pictures

I finally uploaded some of the other pictures from this weekend. Here are some of my favorites.

The marina next to the hotel.

Laura and I went for a walk around the hotel and found this neighborhood with huge houses and huge oak trees. They were lovely.

The sunset on the Gulf of Mexico.

This is our friend Matt. He is crazy most of the time. He is a middle child.

This is some random group of people posing for a picture. I really like the blur and the crazy people in the middle.

This is Laura and Matt doing some breathing exercises that were supposed to help Laura be able to flick the straw and make it pop.

Here is Laura trying to flick the straw that Matt is holding.

This is my friend, Tania, who I hadn't seen in probably 6 or 7 years. She transferred schools after sophomore year of college, but before that we had a radio show called the Duct Tape Hour. She brought her boyfriend, Tom, to the wedding. He is nice.

This is the drummer in the band. He was crazy good at drumming.

drama

We are back from the wedding. It was a great time, seeing a friend get married, catching up with some friends we hadn't seen in 6 or 7 years. There are some pictures up on the Grazus Blog, I will be adding a few more today probably. Yesterday we had to deal with Matt's car that wouldn't start. It needed a new ignition cylinder, fun. We learned that our landlord is apparently selling our house. I guess that means we really have to move out of Durham. Our landlord has yet to mention to us that she is selling the house, but told our upstairs neighbors by accident. She is supposed to be showing the house today at 2:30, but never told us that. We left a note about watching for the cat, but we didn't clean up one lick. Hopefully no one will want a house that is such a diaster. I guess this means we will need to really start getting rid of some of junk this weekend. I have a couple of pictures not from the wedding, but from this weekend that I will eventually get up on here, but I am a bum and lazy so I haven't gotten around to it. Oh yeah, and my camera may be dying. When you push down on the button to snap the picture, it takes forever to actually snap it. I don't know what happened. I have tried posting on some boards to see if anyone else has had the same problem, but so far I haven't had much luck. So I might have to buy a new camera. I was really hoping to wait until I actually book my first wedding, because then I would actually have some extra money to buy it, but it may have to happen sooner rather than later. Our upstairs neighbor has a mouse in there apartment, which is just lovely, because that probably means we have a mouse or two as well. Hopefully the landlord will do something about it. Maybe we can leave mouse traps out all over the place to scare the buyers away.

Week in pictures

I just had to share this funny picture from last weekend (when we were in PA). Here is M in the sandbox for what seems like the first time. I took her shoes and socks off and put her down. She didn't seem to like it and was afraid to put her feet down. Soon after this she started crying.

Last weekend when we got to church, J1 gave us this:

Last Wednesday we went out to eat with our friends who have a cute baby. Here is a cute picture of him at dinner.

Saturday night we babysat for our upstairs neighbor while his parents went out with some friends. We had a great time, and I think he did too. We definitely tired him out and he went right to sleep!

This weekend we noticed several time when we went out the back door that birds were flying out from under the porch. I couldn't figure out why they were always under there. Then we noticed this lovely nest they were building. In many ways it is a smart place to build a nest, it is protected from the sun, wind, rain. However it is in the wreath that hangs on the door that we go in and out of all the time. So I am not sure how long it will last. Albert keeps trying to climb the curtains and attack them (this morning he jumped probably 5 feet in the air and clung to the curtains). Maybe it will cause them to abandon the nest. There are no eggs yet, so I don't feel too terrible about wanting to move it. I am just afraid that one day the eggs will fall when we close the door. It is getting bigger and bigger by the day.