Riley is sick this week with a nasty, nasty bug. She was pretty fussy so Jackie asked for a banana and held it up to her ear. Then she looked at Riley and said, “Hello? Is anybody there? I can hear you!” Then she looked at us and said, “It’s working! She likes it!”.
We thought she was just being her silly self, but she was trying to make Riley feel better. So cute!!
Katie & Jackie love dressing Riley up as a princess. You can’t see the bouquet of flowers in her hand. She is perfectly content wearing the princess crown for hours.
Evidently, when you’re kid #3, you have to learn to fend for yourself.
I held up my iPhone to take a picture of Riley, said her name, and when she turned to look at me she gave me a toothy grin and said, “Cheeeeeeese!” Unfortunately, I was too shocked to actually take the picture.
Most Sundays, after church, you’ll find us sitting in this booth at Antonio’s. http://www.yelp.com/biz/antonios-tex-mex-austin-2
The staff is awesome, the food is tasty, and the memories are rich.
After months and months of a broken blog, I finally figured out the issue. The auto_increment function was disabled on my primary post table in mysql. After 15 minutes of geekery, I figured it out, changed the table, and we’re back in business. So, I’m now officially out of excuses. As you might expect, after six years of blogging, our entries have changed a bit. You’ll find this space focused on family and fun and how our house keeps afloat from day to day. We hope you enjoy!
Your ability to do things that take you out of your comfort zone is directly proportional to your success in life.
This year, my family is taking a trip to France to celebrate the 64th anniversary of D-Day. What makes this trip so special is that we’re going with my grandfather who hasn’t been to the beaches of Normandy in 64 years. He was a communications specialist in the 111th AntiAircraft Artillery group which landed on Utah Beach on June 6, 1944. We have heard stories about the war for years, but when we asked my grandpa about 10 months ago if he ever thought about going back, he said, “I’d love to go, but never figured I’d get a chance to see it again.” Thanks to accumulated frequent flier miles over the past 8 years, the tickets are booked and we leave tomorrow.
Me, my dad, and grandpa leave out of Austin tomorrow and arrive in Paris on Tuesday. My sisters leave out of Dallas and arrive a couple of hours before us. Dad and grandpa are flying first/business class which should be an experience all by itself. We all meet up in Paris for 24 hours of sight-seeing around the big city. Our only agenda item is the Eiffel Tower. The rest will happen on its own. Wednesday we drive to the Normandy region and spend three nights in the area. Then it’s back to Paris for one night and then we’re on our way home. Since grandpa turns 90 this year and isn’t quite as spry as he once was, we’re going solo and guiding ourselves around the region. My sister picked up a book that has a self-guided tour. We’ll pick up some tours, museums, etc. as we can throughout the trip.
My wife and I have been to Normandy once before. 7 years ago we took a European vacation and spent a day in Normandy. It was quite moving and happened to coincide with the D-Day anniversary itself. There were original soldiers in uniform participating in various ceremonies, bag-pipers playing taps, and hundreds of tourists visiting the thousands of gravesites. I can only imagine how moving it will be to be there with my grandpa. We realized that the last time he was there, his objective was to put the beach as far behind him as possible. Having the beach as a destination is certainly a different objective from before. I don’t know how much time he has spent in his life thinking about that day, but I expect a few memories will come back to him on our trip. We picked up a Belkin TuneTalk adapter for my iPod so we can record the audio of his stories and I know there will be a few hundred pictures taken as well.
I’ll post more during the trip (if I can) and certainly when we get back. It will be the trip of a lifetime and something I’m sure I’ll cherish for the rest of my days.
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Why does the voice of the ATM machine at Bank of America have a
British accent?