What have we been up to?

Gymnastics (like you had to ask!) and tennis....



..school...

..taking pictures and swinging (when it's warm enough)...


...watching for birds..


...and playing the piano.

Latest Gymnastics Meet.

Results: 1st- Beam, 2nd-Floor, 4th-Vault, 5th-Bars, 3rd All-Around. Abby's meet started strong, then ended with some mistakes. All in all she did well. (On a side note, I rented a great lens for my new camera for the competition. I got some great pictures!!!!!) Good job Abby, we are all very proud of you.

Pictures of the week

These are some pictures from a cabin at the camp where my parents live. I had fun using Picassa to do some editing. Just random pictures, nothing exciting! Abby has a competition this weekend though so we will have more interesting posts later!
 

 

 

 

Pictures from the ice/snow storm of '09

We received power back on Thursday night and are settled back in our house. We still have many friends without power and thousands of others both in our city and across our state without power and some without water. Please continue to pray for our state, it's a mess! But here are some fun pictures. (note how thick the ice is on our fence, which is under our carport, it was even thicker on the powerlines, etc.)







This tree is nothing but ice, no snow, just ice. Fortunately this tree survived the storm and is standing up straight again. (these branches don't touch the ground on a normal day!)

Ice Storm '09!!

Some of you may have heard that there was a bit of storm that just moved through. Or as Jim Cantore of The Weather Channel called it "a Crippling Ice Storm". That was not much of an exageration. We are currently without power, along with about 200,000 other homes. Not much power is restored as of yet. I have pictures, but since the computer at home is not working I can't upload them. So, until the lights are home (and the house has heated up!) we will update the blog. Until then here is to staying warm. (and thanks to my in-laws for allowing us to crash at their house indefinitely!)

More pictures....(I promise I won't post this much for long!)

These are some of my recent favorites!

Samuel agrees to have his picture taken, and then takes some himself.

Pictures from Claire's birthday- finally!

We had fun celebrating at Chuck E Cheese with Grammy and Grandpa. Claire loved riding rides, eating cupcakes, and her new tutu. (and I enjoyed taking pictures with my new camera. Did I mention I got a new camera already? oh I did??? Ok, I'll stop!)

First photo shoot with my new camera-oh yeah, and it snowed here last night.

I was able to take some random pictures of the kids today with my new toy. Most of the pictures were of Claire since it is her birthday and also because she was the most willing participant. (everybody else is already tired of me taking pictures!) Sorry there are so many, I just couldn't choose which ones to post!




This is the only picture of Samuel I could get!