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Arden turns 2

Well, we just had Arden’s birthday party this past weekend. Her real birthday is January 6th, the Epiphany. The day after her birthday we went to a children’s museum in Lynchburg. We had a great time. It was in a converted warehouse structure and had 4 floors filled with a variety of activities. There were a lot of things to do, a farm play area, slides, the obligatory water table. Some of the stuff I can really get into, like the water table for instance. It was a fiberglass table contoured like miniature rivers and canals, with real working locks that raised and lowered the boats.

I’ve posted some pictures of the trip here.

Then We had to get ready for Arden’s party. Ann made a cake and cut it out in the shape of Winni the Pooh.
Overall the party was pretty successful. Pix can be seen Here The only damper on it was McKelvey and Arden being a little sick. In fact, Arden threw up that night. Poor little miss.

So now we are relaxing at home hoping they recuperate, they enjoy the fact that they get to watch more TV.

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Holiday card 2005

As usual we made our holiday card this year. I guess I just can’t let go of the option of doing it myself. Plus Ann and I love to design things: sets, lights, paint treatments for the house, tables. everything that can be looked at from a design point of view.

We decided to try a new take on the holiday card and the year in review newsletter. From our iPhoto library we selected one picture from each month. Then we cropped a copy of the image into a square format. That became the cover. Then we repeated the square format inside, with a brief blurb for what we did each month.

Although, the link to the cover is an alternate version I did. The final version kept the original color of the images instead of the colorized B/W images.

I thought it turned out pretty good.

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Turkey day 2005

Well Thanksgiving has come and gone, it was both a blur and passing slowly at the same time. The pictures are here as you can see we had both sets of grandparents visiting. Now growing up, Thanksgiving at our house was mostly just my parents, my brothers and I. This year was different, with the extended family around and it was really great. Seeing them playing with the kids or talking while we were making the meal just made all the difference. All in all, Thanksgiving this year gave me a nice warm fuzzy feeling, that was in part from being able to wear my comfy slippers all day.

I also built the Dining room table and just finished it in time (literally). It has a stained glass window inset into the tabletop, with lights from below of course. After 3 some years of being here it is about time I got a table for the dining room don’t you think?