little frog

I found this in the backyard and we had a good time playing with it for a little bit.

socks and bubbles

Miss E is such a wonderful little girl. She just grabbed my socks and decided that she wanted to wear them.

In the close up of Bonesteele, take a look at those mouth bubbles. Wifey says that perhaps he is teething but it sure looks funny.

Editing pictures

I have got a new camera some time ago and have not really taken the time to learn how to take pictures and edit them. These pics were okay when I took them but I changed some things and made them turn out a little better though for someone with a trained eye they are probably all messed up.

Bubbles

She could literally play with bubbles all day long

Play time

One nice thing about being on paternity leave is that I get to hang out with the family more and take more pictures. On the flipside, it is also a disadvantage since wifey and I sometimes drive each other crazy from spending too much time together combined with the stress of taking care of two children. Miss E likes to eat her grapes and also enjoys playing peek-a-boo with Bonesteele even though he has no idea what is going on.

Gun Cabinet

A few months ago my younger brother came to visit and somehow it came up that I was looking into getting a gun safe and he volunteered to make me a gun cabinet. Since most gun safes are ugly and need to go in a closet or the garage, I was pretty excited since a gun cabinet is something you can proudly display. As you can see by the pictures, he did an excellent job of building the cabinet. I ended up staining it myself and while I was working on it in my garage, my 70 or 80 year old neighbor walked by and asked what I was doing. I told her I was staining a gun cabinet and she responded, "Oh, you are one of those." I responded "Well, I am a police officer." to which she said, "Well that is part of your job but I didn't think you would have all kinds of extra guns. I never allowed guns in my house." So here is my question-How do you respond to that:)

I didn't respond at all. I do find it interesting that somehow people feel it appropriate to comment negatively and give their opinion about my gun ownership, which is of course a Constitutional right. I don't go up to people of different religions or people exercising freedom of speech, assembly, or any other constitutional rights and say, "Oh, you are one of those". It seems a little wierd to me that people feel they can say whatever they want and treat gun owners as though they are some sort of right wing nutjob.

Finally

Wifey has been getting smiles for some time but now I am finally getting some also

Family Fun

At the Beach

surgery

I hardly ever post pics of myself because I am a little bothered by the double chin I have recently perfected but I couldn't pass putting up this horrible pic.

Yesterday I had a septoplasmy(nose surgery to shave away at my nasal passage and hopefully making me snore less).

The blue pad I am wearing is filled with gauze and is called a mustache pad. I think it is aptly named because I think it looks ridiculous and that is how I feel about mustaches:)

It has been more than one year now since I moved into the extra bedroom of our house because I snore so loudly that Wifey can't sleep. I went in to be tested for sleep apnea and found that I don't have it or any other sleep disorder. I have had a crooked nose for as long as I can remember and figured maybe that might be making me snore so I went to see the ear, nose, throat doc and he suggested I get a septoplasmy.

I was a little nervous about it cuz he said he was going to cut the inside of my nose and chip out some bone and cartlidge. I came out of surgery feeling pretty good so I thought I would be fine. Unfortunately as soon as I started taking the Vicadin they gave me, all hell broke loose. It makes you naseated and constipated so I didn't want to take 2 so I tried one which left me feeling in pain-pretty bad pain. Now I am taking two.

I scheduled Bonesteele's baby blessing for this Sunday thinking that I would be feeling better and invited family to come over. What was I thinking. I have had a couple surgeries in the past and I didn't even take pain meds afterward so I thought I was pretty tough. Wrong.

I just hope this surgery works and that I don't snore as much. I also need to get started on a better excersize program but I don't know how people with kids, jobs, and grad school get anything done.

What fun...

Bonesteele looking tough in his pink bouncy seat. Miss E apparantly loves eating rocks and has also found a new hobby-lego star wars.

Montage

So much going on and I haven't been making time to take pics and blog about much of it. I have kind of slowed down recently because Bonesteele has a bad case of baby acne so I haven't been taking many pics of him. Miss E is as cute as ever. She loves playing in water-even though the water is freezing it doesn't seem to bother her. Wifey is looking hot as ever and got some nice complements yesterday from a woman who said she was jealous about how thin Wifey looked.