All day meeting

All day meeting
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Priorities

Meeting at the

Meeting at the
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Jefferson hotel

Aunt Robbie bought the boys these shirts for Christmas I believe. Here they are modeling them on Superbowl Sunday. In case you can't tell, Sam is saying it's his brother's fault and Dylan is sporting the good idea at the time shirt. We had a few people over last night and had a good time watching the game. Chili, Mac and Cheese, peach pie... Mmmmmm, all good. Another busy week at work. Time for bed.

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Enjoy

Sam

Sam
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Are ready for some football

Here's Mike at Jud's party last night. Gina, his spouse to be is just to the right of him. He's so excited to be getting married he can't get that grin off is face. The wedding is in Key West in later this year. We've already got our reservations and tickets, should be fun. The boys came with us to the party and spent part of the time in the basement with the rest of the kids. Jud hired a baby sitter but that only lasted for a while until the combined energy of 10 children proved too much for the basement and the baby sitter. We had a good time but we were home by 9pm. It was past the boys bedtime and they were spinning out of control. We are having a few people over for the Superbowl today. Hope it's a good game.  

Juds party

Juds party
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Fire

Range

Range
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Large bucket of balls

The boys got two new Thomas engines this morning that Nicole bought last night. Dylan fell in love with Spencer this weekend and "needed" it and Sam somehow became a huge Gordon fan. Of course Nicole couldn't stop herself and picked them up last night and I figured we might as well see the excitement in their little faces by giving them to them this morning. They did promise to listen to us and Blanca as a condition of receiveing them and promised not to say "stinky" anymore, but we'll see how long that lasts.  

So Dylan has a double ear infection again and not croup. He's getting more anti-biotics, which he loves but is already looking better. They are going to miss school tomorrow and it's pajamma day which is a shame. It's late and I should be sleeping. Good night.

Rainy day so we've been inside all day. Dylan has croup again and sounds like a seal. I found that the cable company's on demand service has a ton of Thomas the Train episodes and things like Bob the Builder and Sam the Fireman. We watched a bunch of those shows this morning, they took a nap and are now painting in the basement. I think it's going to be a stay in all day, day.... Got work to do. More soon.. 

Sam

Sam
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New ball

Beavis and Butthead

I downloaded the first season from itunes to my ipod today. I'm finding the video playing capabilities of this new ipod are actually quite entertaining and a nice break from all music when I'm riding the bike or on the elliptical machine. The last two days at work have been busy so it's nice to have a couple days off. It's going to be 60 again here and not very winter like. We took the boys to the gym this morning and then to a park. Not much else going on this weekend. No football, no parties, not much at all.

Scrubs

I watched the first episode of last nights Scrubs again tonight. That show is so frickin funny. If you don't watch it, start. They really need to start selling it on iTunes. Busy day tomorrow, I'm going to bed.

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Here's another Sam picture. This one show that he really lines things up to get a good shot. I'll do a flickr show soon. It's already been a busy work week with a few days left. I started downloading some video podcasts to my new video ipod and find them fairly compelling. At least more so than the audio podcasts I was playing with but never listening to. Watching ABC News for the small screen is actually pretty alright. I'm also working on moving some of my DVD's to the ipod. That's a little more complicated and will require a new application. More soon... 

Here's another Sam photo. This time, of Dylan doing his Mick Jagger impression. I now have over 250 pictures taken by Sam and it's growing fast. I may have to do a flckr collection this week. Dylan has also starting taking a few photos with a lot of attention placed on Diesel 10 in his new Thomas movie.  

Sam the Photographer




Sam told me he wanted to take pictures today so I gave him my oldest digital camera and let him loose. He must have taken 100 shots and I've posted some interesting ones above. I watched him look around the room of the house for good subjects and actually arrange things, or move things slightly to get a better shot. He would also ask his human subjects if he could "take a picture from you" and would ask you to say "cheese" before snapping the shot.

At the top left, he took a picture looking down into a basket or something. The top right shot is a hairbrush he found in the kitchen. The waffles are his un-eaten breakfast and the older woman is a resident of a retirement home Nicole and boys went to today with their pre-school class. The airplace is his new favorite toy and the foot on the Thomas the Train bridge must have some sort of significance.

Joseph's birthday party was fun last night and Nicole and I had a nice dinner downtown beforehand. A little place on P Street called Mikato. I didn't really get any good shots at the party. I forgot I had the camera until about 15 minutes before we left. I've got a dentist appointment tomorrow morning. Good times....

Lock up your daughters the boys have new haircuts. We took Patrick's first appointment this morning and all three of us got our hair chopped. The boys are wearing their "Lock Up Your Daughters" t-shirts Aunt Julie sent from Texas. You can't see the whole shirt but this is the best I could get them to pose. It's in the 60's here again and does not feel like winter. Joseph's birthday party is tonight and I'll be sure to take some good pics of the festivities. Tomorrow is all about football. More soon.

Dylan

Dylan
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Haircut

Sam

Sam
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Haircut

Meter Pops

This is funny and brought to my attention by Kumie in her blog. From the WSO employee who brought you tape man, we now have Meter Pops. Mark Jenkins does it again with public installations of some funky stuff. Enjoy... http://www.storker.net/meterpops.html