Friday, July 9, 2010

Holiday Pictures




Pictures from our holiday in Siesta Key!

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Drum roll please.....

Introducing Charlotte Lee Santa Rita.

Charlotte and Family





































Charlotte and Beatrice

Bea is becoming quite the little beauty with her piercing blue, almond shaped eyes.She now possesses the very elevated title of big sister for which she received a shirt.

When she held Charlotte, a large grin spread across her face as she laughed uproariously and kissed the baby. Smooch. Smooch. Smooch.

As you can tell, I am utterly infatuated by the two of them. My heart is happy.














Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Nine days...

And counting until Beatrice becomes a big sister. Baby Charlotte Santa Rita is due on June 12th. Bea came early so it's possible Charlotte might be getting anxious to see the world as well. While we wait for the arrival of possibly the third sweetest niece in the world, here are some pictures of Beatrice.

Outside the Baltimore Acquarium
On Easter

Sunday, May 23, 2010

GO, GO, GO...

Right now and rent Invictus!!!! It is the most inspiring and uplifting movie of the year!! The title of the movie is from a Victorian poem by William Ernest Henry and means "unconquered." Nelson Mandela read and kept the poem in his pocket during his difficult years in prison

Invictus
by William Ernest Henry

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.


The first half of the movie, like many of Clint Eastwood's films, is slow but the acting is outstanding and the last scenes of the movie, with panoramic shots of the cheering crowds in the massive stadium and the inspiring poem read in the background, will send chills through your body. If the story were fiction viewers would no doubt say that such a feat could never occur. It is therefore so remarkable that it is true. South African Pride!!

Interview with the real Francois Pienaar, the captain of the Springboks.



Matt Damon on a bicycle, gliding above scenic ocean views in Cape Town. It's a beautiful thing. When he meets Francois Pienaar, the beast of a rugby player he portrays in the movie, he jokingly says to him "Well, I look bigger on screen." .




After years of division, the collapse of Apartheid brought decades of anger to the streets in the form of brutal violence and destruction. The Sprinbok's motto-"One Team, One Country"- was meant to unite the people.