Monday, March 9, 2009

Happy Birthday, Collin!

Collin celebrated his 2nd birthday on Saturday...we wish so much that we could have been there!

As it was, he had tons of family and friends there and from all accounts, they had a wonderful time! Erin outdid herself with cute decorations, great food and an amazing cake. The theme was "construction".

Here, compliments of my photographer mom, are a few pictures of Collin's day.
Look at that hair!Birthday Boy!
Gorgeous Cauner and ErinMy gorgeous nephew, Cauner, and Erin.
Everything is edible, according to my mother-in-law, Gigi, even the sandwiches! Don't they look real?
Erin's neighbor made the cakes...aren't they fantastic? She even made the nails!

Saturday, March 7, 2009

An Unlikely Threesome

For the past couple of days we've been honored with a visit from Chris' younger brother, Brian. Brian is what we like to call the Grand Poobah of the Boy Scouts in Michigan & he had traveled to Tucson for a conference. Luckily enough he was able to add a couple of days to the end of his trip and come stay with us! It's been loads of fun...it would have only been better if his wife, Coco, and their three handsome boys could have joined him.

Yesterday the brothers decided to enjoy a leisurely day of golf. Tiger Woods learned his stance from BrianChris taught Phil Mikkelson how to golf

According to the story, Brian was about to make a hole-in-one when Chris spotted a javelina ten feet from the tee box. He called out to alert Brian, who bravely whipped out his Blackberry and snapped a picture of the villainous, wild pig-like creature.Wild, stampeding javelinaThe javelina, obviously terrified by the manliness & ferocity of not one, but TWO Nastase men, ran off quickly.

A short time later, our hero noticed it again, snuffling & grunting as if in warning. Sure that there was imminent peril, he valiantly grabbed his nine iron, yelled "en garde!" and shuffled, sword-fighter-like towards danger. En garde, vile beast!Thankfully the javelina knew he'd met his match and retreated. The brothers resumed their golfing and were able to leave safely, in order to return and face their foe sometime in the future.