Doug started classes yesterday. He's teaching four classes this quarter, so he'll be busy. It always takes a while to adjust to th...

We drove down to Klamath Falls, Oregon, to visit Doug's parents. We left the day after our anniversary, a Thursday, and got back the fo...

I did this layout for the ndisb newsletter, originally. It didn't make it into the newsletter, so I'm posting it here. It was fun ...

I've had the Steeleye Span version of "Ten Long Years" going through my head, which is actually about a prison sentence, but h...

Here's what I've been working on lately! We had these super cute pictures of Kate playing with chopsticks at I Love Bento, our loca...

Kate was 20 months old yesterday. Boy, August just zoomed by. Where did it go? Kate has been learning about counting. Sort of. When we...

Amy B. posted this picture of her daughter on her blog (and isn't that layout wonderful?). I'd seen the picture before and express...

Doug and Kate playing with the cittern (it's like a big mandolin with ten strings), in the back yard.

We found a few stubs of sidwalk chalk outside by the neighbor's back porch, and Kate was having such fun with them that Doug picked up...

Here's the marshmallow on a stick that I made for the ndsib August mega kit. I had a real stick that I took a picture of, then I traced...

I've frequently had to delete one or two spam comments a day, which is not a big deal, but the volume has suddenly increased drastically...

Kate is nineteen months old today! We've really noticed a difference in her language in the past week or so, as far as putting words to...

I made this in Photoshop yesterday (finished it up yesterday, anyway). It's going to be in the August mega kit at ndisb. Now I'm w...

One of the things I liked about this apartment is the patio and the little grassy lawn area out back. Of the four buildings in the complex,...

I have a new project which involves drawing animals (and other things). I did this little guy yesterday. I've been teaching Kate to say...

Well, it's actually a goldfish cracker grin. But they're cheesy. Look, she's got teeth! Those top ones poked through, finally,...

Yesterday we went out to the Freedom Fest at Fort Lewis for a little while. There was a retro 70's band called The Afro-Desiacs (or som...

My big news: I'm now a designer at ndisb.com! (That's Natural Designs in Scrapbooking .) I got my firefly kit up in the store tod...

Kate is 18 months old today! How the time has flown. We went to the park and she had a great time on the slide. She can't quite figure...

Kate has been complaining a lot when I change her diaper. I think it's not so much that she hates getting her diaper changed, but that ...