Don't call me

I just sent my cell phone through the washer.

Whoops.

(I hated that cell phone anyway.)

Attached photo is of Evey doing something silly with her lips. I don't know what she was doing, but it was amusing her, and us.

Evey was cracking me up tonight. She was giggling really hard when I tickled her. And then, right before bedtime... she let out a fart that made Daddy proud. Yup, that girl is definitely a Jones.

TOES

Remember I told you the other day that Evey discovered her toes? Proof positive... in case you didn't believe me.

Utah doesn't stand a chance in this series. And Bruce Bowen is SO dirty. Ugh... Why'd I lay my $2o on New Jersey? Oh yeah, 'cause I hate San Antone.

Memorial Day weekend

Of course, a tip of the hat, a salute, a high-five, a chest bump, a glass of scotch to all the veterans out there who have kept this country free...

It only took me a four day weekend to CATCH UP on things. But I was an animal, and got a lot of $*&@ done. I'm happiest to report that the DVD "Evey's First Movie" is done. (Watch your jokes, fellas!) I probably put a good 12 hours into this project, it was addictive and fun and ultimately rewarding. Now, rather than just a home video of shaky clips and nervous chatter, we have a cute movie with transitions, still photos, cropped scenes and even some music -- Pearl Jam and Coldplay, just to name a few. I burned 7 copies and mailed out a few to close family. I know nothing is more boring than someone else's home video, but if you'd like to see a copy, let me know. Besides one cute baby, it's a good demonstration of what a system like Adobe Premier can enable a computer illiterate like me to do with his home movie clips. And yes, I'm VERY happy with the system's performance. A+.

The photo with this post is of my Mom, June, and Adro's Mom, Judy, with Evey on Mother's Day. We all (my family, the Johnsons, my mom and dad and Judy) all met up in Emporia to enjoy a dinner together. While the Applebee's let us down in the food department, it was nice to make everyone's drive a little shorter so we could all be together.

And yet another sign that I'm 30: I sprung for the check, the first time I've done a dinner bill of the extended family. I was on scholarship for many years, always being the youngest, the rookie, I was taken care of. I felt it necessary to finally step up and buy whatever my Mom misordered. Now, don't get me wrong, I've bought at Rick's or at Hardee's before. But this was different. And you know what? It felt good.

Just like the piece of jewelry I bought Adrianne for graduation. Feast your eyes upon that sparkly necklace next time you see it. Just don't look too long, that's my job.

See you all back at the plant on Monday. I hope your weekend was as productive as mine.

Catch up!

I need to go spend some time at home. I've barely been home this week. And with golf lessons tonight, I'll be out and about this evening too. Ready to go home and relax...

And that's what I'm going to do, too. I'm taking a 4-day weekend. I've already written my list of creative projects that I'm going to attack. And lots of Evey time, too.

Adrianne graduated!!!

We attended Baker University's graduation ceremony yesterday afternoon... and my sweet wife took a proud stroll across the stage and accepted her degree! Whooo-hooo! Me and Evey are so proud of her!

I took several photos and lots of video... I'll post photos soon, I promise!

Congrats Adro! A new mom and wife, and now a new college graduate! I don't know how you did it all, but I'm so proud of you -- SO, SO PROUD!!!

Was that a crawl?

A few thoughts while I watch the ugly end to this Nets/Cavs game...

• Evey made an impressive attempt at crawling tonight. We'll need an official ruling, but she did 1) make forward progress and 2) she was on her stomach. A lot of pushing with the feet and grabbing with the hands. She's lacking a little power with her legs because she keeps them crossed when she's pushing. Soon, soon, we'll be crawling all over the place.


• Adro and a few other people are saying that Evey is starting to look more and more like me. And you know what? She's STILL beautiful. A dichotomy, I know.


• Evey discovered a new noise tonight. Let me see if I can master the onomatopoeia... "eeeYYYYeeeeaaaaaccccccchthththththththththt!" And then a smile and a giggle. Almost like she's in pain, but then a happy expression.

