Last week w e went to Lake Tahoe for spring break and we got super lucky, since it snowed on MOnday when we arrrived so it was beautiful. We went tubing and then the kiddo took some snowboard lessons in the mornings for two days and seemed to have some fun, as the weather warmed and the snow  turned icy/slushy, so we probably couldn't have done too ( Read more... )

today was the kiddo's 12th birthday. HOLY MACKEREL. I can't be old enough to have almost a teenager! We gave him the BB-8 Sphero, which he adores. and it's the cutest little thing scooting around the floor.

Unfortunately into a happy birthday a shadow came. He had to go with his team to the Regional Championship for First Lego League (Robots), and ( Read more... )

Any grand plans for today were derailed by kiddo getting sick last night. I think it must've been a bad case of food poisoning, since it's not lingering today like flu would, but he's so tired now from throwing up most of the night. poor dude. (and I'm tired from changing his sheets four times. he ended up having to use a sleeping bag because I ran ( Read more... )

I didn't do a costume this year, so no exciting pics of me. (I know, you're all depressed) but I have Kiddo as Herobrine, a glitch/villain/evil twin of the main player character in Minecraft, and our pumpkin carving for the year ( Read more... )

y''know, instead of sitting on posts for an eternity, I should just POST THEM.  duh.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY mfirefly10!!!

My trip to Arizona ...
( Spring vacation )

Happy St Patrick's Day! I'm embracing Guinness and my love for boiled potatoes tonight. There may be Bushmills later.

I'm also writing my bsg_remix fic, which I hope reads better than I feel it does. Remix always makes me feel like I'm not doing justice to the original. bleh. Well, there's always editing to help make it better , as long as I finish in time ( Read more... )

Kidlet's assignment today was write a little story relating to a cartoon turkey carrying a sign.

(spelling corrected for your understanding)

( The Turkey Tale )

the munchkin, as some of you know, is seven and definitely highly imaginative. He makes up his own vast and complicated imaginary land and writes/illustrates his own stories.

However the other day he started talking about what is, basically, his own fanfic. He's a big fan of Phineas and Ferb and their wacky hijinx, and so he started to talk ( Read more... )

A few days ago, Kidlet insisted on making a little stop-motion animation of some LEGO toys he'd made. He'd watched me make that little Wall-E vid I put up awhile back and we'd seen some things on t.v. about the making of Fantastic MrFox so he really, REALLY wanted to try it. So I helped set it up, but he took the pictures and made the little ( Read more... )

I need a design for my pumpkin carving party this year. We're kind of known for cool pumpkins in the neighborhood now, and the pressure's ON. I'm thinking of doing the Alien Xenomorph, but I'll have to make my own pattern. It's not hard with the right photo. *hits up google ( Read more... )