We made it 1/2 way down before it got too slippery for the kids ;-) it
was gorgeous!

On the way down to the bottom of the Big Falls!

a Hella faery in the woods

Burgess Falls State Park

hiking!

cooking veggie dogs over the fire...just like the cavemen!

Country livin' = BB Guns, right?!

Sharing the load

Hella and Spike carrying a bucket of ash into the woods to be dumped!

This here's "Man's Work!"

Pay attention ladies...

The Parthenon in Nashville

Boris is mighty disappointed to find out it's closed on Mondays...

SLEDDING ON YR FACE, NOT RECOMMENDED BY BORIS...

LOOK WHAT'S NEW!

JANUARY THIRTIETH TWO-THOUSAND-TEN

Today in history...(horrible, horrible things...and then one great one!)

1649
King Charles I is beheaded.

1835
The first assassination attempt against a U.S. President.
(Richard Lawrence tried to shoot Andrew Jackson)

1841
A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

1933
Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.

1941
Dick Cheney is born.

1948
Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated.

1956
Martin Luther King Jr's home is bombed.

1968
The Tet Offensive in South Vietnam begins.

1969
The last public performance of The Beatles.
(On the roof of Apple Records in London)

1972
Bloody Sunday.
(the killing of 14 unarmed Irish protesters in Northern Ireland by British troops)

1976
George H.W. Bush becomes the 11th director of the CIA.

1982
The first PC virus code is written by Richard Skrenta.

1989
The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.

2007
Royal Super Speed is born, causing widespread joy throughout Western civilization...

third birthday pictures...

F%*# YEAH! THANKSGIVING!

Boris made me a Birthday Chesecake completely from scratch!

Seriously, and I am being completely 100% honest when I say it is the
BEST cheesecake I have ever had!
Thanks B!

Royal as... a Ghost..?

Hella before her snack! ;-)

Hella after her pre trick or treating snack..!

Boris is The Grim Reaper

Spike is 'Nothing'

The gang!

SIX YEARS OF SPIKE SPEED

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPIKE!





Spike continues to be the magical, wise, surprising, philosophical one of our Crowd...





...he inspires and delights...everyone that meets him is smitten...he casts a spell without even trying...





We surprised him with a day at the National Zoo...he got a monster pile of Legos, a nerf crossbow, new shoes and a lesson in patience since some other presents didn't show up in time!

He requested a blue alien cake and pasta for dinner...he got beautiful weather, both Mom & Dad home, and happy times with the family...a good birthday!

25% FINISHED

Christina's big left-arm project got under way during our trip to N'rn Ohio this weekend...all hail the Mighty, Mighty, Ink-Stained Ryan Speed...



For anyone wanting the details, this is Christina's 'mother' tattoo...she picked each kid's birth month flower and had Ryan design the sleeve...

top of the shoulder = chrysanthemum = November (C and Rik)
back of the arm = larkspur = July (Boris)
crook of the elbow = aster = September (Spike)
bottom one = Gerbera daisy = April (Hella)
small ones scattered about = snow pea = January (Royal)

this is all about 25% done...lots of color to come...

(and, for the record, the butterfly is her 4-yr-old 'sister' tattoo, shared with Bev...Ryan is incorporating it into the design...)