Way home

I had good meetings in Florida today and I'm on the plane heading north. The picture of the baby balancing act was taken outside where we had dinner last night. The food was forgettable but the sculpture was interesting.

I'm sitting on the left side of the plane heading north so the view of the sunset over the North Carolina coast is quite nice. I just took a couple pictures of it and will post one tonight or tomorrow morning. I'll also post some baby shots soon which is why most of you come to this blog in the first place. Hell, I can't wait to see them.

More soon....

Mark Carpenter
General Manager and Director
Web Strategy and Operations
www.aarp.org
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Balancing act

Ft lauderdale

Tuesday

I hope everyone enjoyed the Easter pictures and the rather low resolution camera phone pictures from the Birchmere. Kumie and I saw Cracker-Camper Van Bethoven there last night. It was an semi-electric show with help from the Hackensaw boys. Good times. Btw, you need to forgive my spelling on many of these posts. I don't have spell check on my blackberry and I was never the strongest speller. I try to concentrate on the message and proper grammer just distracts me.

Anyway, I probably have a few more pictures in of the boys ready to go that I'll try to post this week. Remember to check www.durpenters.org as well. I will send a few pictures a week to flickr and they show up on the right side of the site dynamically. I'll also try to post a short easter egg hunt video there later this week. Very entertaining.

More soon....
Mark Carpenter
General Manager and Director
Web Strategy and Operations
www.aarp.org
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Sam being attacked by bunnies. 

What the world needs now

More cracker

Cracker

At the birchmere

Dylan getting all excited about finding easter eggs in the yard.  

Successful Easter Egg hunt. The boys are displaying the eggs they harvested in the yard. They picked up the whole concept pretty quickly and would have gotten more eggs if Kumie wasn't knocking them down to get them first. Joseph, Ashton and Kumie joined us for brunch and the hunt. I have some good video of the whole event as well and will put together a dvd of the fun sometime soon. More later... 

Another 40th birthday party. Seems like someone is turning 40 everyday. Well, I guess they are, but it does seem all my friends are turning 40 at a rapid pace. This is Randella or her given name, Randy. I went up to Baltimore for a couple hours to celebrate with the gang last night. We are having few people over for an Easter Egg hunt this morning so I should have some good pictures for the blog and web site later this afternoon. More soon... 

Top notch

Geckos in Baltimore

I was in Chicago yesterday evening and most of today. I had some meetings with my Interactive Agency, Euro RSCG. Dinner was fun and the meetings were successful and I'm back home now. This cow is in Euro's 3rd floor lobby. I don't know where it lived when it was on the street a few years ago. 

Chicago

Andrew and sacha

Rain

Lots of it. It was a pretty dreary day with rain and a really dark sky. The boys are feeling better but I'm sure they will be thrilled to go outside tomorrow and play at the park after being stuck inside all day. I guess they did go out for a little shopping but no chance to run around outside. I don't have any new recent pictures but will be sure add some on Sunday when we have some people over for an Easter egg hunt, if not sooner.

More soon...

Check out the new Social Security spot from AARP on the AARP Social Security blog. This whole campaign has been pretty successful and this is the latest tv ad pushing the issue forward.

More later...
 

Today

No new pictures to post and the news is rather boring. Sam is still a little sick but his temp is down in the 101 range and Dylan shows no sign of the bug, yet... Work was busy and it's time to go to bed. More later...

The boys singing happy birthday to Grandma Carolyn. Well, they weren't actually singing but they do have party hats on. They are looking forward to seeing a bunch of Grandparents in the next few weeks. Happy birthday Mom.  

Full Bloom 

The boys got a much needed hair cut today. Look you can see their eyes. They were really good too. Not too squirmy this time. They do have colds again but that's to be expected. I'm also posting a shot of the first flowers coming up in the yard. I think winter is done here.