Fun Day

The Picture

My daughter’s school does a wonderful thing. Instead of a run-of-the mill school photographer, they use a wonderful local portrait photographer. She does a beautiful job and her prices are reasonable. She also photographs siblings who don’t attend the school.

A few weeks ago I went to view my "proofs." Everyone had been commenting on how great the kids photos had turned out and I assumed they were referring to the on-line slideshow showing all the students pictures.

What I hadn't realized was that the photographer had chosen a portrait of my kids to enlarge and display as an example of a framed enlargement. It was lovely. I am far too cheap to have ordered something so lovely but I couldn’t resist buying it and the photographer gave me a great discount since she had chosen it to enlarge.

It will be a wonderful addition to the “new” basement.

Scenes from a Mall

Santa Retrospective

I love looking back at photos through the years-I can’t help but share. Today's retrospective is Santa-enjoy!

And a little hint-if you want a stress free, line-less Santa experience then you absolutely must visit Santa at 1:00 in the afternoon on a school day prior to Thanksgiving. There isn't another kid at the mall because they are all either napping or at school. Santa is bored and is full from lunch so he has nothing better to do than talk to your kids until they are begging to leave-awesome.

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2007

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2003

Impromptu Remodel

Well we are finally in recovery mode following the basement flood. After waiting over a month we have our new carpet and have moved all the furniture back into the basement. We still have a temporary storage unit in the driveway but hopefully in a week or two we will be completely finished. Oh and let me plug Mohawk carpet with Dupont Sorona fiber….it is awesome. I was NOT a carpet fan until we had this stuff installed-it was well worth the wait.

These photos make it look easy.

Books dumped upstairs in haste to keep them dry


Moldy wet carpet


Hey let's paint-why not-we have no carpet and lots of time


Picking new carpet


After waiting a month-the carpet is here




It's coming together

It Was a Dark and Rainy Night...

...And we had to go Trick-or-Treating. Oh the kids didn't mind. A little rain would never keep them from their goal...CANDY! But rain wouldn’t be our only obstacle this night. Poor “T” was accidently knocked over by a friend while we were trick-or-treating with and did a “face plant” into the street. He wasn’t deterred for long-he courageously braved the pain for the sake of more treats.

Sad Kitty back from her school party


Pop Diva and Skeleton Dude


Which Witch?


OUCH!

H1N-huh

Well we may never know what "bug" hit the family a few weeks ago but if it wasn't H1N1 it was a very close relative. The kids had high fevers, sore throats, hacking coughs and pretty much every symptom of the flu. However our pediatrician wouldn't even test for the flu because she said that our area didn't have any Tamiflu anyway....hum....sounds like government healthcare....but I do digress.

My baby poor baby (she had the chills)

Glasses

"T" was having a difficult time seeing the "small" words. I wasn't sure if he was being stubborn or was really having a hard time seeing. Well...long story short, the photo answers the question. "T" thinks his glasses are cool. Luckily he doesn't need to wear them all the time but he can use them for reading and school work. Who wants to wager on how long until he breaks them....