Rock of Ages

I got the color put in my Rock of Ages tattoo yesterday. It's finally complete!

Done by Jason Loui at Iron Works Tattoo in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Six hours total spread out over two appointments. One two hour appointment for the outline and one four hour appointment for the color. One-hundred percent the best thing ever.

It's a bit grainy looking in the picture because it was still fresh when the picture was taken. I'll post healed pictures in a couple of weeks.

Stay Gold!

MMK

A good night to remember.

"May the Lord lead your hearts into a full understanding and expression of the love of God and the patient endurance that comes from Christ."

- 2 Thessalonians 5

SLK

Words, Words, Words

I don't even know how many words Norah knows right now. It seems like every day she's saying a new word or two that just appear in her vocabulary overnight. While the words don't always come out very clearly, Sarah and I are at the point where we can have a decent chat with Norah and understand almost everything she's saying. These chats, of course, generally consist of us saying "Norah, stop that!" and Norah responding with "why?" or with Norah simply repeating something she wants until she gets it (ex. "Marshmallows. Marshmallows. Marshmallows."), but it's a start. 

Anyway, here is Norah identifying different things she knows in a book tonight. Sarah translates what Norah is saying just in case you don't often talk to two-year old children. 

The best part is the 10 seconds following :25 in the video. So good....

Stay Gold!

MMK

The Four-Years-Late Honeymoon

We went on an eight day cruise earlier this month. Seeing as how we never had a proper honeymoon after we were married nearly four years ago, we thought it was time that we do something honeymoon-ey. So we left out of NYC on June 7th and spent the next eight days floating around in the Atlantic Ocean and hanging out on Bahamian islands. Not the worst way to spend a week, eh?

We took a bunch of pictures. Some pictures are of the food we ate while others are of the scenery we saw. Most of the pictures, though, are obligatory vacation photos of us standing in front of things or kissing with the sunset in the background. In the interest of not coming across as too redundant and narcissistic (is that even possible given that we have a blog in the first place?), I'm not going to post a ton of pictures. Here are some of the ones that are neat/cute/unique enough to share, though:

NYC:

Grand Turk:

Half Moon Cay:

Nassau:

Don't we look good? Seriously... Look at that beard.

All in all, the cruise experience was good for us. We'd definitely do it again, we think, though we might wait until Norah is a few years older so that she can come along. While it was nice to have some time to ourselves, we certainly missed having our little girl around. She stayed home in New Hampshire in the confident and caring hands of two of her three grandmas. I don't think she even noticed we were gone... She was so spoiled.

More pictures to come in the next few days. Enjoy these for now!

Stay Gold,

MMK