Courtney's Bike Ride

It finally has turned warm, sort of, here in New England. We're still dropping to below freezing temperatures at night, but the days are warming up. Last Saturday Courtney popped her bike tire, which was the perfect opportunity to take off the training wheels.

Here she is on day 1 of learning to ride a bike without training wheels...

Harrison Dances

With the two girls in dance and a recital just around the corner, Harrison offers some interesting new moves with just as interesting titles.

Northeast pounded by snow

"Northeast pounded by snowy late-winter storm"

We have just finished shoveling another "Nor'easter" here in Mass. This storm dumped about a foot of snow for us and has given the kids another snow day. It took me about 1.5 hours to get things cleared - thanks Jane and Emily for your help!

After a slow drive into work (arrived at 10am) I pulled up my window shade to see the following picture. Now, perhaps it's my recent day dreaming at work, but here's the ice images that I saw....


OK, so if you can't make out what it is I saw - stretch your imagination and you'll see some ducks, birds and penguins. Here's another one without the flash.

Sorry, that's what you get when I don't get the day off for a snow day!

Conservative Radio Tour

Gary seems to be multitasking at work which has caused him to pick up the phone from time to time and call a host. This time, it was Bill O'Reilly. So far he has not attempted to call Mr. Limbaugh. Jane retains the only Denning call into Rush, which happened in our Florida days.

Here's Gary's call...with a slip into his re-emerging accent:



disclaimer: Gary wrote this in 3rd person - not sure why!

Courtney Part II

So here's the picture of Courtney's front teeth post losing her first tooth...
Kind of funny how the other front tooth just fell over crooked. Click on the photo to enlarge it - sorry for the dirty face!

And here is what she looks like now...YES - just 2 days later she lost her 2nd tooth. It's started her singing a certain song about my 2 front teeth; that I'm trying to get out of my head!

Courtney loses a tooth!!!

Courtney loses her tooth and gets a visit from the Tooth Fairy !!!

The rest of the story is that almost as soon as she lost her tooth it slipped out of her hands and is now hiding somewhere in our home. This made it necessary for a handwritten Courtney note to the tooth fairy.

To her glee and dismay, the tooth fairy did visit - depositing "only" 4 quarters for this precious first tooth from our 6 year old!

Click the photo to see an enlarged view.

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year to all! It's hard to believe that we've started a new year already. I sure am hoping for a lot of change this year...please some dollar bills too!

I have not solidified my New Year's Resolutions yet - perhaps because of how few I actually accomplished last year.

So it seems the best thing to do is to reflect on this first post of the year. There is nothing better than to reflect on the great Christmas with family again this year - this time a little bigger with the addition of Matthew, Jen and their 3 cute girls. It was fun for the cousins to play together.





Letters to Santa





Traditional Reading of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" & Luke 2: