Monday, December 29, 2008

Big Eyes - The Next Generation

This kid has potential, keep an...eye...on him!

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Target speedway

Tricia, Lee, and I went shopping at Target today.

The best part was the insanely loud beep...beep...beep noise Tricia's "Amigo" made when backing up. Only one near accident with dozens of snowglobes on a low shelf. Priceless. George, this will be you in 10 years if you don't start exercising.


Thursday, December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas!

It looks to be a cold and rainy Christmas here in Oakland, definitely a good day to light a fire in the fireplace. Plan is for a mellow Christmas since TK is carrying a giant pumpkin around. My mom and brother are coming by in a few hours for an early xmas dinner, and we'll call the Kellys in VA later.

Hope all of you have a wonderful Christmas and that we get to see you soon. J&T, safe travels tonight - looking forward to having you back home. And I'm excited that we'll get to see Lee tomorrow! George, Cindy, Kate (I think the only other people that look at this blog), wish we could see you this week too.

And here's to an awesome 2009 for everyone...including the arrival of a few more Baumfields and Kellcocks. And hopefully we'll get to see Jacob and meet Lenny in person this year. At the least, we're due for a video hookup.

Love you all,
g

ps will take a picture tonight but my neighbor across the street (who is from Vermont) put up a n excellent, giant glowing snowman figure on the hill. Getting blown around by the wind and rain now, but he still looks pretty stoked to be a snowman. I'm going to find a giant snowman companion for next year so he has company. Maybe a laaaady snowman...

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

PC100032


PC100032
Originally uploaded by jacob and lenny
playing with the 'blog' feature from flickr. I'm no Gareth, that's for sure. g2

Flickr

This is a test post from flickr, a fancy photo sharing thing.

Monday, December 22, 2008

Final sonogram appt today

Unless Tricia really overachieves, today's appointment at CPMC was probably our last before the little sleep spoilers arrive. Everything looked good so we're go for countdown. Begin ignition sequence and arm separation boosters. Girl measured in at estimated 4 lbs 9 ounces and gigantor measured in at 5 lbs 12 ounces. That means all told TK is carting around more than 10 lbs of baby. You can, ahem, uh, hardly tell. Baby A (girl) is at 40th percentile for singletons (pretty good for a twin) and baby B (boy) ranked 76.8% for singletons or in the baby huey class for twins. We have the most awesome and hilarious sonographer (sonogramologist...?) - we'll really miss the visits with her.


Wish we could spend a few days with all you guyses. Miss you all and bestest holiday wishes to all of you.

Love,
g&t

ps How I Met Your Mother is almost on. If you aren't watching it, you should. It's one of the best shows on TV IMHO.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

jennings flickr pics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacob_oliver

not sure how to do the fancy slide show thingy gman got going on over there. saw Kate and Lee in Colorado and had a great time. beautiful area. g2

Best pic of 2008 :)

Thursday, December 18, 2008

MBA!


Hi Friends,

After a accelerated program, it is official...I have my MBA!

Thank you all for your kind words of support, and kicks in the ass...you all helped me complete one of my dreams.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Thanksgiving weekend

Everyone came to our house for Thanksgiving this year which was great. Mom, Nick, Josh, Tonya, Tricia (duh), and special guest stars cousin Ariel and boyfriend Dylan (shown below). Was great to catch up with Ariel who is currently living in LA. Nick did an awesome job cooking as usual and I did a good job cleaning the house. Twice.
Below - Tricia at way way too much.

Friday after Thanksgiving Tricia, Josh, Tonya, and I drove up to Monte Rio which is on the Russian River sort of near Guerneville.

We mostly took it easy but had a very good stay. Josh and I went for a couple of runs... we ate pretty much all our meals at a cafe with a french name I can't remember that was really good. Went to see Madagascar II in a seriously funky little theater that looked like a barn and had no heat (but they supplied blankets, just like they used to for the double chairlift in Stowe). Then back to reality.

Work has been good since - pretty interesting. Keeping busy planning out some fairly complex projects.

And the kids are due pretty soon. Good ultrasound today. We're at 31.5 weeks. Doctors want us to get to at least 34, and a few more weeks than that would be even better.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008