Ginger and Luis's pretty pretty house

Ginger and Luis bought a house and it is totally pretty! Here are a couple of pictures.

More parade action

More parade action, this one has a horse at the end.

Parade Action 2008

This was the Order of Mystic Magnolias parade on Monday night in Fairhope, AL. If you don't blink, you can see me catch some beads in my left hand as I film with my right.

Happy Mardi Gras!

That's Fat Tuesday for all you monolingual Anglophones. And just in case anybody from my work happens to read this, I AM helping my mother. She has to have somebody to set up and take down the antibiotic IV drip every 6 hours. She can't do it by herself. I am the ONLY one who is available to do it. I am NOT skipping work to just hang out and have a good time - it just looks that way :)

Mommy walking

This is so cool! Just over 2 months after surgery, here is Mommy in her athletic gear, walking like a pro. Sam is "helping."

Mardi Gras record

I think I now hold the record for the largest stuffed animal ever caught from a Mardi Gras parade float! I was at the Mystic Order of Shadow Barons parade in Daphne Alabama and this giant orangutan was thrown at me, nearly knocking me to the ground. Two kids on either side of me tried to sweet-talk me out of it, but screw them, I've never caught anything so cool at a Mardi Gras parade before!
I have no idea what I'll do with it, but I'll keep it for a while.

Snow (or a southern facsimile thereof)

So this is what passes for snow around here. People actually went out and stocked up on canned goods and milk. Sorry about the shaky photography - the deck was a bit slippery. This happened on Wednesday, Jan 9, 2008.