Well, we’re on the brink of falling a year behind on posting photos, so it’s about time we put something up. Here are the pictures we took while my parents were in town last September. They took us on a one-night trip to Yosemite, the first hotel stay for Julia and Joseph. It played out pretty much exactly as you might imagine it would: neither child did a spectacularly good job of going to sleep with us in the room. Joe cried for what seemed like hours—he was just over a year old, remember, and didn’t understand why he couldn’t sleep in bed with Mommy—and Julia was completely wired. Julie ended up driving Joe around darkened mountain roads to get him to go to sleep, while I stayed in the room with Julia and threatened to tie her to her bed.

In any event, the scars have just about healed, so we’re almost ready for another trip.