Haley and Parker in the Snow

 

 

Our House: Night in the Snow

Official 2008 Christmas Pictures

One of the worst winter storms since 2004, we take advantage of the wintery white weather to take our annual Christmas picture. Annie doesn't much like this picture because of all the snowflakes. I think it is great!

Haley is pretty happy. She is getting 3 weeks off for Christmas break. And Parker? Oh, he is always happy.

Haley "Dogtag" Becomes Keychain Gift to Her Mom

Artscow.com has great specials on unique photo items.  They recently had $8.99 "dogtags" for humans- $.99 shipped!  This arrived with a keychain style necklace.  Annie liked it so much I went ahead and put it on her key ring.  Nice, yes?

Our House in the Fall

 

Another Test Post...This time Polaroid PHOTOS!!

Using "Launchy" (software to quickly launch programs) I start "Windows Live Writer". There is a button for "plugins" and this is a cool one...Polaroid picture maker!

Clothes Hanging to Dry on Back Patio

Annie Loves Corn From Mom and Dad's Farm

The type of corn is "Jubilee".

Cool Tool for making Word "PICTURES"

 

from their website: "Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."

 

Test Post!

This is a test post using "Windows Live Writer".  It is supposed to make it easier to make posts to this blog.

I just added a drop shadow and made it so I can wrap text to the right side of the picture.

I can insert hyperlinks, pictures, tables, maps, tags, and videos.  It will also allow me to add plug-ins, although I'm not sure what that means.

Anyway I am well impressed and think from now on I will use this setting.

(only concern is what pictures will look like when they are clicked on).

 

That's all for now!

Hagg Lake Xcountry Pics

These are pictures that Haley took on the evening portion of daily doubles for cross country.

Parker Loves "Bopping" Balloons!

To get his physical exercise Parker loves two things:

1. Catching Frisbees
2. Bopping Balloons!