Warning: Long Post Ahead

We have had a busy summer. Jimmy is pretty amazing at working as little as possible. Which is nice. He brings home a paycheck AND I get a summer with my husband. Anway, 2 weeks ago we had tons of family in town for Finlay's blessing. In fact, we had so much family in town, we weren't able to invite all our friends to the big event. I'm so sorry friends. We love you and will think of another way to lure you up to our little cave of an apartment soon.

This little thing was my big project, completed at 2am Sunday morning. It actually didn't take that long. I just didn't start until 11pm, only to realize my sewing scissors were missing. I got back from Wal-mart at midnight.

Here's our little old man baby looking fine and scottish in his family tartan. (and his big brother looking mischievious in his Target tartan)

Well, after having gobs of family around and feeding 50 people we decided we just hadn't had enough. The following Tuesday we headed to Denver for what originally was planned as a "girl's sewing" trip. It turned into a "men's playing with dirt and rocks" trip. Ok, so I wouldn't exactly call it playing, but there was plenty of dirt and rocks.

except for this...this is definitely playing!

and some more playing... This is before the big men turned the sand box into a beautiful patio.

this is the after. Pretty amazing, huh? I personally didn't do anything except cheer them on from the house, throwing out a Propel or Gatorade every once in a while.

a couple of workers

this guys was pretty useless in the back yard but he did learn to suck his thumb. Isn't it adorable??

more absolute cuteness.

Hello Old Friend

I don't know what got into me today, but I actually went running. Ok, it was more like a jog. You know one of those jogs that is actually slower than a fast walk. That was me. Anyway,speed is irrelevant. The big news here is my knee. I only jogged a mile but there was no pain. I used to jog quite a bit back in the day. Then I went on a cruise. When I got home from the cruise I went for a run. This is when the pain in my knee started. Ever since, every time I've tried to run my knee starts hurting whithin the first mile. It quickly worsens and I have to walk. I wouldn't say I LOVE to run and I'm definitely not a "runner", but I do love the conveniece of running. You don't need a gym. You just go. There's freedom in that. Anyway, I've missed it. I'm crossing my figers that this wasn't just a fluke. Whatever it is...it's movtivation to go running again. That's enough for now.

Another Duncan Dandy

Duncan and another little boy were wrestling in the kiddie pool. I heard Duncan yell, "I'm baptizing you!"