Candid Moments - A Year with the Yorks

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Saturday, January 2, 2010

Day 2 - Snow and CM Workshop


Here is the view from our kitchen nook of our side yard. It was lightly snowing for most of the morning today. I am hoping to take this same photo view for each of the seasons this year.



To start the year off right I had a scrapbooking workshop this afternoon and evening. I set up in the living room because it is mighty chilly and windy out there and it is cozier then in the dining room.


Until tomorrow...


Friday, January 1, 2010

Day 1 - Happy New Year!

Today is the first official day of my Project 365 for 2010. I started this blog last August 31st and I used the time from then until yesterday to practice for this first day. I hope you will consider taking this journey with me and commit to taking at least one picture every day this year. It is amazing how quickly the days go by and we lose site of those every day moments and this is a excellent way to capture them (at least for one year in our lives). I have also found I am becoming a better photographer and who wouldn't like that bonus? You do not need to blog every day like I do, I just use the blog as a way to remind myself to take that one picture and make that one quick entry about the picture so I stay on task. Another one of my goals is to stay on top of creating weekly digital page layouts so at the end of this project my scrapbook will be complete for this year. Unfortunately, this is where I am coming up a little short, I am several weeks behind in my layouts from my practice run last year. I did discover that at Weeds and Wildflowers they have come up with a solution to this very dilemma for 2010, I am not sure if I will use their kits but I am thinking about it.
http://weedsandwildflowersdesign.com/shoppe/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=41&products_id=497
Let me know if you decide to take on Project 365 so we can use each other as pacing partners for the year-- becasue everyone knows taking on a big undertaking is always more fun when you have someone to do it with, send me an email using the link to the right so we can keep each other going and bounce ideas off each other for the project.

My picture for today is a family photo on the first day of the new year.


Until tomorrow...





Thursday, December 31, 2009

New Years Eve 2009


Tonight we stayed home had pizza and watched a movie, very low key and relaxing.
2009 has been a challenging year for us and many of our family and friends -- we are glad to say goodbye
to it and send it on its merry way. We are looking forward to the new decade and a better year in 2010 and wish all of our family and friends- great health, happiness and
good luck/fortune.


Happy New Year!



Until tomorrow...


Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Lego Abandonment


The Star Wars Lego set proved to be a little too hard for Ben so he has abandoned it on our coffee table in the living room and is awaiting help from mom or dad to put it together.


Until tomorrow...



Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Removed the Christmas Tree today

No more Christmas tree-- we took it down today along with the other decorations. Since we put the tree up shortly after Thanksgiving I like to have it all put away before New Year's Eve. This year we did it with a couple of days to spare. We still have most of Ben's new Christmas toys in the living room-- those won't get put away until New Years Day.


Until tomorrow...


Monday, December 28, 2009

Movie with Ben

WOW, Ben slept until 8:04 am this morning, what a treat to sleep in, he is usually up between 6:30 and 7:00 am. After breakfast, Ben and I went to see the new Alvin and the Chipmunk movie, I thought it was a little slow in the beginning but Ben liked it. My recommendation would be to rent it don't waste the money to go see it in the movie theater unless you are desperate to get the kids out of the house this vacation.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/101857/movie-trailers-alvin-and-the-chipmunks-the-squeakquel---trailer-2


After running a few errands we came home and Ben cracked open one of his new Christmas gifts the Crayola "Crayon Maker". Basically you melt your crayons into a new crayon so you can recycle your broken and "naked" crayons as Ben calls them (those without their wrappers) into new ones.
http://www.crayolastore.com/zoom-v.asp?vidId=OnZQnOxmyIY


It worked pretty well.


Until tomorrow...


Sunday, December 27, 2009

Bunk Beds

Today is clean up day after the whirlwind of Christmas. We set up the bunk beds in our spare room so when my mother and step-father visit they actually have beds to sleep in. They brought the remainder of the pieces with them and we set it up on Christmas Eve. I am doing the piles and piles of laundry today and boy it was a workout getting that top bunk made, it was definitely a two person job!


Until tomorrow...