Return of the pictures.

Just Ezzie in these.

1) Mei-Mei with her new kitchenette (on Christmas morn):


2) She's very sad here (and cute). Jude took this picture to document her sad times (of which there are way fewer than happy times):


3) Finally, this one's quite recent. Her auntie Sarah and cuzzie Finn came to visit. Aren't they darling?

Where have I been?

Not around blog-land, that's for sure. Away long enough to see the format changed and with no idea how to handle it.

I'm putting up some pictures soon. And a YouTube vid. Weird about all this Google buyout stuff. They've bought blogger, and then YouTube. I also have a gmail account. So everything is Google. I hope they continue with their "don't be evil" mantra.

The Snow.

And this is the fun we had in the sun...um, I mean snow.

Bombs away, look at that arm!


Elise getting in on the action.


The snow was perfect for crafting this work of art. Imagine. In the snowy Midwest, one snowfall out of twenty was ideal for making snowmen, and here we are in the "rainy" Pacific Northwest building one from a chance snowfall.


And here's Esmé standing proudly by her baby.

Snow here of all things.

That's our lovely white Subaru (even whiter now). Darn, I forgot my scraper/snowbrush. Thought I wouldn't need it.


And here is the delectably sugared arboretum across the way.