while the computer was dying and dead:

jake slept most of the way to atlanta:

jake and monkey watched lots of movies

maya used 238957325 minutes

i got ONE picture of part of my only first cousin on my dad's side,
Kara (she's the one in the glasses on the right)

i also got ONE picture of my aunt ernestine

my dad got to catch up with his brother

and some of their cousins

maya acted like a teenager
shanon acted like a teenager's mom

we got to see aunt willie
she's 93 and had surgery. she's ok now.

we visited this awesome old cemetary in atlanta



jalex was a total ham

we got to see aunt joy.

aunt joy & aunt wille raised my daddy after
his mother, their sister, died.

RJ and Jalex played as cousins should

myles had fun playing with his cousins on his mama's side.
myles is the only child of my only first cousin on my dad's side.

aunt joy sat on her awesome throne

RJ threw approximately 239857 tantrums

i took my new favorite photo:

while at the awesome old cemetary,
we visited my dad's mother's grave
and brought her a new flower arrangement

i finally got a picture of me with my
dad's only sibling, my Unc (uncle franklin)

we saw these remains...
yeah, that used to be a church...
until it got struck by lightning 36 times....
yes, i said THIRTY SIX TIMES!

we gathered round for a picture at the hospital

jake took lots of pictures

i had lunch with rachel and her nephew, wyatt

jake learned to thumb wrestle

dad got lots of cool stuff for father's day



jake called his mother a loser

then jumped in her lap and told her he loved her

jake got a puppy.
her name is Sushi

jake joined top gun

and became a model

Sushi got her first bath



jake turned my mother into a boat.
she took him water skiing across
mimi's living room

he lost his pants in the process

had lunch with kiley, hailey and tyler.
kiley showed off her awesome crawling skillz

we went to austin and kept it weird





we saw amy winehouse
snorting with pvc pipe



we found osama bin laden

and apparently, his twin

traffic jams

we saw patsy cline on her
"back to earth" tour

W was there too!

the magician in the middle
nearly made me pee my pants

oh yeah, we went here:

and i ALMOST bought
this orange shirt

we stumbled upon gotham city

i practiced my Bossy Longarm Skillz

i attempted to take pictures
of the texas capital building
while dad was driving and
ignoring my requests to slow down









and then we gorged ourselves on brunch at
magnolia cafe and washed it down with mimosas


the end