storytime

Ahoy Matey's!

Today we went to the Portland Pirate Festival. It sure was piratey! We got to see Captain Bogg & Salty, which was very exciting. If you have never heard them I recommend picking up an album. We also saw parrots, sword fights, puppet shows, big ships, pirate treasures and cannon battles!

dancing a pirate jig



treasure hunters




a pirate and his parrot



a true pirate parrot



a parrot and a pirate



argh ye scurvy scallywags!



pirates pirates everywhere

bling bling

Thar it is. He went and popped the question and I said yes!





Actually, I think what I really said was more like "Oh baby you know I will."

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Emme started kindergarten today! This picture really sums it up.



I built a patio over the last week. With a little bit of help. We're trying to get corsican mint to grow in between the rocks.



I recently had the pleasure of meeting this goat:



and this llama:



but that's another story.....
I am enjoying taking pictures with my new digital camera, the Canon SD1000. It's the simplest feature-less camera ever, totally basic point and shoot. At first I thought I'd hate it, but now I love it.
Of course a million other things have been going on. Some I just don't feel are appropriate to blog about and some are too boring and then there's so many other things that don't get blogged because I'm just too dang busy!