Happy Halloween!

We took the girls to the Halloween meet & greet this afternoon. This is them being sweet in the car on the way...



And their "costumes." Bugs' is very appropriate as opposed to Lana's. But we couldn't find an appropriate halo for her...
We'll have more to come soon since we haven't made a post on a while.

Sink Fail

We were taking a nap earlier and heard a noise in the bathroom. We figured it was something falling off the counter. But when we awoke, we saw this.


The sink bowl somehow spontaneously became detached from the sink slab. It doesn't look like there's any damage to the pipes, so we've got that going for us. The sink in the other bathroom is identical, so it makes us wonder when that one will fail. Paul will have to start familiarizing himself with various types of epoxy and caulk!

Flashback: 4/17/07

In the back streets of Istanbul on the first full day of our honeymoon, near the All-Saints Anglican Church...



Watch the sledding girl towards the end when she runs into another girl.

the Wedding

Here are the pics of my W&L friend Greg Gish's wedding in Jackson Hole. It was at the bride's parents' vacation home in Jackson Hole. The pictures really speak for themselves. Here's the writeup from the New York Times. She is a handbag designer.

These are just the first four pics. To view the rest in slideshow format with captions, click on the Picasa link.

And please look at the blog post below this of our trip into Yellowstone on Friday.

 

 

 

 

Picasa link to the rest....

The band is undoubtedly one of the best wedding bands in the country. They're called the Memphis Train Revue and are based in Austin.

the Tetons and Yellowstone

On Friday we took a drive from Jackson Hole through the Tetons and did the whole "Grand Loop" through Yellowstone. Apparently Yellowstone got a lot of stimulus money because we had two 45 minute delays due to road construction. Our whole drive was about 12 hours. We were an hour and a half late to the rehearsal dinner, but we got in just in time to eat before the toasts. So it turned out to be worth it.

We pulled up to Old Faithful knowing we were already running super late and couldn't find a parking spot. I let Liza out to see when the next eruption was. Right after she got out, it erupted, so she got to see it and it was perfect timing. I'd already seen it.

These are just the first four pictures. The best way to see them is to follow this link...
http://picasaweb.google.com/pdowney/TetonsAndYellowstone?authkey=Gv1sRgCL-FqdS-3Ov3eA

Here's a link to the rest...

Jackson Hole - Teton Village - Rendezvous Mountain

We are finally in Jackson Hole for Greg Gish's wedding! We just got back from a delicious barbeque at a really pretty home/land, and hope to do some stargazing later (maybe another shuttle sighting!) Tomorrow we will have an early start to Yellowstone and stay there all day, with the rehearsal dinner to follow tomorrow evening.

Below you will see pictures of our exploits today--we arrived in Jackson Hole by the skin of our teeth after almost missing the Nashville flight (left late, shuttle was way too slow... etc.) and then we went up Rendezvous Mountain via a tram. It's about 4000 feet up and took about 10-15 minutes to ride, but the views paid off. We even saw a mama moose/baby moose! We'll see more of those tomorrow, too, apparently. It was really cool to see snow as well--even though it gets in the 80s-90s during the day, up on the mountains the air is still much thinner and it's much more windy and cool. I am sure we'll have more pictures tomorrow--hopefully we will continue to be conscientous with our updates! :)

Also, these go from last to first--we can't figure out how to do them in order yet and there were so many. Sorry!

The Lord may say, "Vengance is mine..."

But I think He'll give me (or Bugs) a pass for the squirrel who is responsible for this:




We should have been enjoying this with salt, cream cheese, or mozzarella and that fresh basil I just harvested. But Nooooo. I guess when they get "close" I'll be letting them ripen on the windowsill until we figure out how to fix the squirrel issue. Any suggestions?