
This was Jer’s first baby shower (well, first one where he was the ONLY guy). Luckily, Aunt Karen’s wine punch helped take the edge off.

...grab a seat and ride along with the Remington family.
And this is what I found in our kitchen that is that size:
Jenny and I were enjoying our first day as a married couple. We were surrounded by family and friends in one of our favorite places in the world, Key West. We had an amazing wedding day, which was preceded by an amazing vacation with family and friends the week prior in Islamorada. We are truly blessed to have such an amazing group of family and friends around us.
From Wedding Pro Portraits, November 2005 |
It’s been an amazing journey, and really it has only just begun…
I moved to Texas at the end of the summer of 1999. While I was enjoying my first wonderfully mild fall, I definitely found myself missing the amount of time that I was used to spending outdoors backpacking and camping back home. It wasn’t so much that you can’t do those things in Texas, as much as it was that I still hadn’t yet learned of all the opportunities available.
Knowing that I wasn’t going to make the trip up North for the Thanksgiving holiday, I decided to figure out a way to spend it in the great outdoors. A trip to my local REI turned up a copy of Laurence Parent’s “Hiking Big Bend National Park”. My then-roommate at the time, Susan (another transplant from the frozen north), who was always pretty much up for anything, agreed to join me.
Little did I know that this would be the first of many trips to the park and to the region, which has turned out to be a Texas-based surrogate for my beloved Allegheny National Forest, which is where I first truly fell in love with the outdoors.
One funny thing about pregnancy books is that they always seem to compare the baby's growth progress to food. While I admit that this appeals to me as someone who has threatened to eat up my sweet little nieces and nephews...it's kind of weird.
This week, Baby Remington is about 5½ ounces. But really, how big – or small! – is that?
After using my food scale to weigh everything in my spice cabinet and fruit bowl, I decided to move to the canned foods. And I think Jeremy really appreciated the play-by-play as I worked through the kitchen: "Argh! An orange is 7½ ounces! Applesauce is 4¼ ounces! . . ." You get the idea – it was getting serious and I was getting frenzied.
And then, I found it. A little can that was a left over ingredient from a pot-luck dinner. A can of chopped olives. Baby Remington weighs about as much as a can of chopped olives. :-)
Stay tuned for updates on our pantry and Baby Remington's progress.
For New Year's this year, we rented a house in Port Aransas with a big group of friends. We had a fun time with our great friends and enjoyed the fantastic weather!
Here are a few of my favorite memories:
What a fun memory….what I remember of it. :-)
We would like to welcome you to the brand-spanking new Remington Family blog. Jenny and I figured that this would be a good way to start providing more frequent updates to all of our friends and family, where ever they may be in the good ole’ USA or elsewhere in the world.
We plan to use this blog to share various details about our (growing) family, so we hope you tune in and enjoy.