Belle's Recorder Concert

Belle had her recorder concert on Thursday.  Here is the best photo I got:   

Tough camera night.  She did very well.  Jonah thoroughly enjoyed the show and was yelling out to Isabelle at several points.  Ruby was perfect and everyone wanted to stop to see the baby.  I did manage to snag a decent photo of Belle and Jonah:

I'm still working on the flash/no flash aspect of photography so my pictures lately are hit or miss.  Jonah is the ring-bearer in a wedding tomorrow and the rehearsal is in ~1 hour.  I hope we get some good pics of him in his tux (little stud).

Jonah-ism of the day

Thuy (trying to explain greater than/less than): If you had 62 pieces of candy and 31 pieces of candy, who would have more candy?

Jonah: I would!

New hardware

Belle got her braces today.  Thuy took her in for the 2.5 hour procedure, then back to school, then back to the orthodontist for another 30 min procedure to re-attach a bracket that had fallen off.  Whew!  So here's the new look...

  

Here's what Belle has to say about the whole ordeal:

I don't like braces or expanders.They hurt but atleast my teeth will be straight.yahooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Happy Valentine's Day

The night before her braces and Belle is excited.  I can't say that I was that excited when I got them and I can't say I'm excited about paying for them.  But she's looking forward to it and it will give her a prettier smile, so I suppose I am excited, too.

Christmas in Pensacola

This is what Pensacola Beach looks like at Christmas-time.  White snow...white sand...I'll take the latter.

Blog day (night) 1

And so we begin. We've had a site dedicated to Ruby since she was born, but we had nothing for our whole family. We have plenty more pictures and stories to share than just what's on Ruby's site (like we're actually going to get an audience). I talked with Thuy and we both agreed that it would be good to give our other kids equal time in this web publishing bonanza.

I remember tinkering with MoveableType but never gave it much of an effort. I found Pivot and liked it because it was A) easy to install and B) required nothing other than PHP (don't want to pay for mySQL through my ISP). We'll see how this turns out. I'd really like to be able to upload photos/stories as we can and I hope this tool makes it easy. Here goes...

Wow. Originally, I uploaded the whole photo, which was huge and messed up the whole page. Then I created a thumbnail and linked it to the larger photo (click the thumbnail to see the big picture). That's much better.

I think this will be great and I hope to post more soon. Cheers.