what a weekend! i love long weekends, but this one was something else, a lot of good, a little not-so-good.

first, the good...

we kept our nephew friday & saturday night and had such a great time with him. he's at such a fun age. good manners, well behaved, totally sweet, but he asks "why?" about everything.

we took him swimming friday night and then out to dinner. saturday morning, we got up and made breakfast, then took him to a park near our house. i love this park - it's just so cool, and of course, i have a ton of photos to share with you...

this is my favorite thing about the park - a train scene.


{this is the train scene. in the vertical photo, you can see lines running forward - those are tracks. on the ground, closest to you, it points southbound "to seattle", and pointing towards the train, northbound, it point "to everett". how cool is that??}

i have a few fun page ideas rolling around in my head for this... the first is just a page about david... here are some of the photos i want to use:



the second idea is a layout titled "of bigs and littles" (as in big boys, and little boys, in case that wasn't obvious...)




and the third idea will somehow include the quote "i get by with a little help from my friends"... or something of the same effect... these photos:




love these photos. they're better in full size. can't wait to play with them.

anyway, saturday night, matt went to see bill engvall in concert. he had a great time, but that meant david & i were on our own. mostly, we hung out together, playing video games and such. sunday morning, we got up and returned him to his mom.

the not-so-fun stuff...

monday i was on call, for all 24 hours, due to the holiday. this meant that i had a pager strapped to my hip, and that nothing was planned that couldn't be dropped in a heartbeat, to run to aid a server in need. for the most part, nothing terrible happened. however, the stuff that did happen was stuff that i mostly was not able to handle for some reason or another (over my head, or i simply didn't have that much power on our machines) and thus, the pager left me feeling woefully ignorant for most of the day. thankfully, i got to turn it off at 11pm last night, and i've never slept better.

in return for being on call yesterday, i get another day off, which i'll take tomorrow. sounds quite lovely - i really want some time to myself to play with my toys!