Jenga!

Nobody else wanted to play Jenga, so it was just Lon, Bailey, Kip and me... We played until I finally lost a game, ha ha. Lon didn't like any of the pictures I took of him, so here's Bailey and Kip, and me.

Summer Vacation 2009

Here we are once again at Marla's in Wilmington, NC. This year we were joined by her son Jesse and his wife Colleen, who has a 3-month-old baby bump! We spent several absolutely perfect days at Wrightsville Beach, and one at Topsail Beach. We've never had this many days of gorgeous weather in a row, and totally cool water conditions too. It's going to be really hard to wait another whole year to do this again!

Ouch!

Our friends Susie & Eric came over last night with their two daughters. Haleigh is Kip's age and Delaney is 2 years older. They used to live across from us in the townhouses in Manassas, but moved to a house locally several years ago. Anyway, they brought pizza and we showed them our new house. Kip took the girls down to his camp, and Delaney stepped on a plank with nails pointed up (of course). A nail went right through her flip-flop, and probably at least an inch into her foot! She hobbled back up to the house and we sat her on the edge of the tub and cleaned & peroxided her foot, then bandaged it up. I hope she'll be okay! She didn't want to leave though, so she lounged on the couch while the men watched Orioles baseball and the other women hung out at the dining room table with the fruit tray and cheeses & crackers (and wine).

Here is Delaney after the injury, Eric & Lon watching the game, and Susie and Haleigh at the table. You can tell by the guys' expressions that the O's lost...

14th Birthday

Kip turned 14, and he didn't want any kind of party or special day... I was a little disappointed, and maybe just a tad concerned at first. But we settled for having a friend over to spend the night. Lon took off work yesterday, and he & Kip went to the mall, where he bought a new PS2 game, Dirge of Cerberus. Then they went to the movies and saw Ice Age 3 - Dawn of the Dinosaurs. This morning I gave him my gift, the hair straightener he's been wanting! Lon thought it was a gag gift, but no, I don't spend that much on a joke. Here are before and after pictures. Did I ever mention he hates his curls?!
Before we picked up his friend Anthony, we drove to the Guitar Center in Fairfax and finally bought the guitar Kip has waited for so patiently. It wasn't a birthday present though; Lon had promised it to him if he brought his grades up to A's. Kip's final report card for 8th grade was all A's except for one B+! So he got his new Epiphone G400 SG and all the accessories, which he paid for himself: a hard case, floor stand, and glass slide with which to play "Free Bird". He can't wait till his next guitar lesson!