Weekend

Ryan and Jay on the Promenade 


Zach feeding the massive amount of ducks 

We had an interesting weekend. Saturday Elizabee came over and we all went to the Duck Fair at the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace. We had never been to Havre de Grace before. We had a fun time. It's amazing how much people will pay for a carved duck!(thousands of dollars-BTW) Especially since they don't use the expensive ones. The ones they use are not very detailed at all. Just enough to make a duck think it's real from a distance so it will come over. By the time the duck realizes that it's not a new friend it's too late. Sad. They had a retriever competition. It was interesting for a while, but as Jay put it, you can only watch dogs play fetch for so long;) They had some cool booths and Zach got to do some of the kids activities. I actually got my mom's Christmas gift(bet you can't wait to see what I got at a decoy fair for you, eh Mom!) We walked the promenade. It was very nice. They are still rebuilding part of it from Hurricane Isabel, but it looks like it's coming along quite nicely. Apparently Americorps came in and did a lot of work on it. We saw a ground hog or gopher(not sure which), tons of ducks(real ones and wooden ones) and lots of boats.
Sunday we went to the very last service in the "new sanctuary" at our church. Next week we start worshiping in the New Life Center. After service we came home to have lunch and let Ryan nap. Then we went to our Bible study leaders' house and Zach and I visited while Jay fixed their computer. When we got home Zach went out and played some more with the neighborhood kids. Last night he created(and acted out) a "movie" or, as we would have called it when I was a kid, a play with his stuffed animals. Ryan LOVED it. He was captivated. It was very funny when the animals' scene was over Ryan looked under the table for them. Then he got down and went around to Zach's side of the table to see what was going on. He's making new discoveries about how things work every day;) It's so fun to watch him figure things out:)

Hooray for Broadband!!!

It's my first day with broadband...how glorious is this?! I LOVE it! I'm going to update all my snapfish albums so they will have full res versions of my photos(I had to shrink them before because it took too long to upload them to the site in full resolution). I will update my links accordingly. I may create one link that will allow access to all the albums so far so you won't have to click on them individually to add them to your account:) This will be a process though-there are lots of pictures to update. I will also include pictures never seen before. I used to pick my favorites, but now I will probably include more of the okay, but not my favorite ones:) This is so exciting! Anyone who has had broadband for a long time probably does not understand my joy...just imagine having to wait 2-3 minutes for each page to load and longer if it has lots of pictures, etc.

Wall Update

It's coming along...slowly, but surely. I have not finished Nemo, but I think about 85% of a character is in it's face and at least that's almost done. It definitely needs touching up when it's dry, but I thought I'd share:)
update 

close up 

Ryan's First Pair of Shoes

We bought Ryan's first pair of shoes this weekend(thanks Grandma and Grandpa!) I bought them for outside, but since he seems pretty unstable in them we are practicing inside. Falling is much easier for Mommy to take when it happens inside! It's like he's walking in scuba flippers, poor kid. I feel bad for all those kids whose mothers make them wear shoes before they start walking! I have to go get Zach at the bus stop now and it's pouring, so I don't want to be late!
Ryan's new shoes 

Father-Son Moments

Changing oil 

I just posted and got offline, but then I saw this and I had to post again. Zach is helping Jay change the oil in the car. How cute is that. It's moments like these that I hope our boys will remember for the rest of their lives and memories I know Jay will cherish. Jay loves to work with his hands and fix things. I know he loves it when he is able to pass some of that on to his boys.