Funniest bedtime story EVER!

Wow- Ethan gets hysterical at bedtime! It's great!

Ode to Sam

Well he's been on a mission for a year. He reached his mark on December 5th. He's doing great! But I miss him. Here are some pictures to remind us all of how awesome he is. (Stolen from facebook.)

These two came from an album called
"Frisbee Golf, a Gentleman's game."

Halloween last year: Flight of the Conchords anyone?

I hope to get some mission pictures posted soon.

creative resourcefulness

We are kind of limited in our kitchen cupboard space. Ross and I were watching this movie (I don't even remember the name of it, we've been rather adventurous in our Netflix trial) and in the main character's tiny kitchen was pegboard. I thought out loud, GENIUS! Ross agreed, and was as enthusiastic as I was (I'm very lucky to have him) and a new project was born.

I don't think I will ever do this in future kitchens, it makes it kind of busy, but it will be fun until we move in the next year or so. And it definitely cleared out some cupboard space!


The problem is, I've owned these pans since I was newly on my own and cooking for the first time in college. All of my dinner mishaps are on display- as is evident by the burned stained bottoms of three of the pans.



Ethan is crawling very well forward now. He squeals in delight as he takes laps around the kitchen floor. He thoroughly enjoys his newfound freedom.

Hope everyone had a happy thanksgiving! Ours was great! We decorated a tree, and did lots of other things but this is the only picture I took the whole weekend. And it was with our little point-and-shoot :(

Fall, I miss you

Ethan has the most beautiful tree outside his window.

It makes him very happy.

But sometime last week, overnight, all the leaves fell off. I'm glad fall lasted a little bit longer this year for us, but it's never long enough.

We had a rough night last night. It's been a while since he has cried without being consoled. I think his stomach was hurting badly. I wish so much I could just take the pain away. Cause just look at that little face!

Experiments

Lately I've been doing some experimenting. About a month ago I decided to try a stop-motion video. I got down on the ground, anchored the camera to a book on the floor, switched my camera to consecutive shooting (3 frames per-second) and watched Ethan as he scooted backwards. The only thing is, my camera had to rest every once in a while, so there are little chunks of movement missing, but that's okay. It's 26 seconds- and you should watch closely in the background- you might see something fun.

He can crawl now. But it's still backwards. Can't get that transmission out of reverse.



And then I was thinking, I really like these pictures that Ross took of Ethan and me when we very first got home. But they're out of focus, and I look a mess. So I thought, what if I gave it the TTV (through the viewfinder) effect? Then it doesn't really matter if it's out of focus and I look crappy- it kind of goes along with the theme. I really wish I had a sweet-awesome old box camera so that this look was authentic, but I don't. I cheated and looked online to find out how to do it.


More experimenting to come I'm sure. Have a good day!

Oh yeah-- Halloween!

Can you guess what we were?

I stole this one from Amber's blog. Silly me I forgot my camera! Thanks Amber!

Up on the hilltop

The time for our annual summit has come once again. I don't think it was quite as exciting as last time. But still fun. It was quite windy. Half of the time my hair was in my face. I didn't really like those ones.