Yeah, Iowa!!

Iowa Court Voids Gay Marriage Ban
It's probably going to be an on-going fight, but woo hoo!

Snowstorm!!

Putting M4 to work! Spring in Iowa...sigh...

Fun with the new camera...finally!

Now I have a computer that can handle modern technology! Finally, I can download videos from my new video camera. So here is a swimming video (from December). Notice the lovely zoom capacity:

P.S. It takes a frakkin' long time, though. Big file, I guess.

Sold...

Well, it really felt real today. We are selling our yellow house, which of course is good news. But it didn't hit me until I went there today and saw the new owner's belongings. (We are letting her move some stuff in early.) I lived in that house as long or longer than any other house in my life, plus it's the only house M3 and M4 have known. We won't be able to chart the passage of time this way anymore:

The funny thing is, they are looking at the house in which they'll probably spend the rest of their days in this town.

More spring break pics...

All aboard!!

Peekaboo! Hello, 80 degrees at Loose Park!

Signs of spring...hallelujah!

On top of the Liberty Memorial on a beautiful, clear day.

I've already seen this look too many times in my life.

Spring break!

Some images from M2, M3, and M4's trip to KC while M1 is gallivanting about Europe. M3 holding her newest cousin, whose eyeballs we have never seen! I forgot newborns sleep so much! (Except at 3 am, of course.)

M3 sampling a smoothie and modeling her new hat. How 70s of her.

At the Wizard of Oz exhibit...take a good look at this munchkin's T-shirt!!

M3's favorite float at the St. Paddy's Day parade. It featured drag queens, hula hoopers, and drag queen hula hoopers. Oh, and a busty Dorothy Gale. Is she a drag queen, too? Just what is this organization, anyway?

Congrats M3!

M3 got invited to the State Invention Convention for her heated monkey bars (see below)! Pretty cool! It will be fun to go and see what all the kids came up with.