Welcome home, Matt

We're all glad to have Matt home, safe and sound after his 7-month deployment. Matt's back in Norfolk now, and he'll stay with this ship for a few months more, doing some shorter cruises from time to time. But no more long ones. No word yet on where he'll end up for his next assignment -- but we're hoping for East Coast.


Here at home we're doing fine. Amy's 7 months pregnant, and doing just fine. She's going to stop working at the end of the month, to concentrate on gestating. Jude's getting to be quite a handful, but still a lot of fun to be with. He's a smart little guy, developing quite a vocabulary and a handful of party tricks.

Here's a series of pictures of Jude growing, we shoot one each month. And we'll keep adding to it each month, so check it out from time to time. It's amazing how much he's changed in such a short time.

And here's a lot of other random shots. In this new format, you can view the pictures whichever way you want, and you can even post your own pictures to the collection if you'd like. Let me know if it doesn't work for you.

I've got some good videos to post, too. I'll try to get those up soon.