Yesterday we went to the park. We had some rolls left over from Katie's Bridal Shower to get rid of, it was a gorgeous day, and Jason really needed some time to play with his new camera. Jason took over 200 photos! He was playing with the "action sequence" function so he got some really good shots of consecutive actions, hence the name I guess. I narrowed it down to about 50 that I wanted to post. I'm going to break those up over a few days. Today, it's just the feeding of the ducks. Only 5 for today. I think tomorrow will be the swinging ones, and there will be about 15 of those. On Wednesday, we have the UltraSound where we will, hopefully, find out WHO the babies are, so I'll do an intro (I hope) post for them. There are some great shots of Izzy out for a stroll, James playing B-Ball and Jayden sliding that I want to share later in the week.I hope everyone has a great week. It seems that our week will be interesting and somewhat revealing! The weather will be decent, forcast for the mid 50's, so it will be wonderful beginning of Spring weather! Prayers and blessings everyone!
It's returned, Almost Silent Sunday has come back! YAY!!! With Jason's new toy, I'm going to try to take many more candid photos during the week so I have fodder for Sundays, and other days of the week, and for scrapbooking (need to get a photo color cartridge for the printer). I had Jason do these this afternoon. He was bumming because he couldn't get his external flash, or whatever it is called, to work. So it's back to the instruction book for him! And if that doesn't work, he does have a 90 day warrenty that should cover faulty equipment. The camera works wonderfully on it's own. Here I am at about 18 1/2 weeks along. I feel HUGE. I guess that is to be expected as there are TWO in there! I think I have got to be close to the size that I was with Izzy when I was around 7 months along with him, at least it certainly feels that way. I'm one of those that doesn't show for what seems forever and then all the sudden, BAM, it becomes OBVIOUS. That usually happens MUCH later in the pregnancy. Here I am in all my glory. Some serious (not many) and mostly goofy me in my pregnant glory. Prayers and blessings everyone, I hope you all have a wonderful week.
I know I haven't done this in a while and I thought it would be nice to get back in the groove. Before I explain the pics, have you noticed that odd popping noise when my page loads? Yes? Scroll to the bottom and you have the opportunity to play one of my FAVORITE games on Pogo.com. Poppit is fun, and it's stress relieving. Imagining the faces of those you are angry with, or the cause of your stress being in the balloon, and popping it is rather satisfying! Give it a go!With that being said, this is Izzy as you all know and adore. He has taken to getting in to the cabinet where we harbor our cleaning products. Keep in mind that pretty much all of our products are "green friendly" so they really aren't nearly as harmful to Izzy as they could be, however we still don't want him playing around with the stuff. Jason got the bright idea to use an old spray bottle, no, we don't use that brand of cleaner any more, it's now Arm & Hammer with Baking Soda or the Green Works All Purpose cleaner, and take some water and dish soap, the dish soap also being Green Works, and giving it to the budding cleaner. Then he took pics, at my direction. Jason hasn't been taking nearly as many pics lately. I need to keep bugging him about that. Anyway, this was the end result of the cleaning endeavor. If only we could get him to pick up the toys with that much enthusiasm! Prayers and blessings everyone, and I hope you have a great week!
I'm going to admit that I've been slack. You are going to notice that suddenly I'll have posts for the past week up all at once. Sorry about that, but I've been in a funk, so here is something new.Jason and I went out on Friday. The dinner was good. The symphony was boring. Not to mention the climbing 4 flights of stairs in heels. The seats were way far up, which in all honesty, isn't such a bad thing, at least as far as going to the symphony is concerned. That being said, the Kalamazoo Symphony leaves something to be desired. I don't know if half of them were sick or what. There around 50 string instruments. And then the rest.
Let me see. 2 Flutes. 2 Clarinets. 2 Oboes. 2 Bassoons. 3 Trombones. 1 Tuba. 2 Trumpets. 4 French Horns. 1 Percusionist, who only played the timpani. Yeah. I KNOW that with the symphony the strings will outnumber the rest of the instruments, but this seems a bit scarce to me.
So here are pics from the evening. Getting ready and all of that. No, I'm not sure why my face looks so white in the last two photos, I SWEAR it didn't look that way in the mirror in the bathroom. Ah well. No one said anything in person, so either they weren't paying that much attention or it really didn't look like that. I like the dress that I wore. Katie Ann saw it and said it would be perfect for her wedding if I wanted to wear it there, so WOOHOO on that, I don't need to buy a new one now. Looking at the pics, I don't look as pretty as I felt for some reason. Or maybe that is my perception. Who knows.
Here is the first. My hair, from the front/side, and my ever present can of Mt. Dew. I got the curls by putting it in bobby pins the night before and leaving it until about 3 in the afternoon on Friday. Hence the name "pin curls".
Here are my clothes, all layed out on the bed. Don't mind the mess on the floor. I made the shawl myself. It has a crochet stitch that I took from a sweater pattern. I made up the dimensions of the shawl as I went.
Here is the jewelry. What can I say, we took a lot of pics with the getting ready process. I made the brown necklace. The grey/black pearls are a gift from Jason last Christmas. I made the bracelet as well. That is mood beads. A cool thing I got from my day trip to Shipshewana. The earrings are gold and silver from Avon. The pin is silver and glass crystals that I have had for ages. I picked it up when we were doing the Renn Faire stuff for a summer (1/2 summer?).
