:::cute-in it up:::

gee dad, i wish i were cute...

:::matching moods:::

june and georgiana matching moods...

:::helping or hurting?:::

aiden in skates and henry nearby, is that a push or a prop... im not sure, but i bet you can guess...

you guessed it...

:::shy for the camera:::

monica and i dressed up for the ball (or palace restaurant with some gift certificates in hand, oops they close at 9 better head for gosh!), and we needed to wrestle the camera from june... 1 way to do that: get her in a picture...

:::grapefruit a la june:::

after june's nap this afternoon she thought she'd enjoy a lovely grapefruit, and who wants a whole grapefruit... so she grabbed a cutco knife and cut her grapefruit and her finger about a third of the way through...

the bleeding never stopped until the stitches were in...

she was a brave patient...

so brave and fully recovered that she ripped the skin near the stitches defending a toy from henry's theiving hands... a half hour of elmo elevated and wrapped and the new cut stopped bleeding... she is asleep with the finger bandaged and immobilized...

best june moment: i'm carrying june out the door holding a towel tight around her finger and tell aiden to pick june's dress up so we can put it on her in the car... june says through tears, "no, not that dress. that dress dirty. aiden, get new dress."

runner-up best june moment: i tell june to thank the doctor as he's putting the stitches in her finger. she says, "thank you for tying it up."

:::haircut - for dellynne:::

a picture of junes haircut for you dellynne as requested...

:::henry's new hobby:::

this morning with joy henry threw his frisbee, and threw his frisbee, and...


then after his nap henry threw his frisbee, and threw his frisbee, and...

:::redneck bassin:::

:::mon's garden, and "help":::

:::popciclin':::

a popcicle day is a happy day...

:::laziness thy name is dad:::

when your faced with a dirty diaper,
and your standin right there in the yard
with a hose in your hand full of water
it makes it so much less hard...

just to spray the boys backside all clean...
and carry him quick to the bath
than to deal with a dirty diaper
and all of that aftermath...

:::thy kingdom come:::

just wow... a theology of "the kingdom" that allows a stuffy pca-er like me to have a theology of the holy spirit, gives me hope in this world for this world, and a purpose to bringing justice in this world, and on...

enjoy...

wow...

n.t. wright
jesus and the worlds true light

and wow...

richard pratt
advancing the kingdom

:::soccer aiden:::

here are some pictures of last years soccer team... im sure you can use these to start recruiting her uncle ben...


offense...


defense...

:::giana in the shade:::

georgiana spent saturday afternoon in the shade of the front porch, the weather was great, the temperature right, and she was happy...

:::gardening:::

monica and the kids spent saturday afternoon, getting the flowerbed near the porch ready for planting...

aiden gardens in style, henry looks guilty,


and monica wants to know who put the dirt on the window sill...

:::haircuts:::

aunt susan gave the girls some new haircuts...

:::june in flowers:::

:::pink and revitalized:::

its amazing what the changed color of a fishing pole will do for aiden's fishing... look to the bottom right of the picture to see aiden's freshly repainted fishing pole...

this morning before church aiden and i wandered down to the lake where the water lettuce has blown in to the south end of the lake... the bass wait there to feed on the freshly hatched shad... aiden and i found ourselves rooting for our imitation frog to make it across the water lettuce... sadly our fish are not very good at catching a frog, they were unsuccessful far more than they were successful... but aiden did catch a 3 1/2 to 4 lber... heres the proof...