Merry Mail

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to discuss Christmas cards.

This may be a shock to some of you, but…I love Christmas.  Corey may have heard me talk about it once or twice.  I love the atmosphere, the snow, the Christmas music, Christmas cards, etc.  Whilst thinking about Christmas cards and browsing online I came across a sweet offer from Snapfish.  Talk about Snapfish and get a free set of cards.  Cool, I can do that.

I had fun browsing their Christmas card selection and narrowed my favorites down to nine (like this, and this, and this…).  Ha!  I am so indecisive sometimes.  I have completely extinguished my handmade card thoughts this year. All I have to do is pick my favorite card, pick a photo-or two, and done.  This will save me hours of wishing I hadn’t decided to make my own cards.  I have never used Snapfish before, but I think I'll hop back onto Snapfish when Noelle turns 1 to make a book of her first year too.  As much as I would like to scrapbook, I'm horrible at it.  Pick-and-click is my kind of scrapbooking.

I'm excited to see how our cards turn out.  Want to see our Christmas card picture?  Well you can’t!  What’s the point of sending cards if I give it away now!

Here are a few ones that didn’t make the cut:

Games

We've been having fun playing games with Noelle.  She loves when we play peek-a-boo, or parachute, or sneak-up-on-Noelle.  

We found a new one yesterday.  Here's a little clip:

Long Weekend

Hi all.  We don't have much to report this week other than we're hanging out and enjoying a long weekend.  

Corey has today (Veteran's Day) off of course, and his professors decided to cancel class Friday as well.  Thus far it's been pretty quiet.  Corey's been working on a paper revision and I've done a little work whilst the little one is napping.  We took a few pictures outside for fun, but Noelle wasn't really in the mood to smile.  We even tried upside down and didn't get so much as a hint of a smile.  It happens.

We are also enjoying the weather.  It was really nice today, it was in the upper 60s (I put on a jacket for fun).

Giggles

Sometimes Corey or I have fun sneaking up on Noelle when she is in her crib.  Sometimes when we do we are surprised ourselves when there's a cutie pie looking back at us.

Who's there?

Oh, it's mom and dad!

 This afternoon Corey snuck up on her and was popping over the edge making her giggle.  Here's a short video:

Oui Oui

Today was pretty fun.  While Corey was at school Noelle and I took a quick trip to France.  Here's us at the Eiffel Tower.

Or maybe I was just playing with GIMP (a free Photoshop type program) and pictures from Flickr with creative commons licenses (which lets you use their pictures without copyright issues)... this is fun!  Aside from changing the background I changed the color of my shirt (used to be purple) and whitened my teeth.  I also played with the coloring so we didn't look too out of place with the other picture.  It was fun messing around.


Where should we go next?

Gottcha!

Can you see them?  Look really close.  There are two tiny teeth in that mouth.  Until now it's been impossible to capture them on camera.

Noelle has been much happier since her teeth broke.  She was a tad grumpy for a few days.  Luckily she had a nice teether to chew on to make her feel better.

On an unrelated note.  Here is my first tomato.  Look how tiny!  Corey and I split it and enjoyed our bite of tomato.  

Time Flies

Four years ago today Corey surprised me on my doorstep at school and proposed.  It's true time flies when you are having fun.

We haven't aged a day since then.  Or so we like to think.