something new

I'm so sad to keep seeing the word "hole" in my previous post title... I am not in a hole!  (I keep telling myself that anyway...) but life has been a whirlwind and I'm dying to upload tons and tons of pictures but my laptop is on the fritz, it's all but run out of "available disk space" and typing has become quite a feat since Rowan has picked off most of my keys... So, I have all these pictures ready to download and will have to do them here while I'm at my Mom's house (and typing on a normal keyboard just never felt so good!)... So, I'll wait until Rowan's nap and get to work.

PS. Our little Rowan is a maniac, a darling little crazy boy.  Yesterday we were at Burger King visiting with my Grandma and cousin Becca and her darling little (very quiet) Aspen, and Rowan was running around like a charged monkey with the Burger King crown on his head (he wouldn't take it off) eating fries like he was starved screaming, "I'm gonna get you!"  Earlier at a trip to Target, he freaked for some actual monkeys (with graduate caps on their heads) on sale for $7.  He wouldn't settle for just one, no, he had to have two of them!  He kept hugging them both, kissing them, then making them kiss each other all while saying, "Ahhh, monkeys..." He's been quite the entertainment lately!  All this attention has gone to his head!

Also, a BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Mark!  It was yesterday, and thanks to a great friend, Curt, Mark had a nice night out.  We can't wait for him to join us next week for his birthday celebration in Idaho!  (He'll deserve his own celebration since he always gets slack around here on July 4th for being British!)  Ok, Rowan is in the cat food, gotta go!  Stay tuned for pictures....