Okay, so maybe I’ve been a little photo happy the last few days & I don’t really see any end in sight since I’m not scrapbooking much lately. Hopefully blogging will help me remember what I’m not remembering. Anyways, I am totally in love with Windows Live Writer. I haven’t fully investigated the functionality but it definitely makes it possible to add & rearrange pictures easily and to write in an environment like MS Word.
Yesterday was the 12th so I took A LOT of pictures all day long. Here are twelve that sum up the day. Picasa will not let me arrange the pictures into a specific order & I’m too lazy to play around with Photoshop today but you get the idea of a lot that went on.
- I woke up at 5:50 & 9:15 with a nap in between. I realized that Scott had been running for 3:15 & decided it was time to go rescue him out on the course. He ran 18 miles but it was super humid & it wasn’t pretty.
- I took Jared to the pediatrician.
- The kids hung around the house & played Stratego, Geo-Traxx, computer games, & GameCube while Scott & I snuck out to Costco for gasoline ($2.29/gallon), new tires & the Mid-Town Deli for a delicious lunch date. I then continued to hang around Costco as I waited for a call (that never came) telling me that the tires were done.
- Chris & Ryan worked on getting their backpacks packed & ready to go for separate scout outings.
- The boys & I ran to Wal-Mart to pick up extra gear & to fill in Scott’s supply list. (I hate W-M!)
- We took Christopher down to the ward building to meet up with his fellow troop members. I expect a hungry boy because they were planning on eating their fish that they caught. Hanging out with friends in the parking lot was fun (& hot) for me but not so great for Ryan; he wanted to leave with his troop but had to still go to all-star practice before going with Dad later.
- Jared & I hung out at baseball practice at City Park with a short visit to the playground. Ryan’s coach pronounced his pitching “genius” last night & proclaimed that he is back from his injury. We will see how things go on Monday night when we play a 12-year-old all-star team. During practice, Scott played around in the outfield with the kids catching fly balls.
- After the practice Scott & Ryan drove to Greenwood for the first 11-year-old campout. Ryan was SO excited to hang out with his friends & his dad. Jared & I went & picked up a tasty dinner at Bloom – freezer meals.
- Jared went to bed about 10 & I stayed up many, many hours later trying to sort through a backlog of paperwork. I am making progress!!!
I realized that I have been taking 12-on-the-12th pictures for about fourteen months now. I wish that I would have taken ten minutes every time to take notes rather than just pictures; I can see what a difference the journaling makes to the story. Someday I will make a book with years of pictures of the 12th of each month. Don’t hold your breath though!
4 comments:
**Whew!**
I have heard about how busy life gets when the children are a little older--yes, they can buckle their own seat belts and take themselves to the bathroom, but then there is the list that you just posted. I have to remember to love the place I am in.
Good looking family, btw.
Boy, you have been very busy! What a day. I love how you put the photos in the collage. How did you do that?
Shaun
I import my pictures in Picasa & PSE. In Picasa, I select the pictures with the push pin & once I have them set, just push "collage".
I've been wondering about your '12 on the 12th'. I'm glad to see you're still doing it!
What's funny to me about this post is that people might think that you chose a particulary busy day to post about, but I know that your life is pretty much like this EVERY DAY!! You amaze me.
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