The Aquarium

Doug and I went to the Georgia Aquarium this weekend in Atlanta, but we had no camera so this is from our trip to Australia a few years ago.

Simon's Daughter

This is an old picture Doug took in PNG of the daughter of our guide in Daru, PNG for the 8 hour "layover" we had there. I don't remember her name- as my mom would say, "That's why you label pictures right away, Rachel!"

Vandalism in my name

Someone decided to carve my name into the bamboo growing at Magnolia Plantation. At least they spelled it right!

From the archives

An old picture from our rainy Labor Day car picnic. It is sunny here today and almost 70- come on down!

Our crown molding

You may think this a strange picture of crown molding. This is either Luke or Doug in the garage playing with a nail gun. However, it seems that these images literally broke the camera, and our faithful S1 IS will be journeying back to its maker to be repaired. How will we live without our digital camera? How long will they keep it? Will it come back to us the same?

Precious

Precious is one of our neighborhood kids that we take to church. She's the oldest in my Sunday School class which ranges from ages 3-12 some days. She's in 6th grade and a good 4-5 inches taller than me, but don't mention that to her or she won't be so precious any more!

  

Our change jar

Doug took this picture a couple weeks ago.
  

Joga Bonito

Here you see the B league Summerville YMCA winter runners-up! Our last game was Thursday and Doug took the official team photo which supposedly will be in the paper here...We had a rough last game- really obnoxious pushy players on the other team who trash talked and swore up a storm the whole game and a ref who let it all go on. It was frustrating enough that I told one of their 30 year old men when we shook hands that I was not impressed with his behavior. We did have a good season overall and some really fun games, which is I believe, the point of a rec league.

  

The new kid on the block

A little bit more excitement has been created in the backyard when this guy comes around to visit....
Buteo jamaicensis I believe. Any ornithologists want to confirm or correct?

  

Bird watching

Daru and Kina both like to look at the window to see what is going on in the wide world of the backyard. It is usually not too exciting, unless a squirrel (they must have no long term memory) ventures into the yard.

  

Bizarre traditions

My family has several odd Christmas traditions, including putting on all of the clothes you get for Christmas at one time. We are not sure of the origin of this one, but it started when I was about 10. This year, the girls did not get any clothes to model, but the boys did. I think they are trying to look gangsta here.


  

The Graham Fam

Self-explanatory I think- except for Steve....

  

More Christmas portraits

Matthew had a lot of fun this Christmas and he definitely entertained us! Here he is with Robin and Steve. My one picture of his cheesy smile is too blurry.


  

Daru

Here is Daru in front of Doug's parents's Christmas tree....She was very cooperative about wearing a bow once she forgot it was on.

  

Life on the road

In our many hours of travel, we sought to entertain ourselves various ways: books on tape, fruit roll-up tongue tatoos, Christmas music, conversation, and taking pictures of road signs. I was not thinking clearly enough to get a picture of the Mason-Dixon line sign (either time we crossed it!), but we did snap a picture of the Preble sign for our friend Megan P. and a picture of the health facility sign for my sister and her "odd fellow" (this is apparently a chain of health facilities since there is one near where my parents lived in MI.). I am not sure who you send there!


  

Makenna

Adam and Kim had their baby December 11th. She has a lot more hair than your average kid.

  

Thanksgiving at the beach

The waves, the sand, the sunshine.....oops is that the moon?


  

So we're a few holidays behind...

I know some of you have found it hard to go on without an update in almost a month....This is the first time I have downloaded pics since Thanksgiving, so I am just a little behind. My parents came for Thanksgiving and we had our 3rd annual Thanksgiving beach picnic, except we went the day after Thanksgiving because it was (gasp!) too cold on Thanksgiving (and my dad didn't feel great). We saw a nice sunset and had all the Thanksgiving staples in some form.

  

Dr. Paul N. Ulrich, PhD

Paul received his PhD in Marine Biology after years of stuyding and writing a dissertation and traveling all over the world. He, I think, has now officially received his degree. In his recent crabbing experience, he was asked a question about the blue crab and he told me that the blue crab was a (to his credit, which tells you I am about to discredit his years of hard work, he did use a scientific word that starts with a "p" that I don't remember) __________ clam. Yes, a clam! This is what the education system is coming to- those with PhDs in the field think that crabs are clams. Whom can we trust?

Surprise!

Last month we went to have dinner with Luke and Megan- well, we went to catch our dinner with Luke and Megan, and when we entered Luke's house, a surprise came out from behind a corner! You can see that surprise here with part of our dinner....