My Family Gathering

My Great Aunt Martha came into town from Baton Rouge last weekend. M&D cooked a turkey and put together a whole Sunday evening spread for all of the family on Mommy's side to come over for. Unfortunately, I did not manage to get a picture of me with Aunt Martha, but I am writing about her to make up for it. She's the grandmother of Elise, Lila and Bennett, my second cousins once removed (or something) in Mandeville Louisiana. You can learn all about them from their own blog linked on my front page Parnell Family. I did manage to snap a few good shots, Mommy, holding my new cousin Judson, and James and me snuggling in my chair. We had a great time and ate every ounce of the turkey. I'm glad that Aunt Martha came to visit, I wish we got to catch up more often. M&D have promised to take me to New Orleans for the Stella Shouting Contest at some point, maybe I can see her on her home turf there.

My Reign of Queens 4

You may remember my orignal reign of queens from Colonial Beach a year ago. Well Scott and Alan invited me, M&D, and a gaggle of their other friends down again this year. The exception is that this year, M&D participated in the triathlon. Saturday morning, they woke up before me to go start the swim in the muddy Potomac, and eventually ran by the house so that I could snap pictures of them. They later reconvened with all the other boys to cheer everyone else on. We had a great time hooting, hollering, and carrying on. I'm already looking forward to next year, but I want to have a Go M&D GO! sign all prepared.

My Turks Flashback

I had such a good time in Turks that it is time to revisit, if only on my blog. Aunt Beth had set up for us to have family pictures done, hence all the khaki, white and black. But these are some of my favorites of the ones we came home with. Nothing much more to say to showcase these other than look at the beautiful sand, the blue water and all the sweaty Vetrovecs, myself included.

My Absence

Would you believe the number of emails that I have gotten from my constant readers? Who knew that my eight readers were so faithful? Anyway, chalk it up to laziness, or the arrival of my cousin Judson, or even global warming (if you are sure the science is "settled") and you can ascribe that reason to my not writing recently. Mostly, it's because I've had a lot going on, unfortunately I don't have many pictures to show. These are a few from my 4th of July week at the beach, my Mogie, who I don't think has been featured before was down there with my step sister Annie. There's more to come, I recently received some professional Turks pictures I want to showcase. I just spent another Reign of Queens weekend, but stupid Daddy forgot the camera, so we need to get some of those queens to put down their scepters and pass along the pictures and I can put that up. This will have to suffice for the moment. More soon, I promise.

My New Puppy

As my constant readers know, I can be a bit disingenuous about what is really mine. The puppy is not really mine for keepsies, but for the next week she is. Meet Babei (pronounced Bah-Bay) she is the dog of a coworker of Mommy's. Originally she lived with a Chinese couple, but they had to give her up due to space constraints, hence the name, but she won't answer to anything else, so it stuck. Anyway, they're at the beach for a week and Mommy volunteered us to keep the doggy. She's very nice to me and doesn't ignore me the way other doggies who have stayed with me have. She is fascinated by me eating and guards my high chair like it's made out of pepperoni. I have learned to keep her attention rapt by pushing the occasional piece of food off onto the floor. She came to stay with us yesterday, so Daddy has had his hands full.

My Father's Day

Mommy went off and left us... well, kinda, not really, but I'm considering a career in country music and that seemed like a good opening riff. Really, Mommy drove to NoVa yesterday for her friend Alexis' engagement party. She didn't get home until early afternoon, so in addition to Father's Day, it was also Daddy Day. Daddy didn't put on a shirt for roughly 24 hours, so I figured I could make it a Pantless Sunday. As of now, it's 2.00 and I've yet to put them on, Mommy might change that though. But that's how Daddy rolls.

My Belated Wintergreen Weekend

Several weeks ago, we made a trip to Wintergreen for the weekend to stay at Aunt Nancy and Uncle Nick's place. It was a base of operations so that M&D could work on their house in Charlottesville with the tenants changing over. The Saturday that we were there just happened to coincide with Daddy's friend Woody putting on a mountain bike race. Now Daddy didn't bike, but we certainly made an appearance for post-race cocktails at the sponsoring bar afterwards. Woody's friend Leigh was quite the shutterbug and snapped a lot of pictures of me, and here's one that they sent to me.