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100 things...

i saw this on my friend, mel's blog and thought it would be fun and easy to do. just bold the things you've done and unbold the things you haven't. easy, no?

here are my answers...

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band

4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped

12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables 
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelos David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class ugh. more like taken 13 years of it.
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone's life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day

wow. i haven't really done much in my life. but that's ok. :)

at least i took pictures of my family at charlie's birthday party...

   

here's the birthday boy in his birthday suit (traditional korea outfit)

and one of his cousins, henry and silas:

 

and one of all the kids...

   

i'll be posting two layouts tomorrow, one using this picture and another from halloween.

richard and i went the the UK football game this past weekend when they played western kentucky university. I like watching football but the real reason i went was to see this...

http://www.kybloodcenter.org/

make sure you scroll down and click to see the "Only with You" video. i think it's the second story down on the site.

those would be my photographs they used in the video.

:)

hey, where did all the photos go?

they moved...

 

 

<-----------click on the "the photo blog"

:)

sorry, charlie...

Often times I get asked how the girls are adjusting to having a little brother. And I always respond that they love him to pieces. Sometimes they love on him a little too much...

look at his face. You can tell he's trying to figure out how to get out of this hot mess...

a few seconds later...

and OFF he goes...he starts with the ol' pelvic thrust move. always a good start of an escape.

but he realizes he's underestimated his foe and is going to need more to get out of their tight grasp. time to regroup. refocus. ommmmmmm.

this time he catches them by surprise and combines the pelvic thrust with a quarter turn!

oh my. look at the execution on that, folks!

but he is no match for them. oh well. as I always say, if you can't beat 'em...join 'em.

poor charlie. he has to put up with some sort of torture on a daily basis from his sisters. But don't feel too badly for him. he's got his own defense mechanisms...

have a great weekend, y'all!

spreading the love :)

i recently made a portfolio of some of my favorite photos over the past few years and made an ABC book out of them. here's what the cover looks like:

i designed the cover and all the following layouts in photoshop...

the intro page:

that's a picture of charlie when he was 2 weeks old...aw....

the next are some examples of the middle pages in the book:

(my nephews silas and henry)

and a couple of the girls...

this is my last page:

like i said...everything was done in PS. very basis stuff that I can even do.

so you might be asking yourself by now, "where's the love?" well. i'll tell ya. are you ready? here it comes.

the company that printed this book is offering them at no cost. that's right. free. you make a book. they send you the book. FREE. here are the deets and linkages to get yours. my best friend works for inkubooks and she sent me this email:

Inkubook, the company I started working with in December, publicly launched our site today. It’s a site dedicated to helping people make personal photo books. If you’ve ever made a book from someplace like Shutterfly, Picaboo, Blurb, or MyPublisher, then this is the same idea. It’s done entirely online. It integrates with Flickr, so if you store photos there you can pull them right into your book. And a really nice feature is that you can invite other people to upload photos or text to your book project so that you can use them in your book (for example, if you’ve gone on a family vacation, you can easily get photos that other people took without having to email back and forth).  

The address is www.inkubook.com. 

To celebrate the launch, Inkubook is giving away free photo books (one per customer). Visit this page to get the promo code: www.inkubook.com/freephoto. All you have to do to get the book is sign up and invite at least one person to your project. (That one person needs to sign up, but it doesn’t matter if he or she actually contributes anything to your book.) The book itself is free no matter what size or style you make. You pay shipping and taxes (if you’re in

Indiana)

.

 

Feel free to pass the on to anyone else you know. 

pretty cool, eh? I made a portfolio but there are so many other things that you can make. my friend laurie is going to make a catalogue of her beadmaking creations.

so go start yours today!

funnies (at least to me) :)

here he is. pulling up now...

i sent this to my best friend and she said that she remembered seeing one like this of maddie at his age...along with the same male patten baldness. :)

here he is giving katie a piece of his mind...(check out those angry toes and thighs)

and this next one is him thinking about the current state this country is in and contemplating the next election and trying to decide on which candidate to vote for...

he's so lucky his momma's a photographer :P

have  great wednesday!