Contest

ANNOUNCING the 1st Quasi-Annual Pre-Cruise Facial Hair Contest. Ok, so bill's got a bit of a head start, but I think we can all come up with something novel. Anyone who will be on the cruise may enter. Here's what I've got going on so far:

The facial hair will be judged by an independent review committee at the start of the cruise. It will be judged on Awesomeness, Control, Shamefulness, and Poise.

Gentleman (and ladies?!) Start your follicles!!!

Mr. Mom: this is the bomb.

Christmas came and went in a flurry. Or with a fury. Something like that. A great time was had by me, on the whole, and I can't believe I'm back home again. Side note: there is nothing like vacationing to make one appreciate one's home. I love my house. I really don't want to move. Can't everyone I care about just move out here?
2 nights ago I dreamt that I bit my black cat's head off. Then a doctor tried to put it out of it's misery, because of course it was still alive, and he did so by pouring 1 liter of diet coke down it's neck. Of course, the cat's body had now become transparent and I could see the diet coke causing his heart to go into failure. But the cat wasn't dying and I kept trying to think of a good reason why I bit her head off, but there wasn't one. [cukoo!]

Staying home with a baby is so awesome for the following reasons:
1) I never have to shower
2) I never have to shave
3) When she's asleep, I can do ANYTHING!
4) See reasons 1 through 3.

Also of note, being sick is a nightmare. I don't remember being this sick for a long time. It is miserable. Scratch that, I am miserable. It came to a climax on Christmas, quite fittingly, and it seems to be settling down now.

And now for some pictures:

***NEW & IMPROVED Baby Sit-up Chair! Now you can place your infant in a room and FORGET ABOUT THEM!

Lucie loves Roberto

Gar took one look at this pic and then did the following:

Gorgeous.

My child hates Satan...I mean Santa. Well, I guess both, maybe? Yikes, I'll stop now.

Here is what sickness looks like.

Brook spelled without an E remained calm while Gar went LOCO.

Poor Fat Christmas Lucie pinned in her sit-up chair.

Lucie opens a present! It was a book by madonna, and signed by Madonna(?!?)

Just don't ask. Ok, ask. So this is me working on a star wars Lego Set graciously bestowed upon me by my mother-in-law. You may also notice that I have an LED headlamp on and that I'm delirious with sickness and fatigue.

This is what happens when I leave my camera out.

This is what happens when babies drink Red Bull. P.S. This pic was taken at 2 in the a.m.

P.P.S. Just kidding about the red bull.

P.P.P.S. The baby is awake [three dots in a triangle] this post is over.

Did somebody say Pulitzer?

Geez, I wish I'd thought of something meaningful to say: Front Page of today's Deseret News.

uhh...what?

Weirdest story of the week.

my life has been taken over

We've got a real problem here. And by we, I mean me.

oh me

So the other day I lost this:

In one of these:

So I can no longer do this:

Which sucks these:

However, I am here:

Where it looks like this:

And not like this:

And last night I got to drive one of these:

So I shant complain any further.

And now for some cellphone pics that have gotten needlessly backlogged (in reverse chronsylogical order):

This was a sweet learjet that flew through the denver airport.

Oklahoma just so happened to get their "one big snow day" of the year the day before I arrived.

This is me in the middle of taking the second part of the boards.

The grammar nazi in me didn't like this signage.

For some reason I set my cell phone camera to "crap" during my last trip to LA. Hence the "quality" of the following pics.

[cue the dragnet theme]

Laur-laur and I had a business meeting with Jay Leno and Courtney Love.

Following the premiere of my first film, "Bad Karma."

Back in maryland, war of the worlds style attack on a university building. Whoa, I choose not to believe that no one has made a war of the worlds-craft joke yet.

My sister saw this one and said, "oh yeah, you guys still have cats!"

Abs as dorothy. So cute.

Zack-yoda: using the force to get his mcFlurry.

Completely impossible to see, but trust me, this is a guy with a leaf blower on the windiest day I've ever seen.

And lastly, please notice this pimpalicious ensemble near the Baltimore VA.

Thank you, and I'll be here all week. Quite literally.

p.s. this post was EXHAUSTING.