New Camera

Thanks to Mom and Dad for letting us have their old canon digital camera. As you can see, I've already started to put it to good use. Today was a fun day, I wish I would have taken some pictures of my outing to Seattle with Dad and Brandon to pick up a commercial soft serve ice cream machine for my sister Tammy. But I did get a few pictures. Dallas and I went swimming this morning at 6:30, and Dad even joined us today. That was fun. I taught Dallas a new chord on the guitar tonight. He now knows the E, A, and D major chords. He also knows a little bit of lead guitar from Nirvana unplugged "Lake of Fire". We all still miss Willie a lot and the kids and I watched his slideshow about 5 or 6 times tonight while Derrinda was working. What surprised me was that towards the end of the slideshow, Brandon started crying as he was sitting on my lap watching the video. I said "What's wrong Brandon?" And he said, "I miss Willie." Anyway, we are going on with life. Dakota even played ball with me today. It is the first time she actually wanted to play fetch since Willie died. She has been uninterested when I've tried to throw her the ball before, but I guess she is starting to feel a little better. Her and Willie were within feet of each other for every minute of the last 10 years so I can't blame her for having a hard time with it. Anyway, enjoy the photos! (Sorry for ripping Cody off, he was already down in bed when I took these, being the responsible young man that he is.)