Whole Lotta Collars

Team O'Donnell, I think in the fall of 1978:

Phish Show with KK in... Portsmouth?

E Getting Her Teeth Done, D Getting His Hair Did

Sad with long hair.


Happy with short hair.

Declan Watching Elephants

Minus photos of actual elephants.

Kaleigh's GRADUATION

She's in there - trust me.

Trip to Wilmington, NC for Film Festival

Baseball Game with Papa

First Day of School

Outside the 409, Part Two

Outside The 409, Part One

Random Vids

The best moment of Declan's life, I think, as he was able to drive Lightning McQueen at his friend Sayjay's house:



Elsie taking her time walking home from school last fall:

Reading

COLLEGE!!!

Oh, man, we told Declan and Elsie a couple weeks out that we were going to go visit Kaleigh at Tech, and every day thereafter, they'd wake up asking, "Are we going to college today?" and every night asked, "When are we going to college?"

When we finally pulled into Blacksburg, we said, "We're here" and they started pointing out the windows at buildings, yelling, "Look, COLLEGE!"

We had an awesome visit -- it was so great to see Kaleigh and the home she's made for herself there.





About four hours into the drive home we stopped for a break and this is what I got when I said, "Smile!":


But really, they were great on the long drive both ways...

Out in the World

Declan and I like going to the shoreline at City Park, to sit on the docks and watch the boaters load into the water and walk along the shore checking out barnacles, mussels, snails and oysters.


At Mt. Trashmore, the D found out he can't get enough of the classic hill tumble:




Downtown, getting ready to join the Scottish Walk -- an annual parade following bagpipers through Old Town:


Declan at the library and winning silver in his first jiu jitsu tournament:

Chores in the Back Yard

Built a couple of raised beds in the back. Very excited about expanding our gardening this year, though the learning curve remains steep. We have some good compost ready, though we still need to find soil to fill them.


We also made some pine cone bird feeders in the back. The kids loved making them... and the squirrels loved availing themselves. All four were gone the next day.