I GOT ENGAGED!!!

More on that later when I have some time to tell the story. Right now we are still trying to get moved and settled in the new house.

No words needed:

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Update: Here’s a page with two frontal shots, one that looks to be the same or similar to this very photo, but from the front: Argentina Frontal

Update: some of you might enjoy this one too: Soccer Babes

Google released their new Web Toolkit last week…giving all of us JAVA Developers access to their coolness (or at least most of it that’s not still closed behind the labs at the Google Campus). I’ve finally downloaded it and run through all the documentation. Seems pretty easy…Install the latest JDK, Download the toolkit, unpack the packaged toolkit, start using the toolkit. Well, that’s what the site’s Getting Started page says.

So, getting started sounds easy…now you need to know how to set up, create a project…import this into your favorite IDE (Eclipse), and code away. They even give you a few samples (what they call the Kitchen Sink) to get started with and get use to before you start building your own apps.

There’s a lot more info on the site…so go check it out if you are interested in building great AJAX style web application using pure JAVA code that is compiled into valid JavaScript and HTML pages for final deployment.

I just wanted to keep everyone updated on the progress. We did close on Friday, April 28th, 2006 like my previous (updated) post said. We closed that day and stayed the night in our new home that night (on a queen sized air mattress). Even though the house was pretty much move-in ready we wanted to give it our own little touch before we moved all the way in…so we painted the kitchen:

A couple of before and after shots:

And these are random shots while in the process of painting:

The rest of these are just better shots of the house…since those early ones were taken by someone else and not very good, starting with the Green Bathroom:

The Bedrooms:

Master Bathroom:

Living Room while David, Alicia, david and Kris came by to check out the house and our progress on the painting:

That’s it for now…we’ll keep you posted as we do more stuff and eventually get EVERYTHING moved into the house.

Here’s the story of Cheyanna and her butterfly. A little background:

Cheyanna’s Grandparents live just around the corner from her elementary school so they pick her up every day at 3 since Marla and I are usually at work until 5 or later. Cheyanna LOVES to play with plants and animals…AND BUGS!!! So usually when we pick her up she’s either outside playing with bugs, animals, plants, leaves, anything she can get her hands on or she’s inside asleep (and let me tell you…she sure is a fart when she wakes up!!). So the other day we pull into the driveway and she’s outside. And here’s what followed…

*Note: these are better if you click the first image and use the tools that follow to sift through these.

Cheyanna found a butterfly…

…and that butterfly landed on her face…

…and she loved every minute of it!!!…

…until we told her that it was going to pee on her.

So then she tried to see if we were telling the truth or not.