MoseleyWorld

Tis the season for politics. It’s not often that a former President of the United States, even if it is Slick Willie, makes a campaign stop just a couple of miles from MoseleyWorld.

Campaigning Texas-style, Bill speaks from the bed of a pick-up truck.

Bill stressed the importance of doing the Texas two-step - you gotta vote and caucus. Notice his podium is a 55 gallon barrel.

Saxon paying close attention to Clinton’s speech.

It was very windy.

Wait a minute, what the heck does that sign say, Hillary? My gran will kill me! What are we doing here Dad? (At this point, I was beginning to wonder myself).

Here’s a film of Saxon showing how Bill lost her interest after he began talking about nationalized healthcare. After that, snacks were much more interesting than presidential politics.

Last month, Carey, Saxon and I headed to the clear waters of the Turks & Caicos islands to spend a few days in the sun with Saxon’s Mimi, Pops and Gran (directors of the official SFC - Saxon Fan Club).

Here’s Saxon, in a daze, at airport at 0700 hours. Int’l flights require a 2-hour check-in. Do the math to explain the dazed look. Oh, by the way, Saxon usually doesn’t wear her pajamas outside of the house, regardless of the time of day. I just thought she would look good in them on the red couch. JUST KIDDING. We forgot one of our carry-on bags at the house that had lots of stuff essential for the trip. Thank goodness my dad would be joining us in 48 hours and could bring it.

We met Carey’s folks (aka Mimi & Pops) at the Miami Airport and they joined us on the flight to Providenciales, Turks & Caicos. Oh, yeah, I mentioned it being a long travel day, right? Well, some considerate passenger checked in for the flight from Miami to Provo and then decided, “Nah, I don’t wanna take it.” So the AA Pilot says they have to pull the bag - but not to worry that it was an easily-identifiable bag. Since it took an hour to find the moron’s poor ex-passenger’s luggage, I can only bet the offending bag was described as “black with wheels.”

Needless to say, connecting in MIA (our only option) made it a long day for big boys & girls, even longer with a little one who has lots of energy. I will say that everyone was “heart-ing” Saxon since the customs folks waived us to the front of the very long line since we had a kiddo with us. Nice.

I hoped for the best when we got to the rental car and (a) it was right-hand drive and (b) the rental car “agent” had no idea how to give us directions to get to our destination and (c) no one answered on the phone at our destination. The only good thing was that Da Conch Shack was on the way to our destination. Da Conch Shack always reminds me of Forrest Gump’s friend Bubba who talked about all the different ways you can prepare & eat the “fruit of the sea” (i.e. shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, shrimp stew, etc., etc.). Da Conch Shack does the same thing for, you guessed it, conch, which they point out on their website, has “more protein than steak (but wayyy less fat…prettier shell too.” Saxon became a quick convert and liked Da Conch Shack as much as Carey and I. BTW, our favorites are the cracked conch and curry conch, with or without a Turks Head Lager.

Saxon with Pops.

morning in the tropics.

saxon loves the sand. digging, pouring. at times she gets very serious about the task at hand.
on the northwest point of Provo.

carey took my favorite photograph of the trip. great action shot!

after a couple of days at the other resort (it was kind of like the competition in the Hertz “not exactly” ads), we headed to The Somerset.
great pool, but we didn’t get to use it. saxon had an allergic reaction to the pool chemicals - anyone have experience with this? comment or email us.

co-builders

saxon with my dad (aka “gran”)

bath time. great light = photo op.

here’s a photo of saxon taken on our last trip to turks & caicos when she was 4 months (18 months old now)

lazy days are great for reading

saxon playing with her gran

hanging out with gran and mimi - everyone is on 3/4 time in the islands so there’s no such thing as swift service.

breakfast on our last day at hemingway’s.

uh-oh, here comes pops

AA started a non-stop flight from Dallas - on Saturdays only, but we took it home.

more photos to come. thanks for looking.

I’ve had a lot of requests to see photos from last month’s beach trip. I’m almost done editing the images and will post them soon. But first, I wanted to share some recent photos of Saxon - all taken within the last week.

at White Rock Lake. Doing my best to photograph Saxon and keep her out of the lake

saxon loves this hat

Happy Valentine’s Day 2008!

Second, the “special” part of our VD message is a pictorial announcement (see below):

Give up? Look again at the next photo:

Moseley Baby2 is “in the oven” with an estimated arrival date of the middle of August. Just pray with us it’s not August 11 - Saxon’s birthday. Carey said something the other day about “we” or “us” being pregnant. It’s funny how that talk vanished last time around about the time she was 7 months pregnant and it was 100 degrees outside.

Saxon’s initial reaction to the news:

Say what? Huh? Actually, our poor little 18 month old daughter doesn’t have the slightest idea about how much her world will truly be rocked in just a few short months.