6th Anniversary

Wednesday was our 6th Anniversary of our first/communist marriage. Iva's sister is in town and offered to watch AJ so we could go out and do something fun. It was not, to say the least, a good day.



I was already covering one colleague at work as he was out on vacation. On top of that, my boss took an emergency day off and had to cover for her. Finally, my assistant took the day off so I had triple the work. It was one of those days where I had a case that went bad and a client was upset at us (not my fault). Iva was tired from AJ as he was starting to get sick again.


That afternoon, I finally left but pretty stressed out due to the escalated case load at work. We decided that we would all go out, I would drop Iva and Dari off at Target while I took AJ to an urgent care pediatrician. It took three hours to see a doctor. At 10:30 AJ was diagnosed with two ear infections and bordeline strep. I don't recommend Good Night Pediatrician to anyone. It was so late that Iva and Dari were waiting outside a dark Target and all pharmacies were closed.

Fortunately we went out Friday night and had a good time, but Wednesday was a pretty rough day for everyone.

(Special shout out to the Turkish Fly on Iva's left shoulder in the first picture. Though your life was short, oh four winged one, you have joined the halls of immortality which many of your colleagues have never achieved. If we had photoshop, you would probably be forgotten).

Family Reunion

This is Hans covering for Iva again. She is not feeling well and neither am I, but we just got back from our family reunion in Island Park, Idaho and I wanted to post a few pix. Below is a pic of the Tetons that I took while driving from Jackson, WY to Island Park while returning from Denver (long story). We spent a day in Yellowstone and saw the major attractions: My grandpa was a land developer at Henry's Lake near West Yellowstone. While he sold our family cabin some years ago, we have a family tradition of carving our names into trees up in the mountains that only our family knows how to reach. We found family names in the aspen trees all the way back to 1977 and all family members carved their names once again: We also had a family night around the fire where my brother and sister decided to be funny and sing the blues.



Here are some other family pix: