Tuesday, December 22, 2009

A Week In Fastforward

Although it's been two weeks since Ted, Michelle, and Zoe were here, I just needed to post some of my favorite pics.

Of course we have to start out with one cute family:
And I'm afraid the rest are of Zoe, she stole the show. :) She makes the best faces.
And when she feels like she's been left out of a conversation, she let's herself be heard.
She looks so intelligent. I think she knows something I don't.
With Grandpa.
With Aunt Sarah.
Rockin' her shades.

I miss my baby already...

Sunday, December 13, 2009

On the Carousel

Ted, Michelle, and Zoe were just here to visit and we went up to the Carousel Mall on Friday. Of course we had to take Zoe on the carousel. She liked it.
Ok, she loved it. She's totally ready for roller coasters. Whoohoo!!
Mom went too.
Grandma and all the aunts with the babe.
And with Mommy.
Of course Anna and I had to go on.
It was rather thrilling.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Enjoying the Whobilation

Today Anna and I were Who's. And it was great.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Thanksgiving Weekend

We had several out of town friends over for Thanksgiving who also stayed with us for the week. It was really fun getting to hang out with them.

The lovely table. Feel free to feast your eyes on those delightful leaf place cards. Anna and I both got carpal tunnel from cutting those out, but it was so worth it. Mr. and Mrs. Pilgrim decided to join us, made out of old film role cases. Yes, from back in the dark ages.
Our rather long table (or three).
That weekend we went out to the restaurant that Teresa and Emily work at for dessert.
Anna H. (whom we lovingly called "big Anna" since we had two), Emily, and me.
Our two lovely servers. The place was basically empty except for us, so they got to hang out with us for some of the time and steal bites of our desserts.
Out in front of the lit-up moose.
And of course Dad couldn't be left out of the fun!
It was also good to take a break from normal life and think about the things I was thankful for. I really have quite a long list.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

The Breakfast Test

"The people I love are always somewhere else and not able to come to me, while I can at any time fill the house with visitors about whom I know little and care less. Perhaps, if I saw more of those absent ones, I would not love them so well— at least, that is what I think on wet days when the wind is howling round the house and all nature is overcome with grief; and it has actually happened once or twice when great friends have been staying with me that I have wished, when they left, I might not see them again for at least ten years. I suppose the fact is, that no friendship can stand the breakfast test, and here, in the country, we invariably think it our duty to appear at breakfast. Civilisation has done away with curl-papers, yet at that hour the soul of the Hausfrau is as tightly screwed up in them as was ever her grandmother's hair; and though my body comes down mechanically, having been trained that way by punctual parents, my soul never thinks of beginning to wake up for other people till lunch-time, and never does so completely till it has been taken out of doors and aired in the sunshine. Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning? It is the hour of savage instincts and natural tendencies; it is the triumph of the Disagreeable and the Cross. I am convinced that the Muses and the Graces never thought of having breakfast anywhere but in bed."

-Elizabeth and Her German Garden

Friday, November 13, 2009

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Of Almost Finishing

Despite all of my good intentions for finishing my term paper early, it will be completed tomorrow...which is the deadline. And I've had months! Yesterday I finished taking notes, wrote the introduction and the outline. Today I spent 7 hours at the computer writing 3 of the 4 sections.

This is my inspiration: (it's going on my title page)
I'm doing my paper on Donaldina Cameron, a woman who rescued thousands of Chinese slave girls brought into San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1800's to early 1900's. Tomorrow I'm DONE!!! It will be lovely...