more garden pics, a funny vid

Here's some more pics of the garden. The veggies are all planted, the side bed is mostly coming up roses, as it were (which is not literally), and we're finally done with the north side bed (see all the landscape timbers we put in!). We just need to finish mulching.
The only tree we don't have a photo of yet is the magnolia in the front.
And, a few 8-month photos of Evangeline.

http://picasaweb.google.com/aloradanen/MoreGardensNotAsManyBabies#

Here's a funny video, where Evangeline shows what she really thinks of all our friends. Oh yeah, and gets laughed at.

Hiking season is here

Hey all. Nice weather is finally arriving here in Seattle so when we are not throwing up (Liz) or working weekend hours (Ian) we're doing our best to get out and enjoy it. Note that the few nicer pics were taken with Tim's fancy pants new camera. 's lots of fun with the nice weather here but we're really looking forward to being home in about a month.

MothersDay

babies and gardens

Here's some photos and a few videos from the last monthish.

gardens, babies in gardens

Going in Reverse


The Crazy Packers Dance


Scary Giggles


Cow PJs

David's full-court press on Goliath

I've like reading Malcolm Gladwell even when he's not writing about sports, so it's a godsend when he does (same thing with Chuck Klosterman). Here's a really good article that I just read about underdogs breaking out of convention to beat more talented opponents...'s a really good read even for the non-sports fan.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all

We're Back!

Hey all! Haven't been updating much as the last month has been pretty crazy for Liz and I. We had Mom visit and paint cabinets, we threw a big Easter party for my co-workers, we had an old college friend visit (Mary Ann), we got another round of sickness and we just got back from a two day visit to see Lindsay in Boise. Luckily Molly was a real sport for the 8 hour drive (one way) but we're still pretty tired. On the plus side with the long car rides I finally got to catch up on some reading (read A City of Thieves, A Mote in God's Eye and I'm almost finished with Ha'penny). Here is a dump of most of our photos from this last month.

Boise++

old videos (with sound this time) and new

Here's a few videos, some you've seen but now new-and-improved, with sound!

da da...



baby crab cakes...



catch, or, what's on your head?

7-month photos

Here are some 7-month photos of our little sitter! I'm trying to figure out how to edit videos and not lose the audio - I hadn't realized they came through with no sound! I will be repost the videos if I can get something figured out...