October in Pictures

<3 candy corn.

Skeptical cat.

With my mother in law.

Adorable cousin Lorelai with games we played at Buffalo Wild Wings.

Halloween decor.

Banned Books Week.

The Superstition Mountains.

The NAMI Walk for mental illness.

September in Pictures

My brother with Raiden.

A Doctor Who premiere party.

Bow ties are cool.

D6 collection with a Flying Tricycle life counter.

A new crafting hobby (Perler bead sprites).

August in Pictures

Celebrating my brother's birthday: Happy PJ!

A new, very much loved, cat tower.

The food of the gods.

A nice warm soak in the pool for Genbu.

July in Pictures

Slowly getting caught up...

Sneakers, Loki and Raiden.

Slightly demonic Isis.

At Scotty's tia's place for Fourth of July & her birthday.

Raiden hard at work.

A new pet: Poseidon the betta fish.

An awesome present from my brother.

Repticon 2013

We spent this morning in Phoenix at Repticon - a smallish reptile convention. It wasn't big enough for us to spend the whole day there, but it made for a really fun Saturday morning.

Some pictures...



An iguana with his blankie


A monitor lizard (fun fact, monitors are very intelligent for lizards and some can even count)


I can't remember what this guy was... maybe a juvenile monitor.


Juvenile bearded dragons


A very friendly eyelash crested gecko


If I got a gecko, it'd be one of these guys :)


Me, with a very gentle tarantula
AND, my favorite part... baby tortoise racing!



It was the cutest thing ever... it was put on as a fundraiser by the Arizona Herpetological Association. You could put a dollar towards your favorite tortoise to win. We put a dollar towards one named Flash (pictured above). That worked out pretty well as you can see from the video of that race here (it's short. And adorable).

I found this necklace there that I liked.




Afterwards, we went to MacAlpine's Soda Fountain. It's sandwiched between two antique stores and the whole place is awesome. I got a Dr Pepper float, and Scotty got the Brady Bunch float, which has chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream with butterscotch soda. We left very full and happy.


Then we came home and spent some time with our own lizard, haha. (Genbu also got to roam around, but after I had already put the camera away.)

Hello, Little Boy

Yep... we are expecting a boy. :)

Here's the ultrasound pictures of the baby... he's so darn cute even blurry in black and white.









(The ones like this with the baby looking directly at the camera kind of come out a little creepy, I think...)
So there he is. It's so nice to be able to use the right pronoun.

He's going to be Scott Douglas III, but we're already calling him Tripp (for "Triple"), haha. I think it's cute and it solves the problem of coming up with a way to distinguish him from his grandpa and his dad.