First off, since everyone look sat the photos first, lemme clarify... unlike the cartoon, no lips ever touched in the first photo below.

Now that we've got that behind us... Happy Birthday, Jerry!  Jerry and Tina came over on Friday night to cook some home-made pasta to celebrate Jerry's birthday.  And, as happens more often than not lately for reasons I don't quite understand, Jerry and I ended up posing for images like the one above that would make first time readers of the blog question a few things. For more evidence, check the images from our last get together.

My ginsu skills got a litte outta control when cutting up some veggies for our pasta sauce.  Took me a few seconds to find the rest of my fingernail... turns out it wasn't in the pile of chopped carrots, but instead was still stuck to the back of the knife... a nice little calcium bonus for the guests if you ask me.

After dinner, Tina and Kylie conveniently wandered into Kylie's scrapbook room.  Jerry and I were on to their subtle ploy to get out of cleaning up the kitchen, and in fact, we called their bluff and raised them by going into my office to pretend to be watching interesting YouTube videos.  Turns out we got sucked into an eclectic collection of videos covering Britain's Got Talent, fantastic HS football finishes, broken bone videos, and a finally of Andrea Bocelli singing Elmo to sleep.  We fought the man card police to maintain ownership after being caught watching the Elmo footage.

I believe this is our first family photo with the dawg.  She's lookin' a little shaggy here (the dawg people, the dawg), and she's goin' under the knife later this week to get - ahem - snipped.  (still talkin' about the dawg here).  BTW, Tina used the D3 at ISO 5000 to grab this image in the living room with next to no light.

Happy Birthday, Jerry!  Next time we all get together, it'll be at your new house so Kylie and I can take advantage of the pool and I can show off my 6th place junior high back stroke skills.