We are back in business!!

Our days are as busy as ever - and baby Sally is getting bigger and bigger. We have hit the 8lb mark already and she is starting to fill out her newborn clothes!! She is so much fun these days, she is smiling a ton and we even get her to giggle once in a while - it's very sweet.

Anyway, the other night I sent Byron in to put Sally to bed while I ran around in an attempt to get the house in order. After a while things were very quite and I thought "Oh great, they must be sleeping!" Well, when I walked in the room this is what I found. Good job Sally on putting your dad to bed!! At least she was happy!



This past weekend Gramma (mom), Auntie Jill, Auntie Kerry and Auntie Fawn (wow, thats a lot of Aunties!!) had a baby shower back home for us. It was a smashing success - thanks a bunch girls and of course Sally was looking her best - isn't she pretty?
Sally was a real hit with all the little girls there.
Bath time with Gramma

We wore this outfit to the birthing center for my 6 week check - you should have heard all the "Oooh's and Aaahh's" from all the gals there. I had plenty of babysitters during my appointment.

Sorry...no photos this week

Sorry everyone, our computer is at the hospital this week so there are no photos, but there will be some great ones to come!!! We are just as busy as ever and Sally is still growing.....still averaging an ounce a day weight gain. Anyway, I read this on someone else's blog (thanks Jocelyn) and thought it would be good to post on mine. Sorry if it is a repeat to anyone, but I think it is good to remember to be careful. Have a great weekend.

A Reminder.....

The reason a blog is dangerous is that people tend to publish quite a few details about their personal life. Let's say that Jaime Smith operates a blog for her friends. She posts about the car they just bought and talks about how they are going on vacation. She mentions her husband's name, Bob, maybe her maiden name and details about their house. She posts pictures of their family that could be used to create spoof IDs. A potential net predator now knows that Jaime will be gone from December 1st through January 15th, will be traveling to Jamaica with her husband and her maiden name was Jones. If he knows her birthdate (birthday post or a post about how hard it was to turn 30 back in 2002) he now knows enough information to guess some passwords.The hacker runs a password script begining with terms that include her spouse and childrens' names and her birthdate (right now you are blushing because you thought you came up with a very clever password). Now he has full access to her poorly secured hotmail account and maybe even her bank accounts. At this point his access to Jaime's life is only limited by his imagination. He could lock Jaime out of her own email account and send mail to her friends and coworkers stating that they have hired a house sitter (so don't worry about the cars parked at the house). If Jaime has made this collection of mistakes she probably has vast amounts of personal info, maybe including bank statements and account numbers in her email. She also probably uses the same passwords for her online banking as her email and maybe even her blog. If Jaime's lucky all she gets is some porn posted on her blog and locked out of her email as a lesson from a benevolent (and I'm not being sarcastic there) hacker. If she's unlucky she will be stuck in Jamaica for an extra month while she figures out why their bank account is empty, as the hacker methodically cleans out their house.Hopefully that illustration will show you what the "hacker" is capable of.How much hacking did you read about in that? IP Addresses? Cookies? None. The so-called hacker took advantage of the tools that Jaime handed him. He wouldn't even have to hack her email account. He could just start surfing blogs and guessing email passwords manually until he hits the jackpot.The point of all this is that if you want a bunch of rules you can find the safety advice for blogging, emailing, surfing etc all over online. Problem is, the rules keep changing and the media is cut from the same block as our digitally-retarded government. There's some old saying (with about a dozen variations) about outrunning a tiger...you don't have to outrun the tiger, you just have to outrun the guy beside you. Welcome to the online world. Now, just be smart, make yourself a hard target and let some other sucker be the victim.PS: Thousands of people potentially know who I am online. My name is all over the online marketing materials I work on. High profile folks like Matt Cutts from Google and Jeremy Zawodny from Yahoo run blogs where everyone knows who they are. Their blogs are hacked occasionally but they fix it and keep going...

Livin On Sally Time - Today I am 4 Weeks Old!!

I can't believe Sally is already 4 weeks old. She is growing like a weed - 7 lbs 1 oz as of Friday - so that is averaging about an ounce of weight gain a day - not too shabby.

We still can't decide if these are on purpose smiles or gas smiles - either way, we think she's cute.

This is the dress from Auntie Liza, it fits great!! Thank you!!

I think maybe we still need to grow into the hat.

She is still pretty tiny - I think she will be in this Moses basket for quite a while.

This weekend we went and visited my folks. We had a really nice time and got to see a whole bunch more of our Aunties and Uncles. Most of you know mom and dad are getting ready to tear down their house and build a new one so this could have been our last stay at their house.

Cuddled up with Auntie Kerry
Auntie Ruth
Grandma
Nap time with Grandpa
Uncle Jack

Newborn Pictures

Finally, I will post some of our newborn pictures. Sally was 6 days old in these pictures. I can't believe she is already 4 weeks old. Thank you Cronk Photograpy http://cronkphotography.blogspot.com/ for all the time and beautiful pictures!!