This is my nephew Richard. He is hands down the cutest baby I have ever seen.
Now as some of you may know, there are a lot of Richards in the Leary family. So it starts to get really confusing really quick. When Richard was about 2 weeks old I was on the phone with my family and Rebekah tells me that Richard has jaundice and had to go to the hospital. The whole time she is talking I'm thinking about my brother having jaundice and how weird that must look. About 10 minutes into the conversation I realized she was talking about the baby. We'll call that Richard mix-up #1. Just a little picture of what we've got in store for us. . . forever. I guess I'll have to get used to calling my brother Dick or my nephew, as Russell suggested, little Dick.
Let's just say I really can't wait to get to know this kid.
They are The Civil Wars and they make great music.
I stole this picture from a friend of mine who attended this concert, unfortunately I only found out about them after it happened.
Let's just say I am anxiously awaiting the next time they come to Charlottesville.
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These are my friends and we jumped off a really big rock quarry this past weekend.
I LOVE stuff like this. I love playing outside and doing crazy stuff, it's so much fun. Needless to say I was really excited about finally going to the quarry. But when we got there I realized the jump in real life is a lot higher than I thought it would be. So instead of letting myself get scared by hanging out on the edge for too long I decided I would just go for it and jump. (In retrospect, I probably should asked for a little direction from the pros in our group. . . but I didn't.) You are in the air for a lot longer than you think you will be. That feeling of falling was way better than any other roller coaster or weird trapeze thing than I have been on. It was really awesome, until I hit the water, and then it was not so awesome. Actually to be more accurate, it was horrible when I hit the water. Upon impact my butt took a real beating.
Let's just say I am still sitting in really awkward positions.
This is my roommate Kathryne and I cannot imagine life without her.
This picture is documentation of the second Sunday in a row that we matched for church, completely unintentionally. In fact, we got dressed two hours apart from each other on this particular Sunday. Kathryne put it well when she said, "I guess this is what happens when you've lived with someone for over 7 months." This incredible girl has loved me and encouraged me in ways that I could never possibly thank her for. God blessed me with an amazing first year roommate. As our final week together progresses it makes me so sad to think that we aren't going to be together for 3 whole months.
Let's just say I'm going to miss her like crazy.
