Old Photograph

I found a website with a neat feature, you can make a new photograph, old . It's in Japanese, so you will have to google translate, unless of course, you are fluent in Japanese. ;)

Etsy Art

I love everything by Katie Daisy, so it was hard to decide what to buy.

Ultimately, I chose this. I love it and will certainly be buying more from her in the future. 

I ordered this from Sycamore Street Press, they're offering 20% January 3-7th, just enter code: newyear2011

It suits certain members of our family quite well.

Flix

Family movie night.  

Someone made himself quite comfortable.

Thanks to my brother, we now have Netflix on the Wii.  Love it!

The kids get to watch the movies and cartoons I watched as a child, as well as, all the latest.

Clyde and I just started watching Angel.  

Hello, Mr. Boreanaz.

They also have American Pickers, which is a new addiction of mine...the show, not the picking.

I've also heard good things about Mad Men.  Anyone watch it?  

Evolving taste

I'm sure we all can attest to how our tastes evolve over time.  The dishes we registered for may not be our style anymore.  The paint color on our walls gets boring.  Well, mine have certainly changed and I keep saving inspiration to my 'decorating' file in my bookmarks. 

I want this sofa from IKEA...and yes I want it in blekinge white. Crazy with kids? Maybe, but they're bleachable, which is more than I can say for my current disaster of a sofa.

These stairs from Holly Mathis, make me wish our house was a two story. Fun!

I dream of a butcher block island.

Glass doorknobs...need I say more?

A.dutch.door.

Lighting from Barn Light Electric. 

 A grown up desk like this.

Functional, yet stylish pantry like this one from House of Smith's. 

Have your tastes changed or are they still mostly the same?

Happy New Year's

We celebrated the end of 2010 at home together.  We had a picnic by the fireplace, which the kids thanked and thanked us for.  It's the little things, isn't it?

Little smokies...yum!

 

Ice cream sundae's for dessert.

 

In typical boy fashion, Cooper announced his was 'bleeding'.

 

Camdyn decided not to have a sundae, but still offered to help Rowyn with hers.  So sweet. :)

Here is to a happy and healthy 2011!

Camdyn: an update

Since starting Camdyn on Focalin XR, we've seen a enormous change in her behavior.  She spends hours drawing, cutting, coloring.  The odd thing is that most of what she'd draw would be the same thing over and over and over again.  She would sit there listless, with a blank stare, and just sort of methodically draw picture after picture.

It was hard to watch her like that.  Even Riley said she wanted the old Camdyn back.  We stopped giving her that dosage and called her pediatrician, who then prescribed her a lower dosage.  So far, it seems to take the edge off the hyperactivity.

One of the stacks of pictures she was mass producing.

 

Cute garland she made for the end of her bed.

 

So, we're trying to fine tune the dosage amount...find that balance.  Camdyn has her team: family, her pediatrician, and her aunt (another pediatrician) supporting her.  

It will all work out.

Fondue and Family

My brother and sister-in-law came in town from St. Louis to celebrate Christmas.

Camdyn loves Christina!

 

Booth met his cousin, Oz, for the first time.  He showed off by proving he could leap over Oz in a single bound.  Oz, was not impressed.

 

Cooper and my brother, Brendan.  Cooper is usually glued to his side when he's here.

 

 

Cooper wearing his new hat from Uncle Brendan, who is a computer engineer at Boeing.  I don't think Cooper has taken it off since.

Booth making himself comfortable on my sister, Meghan.

 

Rowyn, the drama queen.

 

Talking to Cinderella on her palm phone.

Dancing for her audience.

My brother made Fondue for dinner.

I'm sad they live so far away and wish we could have meals like this more often.

Christmas 2010

If it were up to Cooper, Christmas morning would have started at 5 am.  We managed to coax him back to sleep for a few more hours, but by 7 the whole house was up.

I was ahead of the game this year, I had our video camera charged and ready to go...because last year someone neglected to check it and it had a dead battery.  I turned it on and starting taping Christmas morning...or not.  Some idiot one neglected to buy a new tape.  Ugh.  I guess there is always next year.  So, pictures it is.

Cooper found a family gift that sneaky Santa must have hidden behind our Christmas tree.


That afternoon, we headed to my parents house for dinner, presents, and for a Christmas surprise.
 

The top window on the left that you can just barely see through the tree was my room growing up. 

The surprise?

My sister, Rosa, whom we haven't seen in almost 20 years had flown in for Christmas. 

God has blessed us; 
family, friends, food, shelter, health, love.  
Yes, we certainly are blessed.


Merry Christmas!
Happy Birthday, Jesus!