One of the first photos from my new camera

Another photo of Papa

My girls!

Mama and Jada

Jordan likes taking pictures

Mama, by Papa

Jordan, by Jordan

Abstract

Jada is a little imp

Jordan and Jada listening to CDs

Mick Jagger

Jada's butt!

Jordan wanted a picture of herself eating a banana

Testing macro mode

This is about as close as I could get

Patrick O'Kane

O'Kane family

Jordan pretending to be sad

A Very Nice Kingwood Cove Sunset

Jordan doing some laps around the garden

Zoom!

Starting to get a little bit tired?

Late evening panorama of the backyard, garden, and Jada

Leo coming over to see what's up

first thing on Jada's birthday - open presents!

Alphabet Train Puzzle

A colorful box from Grandma Donie...

What is it!?

Kinda loud (but you can turn off the music) remote control train.

We went out into the living room just in time to see a balloon go by

Gotta play with the new train stuff!

Jordan like Jada's birthday too

The new crane is fun

Craig, Leann, and Nicole drove up for the party

Uncle Craig is a good climber

I don't know why, but little kids LOVE party hats

Blowing noise makers in Aunt Leann's face

Jordan and Nicolr swinging

Party guests start to arrive - Mallory and her Mom

Mara and her Dad, John

Mason!

In case you didn't know, Jada is 3 years old!

Jada and Mara

Lighting the candles

Getting ready to blow out the candles

Trying to blow from down low doesn't work so good

Here's a better angle!

All the kiddos took the cake outside

opening more presents

Puffy Stickers!

a present from Mason

Momentarily distracted by the previous present...

Mallory (she's FIVE already) steps in to help re-focus Jada on the task

and Mason helps her open - a cool wind-up train!

Jada says, "Enough of that...on to the next one!"

I like playing with my camera - shooting from way down low

Jada got LOTS of new art supplies

As the party winds down, Mama sports a new hat

All done! Time to relax in front of the TV for a bit.

Jada in her birthday hat and birthday suit

Sitting pretty!

a picture of a whiteboard at work

Stage 2 of the new garden - tilled once, with 3 yards of new soil added

another view

from up high on the playscape

not a very good picture of 'the plan'

the girls' new 'tent'

Jada's latest haircut, and a funny face to go with it

Jordan's latest haircut

Jordan playing in the middle of the floor

Jada wearing her dress up dress and matching skirt

happy smiley girlses!

Jada playing in the bushes

Jordan and Jada modelling the towels their Aunt Leann made for them for Christmas

The hole for Mao's collar, right in the spot he used to like to sit

mao - march 1986 - january 17, 2002 - we'll miss you

goodbye mao, we'll miss you!