September 01, 2008: Run, Run Run, stopI have never been accused of standing in one place too long. Many moons ago as a senior in high school I managed to compete in 5 sports (cross country, gymnastics, indoor track, wrestling and outdoor track) in one year, I’m still not to sure how I pulled that off.
This summer has been no different. Between the
Olympics, White Sox, Cubs, Bears, and all the departures at work. National tourneys, parades, running a website and remodeling at
5 Star. And cleaning up after the dog, helping the kids get back to college and trying to finish our basement at home I have fallen a bit behind on this blog
I have been shooting a bit over the summer and managed to squeeze a few hours of Lollapalooza in before working a couple weeks ago but most of my pictures have been of family.
It has been a run, run, run summer. Last weekend was more of the same getting up early to help build a new cheer floor at the gym before work. Monday afternoon rolled around and we took a ride up to Wisconsin to visit our new granddaughter and time stopped, what a beautiful thing!
Monday at 4:15am my stepdaughter, Suzy, and her fiancé, Aran, had their second baby, Amira Athena. We watched
Guinevere the night before and after about 5 hours of working on the cheer floor we took her to see her baby sister for the first time. I edited the afternoon down to about 80 pix but here is a triptych of big sister’s first visit.
Guinevere is almost 2-years-old now and she kept saying “baby,” “touch ‘em,” “hug “em,” “kiss ‘em” and that was the first thing she did. We got Guin a big sister t-shirt and she is handling it pretty well, so far. Another of my favorite moments was when Aran and Guin were sitting on the bed with mom drinking milk shakes.
Tuesday it was back to run, run, run again. Up early to finish the cheer floor and back to work.
Next on the list…build a first year blog for
Amira.
Cheers,
John
