Saturday, March 28, 2009

Long Live the Rock

Aidan was playing around with my Guitar Hero controller today while Ava and Jessica were taking a nap. I was working on the computer, when he came up to me and said, "Dad, I'm going to turn a song on in my room and play guitar. You come in and take a movie with the camera." It was an offer I couldn't refuse.

With a little coaxing and a couple of different shots, we were able to pull of this totally sweet video. I hope you're sitting down, because this is going to rock your ass off!!!

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

We like to show off

Here are some pictures from the past month or so that we weren't able to upload earlier due to some pretty big issues related to our ISP switch. It's still not 100% resolved, but we can at least get online occasionally and bore you with our photos.

Here is Joel with his acceptance letter to GA Tech- I decorated the door to our apartment while he was at work:

Here is Ava eating Valentine's Day candy, hence the mess. Despite a worrying incident in January (see "Should I Be Concerned About This Type of Behavior?"), Aidan seems to like her again and made her a cute Valentine. The dog was his happy Meal toy, so that was pretty generous of him to part with it.


Before you knew it, we were celebrating St. Pat's by, uh, going to work in green shirts. Woo hoo! Good times. Aidan wore this funny outfit to daycare, and when he came home, he told me that a lot of the teachers took his picture. Wonder why...
These next ones are totally gratuitous...just nice pictures of us with the kids.


This is me at my school. We had a big celebration for Black History Month, and, despite your feelings about the necessity of such a holiday, I hope you enjoy this set that the drama teacher made. The background says, "CHANGE: A Dream Wrapped in Hope." It's ridiculously positive.



Finally, we have to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Joel, who turned 40 this week. Here he is at Rock Band practice with Aidan:

Mad Max, Australia Needs You More Than Ever!

Just the first paragraph of this story about Australian bikers "brawling through the Sydney airport" says it all.