Lavender Blue Days

Lucy: Axlebass (bass like fish)

Ruby: Meenomonomeenomo

I asked Lucy and Ruby what we should name the new baby

Ruby said Alpha, which was pretty cool.

Lucy said adiaper, which I still require some convincing on.

Shawn

Oh--here is another one i wanted to put up. It looks like an ad for the gap or something. (Shawn took all of the pictures, by the way.) I can't believe how well all the kids got along over the weekend. It was just so cool.

I also realized that we've seen a bunch of buddies since I got my camera, so i'll try to post some of those pictures in the next few days, too.

love ya,
val

Sorry, guys. I haven't blogged in a long time. Here are some pics of our weekend! We had a great time! Things have been so stressful lately--it was awesome to just spend some time with some buddies.

love, val

I just got home from a big work meeting at 2:43 am. From day to day my position changes on whether or not I should be running hard at this. It sure is an exciting place to work, and the opportunity is one in a hundred million, but I just don't know how to take care of a family and this work thing. I guess it's time to learn. Sometimes it seems like it would be easier to get a job and just turn off the work part of my mind when I leave work.

But, I never made a living wage before this and that wasn't easy either. Life is pretty complicated. We sure have a lot to be thankful for. Now I just have to learn to transfer that thankfulness to good stewardship of the different areas of my life.

I got this audio bible read by black hollywood actors for Christmas, and I really like it, besides finding humor in the premise. James Brown makes a pretty good John the Baptist.

Shawn

Yesterday Ruby said "I pooped, I dooped."

This rhyming is out of control. I mean I think it's hilarious that Ruby knows what a Palamino horse is.

It's way more hilarious though, that she called it a peno-beno-ceno-weno horse.

Shawn

This one definitely makes the list.

Last week at the mall, we were at the calendar store kiosk and Lucy threw a Garfield calendar off the balcony and it landed in the foliage of a tree below. Today I'm going to check if it's still there.

Seems like the "what if I do this" impulse consistently overpowers the "this is wildly inappropriate" inhibition.

Ruby's hilarious thing of the day is waking up at 5:00AM howling "I need mac n cheese!"

Shawn