By the way...

We purchased the iMac.

The first two shots are from Sunday....our weather was gorgeous.  Derek was watering the lawn and Delaney wanted her first sprinkler run of the year.  She had a fab time.  After she was done, she dug for worms, her new favorite outdoor activity.

The other two shots are random.  We bought the pink foam curlers for  her hair and she loves it.  The other is from Derek's parents' a couple of weekends ago when she was just being silly.

Once in a Lifetime

Yes....I did feel the earth move.  I've always wanted to feel an earthquake, and it finally happened!  I didn't feel the one in Singapore last year (and was bummed!).  I woke up Friday morning and the bed was shaking.  I thought that it was Derek shaking his leg, but he was perfectly still.  My next thought was that it was really windy....nope, our windows were open and there was not a sound.  Then I thought perhaps it was an earthquake, told myself that it was Illinois and that was crazy, 4:30 am talk.  Then, I heard Delaney's door open.  The bed stopped moving and I eventually went back to sleep.  I told Derek first thing in the morning....he laughed at me when I said I thought there was an earthquake.  After explaining it to him, he vaguely remembered it too.  I figured out that Delaney's door opened because Jake headed in there during the shaking.  He never goes in there at night....maybe he was protecting her, or maybe he just thought her room would be safer!

Help Us Decide...

We have been looking for several years but as of this writing we have unfortunately been unable to find the secret money tree...you know the one where the money grows on the branches. With this known we have to decide how to spend some money. Melissa and I are torn about which one of three options we should pursue and are looking to you, our friends and family to vote. Here are the choices (in alphabetical order):

1. Bedroom Furniture (Melissa is getting tired of looking at our bedroom furniture which happens to be the stuff I had as a kid. She would like to get some nice new furniture to match the room)

2. Buy an iMac computer (our laptop is from ~1993, and our desktop is from ~2003 but crashes on an hourly basis)

3. Trip to California (although we have lived in Singapore and have traveled to Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and Malaysia, no one has been west of Chicago for vacation. We were thinking 9 days -- fly in to SanDiego and visit all sites as we drive up the coast...eventually flying out of SanFran)

Please vote by making a choice in the comment section....Cya