Rail Rodder

Anyone (from my family, at least) remember this film we used to rent from the library, with a reel to reel projector? Mom helped me find it online last week (Yes! Mom! Finding something online that I couldn't find!)

Bedtime preparations

One week old

Jessica's three weeks old today, but I'm pulling out some one week old photos in a desperate attempt to stay close to the goal of the 21-day non-stop blogging challenge.

Orbital volleyball

We had some friendly competition at work today -- the Electrical Engineering Packaging Group challenged the Electrical Ground Support Equipment Group. Not the most imaginative team names, but what do you expect from a group of engineers? What we got was a fun game of pretty decent quality, a few rocket scientist volleyball jokes (when someone knocked the ball out of bounds he "just gave it an orbit correction"), and a number of skinned knees and sore muscles.

Sunday

Saturday Polo

We attended our first ever polo match Saturday at Great Meadow, VA. It was very interesting and a lot of fun. The announcer and the music made us think more of a rodeo than an "upper class" polo event, and we enjoyed the colorful crowd all with picnic baskets, lawn chairs and wine.


Where's Waldo? If you can find us in this photo (click on it for a larger version), then you must enjoy Where's Waldo as much as Jordan does.

Friday dinner on the deck

Daily cutie pie pic

This was for yesterday -- I'm slacking off!

Oops! Almost forgot to get a daily Jessie picture in...

Evening sports at the Hekmans

With Opa here, sports are at the top of the list of activities! Yes, we managed to fit all three of these activities into one evening.

Afternoon photo shoot

Jessie and I held a photo shoot in the afternoon sun today, taking advantage of the sunlight streaming through her bedroom window and her good mood. I tried to incorporate some ideas from a great book I've been reading, How to Photograph Your Baby.

Little Cutie-pie

To please the masses, here's another daily pic of Jessie. She makes me think of her cousin Shana in this picture -- anyone else see the likeness? The doll was a gift Jordan bought for her when she was a day old in the hospital.

Jordan waffling over Oma's breakfast

We're enjoying great breakfasts here while Grandma is with us (and lunches and dinners too!). I'm not sure of the story behind this particular heady waffle, but it was on my computer when I came back from work yesterday.

Sleeping grand-daughter

As you can tell by looking at the time this blog entry was posted, this is not one of those times that the title suggests.

Cleaning out the garage

This Sunday I decided to clean out the garage, and documented it for the blogosphere.


Cleaning out the garage (with my obligatory Diet Coke).


My camera setup to capture me cleaning out the garage (with my obligatory Diet Coke).


The camera setup used to capture the camera setup (and of course, the obligatory Diet Coke)


Me taking a picture of my two camera setups (and...)

The full setup!

Jessica's first letter in the mail

Jordan action shots

Swimming lessons

Jordan's taking swimming lessons last week and this. Here's what he did today:

Swimming with a kick-board


Learning the crawl