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Photographs - 2007

Saturday, April 14th, 2007


Alex with his Nana, wearing the sweater and hat that she made for him.


Alex with his auntie Kitty

Photographs - Alexander's birth

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Alexander Andrew Jenner was born on 28th November 2006 at 9:24am PST, weighing 9 pounds 7.8 ounces. Both mother and baby are doing very well.

Gennie's mother with her first grandchild.


First passport photo

I recorded some video footage here (9.6Mb - may require QuickTime to view).



Updated 20th January 2007 with some more pictures and movies:

Giggling (movie - 9.6Mb)

Sneezing (movie - 1.3Mb)


Updated 4th February 2007:

Updated 17th February 2007:


Giggling II (movie - 9.8Mb)

Photographs - Summer 2006

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006


New York, 17th August


Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art


Marblehead, Massachusetts, 19th August


Boston, 21st August



We went to the museum of fine art, but it caught fire.


The spire of the old North church.


Boston public garden, 22nd August



Make way for ducklings!


Chicago, 23rd-28th August


The Museum of Science and Industry, the only in-place surviving building from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.


Some of the streets around the University of Chicago are lit by old fashioned gas powered lamps! They were the real deal, you could feel the heat coming off them.


The Roosevelt Metra light railway station is very rickety and looks ancient.



Cakes in the display window of Bombon Americano.



The Art Institute of Chicago.




Millennium Park, Chicago.


A Monkey at Lincoln Park Zoo.





Views from the observation deck of the John Hancock tower.


Puppet Bike.

Photographs - Baby

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

11th April 2006 - first ultrasound

The head is between the big + and . and the blob at the other side of the little + is the yolk sac. We also saw the baby's heart beating on the monitor which was quite something!

3rd July 2006 - second ultrasound

Photographs - Spring/Summer 2006

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Washington Park Arboretum, Spring

Vashon island, July

Mugs

Photographs - Food (Part II)

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

Winter/Spring 2006



Italian Variation on the Strudel


Foccacia


Gennie makes Escargot for the first time for Andrew's birthday


Self-explanatory


Roasted pork braised with cider vinegar and stuffed with apples, raisins and walnuts


Shepherd's pie


Summer 2006


Cincinnati Chili



Sponge cake with jam


Moroccan lamb stew


Salmon


A classic dish from the Liguria region of Italy - linguini with homemade pesto and chicken, a salad of tomatos and anchovies, and foccacia.



White nectarine galette


Beef and salad



Oysters


Andrew's birthday dinner

Photographs - 2006

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Various walks in the arboretum, autumn 2005


Christmas decorations


A fairy that Gennie made

Gennie's birthday party - 31st December 2005


Rebecca


I'm just sayin'...


Meighan poses for the camera


Sometime after midnight



Strange soap creature I found in the shower.

Photographs - Our honeymoon (page 3 of 3)

Monday, November 21st, 2005

11th to 15th October - The Cinque Terra


The kitchen of the apartment we stayed at in Manarola


View from our apartment


We were staying at the very top of the orange house


The vineyards of Manarola. People have been farming these terraces for 1,000 years


Manarola has some incredible deep-water swimming


The Via Dell'Amore, between Manarola and Riomaggiore


The beach at Monterosso


Part of the path between Manarola and Corniglia


The footpath zig-zags up nearly 400 steps to the town of Corniglia


A cat that convinced Gennie to feed part of her lunch to him


View from the hike between Monterosso and Vernazza


Vernazza from the hiking path


Some of the many cats that decorate the Cinque Terra


16th October - Seattle

On our return to Seattle, we found (amongst other things) this message on the whiteboard...

...and this fun present from Beth and JT.

Photographs - Our honeymoon (page 2 of 3)

Monday, November 21st, 2005

7th to 11th October - Florence


The ceiling of the Baptistry


The Duomo


Giotto's tower


The top of the Duomo


Garden terrace outside our window


The Arno river

Pisa

Photographs - Our honeymoon (page 1 of 3)

Monday, November 21st, 2005

1st October - The Old Consulate Inn, Port Townsend


3rd to 4th October - Milan


Milan's Duomo is the fourth largest Cathedral in Europe


Vittorio Emanuele Arcade


4th to 7th October - Venice


San Marco square

Murano


The Bridge of Sighs


The Ducal palace


Gennie eating the best Gelato in Venice - at 10am!