Emergency Exits

What do yo mean we can't sit in an exit row?! We were the only ones who listened to the entire safty talk.....

Party

Some highlights:
Matt and his flash cards



Amber walking

and us girls testing out Matt's toys(quality control is important...)

We had a good time with family and freinds and Matt (and the rest of us) enjoyed playing with our new toys.

Nostalgia

As I half carried my three year old to bed, and the intricate bed time routine that followed (yes of course Mr. Train and Mr. Truck will come too. Your flash cards? Sure. Thirsty? OK, fine. Yes, I will snuggle and read you Hop on Pop. Old MacDonald? I guess. No really, I am leaving now, good night. "alright... *pout* nigh-nigh mom, luv you"


I recalled earlier years where getting him to sleep was much, much simpler:

At the zoo

Tatertude: Matt got to go into the petting zoo, while Amber had to sit on the sidelines.

How I spent my Spring semester

Many long hours spent in front of this NMR machine, controlling that large metal cylinder by this antiquated computer and interpreting the squiggles produced by this ancient plotter printer. Then handing in the reports of analysis based on NMR and IR spectroscopy and discovering just what exactly was in my tubes of unknown chemicals. Fun, no?

the long awaited B-Day pics

OK, I am a slacker and these should have been up 2 months ago! Gunslinger fans "I cry your pardon"

in the party dress opening presents

awaiting our princess cake complete with tiara

The wake of destruction left behind by Princess Tater (with a bit of help from her frosting thieving brother and their friend Joe)

Spring break...

Well, last weekend Aunt Kris brought us some snow to play with... little did I know that we would soon have our own. This is how I started my Spring Break. (Now I can honestly tell my children that I had to walk in the snow to get to school.)


P.S. Pictues of Amber's birthday party will follow sometime this weekend!

Avatars

Okay, here is mine...

Happy New Year

Lets start the New Year off right, squeaky clean!

POWER! (and Happy New Year)

Yea the lights came back on! We were without power for about 10 hours. Matt kept trying to turn on the TV and couldn't understand why there was no Wiggles to watch. And no hot coffee for his grumpy parents, what a fun morning. But it's getting back to normal now.

Hope that everyone has a safe and happy new year!

the blonde grrl

Keep your comments to yourself... just kidding

It was brought to my attention (thanks Uncle Pete) that only registered users could post comments on my blog. So I've now changed the settings and you may now comment without having to sign up for blogger.
That being said, I retain the right to moderate the comments. So I still may veto what gets written on my page...(e.g. no leaking of embarrassing childhood nicknames to my friends and colleagues)

As Matt says "nigh-nigh"

I'm a slacker....

I'm sorry! I know that I promised that I would get pictures up last night. I started working on my sweater and I couldn't put it down. (I'm posting a picture of it on my knitting page) At 2:30 last night I finally set down the needles and just went to bed.To make up for it I am posting 3 pictures. The fist 2 are of my kids and my brother and his new wife, Viki who we just got to meet. This picture is a poor soul dressed as Santa trying to hang on to my delightful urchins! :)

ipods

I finally got my ipod back from the apple servicing center and all my files back on it today. It died a week before finals and I had a lot of my chemistry lectures recorded and stored on it. At least its up and running for next semester, right?

Pins and Needles

I went to my first acupuncture session today, and I kept thinking that I must look like Neo from The Matrix as they rebuilt his muscles. But as I was laying face down I didn't actually get to see any on the needles nor could I feel them once they were in. I felt pretty good afterwards, so I would recommend it and I'm going back next week.

I think I will try to post a picture on Sundays, that way everyone can check it out on Monday mornings while they are supposed to be working. Here is one of my favorites of Chris and the kids from about 3 months ago. Matt got a haircut and Amber is even bigger, but they are still pretty much the same cuddle bugs.

One stop shopping

When finals are really and trully over I will get this blog set up to appeal to the masses: baby pictures for the family, game content for my fellow gamers, science news for my fellow geeks, knitting content for the other geeks I know, and even some personal rants on what may have irked me today.
Until then,
the little blonde grrl