Dad fought the law. . .and won!

9:00 AM at the South Jordan Justice Center. Just a typical Thursday morning. Or was it? A tall, clean-shaven man strode into the building. His crisp white shirt, carefully knotted tie, and armload of papers let everyone know that he meant business. It was. . .Jared. . .a mild-mannered engineer by day--a ruthless avenger of traffic tickets by, um, other days.

One evening few weeks ago, Jared received a traffic ticket which he felt was totally unjustified (no, he wasn't speeding--you'll have to ask Holly for the whole story). So he scheduled a court date, did some research, showed up for his appointment. . .and WON! He didn't really get a trial--he just spoke briefly to the prosecutor, who turned around immediately and recommended to the judge that the ticket be overturned. (Brandon, I'm sure that's not the right terminology. . .that's why I'm the teacher and you're the law-talking guy!)

Elizabeth is, of course, very proud of her smart, courageous Dad!

Welcome to the first day of the rest of my life. . .

Holly finished up the school year on Thursday, packed up her classroom on Friday, and is now officially a stay-at-home-mom! But don't worry, Elizabeth won't let her mom be bored (or do much of anything else, either!)

So, any novel ideas for keeping a 7-month-old entertained? :)

Tickling the Ivories

Millions of peaches. . .peaches for me!

Elizabeth's $0.02

They say that if you put 1,000 monkeys at 1,000 typewriters, they would eventually write the great American novel. So, how about one baby at one computer keyboard? Let's find out:

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Not quite Shakespeare--but e.e. cummings had better watch out!

What's On The Menu?

Elizabeth recently discovered the joys of eating solid food. She likes almost everything we've tried so far. . .:


. . .though we did strike out with pureed peas:

Vogue!