Happy 1st Birthday Liliana!
Lili's birthday picnic in the park
Liliana Sigrid’s 1st birthday is today! We went to the park for a picnic lunch. It was a beautiful day and it’s been a really great first year with Lili! We’re having a party for her later so there will be more photos to come.
Be Boring Poster
On Saturday we dropped Liliana off with her auntie and headed to John’s shop to do some letterpress printing. John has been generous about letting us play with all his presses and type.
I printed a simple grey poster with a quote by author Austin Kleon.
At one point John questioned me, “Did you ask permission to use this quote?” I replied, “Well, the name of his latest book is called ‘Steal Like An Artist’, so I don’t think he’ll mind….”
Bethany printed some really nice decorative cards in blue and red using a peacock design and the letter “A” for the first letter of our last name.
Thank you John for your generosity, and thank you Austin for the great line.
Ideas
“We might be broke, but we have ideas. I would rather it this way than to be rich and not have any ideas.”
–Me, to B (She agreed. One of the many reasons she is wonderful.)
Supplement Your Faith
“For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Lili & Daddy on Good Morning America
Photo by Charlie Neibergall. Source: news.yahoo.com.
A couple of the photographs that were taken of Liliana and I meeting candidate Rick Perry showed up on a lot of news sites and blogs. It’s kind of fun to see a photo of our Lili on Getty Images!
Also, a short clip of that moment was on Good Morning America yesterday.
We’re also mentioned in this article about the event.
A Little Music for Christmas
We went to Tom’s holiday choral concert. Fun times were had by all and Liliana looked so nice all dressed up.
The Kraken on the News
Andrew talking about the Kraken on the KGAN CBS2 morning news
I joined Andrew for a couple hours this morning while he was interviewed by the KGAN CBS2 morning news program about the Kraken. Nice to get some more publicity.
