A nice Memorial Day weekend¿

So the weekend forcast is saying mid 80's and only scattered t-storms for the weekend...can it be true? sure would be nice for a change! We're heading up to the cabin's this weekend...maybe coming back early to get some things done around the house. I better make up some Bloody Mary mix! it's been a while.

In other news, the photo shoot for Ava (and Tenielle) is tomorrow! Pretty exciting? Yup! Hopefully she wakes up for it or doesn't have a big poop right in the middle...same goes for Ava ;) Wish her (them) luck!

We set up an ING Direct Orange savings account for Ava. If you don't know about them, might be worth checking out. The current rate on them is 4.15%. The only catch is that it is strictly an online account. No banks, no atms. Everything is strictly online and all deposits and withdrawls go through your current checking account...wherever it may be. The government for whatever reason limits the amoiunt of online withdrawls per month to 6, so if you make more than 6 withdrawls in a month you will get a fee...but we should only be depositing money into it, so that won't come into play. Pretty sweet deal though!

Well, i know it's early in the week, but have a fun and safe weekend! Bye bye!

(I'll post more tomorrow if anything exciting happens at the shoot)

*** Entourage Needed ***

Ava got the call back. ********** photo shoot next week. So if anyone wants to be in her entourage, you better start kissing some butt real soon...

Also, if anyone knows a good booking agent...she doesn't have any west coast representation as of yet.

Bye.

Website down¿

It appears that my website is down..not sure how many days it's been down, but I'll look into it tonight when I get home. I'm guessing my non-static IP address that hasn't changed in over 4 years finally changed on me...bummer...but who knows...could be something else, too. Any idea's Justine?

In other news, Ava has become extra 'grabby' now. Anything that is put in front of her she wants to grab and put in her mouth...and she really knows what her bottle is now too. She's pretty smart. Probably smarter than you (whoever you are). She has had a pretty nasty cold since the weekend, but as of this morning it seemed like she might be starting to get over it...we'll see!

In even other news...Joe get's married on Saturday...So we'll be busy this weekend with wedding stuff...should be a good time. Lucky for Steph, her true fear didn't come true...it's now past the 1 week prior to the wedding where she feared Joe would tell her that he's gay and wants to call it off. So apparently he's decided to stay in the closet for years to come and maybe break the news publicly later in life. Just kidding Joe....but blame steph for telling people about it :)

In even more other news, Cristin graduated and is finally done with school (for now anyway)...so she's got her Nursing degree and is now an RN (or maybe she has to pass a test first...but it's not like she won't pass..she actually studies) Congrats Cris! Welcome to the working world...it sucks! You can always change your mind and just stay home and make babies...Justin is a big dog...he'll support you.

Ok, that's all for now...maybe i'll write more in a day...or week, or few. Bye for now.

Ava - International Supermodel?

So Ava has now officially entered the modeling world! By chance, a marketing or ad agency of some sort, working for ********, sent a photographer to Ava's daycare center to photograph some babies! They are looking for new babies to put on their new line of ******* items. Basically they took the pictures of 10 kids...all a year old or younger. ******* is ideally looking for them to be between 0-6 months...so Ava, now a few days away from 5 months is right there!

So apparently, they will be submitting the photo's of all of the babies they have photographed (i'm sure at more places than just her daycare) to ********...and ******* will let them know which one's they like. If Ava is chosen, we should hear within a few weeks...and she would go in for a 1/2 hour photo shoot for offical photos. Chances of this happening? Probably pretty slim...but she i'm sure has a decent shot! She IS the cutest baby I've ever seen, so she has that going for her, which is nice.

We'll keep you posted!

In other news, this coming weekend is fishing opener. I probably won't be doing much for fishing, but for those of you who will (Mike), good luck! Sounds like it will be typical opener weather...cold....cloudy...off and on rain.

My parents are closing on the sale of their house today! They aren't offically out of the house until this Friday though. Now that it's down to the final days, I really am starting to realize that this week will probably be the last time i'll step foot in that house again! Very strange to think some other weird family is going to be living there. Hopefully they take good care of it since my parents worked so hard over the last 29 years keeping it in great shape. They are a getting a great house. A perfect garage roof for kids to jump off of...lower bedroom windows for kids to sneak out of...and a great backyard for camping in. Lot's of memories there. But they have a great place up north for us to build up more memories in...we've already had many years of great times there...and it's only going to get better!

Til next time....