Pam's Wedding

After we spent a few days in St. Louis, we went to Springfield, Illinois to see Pam got married and stuff. Here are some photos of the girls that weekend.

Abigail with Sally and Amelia at the table

Cameron (holding Sally), Elijah and Austin being nutty in the back, Amelia, Brandon's 'girlfriend' Breeee, and Brandon

Gil and Amelia - he has just told her the hilarious punch line 'Linoleum Blown Apart!' but Amelia doesn't get it

Cousins (Cameron, Jake, Elijah and Jackson) with Amelia desperately trying to escape

Steve and Brandon's 'girlfriend' Breeeeee, holding Amelia. Steve loves to bake and Breeeee hates ExxonMobil.

Kim is really pretty

St. Louis with the Girlies

So Kim and D.laskldjf made it to St. Louis with no help from me and the girls got to meet all of our family - well, not my brother Ronnee, who lives in Portland and enjoys climbing huge mountains for no good reason and making socks out of hemp. But he will meet the girlies at Thanksgiving.

But anyway, I am getting ahead of myself - the girls made it to St. Louis and Connie had much of my family over to her house. The point was to get everyone with kids to come over, which I think was mostly a success. My cousin Sam named his son Michael, which means he will grow up to be sort of bald and able to run really fast, but not for very long. Anyway, everyone came over and brought their kids, including my cousin Lindsay, who has TRIPLETS!!!! I think I speak for everyone when I say 'HOLY SCHNIKEY!!! TRIPLETS!!!!!'

Yes, TRIPLETS!!! By the way, I still have not met the lovely triplets because I wasn't in St. Louis when this gala event was held, but I am very eager to meet them. Two kids is a challenge but three is simply incomprehensible.

Anyway, here are some pictures and a video or two:

Kim with Amelia, practicing her imaginary piano

Sally just sitting, waiting for a text message

Sally with Kim's sister Scott and Elijah (Elijah came up to NY a few weeks later to become the girlies Godfather but not the Italian kind where you ask him to whack your enemies)

D;;asldkjf with Amelia at Jenny's house

Kim's brother Scott - if you click on the photo, you can get enough detail to see nostril hair and a line of spit from his top teeth to his tongue - it's quite gross. He also appears to have had some cavities as a child.

Jake with Sally - what a great picture. At the time of this photo, Jake was just days away from beginning his illustrious college career at the University of Chicago. My advice to Jake was to study hard, meet lots of good looking girls, and just because you are in college doesn't mean you have to agree 100% with the hippies at the 'Bush-Halliburton-Logging-Low Tax Rates-Global Trade-Incandescent Light Bulbs-America is/are Evil' Rallies that seem to happen on college campuses every day. Well, I didn't tell him that, but he is so incredibly smart that he knows there are two sides to every issue. But I think we can all agree that the true evil in the world is Rosie O'Donnell and Reba McEntire and they must be stopped. But anyway, here is a picture of Jake with Sally.

The girlies with D;a;sldkjf's son Joey Bag O' Donuts, with Judy and Don in the background

The girlies with Kim and my Uncle Ron

The girlies with Uncle Ron and his trophy wife Debbie and their daughter, the precious little Amy

D;;alsk;kjldf and Kim - I think D;asld;kjf is crying

And now some videos:

Uncle Ron with Sally (Kim INSISTS on videoing lengthwise, which is tough to watch - sorry)

The girlies with Judy (my 'Mom'), D;a;sljkdf and Debbie - Judy will LOVE this one

My Sister D;as;dlkjf Came to Meet the Girlies

Kim's sister Pam was getting married in mid-September, which meant we had to figure out how to fly home with the girlies. We had also been trying to get my sister Dl;a;sljf to come out for a while and couldn't work out the details - she was busy at home, vacuuming and getting situated and getting pregnant all the time and stuff, so we couldn't find the right time.

Kim wanted to go to St. Louis a few days early so that she could show off our beautiful daughters, but I had to go to Canada to try to sell a bank some stupid software (and also to see some moose). So we scammed, er uh convinced D;a;slkdj to come to NY for the weekend and then fly home with Kim and the girlies. It was a masterful plan, especially in that D;;alskjdf doesn't even live in St. Louis. She flew to NY from KC, spent a few days here, and then flew to St. Louis, and then had to drive home 5 hours with Judy (my 'Mom') and Don. That was very nice, especially because she was supposed to be home that week making Apple Butter for the school carnival bake sale.

So anyway, my sister D;a;lskjdf came to NY in mid-September - below are some photos and stuff (for some reason we didn't take any videos while D;a;slkdjf was here - sorry).

The girlies standing by the A/C - at this point they were getting very good at standing and junk

D;;laskdjf in the park with Amelia and Sally

D;as;ldkjf getting ready for a morning snack (Sally says 'nana' which means 'banana' - it's quite cute)


D;a;lskjdf with Sally in Sheep's Meadow in the park

The girlies at the airport - we bought these cool contraptions (in the old days they would have called them 'doo-hickies') that attach Rollerblade wheels to the carseat, which makes traveling MUCH easier, although I wouldn't know because I was in Toronto and D;;alskjdf had to help Kim get the girlies on the plane.