march of times

em fell out of jeremy's truck on the way to school one day. she didn't have a nose to break her fall so even got scraped on her lip.

 a crazy hot chocolate with a giant marshmallow

 in the middle of february we got chicks! they were cute for a week or so and then started resembling tiny buzzards with a disease.

 em is officially reading.

 look how cool el kim is looking. a korean person, looking at this photo, would immediately think he should become a "talent".

 em now instinctively puts on her sunglasses. it's real cute, adult behavior.

wouldn't it be nice

we hosted a gingerbread house making event, the houses were kind of a disaster but think everyone had fun

 em's first choir performance, her eyes were glued on me the whole time

 riding off into the sunset in our adopted atv

 every day she is at least 7 different kinds of animals. at bath time she decided to be a mouse with a friend bear named canny.

 the inimitable percival lafer

 finally figured out my doppelganger. my body is exactly like popeye's

 jse went to the open carry rally on new year's day

 and speaking of, an intriguing habit called "almost but not quite"

almost to the garbage but not quite.

 almost to the trash can but not quite.

 almost to the hamper but not quite. at first i thought it was a joke, and then i took serious offense to it, like a slap in the face. now having completed the cycle of grief i just pick it up and move on.

 i tried making a "healthier" hot chocolate this winter. but it ended up always looking like this.

 my level of patience reached a new low, i could not even stop to have my hair process. this is what i would like to refer to as "rock bottom". i have since changed my ways.

 we went skiing, em had a breakdown in ski school but she had a great time skiing with jse.

road map to success

night rider

 getting this thing poured was extremely dramatic.

 but we got it done right before the rain.

 my favorite deodorant, i stop to take a whiff several times when i'm working out.

 we became a little obsessive over the orange julius after jeremy discovered a recipe that he hid when he was a teenager.

 em started dressing herself for bed

 a christmas day ghost

 wall collage 2.0

 my dad looking alarmingly similar to a communist.

 em wouldn't sit next to santa but did agree to take a photo

 fun at an enormous jungle gym in san antonio

aero dynamic

this is the view from the top. at age 4 her forehead still sticks out more than her nose.