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Let go of my drumstick

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Let go of my drumstick
Photo-A-Day #1329

Today was Thanksgiving and we had a very nice day. Eva and Allison and I watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. And we got Rick Rolled like the rest of you. That was pretty funny too.

Eva had a very pretty purple velvet dress that her Mimi got her, from Macy’s ironically enough. We listened to Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant at noon on WROR as is the Thanksgiving Day tradition. We were visited by my grandparents on my Dad’s side and shared our meal with Erik’s parents Bonnie and Howard. Bonnie and Howard brought Eva a penguin that was just about as large as she. It is a Gund too and so it is wonderfully soft and squishy. To see Eva hug the penguin is a sight to behold. She just gets enveloped into the penguin.

We had a delicious dinner courtesy of my sister Tara. She got the whole thing from Whole Foods. My father and I got the drumsticks because that is the part that we like the best. The rest of the meal included all the traditional fixings and they were also very tasty.

Eva got to spend time with Aunt Shelby as well. She has a great time with Shelby too, you should see how she lights up and laughs around her. They have so much fun. My mom is going to be in trouble when she says “Where’s Aunt Shelby?” to Eva and Aunt Shelby is nowhere around. Eventually Eva is going to understand what that means and go in search for her and when she cannot find her and has a meltdown then that will be the last time she says that.

For dessert we had apple pie, pumpkin pudding pie, ice cream, cheesecake and of course the Pumpkin Pie, Gingerbread, White Chocolate, Caramel Ice Cream. That ice cream was delicious. I still have no name for it but I would certainly get it again as it tasted very much like pumpkin pie.

Later tonight we went to my Uncle Richard’s house for more dessert and to visit with my Grandparent’s on my Mom’s side. It was a nice day and we were able to see much of our family. Tomorrow we go and visit Allison’s family too.

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The Cobbler’s Kids

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The Cobbler's Kids
Photo-A-Day #1324

I have about 14,000 photos of Eva from her 1st year of life. How many do you think are hanging up around the house? There is one and that is a sketch of a photo that Allison gave me. But as far as photos I have taken, they are not anywhere hanging on the walls. That was the mission today, get some photos on the walls. We have a ton of frames that we got from the wedding and when Eva was born. We have tons of empty wall space too. So we decided that today we’d get this project off the ground.

Pitfall #1 – There are too many things that we want to get done at once. In addition to putting up the photos we were also going to make a photo book because we had one free from snapfish. That has to be done by midnight. We found over 200 photos form the past year that we’d love to have in that book. Between Allison and I we combed through all the photos this past year to select the ones we wanted, then I edited them (mostly for Red Eye) and uploaded them. Now Allison is making the book. And this pitfall had nothing to do with getting photos on the wall.

Pitfall #2 – We print our own photos on photo paper and guess what? We ran out of ink. This did give me an excuse to try out Cartridge World, a discount ink store that recycles ink cartridges. I got a black and a color cartridge for under $20 total, that was great. They took a bunch of my old cartridges and gave me a little bit for each one plus there was a coupon so it all worked out pretty well. The photos I printed out with the new color cartridge were very nice too.

Pitfall #3 – No picture hangers. Because there were no hangers I went out to pick some up, I got some from a local place called Benny’s and while I was there I took care of a task 6 years in the making. I finally got Allison her own garage key. A small thing but very very overdue. As far as the hangers I picked up some Hercules Hooks (by my man Billy Mays, the Oxiclean and Big City Sliders Guy).

Pitfall #4 – There was a craft fair at the High School so we went over to get out of the house for a bit. It did give Eva a wider area to walk around. She was walking really well all on her own. She still has the stiff legged mummy walk but she is getting better and better every day.

So, did we get anything hung on the walls? No. But we did even up getting some other things done and we should be all ready to hang up the photos tomorrow. Maybe.