Meghan's Birthday List

Meghan's 13th birthday is July 6 and the family party is the 4th....In case anyone was hoping for some hints for a present, these are some of the stores that Meghan likes to visit:
-Plato's Closet
-Stein Mart
-Forever 21 (XXI)
-Claire's
-Target

She also has a few specific things that she likes:
-Pretty Little Liars DVD set (or Dirty Little Liars as Jackie calls it)
-Apple Store gift card
-iTunes gift card
-Nook Color or Kindle
-Laptop or iPad (ha ha ha, but really...)

Check this one out!

Talk about looking too comfortable with a cig! But you do have to admit she looks very cool.

Moterh's Fall Report

Mother took a tumble Sat morning, went to ER, cuts bruises on knees & right eye but nothing broken. She reports that she's not even sore except for arm where she got a tetnus shot. Traveling around the house with her "wheelie".

Sunset 2011

Here's my 1st photo post from our great beach week.

Beach Week for family and friends

Meghan and Olivia playing vollyball on the beach.

Olivia and Meghan in the pool

Elizabeth dipping her toes.

Meghan with her Grandmother (and Hello Kitty!)

"Do you have a light?"

And Maggie's birthday

Maggie had her birthday a few weeks ago and is now NINE. Hard to believe. She had a party of her friends, it was a sleep-over as Meghan would say. Laura and I went and had a good time. Later in the week I took Maggie out to dinner since she is so grown up. I asked her where she wanted to go.

Applebee's!!!

What do you want to eat?

Mac-n-Cheese!!!

Pretty predictable. She is a connoisseur of mac-n-cheese and assures me that Applebee's is one of the best. I had a steak and a mojito. Also predictable (steak, so-so; mojito, great!). We played twelve rounds of tic-tac-toe while we ate. It was fun.

Mickey's birthday epic

Here is the first two pages of a six page comic strip I did for Mickey's fourth birthday. Page one is on the bottom. It is a story his mother Mary wrote about their real adventures with friend Sue who injured her eye. To keep the boy distracted while they waited hours at Wal-Mart (worst service ever) she converted their day into a fairy tale of the Brave Sir Mickey (and Bob, the Horse).

I took the story and illustrated it as a comic book. I think he liked it. If you can, go over to the Quigley page and see the whole thing. I may try to put it up on my Not Mayberry blog.

BTW, here is a report from Mary regarding the actual birthday itself!

First thing this morning:
Martin: Happy birthday, Mickey!
Mary: Happy birthday little man!
Mickey: I'm FOUR!! Where are my presents?

A kid after my own heart.

An Easter Photo

Here's an Easter photo from last year.......no, wait a minute, it seems to be from farther back than that. Gee, I think that's up in McLean. Seems to be my sisters, Jackie and Elizabeth.