Liv,
the animated gif flippy picture was a really big file (like 300-400k) and with people trying to download this site with a 56k connection, it took quite a while sometimes. I put up a new picture that isn't quite as big in file size.. I may put another flippy pic up at some point when we have new pics, and maybe i can get it to be a smaller size so our 56k family can download it faster..:)