Everything is Hunky-Dory

Here is a cute video of Dory laughing. Well, cute except for the diapers by her head.

Here is Dory with her new 'foot rattles'. I got them as a door prize at a Discovery Toys party, and they are so cool! Great way to let babies know that they can create an effect on the world around them. We just tried them out tonight, and Dory loves them.

Wednesday Weigh-In

I have lost 3.0 lbs this week! I'm pleasantly shocked- what with 4th of July breakfast and BBQ, and a much-needed date night on Monday, I really went overboard some days. But maybe my desperate attempt to compensate on the other days kept my metabolism guessing??? Who knows.

Total lost so far: 38.8 lbs (the equivalent of Brian!)

Eight Miles High

Eight Miles High . . . the location of the scattered clouds that canceled our fireworks show. But more about that in a minute. Here are the kids dressed for the Fourth:





We celebrated by going to a church breakfast early Saturday morning, taking a nap Saturday afternoon, having a barbecue with our friends the evening, and then trekking off to the other side of town for a supposed fireworks display. After parking with a thousand other people, literally on the side of the freeway, we placed bets for an hour on if THIS was finally the show, or just more illegal fireworks. Finally around 10pm, and seeing the hoards leaving, we figured it was either canceled, or this was it:


Turns out the display was canceled for a little wind and some scattered high clouds. So, we made our own fireworks show in the car on the way home . . . so to speak.

The Byrds - Eight Miles High
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GRANDPARENT BONUS: A pic of Dory in her baby carrier, which makes her look a little like an unmasked Darth Vader.

"Luke... help me take this mask off. Let me look on you with my *own* eyes."

Feel the Noize!

So today was another base flag ceremony, complete with airplane flyovers. I snapped some pictures with a new lens, Clayton chilled out, Dory was puzzled, and Brian - as with all jet noise - was terrified beyond description as the B-1 set off car alarms with it's earth-shaking flyby. Ya'd think the kid would be used to it by now, living on an air force base and all, but no.

"TOO NOISY! TOO NOISY!

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Wednesday Weigh-In

I've lost 2.6 lbs this week . . . and with that I've lost the equivalent of Clayton! He weighs about 34 lbs. So in honor of this little milestone, Andrew took some pictures of Clayton and I.

And Dory too.

When I pick Clayton up, I cannot believe that only three months ago I was walking around carrying that much extra weight.

Total lost so far: 35.8 lbs

PS- To see more of my 'photo shoot', click here.

Another Blog?

I figured gumming up our family blog with pictures and boring accounts of how I took the pictures was - well, 1) gumming up our storage space and 2) boring people. So I created a new blog to archive the dozens of pics I take and show them to anyone who might actually be interested in viewing more than just the one or two best pics of something or someone.

Flying Monks Photography

Wednesday Weigh-In

I lost 1.6 lb this week! And I went to a water aerobics class- it was great. Definitely the way to exercise in Texas in the summer.

Total lost so far: 33.2 lb