Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. We sure did. Got back Saturday night, drove thru a lovely snow storm. Nothing like going from 65 degrees and rain to 25 and snow, and everything in-between! Good thing we had lots of weight in the back of the CRV! Today we put out the new bird feeder I got for Christmas, Thanks Dad! The bottom had fallen out of our old one, the duct tape finally gave up.
Walking on a huge drift coated with ice, then snow.
A little more sledding, not as fun as last week!
Then back inside to "make something". LAD got a new baking set, complete with utensils, apron and pans. So we went to work!
Hey, he might as well learn how now!
Don't be fooled by the fork. This was the only part he used it for.
Damn it, I hate these puzzles. Thanks Ma. I thought LAD was going to solve it. Almost. It kept him busy for at least 20 minutes.
We did some Christmas gift exchanging last week when we were in MO with Oma and Aunt Suzie. One package didn't get opened, it was kind of big and kind of, well, uh, big. So we packed it home to IA and it's been sitting behind the tree, being picked at slowly, and ooohed and aaahhed over. LAD asked me yesterday, when we were in WM, if we could open the Lightning Box. I said HUH? and it finally dawned on me, this is what he meant. It is wrapped in Lightning wrapping paper. Last night our friends from DM came up and we did Christmas with them and of course we all scored big time. After all that was over, we decided to let LAD open the "Lightning Box". This was what was in it.
Needless to say he was very excited! It took 6 C Cell batteries. Thankfully, at sometime in the last year or so I had picked up some at the Target Dollar Spot on clearance. Whew. LAD, and Daddy, have been transformed into human tunnels! He's also been racing the train with RC (car from Toy Story). It's been too ccccold to go outside, so it has been a good way to burn off energy!
Today we're still on the first set of batteries and the cargo car has various other vehicles in it.
While I was transferring these videos from the Memory Stick on the video camera, I discovered it contained other videos, clear back to October 31, 2007. I like to shoot some clips on the memory stick to be able to transfer to computer easier than from tape. Obviously I have fallen behind on that job. This was the first video I found. It made my cry.
LAD was almost two. What a difference 13 months, 5 lbs and 3 1/2 inches of tallness can make.
We got a couple inches of sleet, then a couple inches of snow. Travel Not Advised. So we're staying home. Randy cleared the driveway, at least down to the sleet layer! Then also was a good neighbor and cleared the driveway to our west. His snowblower crapped out! I think ours started first pull and has so far been very dependable (knock knock knock on wood)!
So far, LAD's still in PJs, I'm sure we'll be going out a little later today! I think Daddy left us some fluffy spots to hit with out shovels.
Whew, got this caught up this weekend. Been taking photos all along and doing some journaling, and finally got time to print and assemble. I'm doing a combination of Journal Your Christmas with December Daily. Here's how it's turning out so far... I may put a different photo just behind the cover of this. But this looks OK for now! Lots of fun colors here!
Dec 1) I stapled the photo right to the back of the transparency.
Dec 2)
The photo on the right is backed by the sunset photo.
Dec 3)
Then on the back of 3
Dec 4)
I typed my journaling right on the photo then printed it out. Backed it with patterned paper for now.
Dec 5)
Repurposed a glossy magazine advertisement for the background of this page, since I didn't actually have a photo of the event! Duh!
Dec 6)
Another repurposed glossy magazine advertisement. I liked the colors of the word against the black background.
And on the back of the Think page
Dec 7) Printed two 4x6s and glued them back to back. Used a white Sharpie paint pen to draw the line around the photo and write the day-seven.
Did a photo collage in Photoshop and printed it and stuck it in. Did some journaling around the clock photo in white before printing. Drew a while line to separate the photos after I printed it, with a white Sharpie paint pen.
