No, Thank you, Mr. Attar

Checked my spambox the other day.  This one had me rofl, as they say.

Dear Friend,
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If you agree to my business proposal further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive your return mail.Contact me through my private e-mail mrhamad01@gmail.com for more details.
This transaction is 100% risky free.
Thanks,
Mr.Attar.

And that isn’t all of it

We did four more loads that night, and two the next day. 

Speaking of loads, look at this load of cuteness:

Brookston and Everett.  These days they say things like: “That’s so funny,” and “I don’t want” and “OUTside.”  I’ve thought about making a list of words they know -- but I feel like I’d miss too many.  Should I try?  Okay. I will.  Here it goes (I’ll try and follow what they say throughout the day):

get up?, get out? down? light. window. tree.  bird. see the bird? diaper. soap. light. back on. eat? cereal. hungry (comes out as ‘honey’, but oh, well).  banana. chair. table. spoon.  bowl.  picture. baby? baby, where go? blanket. phone. book. eye. nose. button. ear. cheek. leg. mouth. outside? chalk. door. shoes. clothes.  shirt. pants. socks. foot. OUTside! bee. rock. flower. grass. tree. stick. STICK. mulch. leaf. bug. ant.  car. truck. button. seat. bike. look. airplane. (sounds like aa-plane-eh). bye bye airplane. cloud.  shoes. star. sun. draw/ing. ball. on. off. park. playground. gate. water. slide. climb. help. yay!, swing. tire. sand. shovel. bucket. dig. hole. push.  duck.  quack says the duck.  vacuum. drop (droppy). chicken (chicky).  home.  NO.  nugget.  green bean.  orange. juice. more!  bar.  baa baa, this is the sound of settling.  jump!  try. hard. stuck. read. box. bag. teeth. cheese. apple.  cup. milk. pine cone.  dance.  dad. mom. HI! hello. shower. wall. watch movie.  moon.  sun.  cow.  sheep.  bear.  cat. kitty. dog.  lawnmower.  horse. crying.  what are you doing? (what doing?).  where are you going? (where going?). knock. don’t touch.  stop. let go.  bath. tub. shower. splash. boat. wash. jammies. again. bed. crib. sleeping. brush. pacifier (pawawa).  see ya.  good night.

That’s what we can think of, but that isn’t all of it.

rambling somewhere only we know

get ready for ramblings:

I secretly have a thing for Japanamation.  I guess it’s no longer a secret now.  It’s a small thing; I really don’t know much about Japaname, but sometimes it just really makes me happy. 

So, this one time I was a little in love with Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know song, and I wanted to see the official music video.  I didn’t know much about Keane either.  I think I might have had to call my friend Amy and sing parts of the song to her in order to figure out the title and have her tell me who sings it.  I don’t know, I can’t remember for certain, but things like that have been known to happen.  Ames is a lifesaver in more ways than just knowing songs from only a few notes or words. 

Anyway, during my search for Keane’s music video, I came across this before I found the original:

And since I’m telling secrets, I’ll go ahead and tell you that I cried a little bit there at the end.  You’ll know the spot when it gets there.

Then I found out it was composed of scenes from Final Fantasy 8, so I read about its story line and got thoroughly confused. 

This all occurred, like, 4 years ago.

I was still curious what Keane, the band, thought this song meant, so I finally found their official video here: 

Now, you watch both of those videos and tell me which is better.

all star pictures

Brookston, 9 months, March 2010

Everett, 6 months, December 2009

Nick, 22 years, summer 2006

Aden, Brookston, Bryant, Everett, Chase,  August 2010

Brookston, 2 months, August 2009

Everett, 9 months, February 2010

Brookston, 6 months; Nick, old enough to know better, Everett, 6 months, December 2009

Everett & Brookston, 6months, Nicole, 26 years, December 2009

Nick, 21 years, August 2005

Nicole & Amy, Maine Summer 2005

Everett and Brookston, 9 months, March 2010

Everett, 11 months, May 2010

Everett, 11 months, May 2010

Duke Gardens, October 2009

Brookston and Everett, 4 months, October 2009

Nicole and Nick, 22 years, December 2005

Nick, 22 years, November 2005

Rosalyn, February 2011, 8 weeks, Nick 27 years

Tradition

So this one time, like three months ago, it was New Years. 

Our family holds the tradition of going out to eat at a Chinese buffet on New Years Day.  So, when Roz was about two weeks old we all headed out to 35 Chinese Restaurant.  Grandma  accompanied us for this our fourth annual event. 

Ah, noodles.