He starts out happy but then his facial expressions turn hilarious!!!! You should see his face after trying peas for the first time. I love that last slide, he looked at me with a desperate look that cried "help me".
The love of my life has received her tenure letter today and will now be promoted to an Associate Professor. I'm so proud of her and what she has accomplished while putting up with me and raising two wonderful boys all at the same time. Words can barely describe how happy and proud I am. It's been a very very very long and tough journey across multiple states with a growing family and everything else life throws at us and she's worked very hard for this and definitely deserves it! I love you Susan!
For those not in Academia, what is tenure? explained in this link.
One of my favorite Photos of my wonderful and beautiful wife:
Jefferson and I went for a nice walk today with our rented snow shoes. When Jefferson was tired of walking, we went back to the house and then I headed off on my own. I ended up walking around 4-5 miles in those snow shoes. It was nice to get out and enjoy the Iowa Tundra. We have a little creek that is a mile away from us, I did some exploring and picture taking along the creek's green belt. It was a fantastic walk, I wish Jefferson would have walked a bit longer with me though.
Jefferson and Levi in their matching sprinkle shirts.
Jefferson after a long day of Kindergarten.
Levi in his "Thinker" pose.
Big Boy loves to cuddle you if you are sitting or lying on the sofa with a blanket. He thinks Levi is really warm.
No, I'm not talking about my children in this post. :P I'm talking about the "Dutch Baby" breakfast we made this morning. It's a pretty basic recipe, eggs, milk, flour, cornstarch etc.. It raises up to the shape you see in the picture above, then falls flat. You would think it tasted like a pancake or french toast, but it does not. It tastes more like a pastry. We sprinkled powdered sugar and lemon juice on the top, and put lemon rind in the batter so it had a very faint citrus flavor. I really liked it, Susan and Jefferson said it was better than good, but not great. mmmm...I love weekends, so much free time to do the things you can't do during the week, like make a good breakfast!
Here's a picture of my favorite Christmas present this year. Six different types of root beers from Food Across America. I can't wait to open these up! My family knows me so well.
Jefferson and I built some great snow forts yesterday. The weather was pretty mild, so we bundled up and headed outside. We, of course, had to make all military themed forts in the snow. We built 3 forts in all, we had some fantastic drifts that allowed us to make walls pretty easily. Here's a picture of one of them with more at my Flickr page.
My LX3 camera is amazing, I really like this shot. More artistic than what I usually do but then adjusting the levels to make it really black with highlights on Levi and I think it turned out pretty good. Also, I have a setting where every shot I take I can add to the meta data exactly how old Jefferson and Levi are in the pictures. It counts from their Birthdays and tells me exactly how many days old they are. Super camera that fits in your pocket and takes amazing pictures.
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