06.07.13 (Friday afternoon II) - Making Father's Day t-shirts for Dan. T used a hammer (?)





06.07.13 (Friday afternoon) - F received a beautiful ring from a very nice boy. So it begins.







06.04.13 (Tuesday afternoon) - Margaritas at the new Mexican Restaurant on Columbia Pike to celebrate our 8 year wedding anniversary.





06.02.13 (Sunday afternoon) - After we arrived home from vacation, T spent the afternoon making these collages by himself. He used moisturizer for glue, which didn't exactly work.

"Pasquale considered his friend's face. It had such an open quality, was such a clearly American face . . . He believed he could spot an American anywhere by that quality - that openness, that stubborn belief in possibility, a quality that, in his estimation, even the youngest Italians lacked. Perhaps it was the difference in age between the countries - America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contradiction, in the artifacts of generations, in the bones of empires.

This reminded him of Alvis Bender's contention that stories were like nations - Italy a great epic poem, Britain a thick novel, America a brash motion picture in Technicolor - and he remembered, too, Dee Moray saying she's spent years 'waiting for her movie to start' and that she'd almost missed out on her life waiting for it."

- Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

05.31.13 (Friday morning) - Dog walk.





05.30.13 (Thursday afternoon) - They're getting the hang of things.





05.29.13 (Wednesday night) - Wine tasting and cake for Saruul's birthday.





05.29.13 (Wednesday afternoon) - Surfer girls (sort of).







05.28.13 (Tuesday night) - Dusk.



05.28.13 (Tuesday afternoon) - Baby.







05.28.13 (Tuesday mid-morning) - Nature walk.







05.28.13 (Tuesday morning) - Donuts and cloudy skies.







05.27.13 (Monday) - Beaching.







05.26.13 (Sunday) - Vacationing.







05.25.13 (Saturday night) - Feet in the ocean. Wonderfulness.







05.25.13 (Saturday morning) - We left for the beach at 6 am, so we made it to Corolla, NC by noon. On the downside, the house wasn't ready until 4 pm. So we spent A LOT of time at Currituck Heritage Park. Luckily it's a pretty fun place.

05.22.13 (Wednesday night) - After martial arts. F earned her third black stripe.







05.21.13 (Tuesday night) - Walk around the block.







05.18.13 (Saturday morning) - Big trucks at Arlington library.