My Day Begins When Your Life Ends

The title has absolutely NOTHING to do with the post.  It just happens to be on one of my most favorite {pink} forensics T-shirts from Los Angeles.  Instead, this is just the typical "cute kids in fall colors and overalls" post.  So if you are all "cuted" out, then feel free to close your browser.  You won't offend me.  And I have pumpkin/kid photos to put up soon, so be sure to skip over that one as well if cuteness makes you ill.   And then you can walk into an empty well since you clearly have no soul, and then the title WOULD be appropriate...  I kid, I kid.

Hurricane Sandy coming into town... Hurricane Dakota is always here, but we are actively working on that.

 This little helper reminds me to clean and mop quite often.  Accountability goes a long way.  And she even volunteers for the grubby jobs like cleaning behind the toilet.  Fine by me.

Dakota has adopted this nursing stool as his own personal reading chair.  He has (finally) become a walker, and this was an earlier attempt...

 1. Drop the book and dismount from the stool.

 2. Straighten that back and throw the legs forward.

 3. Take 3 small steps and then come in for a landing.

4. Make a pouty face for the "earlier than expected" arrival of tushy meeting the floor. Clearly he had higher expectations for this little jaunt.

Forensic Consulting

I have started an at-home job as a forensic consultant with my former company, AFDIL (Armed Forces DNA Identification Lab). Oh my goodness, what a blessing it has been! Although I can't go into great detail on the blog about the work, it has been a perfect fit for me and my family. AFDIL is a wonderful company and I am so grateful to them for hiring me on after being gone since August 2007.

While it is a wonderful job, it does mean that most of my free time is dedicated to it. So the blog time has suffered. But I am taking a break for a bit and blogging about my wonderful family as they are my number one priority anyways! I actually took Quinn and Cora with me to AFDIL to pick up new work. They seemed to have a good time! It is so weird being in a building you left almost 3 years ago. A building that you spent so much time in, and then you are strolling the hallways with 2 children in tow! So strange.

As you can see, Cora's personality is coming out like a jack-in-the-box. I can't wait for her to hang out with her new cousin, Jamie, some time! Will and Alycia (Israel's sister) just had their first child a few days ago and she's a cutie! There are pictures of her on Facebook.

These children are best buddies. This is fresh after a long nap and they are all smiles and cuddles.