house gets some new color and much needed gutters

yellow....yellow....or yellow

although in this picture, that one is kinda "orangey", and the other is kinda "peachy". these are technical design terms i've learned from my Director of Design wife.

for now, a downspout to our little garden, but i want to get a rain barrel and use it to water the garden in the summer

record halloween numbers

RARRRRRR!

Oskar was a last minute bargain tiger and i used the old paving stones to make our sorry excuse for a driveway into a makeshift graveyard. The evening culminated when our friends actually reversed trick-or-treated us, and the final 3 trick-or-treaters (well over age, but we'll take 'em) at 10 pm took us to an all time record high......of 20! This year I learned where everyone else goes to trick or treat. I can't wait till Oskar is old enough so we can ditch this neighborhood for a real candy mother-load!

Fear, Loathing, Hard Sales, and Soiled Diapers in Las Vegas

ROAD TRIP!

We were just outside Barstow when the most precious of all cargo had decided he had had enough. He had held up strong for such a young road tripper. We were headed to Vegas for our 2nd Anniversary with the little guy who kept us from our 1st Anniversary vacation. We got put up for 3 nights for going to a timeshare presentation.....hey, a vacation is a vacation. 2 hours of hard sales with Bethany not helping the situation by continuing to offer them a glimmer of hope, and we were free to explore Sin City....from a more family orientated perspective.

Oskar loves the ladies, and the ladies love Oskar.

the exact moment when Oskar began to get 'the fear'!

Oskar learned to pull himself up on this trip! And up and up and....... I know what you're thinking....

I checked to make sure he couldn't reach far enough into the slots to hurt himself.

new bridge to bypass dam(n) traffic

dam(n) long way down

dam(n) great day to be a dam(n) visitor

big dam(n) room with loud dam(n) turbines

if you've been to vegas, you know what these are. What kills me isn't how annoying these guys (and girls) are, nor how they think they are being sneaky by waiting for your girl (or wife and baby) to pass before trying to hand you one, no, it's not even the ridiculous amount of liter and wasted trees, it's the fact that someone is paying these people $10/hr to stand there and hand these out. The shear number of people handing these out had me questioning the economics to the point that I stopped and asked one guy. I tried to delve further into the numbers, but my 4 phrases of Spanish only get me so far.

Bellagio gardens

Pool Boy Oskar

obligatory New York(squared) picture





Crocodile smiles


I'd like to think we would both be this calm even if there wasn't a
piece of glass between us and a Komodo Dragon




On our way home Oskar made a friend who,
once she got his hand, really, really didn't want to let it go.

Finally....Oskar's 1st Birthday

birthday blur

It's been over 2 months since we had Oskar's birthday party, but it feels like even longer. I know it's a horrible cliche, but it's amazing how time can just slip away from you. The party was fun, had a real nice turnout of friends, some with kids, and I believe 3 mom's-to-be. (2 first timers). Bethany again made a really cool cake (3 actually) to go along with her balloon theme, she even did fundit for the first time, with great results.

Because I'm so far behind on getting some pictures up, I'm gonna do a little more captioning, and a little less story telling.

Bethany's coworker Candy (new mom, real soon!)

Holy, Children of the Corn! :) Our friends Kristy (also pregnant at the time,

and has since had their second baby girl, Teagan) and Piper.

Opening birthday card from Papa and Oma.



random sillyness

just a couple of dorks...

I'm not sure why kids love bubbles so much, but his fondness for bubbles was only heightened

when Bella came over and started eating them. Much giggling was had by all.

AND THEY'RE OFF!!

little man is on the move!

Our little man is officially mobile, crawling all over and pulling himself up on anything he can find. I love the picture above...it looks like he's melting into the floor. Oskar had his 1st birthday party on the 30th (look for pictures in a blog soon) and his 1st flu or some other fever-inducing family sleep preventer. Hopefully he recovers quickly, he's got a date with the roulette table at the Sand's next week....Oskar's first trip to Vegas is coming up! I bet you $10 he whimps out on me and passes out by 11 pm.

this picture should end the debate....he looks like daddy. :)

Ozzie's first swing ride!

"Ozzie's first 'are you kidding me, dad?" look

post popsicle orange face and giggle freak out.

that face is like Sasquatch, i can't believe we caught it on film.

right back to Mr. Serious. He means business folks.