Well, I'm back. My little blog-cation has served its purpose, and it's time to re-enter the world of the communicative. It's been a full few weeks, with Esther's visit, more hours at work, the semester gearing up to the end and winding down at the same time, and the various and sundry day-to-day things that happen ( Read more... )

Well, March is definitely my month of visitors! First Dad, then Colin, and now Esther's coming for spring break, since our breaks coincide (no, she's not a student; she's a preschool teacher). She'll get here next Tuesday and leave on Sunday, so we'll have a good number of days to hang out and do fun L.A. stuff. Like the beach and Disneyland ( Read more... )

So, my parents are pretty much awesome ( Read more... )

I suppose I should give the addendum to the Ugly Santa debacle from the Christmas party ( Read more... )

I was at a Christmas party last night that included a gift exchange. It wasn't really a white elephant exchange; the gifts were mostly nice, useable things (a picture frame, a set of mixing bowls, a Starbucks mug, a bottle of wine, a gigantic chocolate bar, etc). This wasn't the "wrap a roll of duct tape and can of Spam" kind of gift exchange, ( Read more... )

I have two stories to tell today ( Read more... )

Goodness. I haven't posted a real summary of the weekend yet. I was too busy getting over the cold that I caught from Colin that he caught from Jakob ( Read more... )

Things I've done so far this weekend, in no particular order:

• Had lunch, sans kids, with Kat.
  
• Learned (re-learned, sort of) how to drive a standard.
  
• Started watching Arrested Development (halfway through season 1 right now).
  
• Had coffee with murphy987.
  
• Visited Heather (Scott was out of town) and cuddled 10-day-old Martin for a good, long time.
  
• Gone out for ( Read more... )

I still haven't gotten around to tagging or captioning these pictures (and more) in my gallery, and I also realized that I haven't actually posted a picspam of the last bit of summer yet, either. So... here we go--some pictures of August, mostly more weddings.

( This way for pictures )

How about some birthday pictures?

( Family silliness )