This weekend we decided to take a trip down to the local park since the weather was fairly nice and it wasn’t raining. It was Maddy’s first trip to the park. I remember when Jakob was Madison’s age and his first time swinging and going down the same slide. We took the camera along and I had Josh snap some photos. Below I am posting the pictures of me swinging and sliding for the first time with both Jakob (on the left) & Madison (on the right). I think it’s so cool. Ironically my hairstyle is just about the same too. I don’t actually wear my hair like that so much anymore, so I think it’s really funny that I just so happen to have the same hairdo in these photos.
So if you haven’t played around with Scrapblog yet, you should. It is so much fun and yet another great way to waste time while on the internet. I decided today to play around with it and put together a little Halloween scrapblog (see below). It’s a pretty interesting little online app and it definitely has a ton of fun graphics for decorating your family photos with. Now that I have spent all of my morning at the computer, I better get to doing something constructive such as cleaning the remains of the Jakob tornado that lies around me.
You can view this little slideshow full screen here!
I just can’t believe I am going to wake up tomorrow morning and it is going to be November of 2008. It seems to me the more children you have the faster life flies by. Madison is already 6 months old and it has me baffled as to where the time has gone.
Tonight was one of the most wonderful Halloween evenings I have ever had. Jakob dressed as Darth Vader and was blessed with an oustanding light saber made by Yoda (Grandpa Lee). Maddy was a sweet little black kitty…that’s right…be careful if she crosses your path! The weather was perfect. The leaves were rustling along the road, the air smelled of the sweetness of autumn and Jakob is old enough now that he doesn’t want us to walk him to each and every door. In fact we often had to ask him to slow down and wait for us being as he was getting lost in the roaming swarms of children running to and fro guided by shouting parents. The most intelligent thing we did this year was to drive to a close well lit neighborhood unlike our own. The houses were beautifully decorated, the streets were well lit and full of dressed up children. I felt like I was an extra on the set of Hocus Pocus. Below I have posted just a few of the load of photos I have taken of our festivities this month. If you are interested in viewing any more of them you can take a look here
Jakob’s first soccer season is officially over. The coolest part is that he finally got his first goal in the very last game. It was so exciting for us to finally see that. I think in many ways it is more exciting as a parent to see them score than it is for them. We were absolutely thrilled. It was wonderful to see the progression of our little guy throughout his season too. We celebrated the end of the soccer season with a pizza party. So I thought I would post a couple photos of the proud parents with our son and his trophy as well as one with his team. Best of all is the crazy face photo included below. I don’t know what he was looking at but the look on his face is priceless!
I have to give it to David Letterman. Thanks for setting this straight. McCain, you are claiming to be the change ticket however your campaign is proving politics as usual. You are not what this nation needs and Sarah Palin is certainly not what this nation needs. I hope and pray that Americans have wizened up and vote for real change on November 4th. It’s a sad day in America when one candidate is insinuating that another candidate is a terrorist to win an election. Votes by fear. Just wrong. Shame on the McCain campaign!
