Queen Elizabeth's 50th Jubilee Photos

In honor of Queen Elizabeth's 60th Jubilee this week I thought I'd post my photos from when we were in England in 2002, when she celebrated her 50th Jubilee by visiting every city in England. We happened to be in Bath the day she visited so we went to see her.

School kids are all lined up and ready to see the Queen

 Here she comes! That's her there in the green hat.

 Um, big thanks for getting your hand right in the way of my shot & 

bigger thanks to my autofocus camera for choosing that to "focus" on

Unfortunately, this is the best one I got, with the window bar directly in front of Her Majesty's face. You can really tell it's Prince Philip on the other side of the car though, right? Right?

Hey, I never promised that the photos were any good.
These were taken with the last film camera I ever bought,
so it was pretty disappointing when we got them developed,
though it's kinda funny now.

Thank you to my wonderful family

For the beautiful sign hanging in our garage.

Baby Michelle likes the sunglasses that don't fit Iris anymore

Tommy's Buzz Cut

Here are the before and after pics of the buzz cut that we gave Tommy last night. 

I feel like there's a different kid living in our house.

Mariners Opening Day

The kids are excited to go to the game vs. Oakland at 7PM tonight. We took this picture when we were down by Safeco Field last week

Irene thinks Iris might be up a little too high...

...this afternoon at Golden Gardens park

Meant to post this last week of the security detail protecting our rented minivan

He's not kidding

The kids like their new sunglasses

Iris and Tommy with new cousin Michelle

Tommy likes to read

Here he is enjoying one of his favorite books in his car seat yesterday.

Iris is ready!

Tommy is ready

Snow Day!

Iris is 'helping' mommy shovel our walk and driveway

Tommy the Christmas Elf part 2

Today we dressed him as an elf on purpose

Our Little Christmas Elf

Was pretty happy at daycare drop-off this morning

Haircut day!

Tommy cried. A lot. We'll post a picture of him once we've tidied his up a bit. 

Oops

Thanks!

big thanks to everyone who donated to my Movember campaign. I have raised $770 so far, nearly double the $415 I raised last time I did it, in 2008.

You can still donate - go here: http://mobro.co/MartelCartel

Tommy enjoyed Iris's party too

Our kids can only eat pizza with no cheese, and Tommy loved it. Everyone else was surprised at how much, and for how long he was eating.