Well there might no be pictures of you up here and I think there’s only one or two that I actually show up in but that’s beside the point. It’s been a while since I’ve actually posted anything on the web site and tonight I sat down and put together three updates. Count em, three. Never mind that I’m actually about to go blind after staring at this screen for the last three hours, it’s what I do to keep you happy.

First up are more pictures of Caroline. I’ve been told a number of times that people have been asking for more pictures so here you go. There’s some really good ones in this set now that she’s more alert and making some expressive faces. (That or she’s got gas.)

Second, I’ve pulled together a couple of pictures from Easter. We took the boys to Andrew’s school where they were doing a community Easter Egg hunt and to be honest I think they had more people show up then they anticipated. There were about a zillion kids running around, the lines for the activities where huge, and at one point the sheer number of kids overwhelmed the volunteers as they just started to Easter Egg hunt before they were ready.

And lastly, hot off the digital camera memory stick are pictures from Alex’s birthday party which we did this weekend. Last week we did a small family gathering and this weekend was the official broomball party at the ice rink with his friends.

I was thinking to myself the other day that I didn’t post any pictures on the web site in August and that I don’t recall actually taking very many pictures. I started going through the camera’s and found that there were a bunch of pictures from the August New Orleans trip on there. I had completely forgotten about the trip.

Jen and the boys spent a week in New Orleans while I stayed back to work. Kelly was in town during the week as well taking care of stuff before her move and through a series of events I ended up missing my flight and driving with Kelly from Dallas to NOLA.

Here are the August New Orleans trip pictures.

Over the July 4th holiday weekend we decided to take a trip to Canada to visit the family. We looked into flying up but air fare was totally outrageous so we made the decision just to drive. We left here Friday night and took three days for the drive there with a stop in Chicago on the second night to see Amanda and Ryan and crash at their place. (Thanks guys.) Then we had five full days in Canada which we used to visit family and go around and visit all sorts of cool stuff. Then on Saturday we turned around and drove back home in two days, a very long two days. We ended up driving a total of 3200 miles (5150 km) after all was said and done.

Alex and Andrew did really good on the drive and I don’t remember hearing too may “Are we there yets”. On the second day of the ride home Andrew got a little upset but that didn’t last long since he fell asleep.

After a couple of weeks of sifting through the pictures, getting them organized, getting some additional pictures from Deanna and Doug, (thanks!), and it’s all done. Whew.

As an aside we played the license plate game and I think we ended up doing pretty well. 32 US States, 4 Canadian Provinces, and 3 Indian Trip, who would have known they have their own license plates.