Scavenger Hunt

I have been working on a side project all month. I found this group of people and have been working hard trying to get my 26 things for January. I have had a blast doing this, my goal was to just complete the Photo Treasure Hunt, but I found a lot of good shots and learned a few new tricks. The group posted 26 items to take photo's. I found it was a great way to get myself back into photography, I can't wait till the next list comes out. Here's what I found.

Proof...

Dress Up...??

What a cute girl he would make....

The doctor called this morning...

...if you have watched my last video you would have seen Roses accident (it happened last Saturday), well her doctor got the radiologist report back and he thinks she has a “Buckle Fracture” of her right Radius, it is at the very tip if the bone where it meets the wrist. So we went in again today for more X-rays, just to make sure it hadn’t changed. It looks just about the same as on Monday. She had the option of continuing to use the splint or get it a cast. I would have NOT chosen the pain of dealing with a cast but I found out she was playing floor hockey in gym, this week, after the doctor and I told her on Monday (with a note to the teacher) not to participate in gym. We decided we should cast her, it had only been a four days and she couldn’t stop using it, how could we expect three weeks? So she has a cast that is up past her past elbow, and to make it worse for her it is her right arm, I can’t help to chuckle every time she tries to reach her face for a bite of food, to lick her fingers, or a scratch. She will have the last laugh though, as she sits back and watches me do her dishes, vacuuming, and whatever else she cannot accomplish.

Is it wrong for me to submit my readers to home videos?

Well to bad, after filling up my 2GB memory card with video we would never watch again, I decided to cut out the REALLY boring stuff and throw it away. After so that many hours of work I decided it would NOT go to waste….so here you are….HOME VIDEOS…

"Family Outing"

Dancing Byrd On Goose Lake

"Byrd and I had a few extra minutes and stopped at Goose Lake for a little photo shoot. Here I was playing with the "continuous shoot" mode...it is quicker then our old digital camera but not as quick at my 35mm. I plan on playing with the setting and see if I can speed it up some. Don't get me wrong I am VERY pleased...so pleased I just had to show you....

Rose's Snowboarding Video

Question???

What did Earnest sell before he made movies? "Vern, Vern , Vern... When will you earn?"

Oh where has my little baby gone??

It has now been thirteen years…. I could spend hours telling you about the day. About how I went to see my midwife, the morning of the 12^th, she did a pelvic exam, saw one bacteria culture in her swab, and prescribed me vaginal medication. How I spent the rest of the day running errands and doing laundry at the Washboard, how I hauled six loads of laundry and the groceries up to our second floor apartment, how I ate so much food while playing with our first new television and Nintendo we just got for Christmas, feeling a little gassy, I used my medicine and went to bed only to be awoken in the next hour thinking I needed to go see the doctor and get an enema…but when I showed to the hospital I was really having a baby, ten weeks early. How I wondered how my midwife did not notice this 12 hours earlier when I saw her. How the Doctors held off a very scary labor for three hours waiting for the neonatal team to arrive from Anchorage, knowing our family was waiting in the hall wondering what was happening, me just thinking “get this done with”, how the Anchorage team arrived and I was so relived to finally push. To hear her fist cry…watching my two and a half pound baby leave me to fly to a bigger hospital, the scary drive to Anchorage to meet them, how we had to scrub down to see our daughter, the other babies in the NICU. Lately I have been reliving the rest of the joys and fears of those days though Baby Boris and his family, remembering how every ounce was a goal met and every poo a step back.

Smoothies,

...I so love smoothies, but like mochas or latte’s, $5.25 plus tip just gets to be to a little spendy. I have only found a good smoothie at the malls, so add gas and time, it really adds up. So for the last year I have been making them at home, not very convenient and really time consuming. The ice wont crunch, the juice and berries freeze in the bottom of the blender and things won’t blend; when trying to shift the ingredients, so that it will crunch the frozen items, just makes a mess all over the counters and it never fails that I end up with a whole blender of smoothie. Serving size is something to consider when drinking smoothies because ...just because you put all healthy ingredients in, it is still full of sugars and calories and if the kids aren’t around, I end up drinking the pitcher.

I quit drinking them a few months ago because it was just too much trouble to make. Well that all ended last week when I finally played with my new Christmas presents, thanks sister, it is a “To-Go” mug that attaches to a blender blade. I fill my mug with frozen berries, some yogurt, a banana, a dab of whatever juice is in the fridge, sometimes I’ll throw in something from the veggie drawer, and my Emer’genC*. The only thing I leave out is the little black boba balls, what are those anyway? Yuck!!! The best part is if the blender cup gets jammed up I take it off the blender, shake it about, and pound it on the counter a few times, and then I am good to go. When it’s all blended I screw on the top meant for drinking and I have my brunch. The only thing missing is the really fat straws (and the boba), but not because it didn’t come with one but because I hid it from the kids and now can’t find it.

* I have to take a quick minute to plug this vitamin supplement and remind you I am not a distributor. Emer’GenC is a powder you mix with water and dink. It gives you the same effect as a cup of coffee, without the sudden downer a few hours later. I have noticed a huge difference in my energy levels when I use Emer’genC regularly. I like the Strawberry it is more expensive, but has more minerals then the rest of the flavors. The B vitamins help with moodiness. When you have a sore throat, cold, congestion, or flu, hot Tang with an Emer’GenC is all you need.

I didn't do it....

Okay...maybe it is... I probably shouldn’t have done it, but I wanted it so bad that it became a need. I know it is the wrong time of year for spending, but I wanted it so bad it became a need. I tried to talk myself out of it, butby then I needed it. I had guilt until I saw the outcome….but it could have been worse.

Rose's Birthday Amaryllis

Byrd in JD's snow tunnel.

I wondered how long it would take for this to happen....
surprises me it took a year before the kids to figured out what fun dress up is.

I can't wait to find some more subjects to shoot...or and the video!!

Hurry Up Spring

Our Year - 2006