I'm Baaaaaaaaaaack

Well, kind of. We'll see how it goes. I'm feeling a need for a creative outlet, but still don't have a whole lot of time on my hands.

So stay tuned!

Oh, and if you didn't know, the wife has added photography to the Black Ink Empire so if you know someone in need of some pics, just let us know!

Check out the Wife's Blog

I have had zero time to blog since the new job. Sarah had a chance to so I'm deferring to her For an update with some grwat pictures by yours truly.

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Thanks!

I Like Ike (Isaac Jeffrey)!!!!

7lbs 11oz, 19.5 inches of goo covered sweetness.

Baby Mama

Warming up for a bath.

Yes, that's comb-able auburn hair. Yikes!

Trying to sleep through a bath..faux-hawk at no extra charge.

Grandma "Grammy" Black

Grandma "Mimi" Paterson

Gabe was not too excited. "No baby, I coloring"

But he got real curious.

Mama is doing really well! Much better than the last one. I'm across the street at a Panera and this connection is not great so it has taken way too long to get these loaded. I better get back before she thinks I made for Mexico.

What Gabe Wants To Do 24/7

So Gabe wakes up wanting to color and have a pop tart. Every morning. With. Out. Fail.

"Ummm?" Uttered when picking out a new color.

I think Gabe and George have the same hair cut.

Concentrating.

Making faces.

Your face will freeze like that.

Getting fancy.

Yes, I realize to the casual observer it looks like we only own one shirt for our son, but it has a baseball on it. He walks up to everyone, pulls the bottom of his shirt out and says "BASEBALL". He only wears it like twice a month. I swear.

Full Speed.

Jump!

Here is Gabe doing Tai Chi. The daycare is real big on forming a well rounded child and they've been working on this for 5 months. They learn 2 positions every month. I sometimes find him practicing in his bed when I go to wake him up in the morning.

Or he could be dropping leaves to see what happens. You decide.

Well, it's been 80 and sunny here for the past 10 days and it looks like that will be the case for another week, so I'm sure we'll get some more pics soon. It's just too nice not too.

Pictures of Ike will be up asap after his arrival, so put a reminder on your calendar to check back here at 2pmish on 10.06.

I'm Going to Need an External Hard Drive

Fun with Photoshop

Vintage

Hollywood

I asked for belly, not nipple.

Charmer

More to come

New Camera = Never Sleeping Again

So we bought Papa Bergstrom's camera and I have to say, I think I'm in love. Why? See for yourself.






Several of these are straight-out-of-camera, which is pretty awesome. I'll let you guess which ones.

Hanging With His Hommie

We went over to Becca and Travis' to hangout and see the new addition Kelan. I think Gabe forgot who Curran was, which means we need to get back into our Saturday night groove.

Zoo Day

Perfect weather for a trip to the zoo! Gabe loved it and ran around for the first half. Then his legs gave out, but was a trooper. I took the old fashioned camera (read non-digital) and will add pics from that when they are developed (I'll get a cd so I can).

Havinababy Itsaboy

October 13th we will be welcoming Isaac Jeffrey to our world.

Poor kid (edited for the saintly eyes and ears of my mother...yeesh) never saw it coming.

Sugar Buzzin'

Ok, I had written this whole story about our new computer, but then I hit save and went to get a drink. When I came back it was gone. Don't know where it went, but I'll tell it to you another time. Here is Gman's second Easter.

They had an egg hunt for the kids at Buddy's school so I took time off that afternoon and ran over to help them. And yes the little harnesses that they put on them to walk them down to the playground are hilarious. There is a leash that attaches to it. At first he wasn't real sure.

But he figured the hunt out straight away.


That is until he noticed the girls that were paying attention to him.


"Hey, ya wanna go down to J. Brian's for some shots of milk?"


"Here, look at my eggs and tell me how cute I am."


What a pimp.

So we had to have a hunt at the house. I know my son is a genius and all but this is what the hunt looked like.
By now he was an old pro.


With out all the distractions of 4th grade women he was pretty focused.


And now the genius bit...half of his "eggs" were basketballs.


And yes I realize the eggs he is playing with are not said basketballs...it's really the only thing keeping him out of Yale this year.

So there is most of it. There was not one but TWO hunts out a Mimi's house. Great Aunt Mickey couldn't help herself after missing "The Big Hunt of 2008", she had to "hide" ( a term I use VERY loosely) the boys' easter buckets. Yes buckets, they live on a farm. We forgot the camera but took a bunch of pics with the Tipton's camera, we just haven't recieved them yet. All and all it was a great Easter and a lot of fun watching Gman enjoy it so much. Hope your's was just as much fun.