Sunday's in June

While we were out viewing the monument for Iggy’s anniversary pictures, we found a quiet bench on the edge of the tidal basin, and started feeding the ducks. Imogen LOVED it. The ducks came right up to our feet and took the food off the edge of our toes, and she laughed and laughed. Sadly, ducks are shy, and don’t like their pictures taken. But we then went and played around in the grove, and we thought that we should share those pictures with you! Enjoy!

(p.s. look how skinny tiff looks! She's been working out and doing a great job with it!)


Family portrait on a fun Sunday in June!


See you real soon!
love Jed, Tiff, and Imogen

Happy 7th Month-aversary!

This is Imogen’s 7-month anniversary in the world.

For this month, we decided to take her to the FDR memorial in the tidal basin. This is a memorial that gets overlooked a little bit because it is not as grandiose or striking in the way that things like the Lincoln or Washington Memorials are large and iconic. However the FDR memorial is actually very beautiful, well thought out, and a walking tour through the various times that he presided over (depression, end of depression, beginning of WWII, etc.). So, here she is, making her way through the memorial … enjoy!

Here she is with FDR himself

Here she is standing in a 1930’s style bread line

Here she is during a fireside chat with FDR and his scottish terrier Fala.

Good dog Fala!

Here is Iggy and Tiff with Eleanor Roosevelt. Some proud women.

Happy Birthday Dan-o!

Happy Bgirthday Dan-o!

So, for Dan’s 30^th birthday, he made the unfortunate mistake of coming to Washington D.C. to see tiffany, iggy, and me. Tiffany and Iggy were great, but Dan and I together were able to essentially obliterate the mid Atlantic’s supply of natty-boh’s.

Friday night we went to Baltimore where we let Kevin Youklis know that he should have gone to Moeller high school in Cincinnati, instead of being an aviator like he was (although Dan’s pops was an aviator, so it wasn’t a terrible choice – also Youklis is a Jewish kid, and may not have fit in exactly at a catholic high school like Moeller … just sayin’).

Great times at the ball game.

Camden Yards is such a great place to watch a game.

Imogen had a little O’s outfit to show her hope that the O’s would defeat the hated red sox.

We made friends with the others in our secion

Hung out with one of Dan’s oldest friends, Andrew, who was the salutatorian behind dan as the valedictorian – Go Crusaders.

Saturday, Dan and I hung out a our favorite local gastro-pub, the Argonaut. After that we went to a bbq at a smoked / pulled pork master’s house, the Pendarvis. Delicious (no pictures). We then went to the Nationals game and followed that up with a trip to my favorite dive bar, the Tune Inn (mom, you remember that place, that’s where we got drinks after Imogen was born). While I don’t have pictures to share, let me try and paint you a picture, we met Sean and Arun at the ball game, made numerous new friends in our stands, shouted at an outfielder of the Cincinnati reds for the whole game (BRRRRRRUUUUUUCCCCEEEEE!!!!!!) and then went to the Tune Inn where we ran into a bunch of people who we had met before, and rang in Dan’s b-day with style. The next morning, my liver staged an outright revolt attempting to secede from my body unilaterally (just like South Carolina). All in all it was a great weekend, and it was fantastic to see dan, who I hadn’t seen live and in person since the Hero, Josh Duell, drained three pointers all over the court in Dayton for the NCAA tournament in 2009. Happy birthday Dan, welcome to your fourth decade, and enjoy!

White Christmas

We celebrated our first Christmas as a family this year in Washington, D.C. Santa as well as family and friends were very generous to the little one. To make our day a little brighter, we were able to share the morning with Uncle Ryan and lucky enough to have a white Christmas. It was definitely a great day.

To start off our day, Iggy serenaded us on Christmas Eve. Check out the attached video below.


Tiffany and Iggy got comfy before opening Santa's gifts




Imogen had a cutie-pie Christmas outfit highlighting Santa's involvement



Tiffany helped the Two open her presents (poor two in that hat! Such a good dog!)



Two was finally able to enjoy some elf-hat-less time to devour her rawhide candy cane. (note the only thing left of the cane is the red twine.) Good work, Two.



Jed got a Ducks t-shirt for the rose bowl, the granddaddy of them all!



Jed sporting some Duck gear and Christmas p.j.'s while talking to his dad. Looking good.



Speaking of holiday pajamas, Santa's helper misread the label of the holiday pajamas when out shopping and when returning them could not find the proper size, so we improvised with the holiday pants. The little stocking actually came in handy as it perfectly holds Ryan's cell phone. Oh, snap.



Ry getting in on the stocking fun.



Imogen got a book about breasts, which tiffany loved!



Two kept Iggy company when she slept off the excitement


Mom and Imogen sharing a little moment by the tree after all the presents were opened!

All about Imogen

This isn't so much a post as it is pictures of Iggy. Enjoy!

Week one - Complete!

ImHi all,

well, week one of Imogen Rose Bodger's life is in the books and it was a good one. To start off, the oregon ducks hammered the arizona state sun-devils and ... just kidding, no sports stuff here, this is all about Iggy!

Imogen left the hospital with her parents on Monday (11/16/2009)

only to come home to a loving uncle, Uncle Ryan, who had done up a mural for Imogen (we'll forgive the spelling errors, for now)

then, Grandma BB came from Nevada to meet Iggy, and boy was she impressed with what she saw!

Next up, Uncle Bobby and Noni (aka grandma linda, aka the shakezilla, aka abuela, aka DJ

Funky G-Ma, etc.) all come out for visits. Pictures to follow!