Nothing like a narrowly missed natural disaster to generate a bit o’ activity on this thing. 😉

Just to be safe we headed North to Dallas before Rita made its appearance (and lucked out with a mere 12 hour trip – some folks never made it out of Houston due to the traffic) and it looks like the homestead is none the worse for wear. Can’t say as much for the contents of our fridge and freezer though. No power since Saturday at 1AM so it looks like we’ll be defrosting the deep freeze whether we wanted to or not.

Oh well, better than the alternative, right? 😀

I’m still way behind on posting pictures, but here are a few more from a little while back. Needless to say, there are plenty more where they came from… :blush:

I’ve been uncled! Yet again!! Sadie Pearl Tanner was born last night to Kristin and Brendan (my younger brother). Eveyone is doing very well and my nephew Jude deserves extra points for knowing his new sib would be a girl when nobody else knew for sure. 😉

Congratulations!!! 😀

UPDATE: Pictures! Get your pictures here!

Finally! Some more pictures up on the site. Granted, most of them are from a year or so ago :crazy:, but at least it’s a step in the right direction. Here you go!

Looks like my brother Barry has been thoroughly sucked into the black hole that is the world wide wait – I mean “web”. Check out his brand-spankin’ new website for updates on the whole family:

Pam and Barry’s Home Page

Now to get Brendan hooked – I mean “set up”. 😛

Nothing like a birth in the family to make this page a bit more timely.

Pictures of Maggie are available for your viewing pleasure here. Cute kid – must take after her mother. 😉 (not to recycle a joke or anything…)

I’m please to report that my older brother Barry and his wife Pam are the proud parents of a bouncing baby girl. Maggie made her grand entrance around 3AM this morning, and mother and child are doing great. Congratulations!!! 😀

Yeah, as usual, I’ve been remiss in keeping this thing up to date. Best of intentions, and all that rubbish… While I’m here, a quick update on McKenna:

About a month or so after turning 1, McKenna decided to start walking and hasn’t really stopped since. Jean and I are getting even more exercise than usual, and McKenna is enjoying the fact that she’s so important now that she merits her very own entourage. 😉 Baron (our dog) has learned that McKenna’s fingers taste very good and he figures a little well intentioned (though not always gentle) petting from her is worth the risk. While on our trip to NC over the holidays McKenna took her self-assigned duty as “not-so-official greeter” very seriously, saying “hi” to everyone getting on the plane and waving. Too cute.

Today McKenna turns 1 year old! 😀 Hard to believe that it’s already been a year since she entered our lives…

Believe it or not, McKenna didn’t dive into her cake head first – as a matter of fact she worked to avoid having any cake at all. What’s up with that?! :confused: Gotta love the irony: parents trying to get their kid to eat sweets and them refusing. I’m sure it won’t be long till that’s no longer an “issue”. 😉