hilton head slide show

as you may know, we went to the beach over the weekend.
there were a lot of pictures. too many to sift through for the blog.
so i uploaded them in picasa and here's a slideshow of that album.

amazing dancing....

Dance moves that rock! @ Yahoo! Video

Beach

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kristen boone (still) rocks (and always will)

while i tutored her daughter the other day, kristen wisked isaac away to the great outdoors (the backyard) and snapped a few amazing photos of him. here are a few of my favorites. the rest will be in picasa pretty soon now.

lesolie's baby

baby eliot jayne is here. well, she's been here. born last sunday. may 3rd. it just took leslie a while to get me some pictures of her. and even then, i just had to steal some from her facebook. oh well. here she is:

in the hospital, i think?with dad:with mom:with some sunshine:

iCake

old mac logo birthday cake for cliff and sara without an h.
happy birthdays!!

the life and times of a two year old boy.

licking beaters:coloring hands:dangling:drawing on face:

cora's cake

hello.

i made this cake awhile back, but i forgot to take pictures, so cora's parents gladly took a few and posted them to facebook. i subsequently hi-jacked them and posted them here.

the cake was for cora's 2nd birthday. i had a little help from my mom's neighbor who used to dabble in cake decorating herself. she did the cursive writing, which is NOT my strong point. i can print like a champ, though. anyhooo.... i noticed in the picture that we forgot to put leaves on some of the daisies. i'm a little sad about that... anyhoooo... here are the pictures:

the garden of 2009

on thursday, lorena and i (and two boys) went to the farmer's market to pick up plants for this year's garden. on saturday, in the upper 80 degree heat, i slaved away to get them all into the ground.
we have 10 roma tomato plants, 4 cherry tomatoes, 6 beefsteak (i think) tomatoes, 4 bell peppers, two mounds (4ish plants per mound) of pickling cucumbers, and a mound each of yellow squash and zucchini. the squash and zucchini didn't look so hot this morning, so i'm working on nursing them back to health. i don't know why, because i've always had the best luck in that prime location...
we also purchased basil, thai basil, chives, oregano, dill (see: pickling cucumbers), and cilantro. last year, i started most of my herbs from seed and they never quite took off.

 

 

 

 

visiting sarahpowers

yesterday, we spontaneously drove to raleigh to visit sarahpowers. we stopped on the way, and had lunch with nearly the entire minor family, which is quite big these days. anyhoo, here are some shots:

playing on a tree root:

 

sarahpowers, riding a chicken toy:

 

the horse toy:

 

just a cute smile shot:

 

more horse:

 

we visited locopops, for some gourmet popsicles. i had mojito. isaac had a very purple mixed berry and did a good job getting it all over himself and me. sarahpowers went for cookies and cream:

 

 

 

after all of this, we went to buffalo brothers for some buffalo wing pizza, buffalo wing dip and some actual wings. then, we headed home...