This is Jason. He got angry with me on Thursday night because I was on his case about what he was going to wear. I'd been asking him all week. I figured he'd better figure it out Thursday night so that it could be washed and/or ironed before we needed to walk out the door on Friday. Considering all of our "dressy" type stuff is in tubs in the basement, it was a good call.
Here I am doing my makeup. Like I said, a lot of pics. If you look, my face is NOT all whited out. I don't know why it did that in the final pics. Kind of annoys me really. Oh well. You can see the back of my hair. It's not all curled because it's too short. I have discovered that while I would LOVE to have long sexy hair, it just annoys me as soon as it touches my neck. So long on top and tiered/layered/wedged in the back it is.
These are the last two pics. The first is obviously just me. The 2nd is Jason and I. My sis did the honors. Pay no mind to my orangeish skin and white face. Jason tried to fix my face in Photoshop and unfortunately you can't just add red tones to just one part of the photo. Or so I understand. It was WHITER. Oh well.
Prayers and blessings everyone, I hope that you had a pleasent weekend. Did you get your dinner stuff together for the big meal on Thursday? I bought the Turkey, everything else is being bought on Wednesday.
Well, as you all know, Halloween was this past week. We ventured out with all of the goblins, ghouls, witches, pirates, kings, and princesses (why are the girls always princesses and NOT queens? Just curious) to go begging house to house for that coveted treat that is in the rarest form around this house, CANDY!
James is a Pirate. His own choice. His boots are left over from when Jason and I did a season (or was it 1/2 a season?) on the Renn Faire Circuit with Swords of Valour. I have some pics with them, maybe I'll put those up later this month when I'm searching for post topics. Anyway, I digress as usual. I went everywhere looking for a BROWN pirate hat and I finally found one at KMart. I was going to make his costume, however the current Bane of My Existence, also known as our dining room, never was cleaned (yeah, that's ALL me) so MF Jenn bought it for him. Thanks Aunt Jenn!
Jayden is a Fairy. The pink and blue is a costume I made a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. It's actually about 6 years old. It has been passed from girl to girl as dress up clothes. Jayden wanted to be a fairy, so she wore that. The skirt on it is rather short, so I bought her a 2nd wrap around skirt to go over it. The wings come from her "personal collection". She owns three pair after all. She's a collector of wings I guess you could say!
Izzy is wearing a Jester's costume. It is something that I originally made for James when he was 4. He wore it that year for Halloween. It has a matching hat (that we can't find right now), and it DID have bells, however they all came off in the wash OR Izzy yanked them off. I didn't bother to replace them because Izzy would have yanked them off all over again.
I must apologize in advance for the rolly polly belly and the multiple pictures of my butt in baggy jeans. I was walking, Jason was photo taking. I do like the sweater however. I got two of them, one in that green, and one in a soft rose pink. They were $12 a piece at Wal-Mart.
On to the photos!
Prayers and blessings everyone, I hope that your coming week is wonderful!
I don't know what I want to use for pics this week, so I'll edit this space most likely tomorrow after I think on it. Prayers and blessings everyone, I hope you have a great week.
All right, I know it's technically Tuesday now. However I have a couple of different photo posts to do, so this will be the 1st, and then I'll do a new and different one for Tuesday, cool?
First off, 3D Pictograms. Some times called stereograms. Yes, those things you stare at and are supposed to see the "magic" picture. When I was younger, I could NOT do them, at all, ever. I was Ross from "Friends". I didn't see a boat or the Statue of Liberty or the Bunny or none of it! For some reason, now that I'm older, I CAN see them. Maybe it's my failing eyesight. Maybe I'm slowly slipping in to insanity and it's easier to "un-focus" the eyes a bit. Maybe it's easier for me to allow my mind to "see but not see". Who cares. I got the following ones from a site called 3D Stereograms - Eye Tricks. Go there and check out the HUNDREDS they have to offer.
In the meantime, enjoy the 6 I'm offering you here. 
This is going to be a regular Sunday happening around here. Pics from the week to go up on Sunday. Well, not JUST Sundays, but definately ON Sundays. For most ladies it is called "Silent Sunday". I'm just too much of a talker for that, so mine are Almost Silent Sundays. Thank you Brandi, over at My Mountain Morning, for the idea.
Today, we went to my mom's. While there, we went to a Corn Maze at New Salem Farms. Is it New Salem Farms or is that just the name of the maze? I have no idea. My mom was telling me that it was called New Salem because it's where the witches who were fleeing persecution during the Salem Witch Trials came to set up a new coven. I need to do more research to figure out how accurate that is or not.
As this is Almost Silent Sunday, I'll get on with the photos! We went to the maze with my sis, Katie, my nephew, Alex, my mom and step-dad, also known as Dad around here. Jason stayed home for an afternoon/evening of rest, relaxation, and cleaning.
We went in to the maze down at the bottom, by the teeth of the skull. We came out at the top, by the clouds. The above shots are taken from the bridge, which is the big white thing in the middle. We got to a false start. We got all kinds of turned around. Ironically, James was leading the way to begin with and he was going in the right direction! He thought we were in a completely different part of the maze, but he had us going the right way at least! The kids also each got a pumpkin and we'll be painting those this week. The photos of the scarecrows and the hay bale creations are off center because I was taking them from the back of the wagon. We rode the wagon to the beginning of the maze and once we came out and picked our pumpkins, took the wagon back to the farm. I'll let the photos speak for themselves from this point. Enjoy!
