First day of camp (at school)

Gus started camp today at the school he'll be attending in the fall. He's been incredibly excited about it all week, but staying there without me was hard for him (and for me, too, boo hoo), at least at first, but he adjusted quickly. He got a worm to bring home from the Mad Science Lady that came to his class, he painted, and played outside and then I picked him up. Tomorrow we both go with the school on a field trip to a park around here- and we ride on a bus to get there so I feel a thousand verses of 'wheels on the bus' coming on....

Before camp

That was then....

Sept 1998... after our wedding reception


This is now- July 2009, after Lucky's wedding reception


Who knows, maybe Cade will be next.

A few more pics

After the reception we stuck around for a little while to hang out. Gus and Janie chilled in a bedroom at the lodge and watched movies while Tim and I hung out. That was so much better than having to go back to the hotel before the reception was over because Gus wouldn't go to sleep and was driving Janie nuts. We paid for it the next day though, oy, our aching heads!

Me and Lucky

Tim caught this huge Silence of the Lambs moth for Gus. The thing was mammoth and Tim smacked it down a number of times before he was able to capture it.

I have another picture I'll post as soon as Tim gets back from LA and can access a scanner.

The wedding

Lucky was nice enough to invite Gus and Janie along to the wedding events- which Gus got totally excited about, he was thrilled that Lucky was getting married even though I don't think he knows what that is (clearly, he does not, heh)- so that we could hang out and visit longer. Tim was in the wedding party and so was our friend Cade. The 3 of them were stationed together at Tim's first assignment in Washington state at Fairchild, AFB.

It was really great to see both Lucky and Cade, the last time we were all together was about 9 years ago when we went to Hawaii together- Cade lived there, that lucky dog! Lucky visited us a couple of times when we were in LA but we hadn't seen him in a couple of years.

Putting M & M's in his pocket. Apparantly, there are multiple places that they do not melt. I think Gus had 4 boxes of them.

Gus and Cade

Requisite family photograph.

Leaving on a jet plane

Last weekend we went to Jackson, Mississippi (actually it was Brandon) for our friend Lucky's wedding. Janie picked us up at the airport so she could help out with Gus so we could spend more time with our friends.

FYI, for anyone going to Brandon, we just wanted to inform you in advance that it's located in a dry county. Lucky should have given us a head's up, but we'll forgive that oversight seeing as how he was about to get hitched and all.

At Dulles airport. Janie hates it when Gus opens stuff with his teeth.

Gus took this picture. If only my boob was this huge in reality!

Picnic + Painting

Backyard picnic- Gus, Megan, and Ryan

Fingerpainting

Ryan's portrait of Gussie. It's the spitting image of him!

DOH!

I finally figured out how to resize pics so they're not HUGE when you click on them (starting with the garden pictures). So click away.

Our Garden

Tomatos, zucchini, more tomatos, cucumbers, bell peppers, 2 blueberry bushes- because according to Ilka I can't have just one, I also need a pollenator- and more tomatos. The plastic container on the railing contains a Venus Flytrap.

We had to plant it on the deck because we get almost no sun in our backyard, a small portion of the deck gets sun almost all day.

This is what it looked like right after we planted it a month or so ago.

A buncha posts in no particular order

I'm going to attempt to get caught up on my picture posting. It's been generally hectic and I've had issues with blogger the last 3x I've tried to post, so I'm going to try yet again to get something up on the blog. These pics are from the last 3 months, I'll just post stuff as I come across it in my pics, it'll all be posted out of order. Hope everybody's having a great summer so far!