For Lydia

because now we can scan photos and this was the only one we could find! I've done something with the rest of them, but I can't remember what.

An Update

The last few days have been rather unstructured. We got home from Bellingham late Monday night and Tuesday morning took Danny to his first day on the new job at the Para Transit office in Bremerton. Then Doug and I messed around with pictures of Theo and various other parental type activities and I picked Danny up from work and we ran a couple of errands, like picking up some prints of Theo at Walgreens that we sent from our computer at home. That worked really great and if you'd like to see some of the pictures that we uploaded to the Walgreens website you can go to ........ hmmmm, I see I have to invite you by email to see the photos, so if you'd like to get an email invite, let me know. Today Danny took himself to work and Doug went to do some work at the church and I went to Magic Hill and this afternoon we took a posterboard birth announcement over to Mom's place and told her about her great grandson being born. She was just tickled and wants to know when he's coming to visit. "I like to hold them when they're tiny!"

When we first got there the karaoke lady was singing and the assistant director came in between songs and made the announcement that Doris was a great-grandmother and everyone clapped and "yayed" and some people even stood up and cheered. It was so sweet! It really made mom feel special.

Then we went and found a quiet corner to look at the pictures. She was just delighted.

Before we left we went to her room to put the announcement/pictures on her bulletin board and there was someone asleep in her bed. Mysteries abound.

We picked Tyler up at the ferry at 4:00 and after going to Costco, so Doug could buy ink cartridges for our printer, we bought a new printer instead, which will hopefully be easier on the ink (we were always out). We had dinner at Olive Garden with T & D, which was nice, but never as good as I expect it to be. Now Doug is installing the new printer and I'm listening to a CD Tyler made for us, KIDS ON BIKES - THE COLLECTION.

I called Andy & Sarah this evening to hear about the midwife's visit today. She said Theo is doing great and he weighs 7 lbs 13 oz, so hasn't even lost much weight. They were on their way out the door to take Theo to visit the remaining expectant parents in their childbirth class. I'm sure he was an inspiration to them all!

A Toast to Theo

The root beer was flowing on Theo's first day!

In and Around the Country View Guest House

On the way home from Thorpe we stopped down by Lake Union at the ol' Recycled Cycles shop and they had a brand new one of these, justlike this one which I test rode and really liked. http://www.raleighusa.com/items.asp?deptid=7&itemid=330&childid=594
Again, I don't know how to insert a link, but perhaps I'll try it again here.

Well, that might have worked!

When we got home, Danny was asleep on the couch and he is still there. He didn't go to his seatbelt court date yesterday, so now his hole is that much deeper. If anyone can think of a way for Doug and I to help him out of this I sure would welcome the suggestions. I thought he went to the counselor this week, but turns out his appt isn't until next Monday. I'm trying to hang around this morning until he wakes up because there is no point in trying to talk to him until he does.

The movie at the Paramount was good, but a little long. It was a Mary Pickford epic called "Sparrows". Real villians and heroine kind of stuff.

Success!

This is the picture I kept trying to post all last week. On Sunday (8/13) Doug, Danny and I went to the bridge view park and ran into Susan (Cristao) and Jim and her daughter Heather who had a friend from Chicago here for a visit. We walked all the way down to the bridge, which was a loooong way and I went a little past so I could take this picture. This is not a view of the bridge I have ever seen before, so I kind of like it.

failure

I have been trying for the last 2 days to upload a picture that I took on Sunday afternoon, so I'm going to try to upload a different picture and see if it's the picture or what...............

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Body Wave?

Good thing I didn't order the "curly".

check out this bike that Andy built! Danny, Sarah, and I drove to B'ham Sunday night and unloaded and sorted all the gifts. That was fun! Back home by Monday afternoon and then I picked Doug up at the airport Monday night at 11:30. Saw only half of his pictures yesterday morning, so I still have some to see. I made a blackberry cobbler last night from the berries we picked at the Lincoln St. berry patch.

Ok - I know I have a problem with getting pictures in the right order.