Cassie's Favorite Photo

What a handsome Grandpa, don't you think?
Baby Avalyn 4 days old
Born October 23, 2007
8lbs 8oz, 19 inches long

Papa Joe and Tay Tay

This is me and Taylor my second grandchild. This picture was taken at Logan's fifth birthday party on November 18th. It's hard to believe she's three and a half!

She's so cute.

Every family seems to have one child that is a "ball of fire," and she is ours!

It's A Girl!

We have been blessed with girls in this family to say the least. Avalyn was born to Jessica and Quentin on October 23, and she is a beauty!

We have been proud Grandparents [ick!] of two others,Logan and Taylor, and this is our third. We have been privileged to watch her already, and truly enjoy each moment.

Christmas is a season for children, and we will enjoy it immensely as I'm sure you will.

Happy Holidays to All!

Back to New York

I'm back on the road again for work. This time, I have to travel to New York Monday through Thursday each week, at least through December. Luckily, Burlington has a decent airport. Un-luckily, that means getting up at 4:30 in the morning each Monday to head down. I'll get into the groove of things like I usually do, but this time it seems a lot harder leaving the girls at home. I'll have to coerce Joy into posting more about what they're all doing each day, only this time I'll be reading along with you.

The shot at the right was taken from my perch on the 43rd floor of the Standard & Poors building downtown. This particular day, the fog was rolling in across the bay, making it seem like I was actually above the clouds. Pretty freaky.

Happy Birthday, Tina!

OK, technically it was yesterday, but when you're that age, what's another day? Am I right? Anyway, this is the only picture I could find of Tina smiling, so enjoy your weekend, birthday girl! We love ya.

Spooky and the Bear

Halloween 2007 (1)
Originally uploaded by Volzer

Well, here are the Halloween pictures. Finally. Your angry letters and emails have been heard. We warn you though, they aren't for the feint of heart. Ruby looks positively scary in these, so much so that at the costume party she went to, she ended up scaring some of the other kids. We also realize that Vivian's bear costume, though cute, is really just a pair of footie pajamas and not a costume at all. But it was either that or a geisha dress, and you'll just have to wait till Christmas to see her in that. Besides, she wanted to be a bear, and who are we to argue?

Ruby the Photographer

Lately, we've been letting Ruby play around with our old brick of a digital camera, the one that sports less megapixels than my current cell phone camera. I posted a bunch of them up on Flickr, leaving out the numerous (I mean, numerous) photographs of our beige shag carpet and beige walls. Her basic method is to turn on the camera and start snapping pics randomly as she walks around the house. Cup? Snap. Foot? Snap. Vivian? Got it. Still, it's pretty hilarious and interesting (to us, anyway) to see what a 3-year-old kid finds interesting, not to mention seeing a bunch of pictures taken about 30 inches off the ground. Enjoy!