never go home

These guys are both celebrating their birthdays around now (the one on the left is tomorrow and the one on the right was a couple of days ago).

We went up to Richmond for a day so that Stella could see her cousin Lucy. The last time we saw Lucy she was only a week or so old and Stella was only six months old. I think they are going to make quite a team when they are older!

We got dressed up and went to Renee and Scot’s wedding last week in Wilmington.

Stella got to dance the night away!

The next day we went to the beach!

Stella (and her parents) are pretty silly.

Some outtakes of Stella being cute for your viewing pleasure:

I am working on transferring old (70+ years old) home movies of my grandfather and his family to digital form. Here are the first two movies!

We are being kept busy by this explorer girl.

One of the benefits of graduating this semester is getting priority for a student ticket to the UNC vs Duke game.  I went to the game with some of my SILS peeps (yes, they are the ones wearing Dewey Decimal numbers on their backs).   In case you don’t live in North Carolina, UNC won:

There [...]

We are realizing that nothing on the floor is safe anymore.  While I watched Stella yesterday, she managed to find my computer, the lamp, several small pieces of trash, and Miles’ paws.  Here is some unedited footage of her in action!

In honor of Oscar night, here is a video starring Stella.  She is sitting in her highchair waiting for me to prepare her food…