Take back the garage!

I took this picture on August 1, and proclaimed August to be Take Back the Garage Month:



I guess that was overly ambitious though, because here we are most of the way through October and only now can we finally fit one car inside:



One day they will both fit in there!

Water hazard

Eddie is obsessed with drinking from our bathtub. Anytime somebody walks in there, he comes running and waits for you to turn on the water for him:

New hair!

It's a small world after all

Mike ran into one of his high-school friends today in Texas:



Patrick is in San Antonio taking a course, and Mike is there for 3 years while he gets his DPT.

Before and after

Here's a picture from a year ago when we closed on our house. Notice how those 2 overgrown shrubs totally block off the side porch:



Fred pulled them out, and I love how much more open everything looks:

Catching up with Tony

Our friend Tony has been in town on business, so Fred and I met up with him after work for drinks and dinner:



I wish Melanie could have been here, too!

Necklace twinsies!

My friend Camille and I came to work today sporting very similar necklaces: