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October is a New Day

I am happy that it is October. Cooler nights, darker earlier and dark mornings. Emily will sleep later. This girl loves life. She wakes singing. When I go in to get her she says "good norming, it's a new perfect day". I could learn a lot from this child. What a great outlook to have. She always follow with "daddy not go work today-daddy stay home with mimi and mommy". I hate breaking her heart-sorry honey daddy will be home after. Her response "pretty soon daddy come home". She always puts a positive spin on things.

Two things are weighing heavy on my mind. I get all worked up watching CNN. I need Obama to win. I think he will. I just get scared seeing all the crazies saying crap. McCain is McCrazy in my book. And Sarah Palin. Well I'll just leave it at that. I cannot wait for elections to be over. I heart Obama. I've already taught Emily. Emily? Who are you gonna vote for? She shouts "OBAMA" with a little fist in the air. VOTE.

Now the second thing. The Tree Man. Coming on TV on Sunday on TLC at 7 central. I cannot wait to see this. Even if it was up against Obama singing "You're The One That I Want" to me from the Convention Center. I would have to blow him off. I am fascinated by the Tree Man. I can't wait to watch it. I can't get those pictures of his hands out of my mind. American doctors are helping him. I can't imagine what they will do. He has like wooden, rooty looking hands and woody growths on him. Not small woody hands. More like tree stumps. It's unbelievable. I keep going over it again and again in my mind. Suppose the fix is quite simple. Suppose it's like a little weed killer or something? I can't wait. I need help.

Well, thanks for listening. Enjoy the pictures and each other. Happy Fall. I miss you mom.

Our not so friendly Ike

Okay, September sucked too! We are thankful that we were all okay and the house was okay too. The only damage was outside. I thought I would be prepared mentally for the hurricane. You know, coming from New England and all. NEVER have I heard wind like that in my entire life. I was scared. When Ike finally left, and we stepped outside, I gasped and started crying. Until sensible Bill hugged me and said it was just stuff outside and all of it could be replaced. Most importantly he said, is that we are all okay and we are all together. Riley had left ahead of the storm. He was planning on going to New Orleans. He had to nix those plans pronto. He headed to Oklahoma(small detour) before continuing on his trip. Things are back to normal here. FEMA trucks came and carted off all the debris in our area. We still are waiting for our fence to be repaired. They're kinda busy. I feel very sad about Galveston. We were just there and now it's gone. Hard to believe. Well time to move to October and better days. I miss you mom.

Beautiful Girl

Sorry it has been so long since I posted. August SUCKED big time. I miss you mom. I guess I should be thankful that Riley was here with us. I am glad we were all together. I know you all want to see Emily (especially you Nawn) updated. So here are some recent pictures with Riley thrown in too. Enjoy. Ike will follow.

Be Back

Sorry that it has been so long since I posted anything. I'm making believe you care. I know you only want to see pics of Emily. They will be coming soon along with some pictures of "after Ike". We've been busy, but I will be back. Veeery soon. See how busy we are?

Emilypalooza

The t-shirts I made.

Notice the pink "worker girl"? What's in her "shobel"?

Just a bunch of pictures for you. Emily above eating her ear of banana.

And, here is the "cob".

Little sparkler on the 4th of July. Doesn't look very sparklerery to me?

Enjoying a HOT ride on the ferry in Galveston.

Exploring with daddy. Loooves him!

Waving to mommy. Otherwise known as papparazzi.

She took this of us. Not bad eh?

There Will Be Blood

It all started so innocently. We planned to go to the ocean. To Galveston to be exact. Emily was waiting excitedly to "git goin". Galveston is not very far from here and it really is very pretty. We drove down to the seawall eventhough we knew there was a storm a-brewin'.

Notice the storm a-brewin' ? It was beautiful. We unloaded the car of a stroller, a backpack full of snacks, water, a mommy, a daddy, a baby and her "bubby" and her "coppapahk"(pocketbook). Emily needed her "coppapahk" because it held a plastic ostrich, a pink cellphone, her "sungaas"(sunglasses), a small stuffed pink chick, a tiny gray rhinoceros and a little set of keys. She was certain she may need these items.

It was very windy! Emily cried in her stroller because the wind and the spray from the water was touching her face. God forbid anything uninvited touches her face! We tried carrying her. The horror. We tried to let her walk. The horror. Bill coaxed her into going down to the beach to play in the sand . That she liked!

That she liked. A LOT! Suddenly the wind and water were her amigos. It also helps that daddy has a calming effect. They played and threw sand and had fun. I snapped pictures. When the fun ended they returned with the finest coating of sand on them. On her eyelids, ears, cheeks, lips and hair. Oy! I told you it was windy! I say "fun is done". Emily was begging to go back to the "bye bye car" and it was time to eat! We decided on a nice INDOOR lunch. Splendid.

We headed over to Joes's Crab Shack. Yummy! We ordered mussels with garlic and wine and crabcakes for appetizers. For our meals Bill and I ordered Spicey Dungeoness Crab Boils with red potatoes and corn on the cob. With oodles of HOT MELTED BUTTER. Emily order HOT macaroni and cheese with corn on the cob with HOT MELTED BUTTER. And a chocolate shake. Oooh we cannot wait! This is the scene of the crime. Emily sipping her shake and waiting for her food to arrive.

This is the victim's witness. Thoroughly enjoying the mussels in garlic and wine. I am deliriously happy over this whole event. I am joyfully snapping pictures. Now for the best part. All the giddyness soon vanished as our waitress approached with our much longed-for seafood extravaganza. She just happened to DROP TWO HOT CRAB BOILS WITH HOT MELTED BUTTER AND HOT BOILED POTATOES. Oh and don't forget Emily's HOT MACARONI AND CHEESE AND MORE HOT BUTTERED CORN.

ALL. OVER. MY. HAPPY. LITTLE. HEAD. AND. BODY.

Oh yeah, and did I happen to mention that it was HOT and there was MELTED BUTTER? Can you say embarassed? I jumped up with my buttered hair and body. A staff person came running over to move Emily to a safer spot. She started screaming because she was scared. The manager came over. I cried. Bill comforted us. The waitress wanted to throw up and offered to buy me a tee shirt? I said no thank you. Can we please move to a different table? Can we please have new food? How brilliant are we? We could have owned a Crab Shack. Sadly, we are not those kind of people.

We moved to another table. The manager gave me some burn spray.I styled my hair a little better with the butter. And, we got new food. We ate all of it. And Emily even had desert. A rice crispy cake in the shape of a crab that she got to paint with flavored syrups(paint).

We called the waitress over for our bill. She told us our WHOLE meal was free. I thought maybe the appetizers. It was delicious and we will go back. As we left, I told Bill I didn't feel like walking because of the butter and broth that covered me. I was afraid the gulls and pelicans would try to eat me. We went to the car and I covered my seat with a large plastic lobster bib(for the butter on my butt) and put my feet up on the dash.

Alas, the carnage was not yet over.

My toes and sandal were all bloody. During all the FESTIVITIES we hadn't noticed that the plate that fell onto the floor, broke over my foot and the glass cut my toe.

I am so much fun to be around. Want to take me on your next outing.

Free food.