(And I think she beat Scarlett by a few months)

If you’re reading this on Facebook and it doesn’t attach a video - go to the link for the blog to see her take her first [assisted] steps.

There’s a story about my childhood my mom is fond of telling. My dad asks Daniel (the brother born after me) to do something. To my father’s consternation, he refuses because it would make me mad. It’s funny to see a similar situation going on with the twins and Scarlett. Part of it is familiarity - Scarlett is home with them every day; but the kids will smile or laugh more easily with her than with me. This video is an example of that which I found amusing. We’ll see if I find it amusing if I find myself in a situation similar to my father.

Finally got the change to post some shots from Dina’s wedding. I didn’t take too many photos since I was shooting the official video. Enjoy:

And a couple videos of the kids dancing with Fran:

Scarlett was begging me to do two things:

-Rake

-and jump in the leaves after raking.

We did both…

Scarlett graduates from lettuce washer to lettuce cutter:

A fun little video of Scarlett going from QUITE far away to pretty local in demonstrating where we live.

Scarlett had been obsessed with Mickey and the Beanstalk so I HAD to snap the photo that heads up this post. But there were also some interesting things going on at PDX as I made my way home:

The day after the wedding we headed out to Mount Hood. While I learned how to ski at the Sugar Mountains in North Carolina, I did most of my skiing at Mount Hood when we lived there. When we first moved up we went to Mt Hood in August and there was some snow there. This was a much hotter year, so you had to go to the top of The Magic Mile to get some snow. I actually heard some people complaining about the quality of the snow….in July…..

Besides crazy bees that literally stole some of my beef, it was a pretty beautiful wedding. Here are my favorite shots:

One thing’s certain, I still can’t believe my little brother is married. The youngest of the first trio - I still find it weird to say he has a wife.