fun with auntie

Sweet Ruby/Bad Ruby

sorry, thought this garden video was longer!

Aunt Brooke came to visit for two whole weeks! We did everything. Lot's of swimmin' and mexican food and movies, art museum, botanical garden, rock shows, walking around downtown, tubing on the Guadalupe in New Braunfels, shopping, napping, making crafts, cooking feasts, riding bikes, breakin' the law, and I even set her up on a blind date! The house feels empty without her. Moo.

Grafitti

Auntie Brooke and Mami initiate Ruby into their street art bicycle gang with a mandatory superhero tattoo.

Today is the happy day that "Tacks, the Boy Disaster" is finally re-formed. It is their first official practice with new guitarist Jake and they plan to record in a bonafide(please pronounce with southern drawl) studio for 3 entire days in the middle of July. It's very exciting and there are more people than Evan would like on tenterhooks to hear the new album. It's been a long time coming, with losing a drummer to North Carolina and a guitarist to Harvard. (keeping Nathan on as a wild card though!) Evan has been working out kinks and lyrics and re-writing and re-recording tirelessly into the wee hours of the night. He's welcoming the upcoming group effort.

Miss Ruby is a tall and saucy monster. She walks, runs, sings, dances, climbs furniture and is developing a shoe fetish. It's so funny and magical to see more of her little personality emerge every day! She loves books and music. Evan pulled out an old keyboard for her and she's been rocking out.

The last couple of days she's insisted on barreling around the house in her rubber galoshes ALL DAY.