Deadspin

We had a breakthrough at the GCM blog over the weekend.

Deadspin linked up to us. For the 411 go here: http://gcm.typepad.com/gcm/

And if you're Mrs. Esterhouse... thank you.

Mother's Day is here!

Hope you're all set.

I'm mostly ready. Adrianne already know her main gift... she totally stunned me when she guessed it. She asked me if she could guess, I nodded in the affirmative since I was eating at the time, and she blurted out, "Morrissey (tickets)?" And she was right. And she shocked me so much, I just looked at her, pizza sauce all over my mouth. Crazy. There was no way I could play that off.

But I have a surprise for her too, I hope.

I was telling Adrianne, we now have year-old memories of the baby. It was a little over a year ago that we found out about Baby Evey's presence. I still remember the conversation. I was standing in the media parking lot at the Wachovia Championship in Charlotte, N.C. when I got the call affirming what I couldn't believe... that I would be a dad.

Mother's Day is coming. Will we, as men, ever be "all set?" I don't think so.

That's what Moms are for.

Happy Mother's Day.

What's going on?

Lots!

Adro has class tonight -- postponed from Monday as Topeka had flash flooding concerns then. So me and Evey are relaxing now at the house, after we went for a jog at the LHS track.

It dawned on me recently that not only am I not blogging a lot lately, but also, I'm not telling you little details about Evey. Time to remedy that.

Evey's got lots of new tricks she's been showing us. Her favorite things?

1. Her toes. She loves to grab her toes. She even tries to suck on them. And sometimes she does suck on them. It's cute seeing her in a ball, with her feet to her face. And she only really discovered that those were indeed her toes maybe two, three weeks ago.

2. Laughing, cooing, overall noise making. And it's very cute. She made a "DAAA!" sound the other day that made me come back to her pretty fast. And there's times where I think maybe she's mad about something, but then I realize that she's just taking those brand new vocal chords for a ride, seeing what different sounds she's capable of making. It's fun to watch and listen.

3. Texting. Yeah, she's like millions of other kids caught up in this "texting" thing. She texts her friends Greyson, Isabella, Leo, Baby K, Marina and Norbert all the time. Driving me crazy! "What RU doing?" "Drooling." "OMG! ME 2!" I don't get it. Kids.

Photos!

Some of the things you're seeing here... Top to bottom... the new computer with Evey on the wallpaper... Evey in her tutu that my sister got her... Evey and Mary Heiman, Jeff's mom... Greyson after enjoying his cake... Adro and Evey, chillin'... Greyson and Evey hanging out... me abd Evey relaxing... Adro and Evey as we're first setting up the new computer... Evey, one morning before we left for work, looking so cute I had to take a quick photo of her (jacket by Bunny)... Evey wearing her Masters hat that her dad brought her.

Action-packed week winding down

We got a new computer delivered on Thursday. We set it up Friday night, and I've been playing with it steadily since.

It's really made organizing my photos easy. Every photo I've taken has been date-stamped, so when I uploaded them all, it automatically put them all in order by date for me. My previous method was a bunch of loosely dated folders. So much for that.

1,700 photos in 6 months, by the way. I have a sickness. But I'm happy to have so many photos, so many happy memories already.

Let's recap why I didn't post much this past week:

Monday -- volleyball

Tuesday -- 18 holes at Alvamar Private, followed by the Electric 6 concert at the Bottleneck

Wednesday -- family time

Thursday -- Spider-Man 3 with Sean

Friday -- Set up the computer

Saturday -- Greyson Heiman's 1-year birthday party, Cinco de Mayo, Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight

WHEW!

Great week, though. It's raining out now and I'm hoping to just stick around the house today, even though I was tring to convince Danny P and Rockhold to come with me to the comic book convention today. The excitement for driving to Overland Park has ebbed. Now I just wanna chill out and play with Evey and work on the new computadora when I can.

New computer

We got a new computer.

I'm so, so tired. Wow, I have a lot of photos...

Spidey 3... today!!!

I'm not the only one that is excited!