The LaGarde Family

I know I keep saying this, but. . .

If you invest in stocks, Apple Computer (AAPL) is a MUST buy. If you have some already, buy more. Seriously. Here are just a FEW of my reasons:

1. They have tremendous momentum, not just with iPod’s, but even more importantly with their laptops and desktops. The last quarter was huge for those products, the largest in company history, in fact.
2. Their share of the pc market is on it’s way up and it most likely will not slow down anytime soon.

3. In the earnings conf call on wed Steve jobs said “Looking forward, 2007 is likely to be one of the most exciting new product years in Apple’s history.” They will release the new OS X, which is promising to be a BIG release; they are going to start selling “iTV” in the first quarter of 07; they are going to start selling their long awaited, much rumored “iPhone”; not to mention they will come out with a new “real” video iPod that will just destroy the Zune; and their product line for PC’s is just looking better and better all the time. ‘Nuf said?
4. Analysts are saying that apple is a good buy. And buy sometime before Macworld 07 which happens in january.
I have owned stock since March of 2005 and bought more consistently since then. It is up an average of 47% for me. That is a 47% return in 1.5 years. Last time I checked, banks gave you, MAYBE 5%, maybe? Unless Cupertino CA gets swallowed in an Earthquake, buying apple stock is pretty much guaranteed to bring a return.

Last piece of advice, buy sometime in the next two months. At the moment the stock price is slightly inflated, due to the recent release of their financials.

Please, if anyone out there can comment further on this, either positive or negative, please do so. I am by no means a financial guru or investor, but I do know enough to see the signs.  Happy Investing.

WHERE’S WALDO. . . er, i mean, Ashlea?

Ok, so April will kill me for putting this up b/c it makes our place look unkempt. But truth be told, everyones place gets like that at some point. April had to rush out the door this morning to the new mom’s coffee at CFC, and had to leave this pile of laundry, temporarily.

Anyway, as Ashlea likes to do, she burried underneath it, and the result is above. We love her so much.

Hey all,

My brother nick and his now fiancé, went to Brasil last month, where she is from and they have tons of pics and some videos from their trip. I have only uploaded a couple, and here they are: