Afternoon Photo Session

Miriam's 1st B-Day (in Eau Claire)

We were up in Eau Claire to celebrate both Miriam's 1st birthday and her cousin Aurora's 3rd birthday, on Sunday, January 4. Aurora's birthday was 12/25; Miriam's is 1/12 (tomorrow actually). We tried to meet close to the middle.

This 1st clip shows the cousins gathering together for photos before the cake comes out.

I love this 2nd clip where Jonah is shamelessly eating the candies off the cake. Hilarious!

Messy Supper

The following clips were filmed on 12-11-08.

Miriam was having a rather messy supper. She thinks it's funny to smear food into her hair.

This second clip was taken a few minutes later. During which time she managed to add to the mess she'd already started in her hair.

Very difficult to get three children
to look at a camera

Aunt Sarah was trying to teach Miriam how to climb stairs.
Good idea or bad idea? I'm not sure

Miriam playing with Bika for the first time

It's been a while, hasn't it? I'm a bit shocked when I look at the date of our last post.

Anyway...

Tonight I caught a great encounter between Miriam and Bika. We both absolutely love Miriam's laugh.

Apple Sauce Girl

Old Photos

A couple months ago, I used my EPSON scanner to scan some old photos of me and my sister. The photos were taken in late 1977, so they have yellowed. I was hoping to just use Adobe Photoshop's Auto Levels adjustment tool and everything we be magically fixed, but this wasn't so. I feel very lukewarm about the results. Once again I have come to the conclusion that I realy need to learn how to use Photoshop.

Below are the two pictures before I adjusted them with Photoshop.

Now, here are what the images look like after the Auto Levels adjustment. Certainly, there is less of that yellowing look, but the colors still leave a lot to be desired. Any suggestions all you Photoshop gurus out there? :-)

Ducks at Riverside Park (Watertown, WI)

Today (June 21st), we went to Riverside Park to feed the ducks. The park is in Watertown and it has been flooded for the last few weeks. We all really enjoy going down there and feeding the ducks with stale loaves of bread.

My first time swinging

The Tongue

The best part of the day.

Miriam is not impressed with her first parade.

Yummy Toes

'Oober McGoober' drooling on the bed

Amy's first blog post

Moved to Watertown

Hey everyone!

Sorry for the big delay. As of mid-March, I started off my career as a librarian by taking a job at the Watertown Public Library (Watertown, Wisconsin). Since I've started working 40 hours a week, I haven't had time to keep up with email, let alone the blog.

That being said, Amy has declared a desire to start uploading images and videos to the blog. Please be patient. She has tons to learn. :-)

All Apologies

Howdy folks!

I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for not getting newer images/videos uploaded. I realize it's been almost a month! (Time is flying!) Things got halted when I was unable to upload a 100MB+ video from our Valentine's Day evening. I didn't want to move on and wreck the chronological order of pictures (I know that sounds obsessive, but hey I'm a librarian: order matters), so I somehow let it halt everything.

While I'm trying to get more uploads prepared, may I suggest to anyone who is new to blogs, or reading blog posts, that you consider using a news/feed reader like Google Reader or Bloglines. (I use Bloglines.) Basically, you sign up for an account through one of these services. Then, you subscribe to blogs that you tend to frequent (email me if you have questions on how to do this as it can vary). This way instead of having to go to each blog that you read to see if there are updates, you just log into your Bloglines or Google Reader account and it'll indicate whether there are new entries for your subscribed blogs. It's pretty handy!

Miri in car seat on dryer (2/9/2008)

Miri was having a crying fit so Amy put her in her car seat and set her on the running dryer to simulate the feeling of riding in a car. It actually worked...for a while!

Beauty & the Beast (2/7/2008)

Beauty...


...and the Beast

Finally caught-up!

I just realized that we haven't taken many pictures of Miriam since the week after she was born. (Sometimes we think she doesn't even look the same as she did the first two weeks or so. We understand this is normal.) I think the only reason I didn't take new ones is simply because I have been overwhelmed with getting caught-up in blog-posting the ones we'd already had. I'm going to need to find some balance in doing this in the days to come.

Peter & Sarah's visit - Miriam meets her cousins for the first time (1/18/2008)

Uncle Peter and Aunt Sarah came down to meet Miriam for the first time a week after Miriam's arrival. Their boys (Miriam's only cousins to date) were curious about their new cousin.

From left: Jonah, Aidan, and Uncle Peter with Miriam. I like this picture (too bad Auntie Sarah isn't in it to complete the family a bit more). For whatever reason, I can't help but think this photo has some sort of Norman Rockwell qualities to it. Call me crazy. :-)

From left: Jonah and Aidan with Miriam. Aidan was more than eager to hold...sometimes he was almost too insistent to hold her.

From left: Jonah, Aidan, and Aunt Sarah with Miriam.

Aidan and Jonah hamming it up for the camera.

Jonah sporting his dad's extra large hat and shoes.

'The boys' don't know what to think of their crying cousin.

Cutesy pics (1/18 to 1/25/2008)

The above picture is a favorite of ours. I am currently using it as wallpaper on my desktop computer. We have also chosen to use it for our ever-so-delayed birth announcements. Admittedly, the picture is a bit blurry or grainy. This is because I couldn't use the flash: flashes always wake her up.

With a slight case of the hiccups.

Notice the little weasel peaking at me while I complain about our sleeplessness.