Possibly the cutest little guy ever

Oh, these pictures make my heart sing! Such a cutie. Des is getting so big, he's starting to sit up all by himself (although I make him sit in the boppy so crashing is less intense!). Woh, two punctuation marks. That's intense too! :D Aaaaanyway, the hair is still red which is amazing, the eyes are blue which was expected, and he laughs, fake coughs, rolls over, now he sits. Next on the list: fetch and play dead. Good boy.

The Harvest

My parents are out of town visiting my sister so they called me to have me go pick their peaches that were ready. Well, after picking two big boxes full I also went to see my eggplant children and my roma tomato plant as well as the chicken coop. This is what I got:

Three eggplants
a dozen tomatoes (and one BIG BOY tomato from my other plant!)
Two dozen eggs
a whooooole bunch of peaches

pretty good haul, don't you think?

Well, I've got good news and bad news....

Good news: we got our external hard drive looked at and they can salvage most of our photos/music/files.

Bad news: It's gonna cost $995 if we want those files in our possession.

yup. a small fortune for our lack of foresight and blind faith in technology. priceless.


In lieu of flowers, an account has been established for the grieving family.

More fun photos

Last week, Destry's cousin came to visit. Well, second cousin...We had fun playing and talking and the babies mostly didn't care about each other. They just liked the toys.

This is the fun outfit Kolt's cousin Taffee (same exact one that came to visit for the photo above) sent to Destry. Its super cute on him!

This is just a fun shot that started out being waaaaay too overdeveloped but I liked his eyes in it so we tweaked it a bit...

Here's the same cute outfit from before, and this photo just proves how much Destry looks like his dad. He's like a mini-kolt.

New art by me

The painting bug has bitten again. Not sure where it went for the last almost year but I've been hankerin' to do some art. So here's the latest and I really liked how it turned out. I've discovered a new secret: paint the background first. That way, when I screw it up (which I do 90% of the time) I won't have to waste time painting the harder stuff. This one kind of strikes me as something for a book--illustration-esk. I sure as heck didn't plan it that way but I've found that most of my good pieces are products of an unplanned nature. Guess I'm more spontaneous. Or you could say that most of my art is a mistake. A good mistake...

Eggplant...mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I'd just like to report that my eggplants are sooooooooooooooo good! Way better tasting than any I've bought from the grocery store. I threw some into my calzone last night (with chicken and cheese) and I wished I put more in it was that good. So yeah. I highly recommend this delicious Japanese variety with the name I have forgotten...long and skinny. Not the fat, short kind you usually find.

4 months

Destry went in for his 4 month check up today. He's now 16 Lbs 5 oz. and is 25 1/2" tall!! He still falls in the 75% group for everything. The Doctor was happy with everything and said I can keep feeding him lots of solids. He even did better with the shots this time, only crying for a minute. My little guy is getting so big! Awwwwww.

And in honor of the day, we took some 4 month-old picutres. Sitting up (kinda) like a big boy!!

I thought his face was pretty funny in this one. It's his "I'm folding in half and squishing my gutts" look. Charming, eh?