(The neighbor's dog dropped by.)

fun with Gran-Gran

It's nice for Laurel that we have a cat that (sort of) allows her to dance with him.

Trip to Massachusetts for my sister Christie's wedding

John's first time on an airplane

my extended family...

with his aunt Elisabeth

with cousin Daylen

at Gedney Farm, New Marlborough where we stayed (and where the wedding was)

I was inspired by the landscape to do a little, well, landscape photography...

my aunt Nancy and uncle Larry decide to get creative with the snowmanbride-making

at the rehearsal dinner... thank goodness for a portable DVD player

having reenacted Christie's modern-dance MA thesis

(the rest of the wedding pictures are my Mom's; my camera wouldn't work the rest of the trip)

the sibs

Josh's family

with cousin Emma

Christmas with the Colliers...

Deidra and her Dad duetting "Silent Night"

John with his Uncle Chris

Laurel at a Christmas performance at her school

John watching the World Series with me

at the Sweet Berry Farms pumpkin festival

Oh, I sure hope the Cowboys win today...

Laurel's 3rd birthday party...

having a little "moment" together

Taking a walk at Town Lake...

"Arrr... where's that milk, then?"

"Wearing the baby"...

Laurel loves her baby brother.

At the hospital together... that Laurel is such a character.

Baby John's birth and in-the-hospital pictures are on a page of their own.

with my aunt Kathleen and cousin Austin

Laurel with her second-cousin

Laurel in her Easter dress her Nana made her for this year

Laurel on an unseasonably cold Easter weekend; her Gran-Gran in the background

at the Austin children's museum...

Laurel got her face painted while we waited to be seated at Matt's El Rancho.

Deidra at seven months pregnant! Lookin' good!

at the Arboretum in Dallas, with my parents and step-grandmother

The Great Ice Storm of '07

Those steps lead up to our new apartment on the 2nd floor, to the left.

Laurel "making pies" on the playground at our new apartment home

a typical Dylan pose