Wordless (almost) Wednesday

It has been busy around here lately.  Some pics that I will be scrapping in the future.  :D

Jessica and Em

Auntie Jessica holds Conan

Sam refusing to be social

Little Mister attacks his mom

Little Mister after his dip in the pool

Mixed Review Thursday

Today has been a mixed bag of happy and unhappy.  Poor Little Man isn’t feeling well.  Teething has really upset his system.  He has had messy pants and now got a rash (his first diaper rash) and he has a slight temperature.  :(  He went to bed early, and I’m hoping that he will feel better in the morning.
On the happy note, I finally got a new computer.  Yay!  It is an HP Pavilion Elite desktop.  Since I have such rotten luck with laptops, I decided this was the way to go.  At least for now.  We got everything set up and most everything is installed.  I still have to load Photoshop Elements, but otherwise I’m good to go. 
Tomorrow is Tim’s birthday.  Since I’m broke, I can’t really get him anything, but he knows that I would if I could.  We are going to head out to the Puyallup Fair in the morning.  It is the 8th largest fair in the country (down from 7th).  It is about six blocks from our house, so we can walk over.  Since it starts on a Friday, they let you in for free before noon.  We’re going to do that because, after living in Puyallup most of my life, we aren’t that excited about the fair.  The one good thing about the fair is scones!  We always have to get some.  If we don’t go during the 16-day run, we usually can find someone willing to buy us a bag.  I’m making a deal with my mom… I’ll buy a bag for her tomorrow, and she will buy us a bag when she goes in a week or more.  :D  My big plan is to take some pictures so I have some stock photos for creating some art.  And, I’m hoping that Little Man will be up to the trip.  We won’t be there long, so if he’s not up for it, Jessica will just have to miss out.  :p
Tomorrow I will talk to the prof about this upcoming quarter and see what guidance she can give me.  We scheduled a call since I wasn’t there to find out how she operates when everyone else met in NJ.  Fingers crossed that it will go well. 
Tim just ran up to get some Chinese food from our favorite place.  Yay!  It has been a long and busy day and cooking was not at the top of my list.  I was reheating something I’d cooked for Jessica earlier today, but he didn’t seem excited about that, so he made the run.
Well, I guess that is it for now.  More updates and photos to come later…

So many photos, so little time...

So I thought that my photo wall project would be way easier than it was in actuality.  Wait, let me take that back.  It wasn't that it was *difficult* it was really just time consuming.  I never really thought about what was going inside of the frames.  I just had focused on the layout of the frames on the walls and how it would all look once I got it up there.  But, alas, that was the easy part.  The tough part is finding the pictures to fit inside all of the frames and to try to balance it out.  I had a couple of pictures of Emily to frame, and then I realized that I only had one of Sam.  So I had to flip through (literally) thousands of pictures we have stored in photo boxes and then look through what is on my laptop.  During this time, I also realized that I've misplaced my external hard drive that also houses thousands of pictures.  And once you find the picture, you have to make sure it is the right size or the right orientation (portrait vs. landscape) so it adds another layer of complexity onto the already-time-consuming task. 


I got everything lined up, but then figured out that craft stores don't sell large wooden numbers (so we're going to have to make our own), and then I found other pictures that I felt needed to be out as well.  So then it was back to the store to get more frames.  And then a printing photos project, and then another trip yesterday to get more frames.  It is insane.  So now it has turned into more than one wall.  It will be one big wall and a smaller section of another wall.  And that doesn't even include any of our wedding photos (still not printed).  But I think I have a relative balance of photos between the kids (much harder to find pics of Tim's kids since it appears that Allison must have custody of those).  Then I had to balance out the pictures of Bobby and Kate, and then threw in some of the cats as well.  While I was at it, I found a couple cute pics of Tim's parents, which led me to looking for pics of my mom (hard to find) and my brother and grandma as well.  Now I have a nice mix, and once they are all up, it will be good. 

I'm posting a picture from phase 1 which is the rough draft of hanging stuff (before the photo printing and second/third trips for frames).