Always the little brother.

Last Friday my brother had surgery to repair a hernia. The next morning I discovered I had one.

Same kind.

Same place.

I'd like to say that this is just another case of me wanting to emulate my older brother, but I've been through so much crap in the past eight months, I could have gladly let this one pass.

Either way, I'm going to be heading back into surgery (that makes two in just over two months—after not really having any since I was a baby).

Trying to give my mood a bit of a boost, a friend at work sent me this.

I'm currently not in a lot of pain, so life is pretty much going on as usual (whatever that means these days) and hopefully I do emulate my brother and have a really speedy recovery.

More pics

I promise we'll eventually get back to posting some actual content, but until then, I just wanted to post a few of my pictures from this past month and provide this link to where you can see the rest. To sum things up, we've been busy celebrating birthdays (Zoe and Luka's), enjoying the unseasonably nice weather and moving Park into the master bedroom (we got the boot).

Enjoy.

Park has gotten into this "ear" thing, he finds great comfort in either rubbing his or yours, sometimes until it's raw.

For some reason we switched to celebrating Luka's birthday instead of his adoption anniversary this year … he didn't seem to mind.

This was taken on one of our recent unseasonably nice days, my heart almost explodes looking at it.

Where have we been?

I wish I could say we've been traveling the world and let that be a good excuse for why we aren't blogging. Unfortunately, we've just been preoccupied with life and have neglected the blog for way too long ... ok, someone has been neglecting the blog more than others. I'm guilty. But I've moved it back to the top of the to-do list. If anything, I can at least share photos of the big and little things going on here. As Craig mentioned in our last post (a month ago!), we are both taking a photo a day. Some of us have been a little better at it than others (hint: I'm not the guilty one this time). When I signed on to this project back in December, I was a little nervous about the daily commitment. But I have yet to forget, and I'm thrilled with all the photos I'm collecting to put in a book for us. Some photos capture the little things like bike rides around the neighborhood, others have captured the big things like Craig's surgery in January. All things that are Lindeman Life. Here are a few moments from the year I've captured so far.

1.16: Playing with Scooby and the Gang


2.2: Skyping with Aunt Cheryl, Cousin Hagen and Uncle Curt (Pay no attention to the mess on the desk - we were in the process of switching rooms and everything was chaos. Who am I kidding? The desk is always cluttered.)


2.3: Tub Time with Cousin Maisy


2.16: Boys Will Be Boys - Park and his friend Will


2.23: Lovin' on the Boy


We'll be back soon! (we promise this time)

Carrie