Baby Shattuck gets a name

Late breaking news: the baby's name will be Logan Spencer Shattuck.

two big events

Alison and Troy are gone, and Baby Shattuck is here! The pictures say it all. The wedding and reception went so well and Mom and baby are doing great. He was born Thursday at 8:24 pm, weighing 8lb 2 oz and 20 1/2 " long. They induced labor because the doctor thought he was getting awfully big. He takes after his daddy. No name yet. We are enjoying all of your contributions as well.

Alison's Wedding

I was such a nice day last Friday, and Alison made a beautiful bride (or Princess as Macy keeps calling her). I actually don't have any pictures of Alison (she was busy with a professional photographer), but here are some pictures of other people who were there.

Alison and Troy - Thank you for sharing your day with us. You guys make such a cute couple, and both of you had eyes that were just glowing with excitement and optimism. Congrats!

My New Hobby

Hey everyone,

There is absolutely nothing going on at my house as exciting (or as beautiful) as Hawaii, but I wanted to share some pictures with you. Greg has been encouraging me to get a hobby for eight years now, and I finally found one. He bought me a really nice camera for our anniversary, and I've been playing around. I've taken about 300 pictures, experimenting with angles, light, and camera settings, and I've got a handful of pictures that I really like. I just thought I would share some with you. I have more on my blog if you want to see (gremily2.blogspot.com). Here are a few of my favorites:

My Sweet Paige (4 months):

Macy (she was watching some dogs and became very concerned when they ran away):

Austin painting a shark from a kit that we got at the aquarium. He did such a great job concentrating and working so hard on making his shark perfect. (That's an octopus on his cheek; they were painting faces at the aquarium that day.)

I hope all is well with everyone. I got Alison's wedding announcement today. It's adorable!

Abby

Abby has fallen in love with boating! She is definitely her father's daughter, or her great grandfather's grand-daughter ;o). She loves the water and being on the lake. We've taken her a bunch this summer and can see that we will need to buy her her own life jacket. Here she is on the boat. She is also starting to walk but she is afraid. She holds on to one of my fingers with her right hand. We did trick her into taking a few steps on her own, but if you try letting go she will stick out her butt, freeze for a second (long enough to give you a scowl and pout) and sit down crying. What a girl!

Weird Food Day

Jeff posted this on his blog, so I thought I would post it here too:

So I think the Russells have a new tradition: Various odd fruit night. The night of the 6th we went shopping and as I was browsing the fruit section I saw a fruit that caught my eye. It looked a little something like this:



Being in an adventurous mood I decided to try it. My sisters picked up on the idea of buying strange fruit. Christin picked up a coconut and Mini decided to get asparagus. Nothing too crazy, I guess, but other than my fruit there wasn’t anything we’ve never tried before. Anyway, turns out my fruit was a dragonfruit, and we had to look up online how to cut and eat it.



Turns out everything was delicious! The coconut was fun to break open and drain. The dragonfruit was really sweet and dyed everything it touched red. The asparagus, well, we cooked it wrong and had to throw it away.