With the advent of a smartphone with a decent camera in the house, I’ve started a tumblr blog to share photos – because it’s just so much easier. We’ll still have updates here, but the other will have far more frequent additions. So check it out, bookmark it, subscribe to the rss feed, maybe use the Tumblr app if you have a smartphone… Whatever works for you.
Enjoy!
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Elves, “helping” with gift-wrapping.
Christmas Eve – pjs! And B got a griffin – he was very pleased. A was very happy with her American Girls’ dog too.
Christmas was on a Sunday and we opened stockings in the morning, then went to church, then came home and changed back into jammies to open gifts.
Christmas Day highlights included personalized books, a lego castle, an American Girl doll, art set, unicorn pjs, cats in boxes, a pocket Simon game (very big hit), cameras (note all the fisheye photos)… clearly “Santa didn’t bring much things.”
Merry Christmas to all!
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Here’s November and the last of December, 2011.
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Our boy, about to turn seven!
What happened to my baby?
newborn
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Thanksgiving 2011
Here’s our buddy boy, at nearly 7:
Look below the more tag if you’re a grandparent or otherwise interested in wishlist notes for the boy’s birthday – and Christmas.
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Our girl at 9 …
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This is a video from uncle CD that the kids (okay, adults too) can’t get enough of… so we share!
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Click here for Flickr slideshow.
Or copy and paste the following: http://www.flickr.com//photos/falwyn/sets/72157628098358685/show/
I’ve been fortunate to get to attend not one but two writing “camps” this year.
The first was Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp – a very intense writing workshop. I’d applied two years ago, but didn’t get in then. This year, though, I did! (Plus I got a scholarship for it, too.) It was in North Carolina, the first week of August this year. The experience was amazing – very intense, exhausting, SO MUCH work, but awesome. Highlights included getting to know my fellow campers and classmates, dinner at Orson Scott Card’s house, finishing a short story in 24 hours (just not the first ones, in my case… but it all worked out), and all the critiquing – seeing so many of the same story problems coming up over and over really helps you start to understand how it works. It’s also encouraging, that all these other talented writers make mistakes too. 🙂
If Boot Camp was all business, David Farland’s Writers’ Death Camp was … a little less so. Or more so, if you’re looking at what we learned in class about target audiences, publishing vs. epublishing, taxes, and other business aspects of writing. But in the writing sense it was more of a retreat, busy, but with less outside pressure. Which is good too. It was held in gorgeous (if chilly in November) St. George, I got to room with three friends from Boot Camp, got to meet many other lovely people, and we did a lot of hiking as well as idea sessions and even writing. 😉 It was a great time where I also learned a lot. (Oh, and the last night we hung in Vegas! See the Lord of the Rings slot machine that I obviously HAD to take a photo of! It’s fantasy!.)
I’m so grateful that I got to go to both of these, especially to my family for supporting me in it.
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This year for Halloween we had a ladybug, Rainbow Dash (the pegasus My Little Pony), and Mario and Luigi. Trunk or treating, plus a homeschool Halloween party. Good times.
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Swimming.
The fourth of July! Morning flag raising, and then parade in town.
Visiting with my friend Karla.
Cat wounds. Doesn’t he look sweet when he’s sleeping?
Pioneer day and watermelon!
Kids learning to play chess.
Swimming at the grandparents’ house.
Kids losing teeth! Including Bambam losing his front teeth.
First week of August – I went to North Carolina for my writing workshop.
Yard work – the weeds sure do GROW in the summer.
Video game success!?!
Pandagirl got a massive shard of wood in her foot from the wood floor – but she got better.
And then – our girl’s birthday!
Visit from Uncle Chris.
School of course – complete with our schoolroom cat…
Dog and his toy.
Pumpkin painting!
Visit from Grandpa David and Uncle Chris. Plus, visiting the zoo!
I performed “When You Believe,” from Prince of Egypt, with a friend in a local show.
Apple Annie’s – and the corn maze and pumpkin patch.
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Wanted to share this video Neil took of two weeks ago when we had a crazy rainstorm and our gravel road became a river…
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the girl the boy
The Cactus Wrens 