Welcome baby Lorelei!
Congratulations to my great friends Mike Austin and Jessica Dion on the birth of their second baby, Lorelei! Gorgeous!!! She was born on Tuesday, but naming takes time. :)
Don't you just want to pinch those nummy cheeks?!?!
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April 29, 2005
Don't you just want to pinch those nummy cheeks?!?!
April 25, 2005
Party like it's your birthday!
Today was Allie's 8th birthday! We celebrated in style:
- first thing this morning we let her drink from the faucet
- after work we gave her salmon treats
- after dinner we gave her "cake and ice cream" (really sardines)
Here's some pictures of the festivities! Enjoy...
~Stef
The marble cake (it sloshed around in the car on the way home)
The cake in its decorated form
The birthday girl!
Allie enjoys her cake and ice cream, until I pull it away directly after snapping this pic :)
Allie and Georgie enjoy their real cake and ice cream - sardines!
Allie looooooves her sardines!
Ripley, on the other hand, does not care for sardines, so leaves the party in a huff
That's okay, Mom, I'll eat her share! Yummmmmmmmm...
April 19, 2005
UVM PMRC sugar-on-snow and toast #4 to Roger
Howdy all, please visit this slideshow for pics of today's wonderful sugar-on-snow event hosted by UVM's Proctor Maple Research Center. Bess, Doug, Frank, Marty, and I toasted Roger B. Bess was today's toast giver. More people had planned to show up for the toast, and did show up later (they had been held up by work and traffic). Those folks are: Mike, Jim, Kent, Jess, Elliott, and Greg.
April 16, 2005
Georgia, feeeders, and bug social
Bonjour, tout le monde! What a wonderful weekend so far! Beautiful warm weather, which warrants a few outdoor shots. Georgie gets first place just so family and friends can see how much she's grown (or, not grown?) over the winter.
Georgia at 8 months old
The bird feeders (although the squirrels eat from them)
The squirrel feeders (although the birds eat from them)
The new hot air balloon feeder filled with song bird food,
in tribute of Milton's hot air balloon company
and the June hot air balloon festival
Closer view of the hot air balloon (click the pic)
The new corncob squirrel feeder which
I installed myself while Scott was running an errand
The deck bugs are clearly mad at each other,
since they won't face each other...
April 14, 2005
Rest of the brunch pics!
Thanks for the compact flash card reader, Charlie! Finally got the rest of the pictures off my camera, so without further adieu here they are...
Mossy rocks :)
Swinging...
Wheeeeeeeeeee!
Yes, I am eating Amelia's hand. Who can resist?!?!
Kira rides on Daddy's shoulders
Nightie night!
April 11, 2005
MGA is a genius
Mike shared a secret with me about my Verizon DSL slowdown issues. If I set my router to static DNS entries 199.45.32.40 and 199.45.32.41 my slowdown issues disappear! And, of course he's right because he's a genius!
More info about the slowdown is here.
Now all we need to do is upgrade to 3 megabit! :)
~Stef
April 10, 2005
Sunday brunch!
Today Jim, Tracy, Amelia, Kira, Charlie, Wendy, Jasmine, Ryan, Scott, and Stef met at Mike, Jess, Elliott, and Baby Girl's house to eat a yummy brunch.
Jazz and Elliott's house -- filled with babies already!! :-o
Jazz and Elliott play house inside
Jazz and Tigger have a mini play date
Jim totes Amelia while Jess holds onto Elliott
"Have some coffee, Def!"
Jim and Amelia
Mike transfers waffles from the waffle maker to the oven using (what else?!) chopsticks
The first batch of delicious cheesy eggs made by Scott
Charlie stirs his famous homemade hot fudge
Charlie covets the bowl of hot fudge
The full batch of cheesy eggs made by Scott (yup, 18 eggs and 12 oz of cheese!)
Waffles made by Mike, yummmmmmm
Jess poses sideways so we can see Baby Girl!
Jasmine sits like a big girl at the kids' table
Scott takes it easy next to the wishies (read: fish!)
Kira watches Jazz change into her superhero costume
Kira watches Jasmine play with Amelia
Jazz and Shadow watch the leaves rustle
Shadow sniffs Jazz's hand
A red squirrel eats from the ground underneath the squirrel-proof feeder :)
Shadow tries to sleep amidst chaos
Shadow checks out the action
Jazzy pets Shadow
"I wanna go outside!"
Jess, Scott, Wendy, Tracy, Kira, Jim, and Amelia chow down!
"Walk this way, Daddy!"
Jasmine and daddy Charlie play house
Scott helps Elliott go from the house to the backyard
(the deck is dismantled, so the step down is a doozy!)
Fun in the sun
Charlie watches Jasmine and Elliott play house outside
Elliott follows his own shadow
Elliott, Jasmine, and Charlie play tag
Tag, Charlie's it!
Charlie waits for Jim and Amelia to come outside and play!
Mike puts shoes on Elliott against his will
Daddy Jim takes a spin around the backyard with Amelia
Peering through the screen door at Tracy
Charlie, Scott, Jim, and Amelia gang up on Mike
Baby Ryan sleeping, so cute!
Elliott, Charlie, Jazz, and Mike take a hike in the woods
Jim entertains Amelia in the sun
Mike pokes his head inside while Tracy carts Amelia back inside
Jim holds on tight to Kira while chatting with Scott
Jim and Kira soak up the sun
Me (Stef) catchin' some rays
Stef (w/ braces) and Scott
There are more pictures, but my camera wigged out. :( As soon as I have access to a compact flash card reader I'll get the rest off it. Promise!
~Stef
April 08, 2005
Sunrise, toast, and flowers
Sunrise at my house this morning
The view from Roques, where we had toast #3 for Roger
Rocques' freshly made tortillas, yum!
Jim's empty hand and empty plate
$36 for the "Roger is tipsy" fund
The Pink Cadillac - a tasty beverage for a thirsty little computer person
The bill - yikes! ;)
113-J Waterman where Henri resides while Roger is away
The fishtank with new plants and fish
The Waterman fishtank bulletin board, devoted completely to Roger Bombardier, not to be altered until he returns home to us
Another copy of Roger's picture in the 111 Waterman space
Roger's Vermont Haunts map that he loaned to the 111 Waterman space while he is away
Flowers from Keith Kennedy to say thanks for publishing the Spring 2005 UVM IT newsletter
April 06, 2005
Spring 2005 UVM IT Newsletter published!
I realize it's my own deadline I'm meeting, but I feel much relieved when the newsletter is finally published *without* errors. Had a little hiccup with the featured Tablet PC article, which I resolved by manually cleaning up the source code in Composer so that I could see my results before republishing -- took 1 hour? Sure, at least that.
Please visit www.uvm.edu/cit/IT-news/2005spring and read the fruits of the IT community's labors. Thanks!
~Stef