open my photo files to put a picture on this blog, these are the pictures that oddly load first.  These are from a random day when we were messing around with Photo Booth on my computer.



January 25, 2014

  I had really good intentions to take pictures of Jeff helping the boys learn to ride their bikes today.  But that didn't happen (the picture-taking, not the riding lesson). The day was so nice we spent a little extra time at the school, getting basketball shooting tips and mastering the hopscotch.



January 24, 2014

The Cha Cha turns three!



Three things I don't want to forget about Bailey at this age:
1. If you call her anything besides her name ("Cha Cha," a "good girl," "Goofball") she'll say, "I not ____, I just Bailey!"
2. She can't say her Rs.  If the R is at the beginning of the word, it sounds like a Y (Yian for Ryan); if the R is in the middle of the word, she skips the R sound altogether (imagine how uncomfortable it gets when she talks about her shirt in public).
3. She has made up a game with me where she'll sing a question in an imaginary microphone, then hand me the microphone and expect me to sing the answer back.
  Despite being utterly spoiled and adored by all in this family, she is very sweet and good-natured.  

January 23, 2014


January 22, 2014

  Yep, my memory card's still in the computer.
  On our drive back to New Jersey from Utah the summer before Jeff's second year of medical school, we stayed with my sister Jill's family in Michigan.  We decided to drive a little out of the way to see "The Big House," the stadium at the University of Michigan. When would we ever be that close again??

January 21, 2014

  Okay, I know I took a picture today, but my memory card was in my computer, not my camera.  Oh well.  Here's another oldie, but goodie.

  We were living in Provo when the Olympics came to Salt Lake City.  Provo held a celebration when the Olympic torch came through town. We went with my mom and dad.  The three things that stick out in my memory of that night are 1) seeing the torch being run down the road was pretty ant-climatic, 2) it was freezing, and Shelbi's shoes/socks kept falling off her little feet, and 3) because of Shelbi's poor frozen toes, we left early, but could still see the fireworks from our apartment window.

January 20, 2014

  I sat downstairs this evening listening to the kids play "office" upstairs.  It must have been some sort of government agency, as there were lines forming to the left and permits being granted, along with all kinds of office politics.  Here are the kids at their various work stations: