magic hands

Lily was given a box with 10 finger puppets for Christmas. She has played with them for hours, usually in our bay window seat, and then carefully places them back in the box after saying good night to each one of them. I thought these would be the perfect pictures for this weeks Friday Photo Challenge (http://2happy.typepad.com/double_happiness/).

Loving Rainbow

I love these pictures of Lily and Rainbow. They spend much of their days together and are just too precious!

Happy Chinese New Year

http://www.etnet.com.hk/LunarCard/2007/ecard_etnet.html

I thought this was a cute card. Click on the site, click over the doors to open them and then move your mouse around and see what happens. A good mindless time waster for the adults and very fun and entertaining for the kids. Lily loves it........

Life and changes..........

Aquarian Days.............
I decided to create another video from pictures (about 4 minutes long) that I have taken over the past month. Three of us (me and my oldest son Dustin and oldest daughter Melanie) had birthdays within the last couple of weeks so we always celebrate those together. You will see a picture of me crying, it was a "good" cry since my husband had collected different art work, writings, photographs and written thoughts from all of my children and bound it together in a book. It was truly the best gift I could have recieved.......I also added pictures of Lily and Cassidy swimming at the YMCA and some pictures of Lily sledding today since we had a snow day here in Ohio. Amazing how fast time goes as I watch the faces and lives of my children change from year to year. It has been quite the "ride" so to speak. And then this year will bring so many more changes with Cadence and Colton graduating from high school and Dylan graduating from college. Colton will be starting the architect program at the University of Cincinnati and Cadence is applying to a couple schools but is undecided at this point. Melanie will graduate with her MBA in December and who knows where that will take her. And then there is Dustin who is constantly growing in his life and profession. And my gosh, Cassidy will be 10 and Lily turns 5 (but not until late in the year). Wow, and so it goes..... I guess that is why it makes sense to just take one day at a time. These changes will happen soon enough...........

Family Memory Montage of 2006

Memories 2006
I also created a video montage of the family for 2006. I have way more pictures of Lily and Cassidy as they are willing and available subjects for my photography obsession:) Anyway, just click on Memories 2006 to view the video. It is about 13 minutes or so long.

Baking Cookies

Ellie and Lily Bake Cookies

I had a great day baking cookies with Lily and her best friend Ellie! Click on the above title and it will take you to the video:)

A day home with Lily and the camera of course... Not much got done, but so what else is new? We had a great time taking pictures, reading, playing, and then going to Panera for lunch of course.

Christmas with Family

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Photo Challenge: Pajamas

On another blog, Donna http://2happy.typepad.com/double_happiness/ has weekly photo challenges. This week it has to do with pajamas. I had a great time taking pictures of daughter Lily and grandaughter Cassidy in their matching pajamas bought in China Town in Chicago this summer. Here are several shots from the day.........

Referral Picture

It was just a little over 3 years ago that we first saw this picture of our daughter in a blue dress (and to this day her favorite color is blue:) We instantly fell in love and it has been that way ever since..........................

Pictures from Gotcha Day 3rd Anniversary................

Ready to go to the dentist I guess.....
finally caught this great expression!
A Kiss for daddy......................

Lily with her new pink hat...............
Can you say static cling???????????
our angel.............

Today was the anniversary of our 3rd Gotcha Day. Lily had her first dentist appointment and then we went to Chipotle to pick up food. Our friend, Bev, gave Lily a camera for being such a good girl at the dentist, and she has not put it down since!! We went out for dinner at a new place called the Tea Tree Asian Bistro in Perrysburg and Lily went around and took everyones' pictures. They all got a kick out of her. We were thinking about going to the lights before Christmas, but it was much too cold....... Here are just a few pictures from the day.

Favorites from over the year............

Today is the 3rd year anniversary of Lily's Gotcha Day. She continues to be such a joy and is doing great. These are some of my favorite photos over the past year..........