Saturday, April 19, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Around the House
We have our old TV sitting in the office and Brad hooked up a little plug and play game to it. Usually Alex just plays it but Johnny decided he'd give it a try. He was quite frustrated right away because all the buttons were too hard to understand and so he asked Alex for help. This is her helping him. Some how it works. Johnny feels like he's being involved and Alex gets to play the game. At least they're working it out.
Playing around with my new flash diffuser.LOVE it!
I just got these lap trays for when we go on trips this summer. They have pockets on either side to store things and the kids have been using them for coloring on. Tonight we decided to see how they'd work for our picnic dinner in the living room. Worked great!
And this is what I get now when I ask Johnny to smile for me. Brad thinks it's hilarious but I just roll my eyes at all the failed photo shoots I see in my future. I am working around the sourpuss smile with lots of questions so he doesn't think about smiling. I had to post one like this though for the records. And that about sums it up!
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
The Hotel Cafe Tour
The Hotel Cafe Tour has come and gone to Boise, Idaho. 19 artists and a band got together to tour the US and the ones that performed while in Boise were Ingrid Michaelson, Cary Brothers, Meiko, Jesca Hoop, William Fitzsimmons and Jim Bianco. I forgot to bring my ID which I didn't think mattered since I wasn't planning on ordering any drinks at the bar but then found out that because of my forgetfullness I got to have the back of each hand marked with a big fat permanent "X". I woke up this morning with a copy of one of those X's on my cheek. If anything else I able to pretend I was 10 years younger. I couldn't bring my camera in the club so I took a few pictures with my camera phone. Here's what I got...
Ingrid Michaelson:
fun to watch, amazing voice, likes to talk to the crowd.
Cary Brothers:
Not as "swoony" as some may have thought him to be.
And one of Wendy, Me and Kris...very flattering.
The performance went on until late into the night and we didn't get home until midnight because we had to stick around to hear Ingrid sing "The Way I Am" at the very end, right before their final song where every artist there got on stage to sing "Rainbow Connection". At one point Ingrid was trying to remember the words to the "Save By The Bell" theme song (I kid you not). They often came out in twos and threes and sang their songs together. At one point a few of the singers and the band came into the crowd and sang an acoustic version of "Sing" with the audience. There were a few on the tour that I would've loved to hear perform but it was a fun night indeed.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Grammie, Auntie Ri & Hunter!
Last week was Sariah's spring break and she decided to head out here to Idaho and spend it with us. She brought Hunter and Grammie along for the ride and we had so much fun with them out here. We got to help celebrate Hunter's birthday with a trip to Chuck E Cheese. He had been asking for it before they were planning on coming out here and there isn't a Chuck E Cheese in Eureka where he lives so it worked out for him to be out here near his birthday. We brought Alex's cousins Logan and Ethan along with us and they all got to go crazy for a couple of hours.
While they were here we also took advantage of the snow still on the mountain. We took Hunter snowboarding for the first time and Alex got to show off her skills on the magic carpet. Of course Hunter was frustrated because he wanted to go faster and Alex was afraid she was going too fast at times. She usually either crashed near the bottom of the mountain or kept on skiing towards the lodge so we would have to hike back up. I guess next year we'll work on slowing down and turning.
The kids also got to go see "Horton Hears a Who" at the theater which was cute and they always enjoy the experience of sitting in a theater watching a movie on a huge screen. Not to mention the popcorn and soda that goes along with it.
A week never seems long enough, can't wait until this summer when we get to go visit them in Cali!
Monday, March 24, 2008
Easter egg hunt with the cousins.
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