Megan got married

so, last weekend Britney and i boarded a plane for the Right coast to witness the matrimony of my littlest sister, Megan. We hung out in VA with the family, had a wonderful time, and the wedding day was fantastic. luckily, my lovely wife got me a D40 for my birthday, so i was able to take 7 hundred billion pictures, as opposed to my usual couple of rolls of film. so, now i've got to sort through them, or just post them indiscriminately for your perusing.

did i mention that i turned 30? yeah, i also haven't written a word about actually getting married - sorry babe - we'll get to that soon.

one of the wedding weekend highlights was taking Mason, my recenly acquired nephew (you know, acquired by marriage. . . me being the "new") fishing in the backyard. he is still developing his fishing attention span, but has found his rock throwing attention span to be quite sufficient.

Mason caught the most fish (2), Britney the biggest fish, while i came in with the award for littlest fish, barely bigger than the bobber i used to catch him. i don't even know how he got the worm in his mouth. he wont have to eat for a month.
other highlights included seeing my brother Matt's new (old) '68 El Camino on blocks in the driveway (my mother was thrilled, she loves it when we, as a family, display our occasional redneckness. pass the Mt. Dew.), Tony's pizza on the back porch with Jojo's family, watching Avery freak out about the dogs, shooting skeet, burning meat on the charcoal grill, and the bumpiest roller coaster-esqe takeoff i have ever experienced in a plane.
anti-highlights include sitting on the runway at Dulles for an extra hour and a half, thus missing our connecting flight, and "getting" to stay the night in Chicago on our own dime. but, hey, a hotel is better than a cot in terminal A, right?

and, now we've been back for a week, Britney's tired (for reasons to be discussed in the future), and i'm just animating some bugs, robots and servers. luckily it hasn't been too hot here, in the last couple of months, and when it is a little warm, we have a nice new window unit A/C. thanks Frank.