Not Sure About This Guy's Intentions...

Looks like it's time to buy that gun.

Tilly went after this kid, not the other way around, so I will cut him some slack.

Tying the Knot

Tilly was the Ring Bearer for Phil and Amanda.

Aside from the bride, of course, she was the most beautiful girl there.

Phil and Amanda's Groom's Dinner

Tilly's Uncle Phil got married this past weekend.

The festivities started out Friday night at George and Carol's house...where the Groom's Dinner got forced inside by a monsoon. Everyone still had a blast. Tilly managed to avoid most of the Redi-Whip fight between her uncle and her grandmother.

Not Quite JFK Jr...

...playing at his dad's feet under the desk in the Oval Office.

But close.

Cuter, for starters.

Tilly, I Think I Can See Your Soul in Those Blue Eyes There

Twins Game #4, 7-3

Uh, WTF?

At least it appears she won't be going to St Cloud State, at least based on receptivity to (or lack thereof) the mascot.

Glee.

So perfect.

This was in the bar on the third level, where the organ lady plays when she's not talking to everyone. We took a photo with the organ lady, but it didn't turn out.

Twins won, 7-3 over Kansas City. Tilly's a good luck charm. She's 3-1 this year.

What a joy, this little girl.

Grave Crawl 2010

Tilly's definitely on track to be a good fit for UW Madison. She knows her way around a bar at the age of 1.

Grandpa Jim, too bad they never got to meet each other.

Murphy.

This was the fifth year in a row now that we made the sojourn to multiple bars and cemeteries in Sibley County.

This was the second year for Tilly visiting her Grandpa Jim, great grandparents and at least two sets of great-great-grandparents.

When we were in Australia in January, we also visited the graves of some of Tilly's great and great-great-grandparents there too.

It's an amazing, humbling thought to think of the life and wisdom, sorrows and experiences of joy that are coursing through Tilly's veins. She's got blood from Austria in the 1700s; Ireland by way of Jessenland in the 1850s; French Canadians who wound up in Minnesota; and of course, all the good looks, charm and joie de vive from Down Under.

You can't pick your family. But some of them...you would.

Twins Game #3, 6-3 Twins

Twins game #3 of the year against the Texas Rangers. I let Emma take the pics of Tilly. This is as good as I could get with my equipment (ie, from the right field bleachers without a $12,000 lens).