Just wanted to introduce you to my guys, from left to right Hannah, my first grader. Emma, the challenger - voted most likely to at the age of 16 to sneak out her bedroom window, steal the car and run Tolo roads, and Dylan, the future screenwriter of an academy award winning movie.

Just a little bit about my kids. Let's start with the oldest, Dylan Micheal Judge Hoff, senior esquire the third - quote Dylan. Recently turned 18 yrs old - my doesn't that make me old. He's funny, brilliant, a democrat - thank god, and all around good guy. He can be painfully shy, but he's there in a clutch. He's been a writer since the age of 5, when he wrote a creative story of about "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire", complete with Hannibal and the Carthagians, the Ides of March, to the only thing good thing remaining from Italy.....pizza. I think he just may be a force to be reckoned with.

Hannah Rose Judge, my oldest daughter at the grand old age of of 7 yrs old. A first grader with the biggest, brightest, smile going on the face of the earth. She's the tallest one in her class, even towering over the boys. Did you know that she sings.....constantly. In class she breaks out into song while doing her work and all the rest of the children chime in. Sort of a "whistle while you work thing the children all share in together". In the morning on the way to work and school, we don't listen to the radio....we listen to Hannah. She can not not sing. (Even though there are times when we say, Hannah, that's enough - could you please be quiet, which she doesn't stop singing, she just sings in a softer voice, thinking that no one would hear her). She's so smart, one moment wanting to be a doctor, another moment wanting to be a singer. She's a leader and doesn' t seem to be really afraid of anything. My Rock Star, and gives the best Hannah hugs ever.

Emma Catherine Judge, my big girl at the age of 4 yrs old. She was my surprise child. I thought I had an ulcer but lo and behold I was pregnant at 43 yrs old with Emma. Who'd a thought, certainly not my Oby/Gyn. I was done as far she was concerned. But we had moved up here to Bainbridge and sometimes magical things just happen. Bainbridge in the summer is the best place on the world to be. Emma is a cuddler, a lover, a charmer. She's an individual and marches to her tune. She's more of a boy than girl, but already has a boy friend that she wants to marry when she grows up.

These are my children, they are my hopes and worries. But most of all they are my loves. I only want them happy and to be able to join them on their life voyages.....from first kisses - which the 4 yr old has already had....to senior proms, which I pray my son has the courage to ask someone to go with him. I hope you will love them as much as I do.....