Jag is a Daddy

Couldn't resist showing you a pic of Jag and Sara's brand new new baby boy, Noah. He was born yesterday. 10lbs. 4ozs. 21 inches. They emailed pics from the hospital last night.

Just Happen to Have...

I have a couple of Mattie's assignments on my computer. You don't mind if I post them, do you Mattie? These are for a marketing campaign they did for class. I think they are great...





I don't have any of the cool ones from Photoshop class or the 4x5 class. Those you'll have to wait for.

Here are some of my Computer Photo final project. I couldn't get one of them to get one of them to work, but its ok. Sorry it took so long to get them up, our internet hasn't been working, and I was gone all weekend. Also, the 4x5 ones would need to be scanned, I might work on that tomorrow and try to put the good ones up, but for now, here is what you get!

Why waste more time?

I decided I have something post-worthy:

The youngest child is technically now a senior in college! (insert scary background music)

My final class of the semester is finished. Most of my classes have been giving me better grades than I anticipated, which is a nice surprise. My group project/campaign for advertising class beat our competing group, and I was complimented on our print ads (which I put together and were my idea). My computer photo final project received and A, and it came off effectively (thanks for the input, mom!) And when I went to pick up my portfolio for 4x5 the professor said "Ann (another prof) and I were just discussing how great a student you are, and how you were one of the few to receive an A in this class." Apparently the last project I did was pretty good, when I hung them up last week he swore at me, because they were "so good." Public school makes me laugh. I am learning more than I realize I guess. Let me know if you want me to post any of them!

Now that school is done it's lots of hours of work, making some money, prepping for summer, and then my second home in the south!

ps, if you don't have the title song, or anything from the artist, you should.

Earth Day

I just wanted to tell my siblings that I'll be observing Earth Day this week by throwing some plastic in the garbage and leaving my incandescant lights on all night. I might even walk off the trail and step on some foliage. Take that, nature!
If it feels a little warmer this summer, you'll have me to thank.

I Feel The Earth Move

So exciting! Well, a little entertaining, at least....
I felt my first earthquake! I was in bed. Felt like someone/something jumped in bed with me. I thought I was imagining, but was validated by all the people on the radio...
Anyway Dad is bummed he didn't feel it in the shower. ;-)
MOM
P.S.
Our "other" cat, the one that lives under the deck, had kittens somewhere on the farm yesterday. Anybody want to join the kitten hunt? Prize for the first to find them... a free kitten! Second prize ... a free kitten! Third prize...

Thanks For the Memories

Just wanted to say thanks for the latest video update. Try to keep them little for a while longer, will ya? So what does Avery's face look like these days? He moves so fast we can't focus on him! ;-) ...too cute!!!

For Ladies Only

I stopped by Calvin on my way home from work tonight to watch the Calvin/Hope women's tennis match. A freind of ours, Mike Busscher, has a daughter that plays for Calvin. Calvin won for all you Knight fans. It was good to see college competition again even if they don't play on Calvin's actual campus. On Tuesday your mother and I went to a South track meet at Byron Center to relive the past and enjoyed that environment again. It doesn't appear that Ben and Reuben's records are in danger of being broken in the near future. For those that are interested, South won both the girls and boys meet.(sorry Ashley)

Prime

Painting

How's this for an exciting post?
This past week I painted the kitchen. The first pic is the basecoat. Had to leave that on for a couple of days and it literally made me nervous. Everyone had a nice healthy pink glow. The worst part is that we had a bunch of college-age artists passing through to use the bathroom (long story) and I wanted to tell everyone that this was NOT my final color.;-)

Anyway, this is how it turned out. Kind of a terra cotta color.
I think it might look pink on your screen...its orange-ish....Exciting huh!?
Looks great with the mirror I got for Christmas by-the-way.

New York

Hello everyone! Here are some pictures from the last week and a half that Katie and I have been out being busy. We helped Anne and Keith move to Detroit to their new apartment. The picture above is after 5 hours of cleaning and putting things away. Gabe is enjoying the boxes. The picture below is Kate with Steph who is taking graduate classes at Yale Divinity School. Yale is a big, beautiful, and very old school.
Here is our delicious pizza topped with mashed potatoes and bacon on one side and pepperoni and olives on the other. If you don't think mashed potatoes on pizza is good, you haven't tried it yet.
Here is Katie shaking hands with a rich person. You might recognize her from such tv shows as Who wants to be a Millionaire? and The Today Show. If you watched the Today show last Wednesday, you might have seen me jumping up and down waving my arms like an idiot in the background. There really aren't that many people standing around watching, they just use cameras to make you THINK there are more people. Cameras = magic.
Here I am scaring away dead predators with tiny arms. It threatened me, so I responded in kind. This beast was in the Museum of Natural History which we visited while in New York.
Central Park is enormous. Really enormous. Look it up if you don't believe me.
Here we are on the top of a very tall building taking pictures of ourselves with other very tall buildings.
Here is the southside of the island where the business sector lies. The twin towers would be in the photo.
We also went to see the statue of Mrs. Jolly Green Giant. It is crazy to think this whole statue is made up of copper sheets. It is really cool to see up close.
Thursday was finally warm and the sun came out.
Then we came home and tried to get back into our usual routines.

R & R

Last weekend we had a great little getaway weekend in Grand Haven at the Harbor House Inn Bed & Breakfast. Our walk on the pier was nice, but the wind was cold, even though before the windchill it was sunny & in the 60's! There were still huge ice chunks on the pier.



On Monday evening, it had cooled down a little, but we finally hauled our kayaks over to Reeds Lake and used them for the first time! It was great!

Mom is the Champions

Congrats to Mom. The new Queen of Bracketland. Good job! It looks like Katie will be dispensing drinks in a couple months. "Beer me!"

Science Olympiad

Hey Family,

I thought I better tell you before someone else does.  Dutton is going to State in Science Olympiad.  I sure can train nerds.  

Seriously though, it is exciting.  The kids did great and I am glad they are getting rewarded.  It is the first time we made it to state in DCS history.  just sharing the news.