Snow
We actually got some snow today! We played outside in the afternoon, but Sam was more interested in drinking hot chocolate. Eventually, the snow turned to rain, so it was a pretty wet afternoon.
Read more →No more excuses
Some of you might remember that I hurt my toe about 18 months ago. I thought I broke it. It hurt tremendously. You might not know that I sucked it up into the carpet cleaner beater brush of our vacuum. Yes, internet, I beat my toe with a vacuum. Well, it turned out to be fine, after several trips to the doctor. …
Read more →Yes, I got upgraded.
Brian got me an iPhone 5 for Christmas. I wasn’t really expecting it, because I figured I could last a few more months on my old phone. My brother asked me what 5 things I liked about my new phone. At the time, I had 2. (Keep in mind, I had had it all of 3 days and that was over Christmas when I wasn’t using it much.) …
Read more →And her heart danced
On Friday, we went to the cardiologist to get a check up on the ASD in Ellie’s heart. Sam heard me talking earlier in the week about taking Ellie to the doctor, and she had lots of questions. She was very concerned for Ellie and was sure the doctor was going to “slice her.” Yes, those were her words. When Ellie got up …
Read more →Decorating Our Tree
I’ve been wanting to do a time-lapse video of something around here. Decorating our Christmas Tree seemed like a perfect fit for such a project. I put the camera and laptop on the piano and using EOS Utility I shot tethered every 10 seconds. I used ImageMagick to crop and resize the images to 1920×1080 and then finally …
Read more →Gatlinburg 2012
We had been talking about a trip to Gatlinburg all year. It was our 10 year anniversary this fall, and I wanted to go somewhere. I’m always up for a trip to the mountains. I just had to convince Brian to go with me. 🙂 The girls did great during the whole trip, even though we missed a few naps along the way. So, I …
Read more →Sam's Iron Bowl Prediction
From left to right: Alabama football player Goal post with football Me Sam Auburn football player Two Auburn fans Her prediction is 81 – 1, good guys.
Read more →What a View!
The living room of our chalet has a 12 foot glass sliding door that has this view
Read more →Sweden has Rednecks too.
Headline stolen from Jim Dalrymple. This is just too funny not to repost.
Read more →Striped Saturday
Samantha loves rainbows. It’s like she’s noncommittal or something. If you ask her what her favorite color is, she goes through a litany of colors. Therefore, she loves stripes. She has a set of clothes that she reserves for Saturdays. Why she wears them on Saturday, I’m not sure. But, throughout the summer, if we have …
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