Christmas photos...

Here's the collection of Christmas photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/john.genier/ChristmasDayGrandmaAndGrandpaSVisit

Hitting the farm...

So we went out to the farm - my mom's dad, brother and his wife barrel race professionally. That's Truly in the picture with Grandma and Liam. He's a 20 year old sweetie that loved attention. They also had Socks - a 3 year old ex-race horse that was jealous of all the attention surrounding Truly.

New Spider-Man Slippers

Well, Grandma and Grandpa arrived and they brought food - specifically cookies. Liam got more trains and I got a new smoke detector - yes, that's what I got. You can't put a price on safety. Watching 'Happy Feet' and eating dinner.

The Day After Tomorrow... which was Xmas Day

So we opened all the gifts and Liam loved his bike. The big hit was this giant dinosaur and the giant 48 piece dinosaur puzzle. Liam's got his Thomas the Train set all made up in the dining room. Grandma and Grandpa are coming tomorrow. Yay!!!

Happy Holidays!!

 

The Trollsens... awesome!

http://www.peta2.com/trollsens/

NY Photos

http://picasaweb.google.com/john.genier/NYWeekendWithPaulKevinAndDickCheney

Kevin, Paul and of course, Dick Cheney

So NY was fun and exhausting. The running joke of the weekend was Paul's picture of him and the Cheney's (as seen in photo). Paul's company, Simon and Schuster, publishes Lynne Cheney's kiddie books and Paul is some big wig now so he gets invited to their annual Christmas party each year. It's complicated and I fear to say more. You know, the bugs that are probably in my house and the black Suburban that keeps driving by my window. Anyways...

I have more photos that I'll get up soon. It was nice to see everyone and hang out. Got to eat some great Middle Eastern food and visit a Jewish deli. Got to see ground zero, Battery park and Rockefeller square. Got to stay up all night Thursday and feel like shite Friday morning..... :)

Alpha Dog

Sitting in Paul's apartment watching 'Alpha Dog' getting ready to go eat breakfast... good movie. Paul's having people over later. It snowed yesterday which was cool cause I'm in NY and walking around the streets was awesome but it's also very cold so that sucks.

New York and the cold

So I got into NY yesterday and I'm here until Sunday afternoon. It's soooooo freakin cold. I'm taking some pics and enjoying time hanging with my friends. Kevin came in from SF. David left Madrid and he's living uptown. Kevin and I are staying at Paul's place. Hopefully tonight won't be as crazy as last night ;)

The missing link.... for trees that is

Went for a hike today down by the James River and it's like some dried up desert. The water level is soooo low. Anyways, Liam found the largest leaf ever. It's like some mutant leaf from the Land of the Lost. I expected to see Cha-Ka come running out of the woods chased by some crappy T-Rex model.

Thanksgiving pictures are up!!

Ok, here they are. View at your leisure and savor every moment captured... Click here for the pics...

Grandma denied!!

I love this photo. It captures the moment so perfectly. No kiss for grandma. Look at those faces. Grandma is dejected and heartbroken. Liam is kind of like, should I be sad? Dad? What do I feel?? Can you and I just walk away now, it's getting awkward? ahhh... the magic of the holidays.

Thanksgiving Update

We had a great time at Grandma and Grandpa's house for Thanksgiving. We fed ducks, played soccer, went to the museum, ate crazy amounts of food, stood in line at 5am to buy things on Friday, watched football, went to a Winthrop basketball game, got sick, got better, went for a hike in the woods and managed to sleep a little too. I'm going through all the pictures now and getting them up to the web.

On a side note, Liam and I went down to the James Center Xmas Tree Lighting last night and then went to have Chinese food afterwards. Lots of fun. They have a lit up reindeer forest that makes you feel like you're in some sort of surreal reindeer heaven. Kind of cool and creepy all at the same time. Liam liked the singing squirrels in front of the Xmas tree. They sang Xmas carols and oddly looked like Alvin and the Chipmunks but they were named something like Marvin and the Squirrels. Later...