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A good day
10 years ago
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Lorelei had a birthday and a pancake party
Lorelei turned eight last month and had a party with a bunch of girls at the Barnhart Pancake House. The rule was that you had to come in your pajamas.
The Barnhart Pancake House was open for business and the girls would be piling in soon. The table is set and waiting for the girls to arrive.
This was a make-it-yourself-pancake-breakfast, though after adding all the whipped cream, chocolate, sprinkles, bacon, strawberries, etc, I don't know if anything was eaten. But what wouldn't taste good with bacon and chocolate.
Zoe with her plate.
Elin is chowing down and Joseph wondering if he could sneak some.
Calvin wanted in on the action.
Zoe's finished product.
Is there actually a pancake under all that stuff, Tori?
This is the birthday cake or cupcake.
One candle down, seven to go.
Eating the birthday cupcakes was more of "let's see how much we can get on our faces that actually eating them."
Then it was time to open the gifts. everyone was anxious to help.
It was a great pajama/pancake breakfast birthday for Lorelei. Everyone had fun.
The Barnhart Pancake House was open for business and the girls would be piling in soon. The table is set and waiting for the girls to arrive.
This was a make-it-yourself-pancake-breakfast, though after adding all the whipped cream, chocolate, sprinkles, bacon, strawberries, etc, I don't know if anything was eaten. But what wouldn't taste good with bacon and chocolate.
Zoe with her plate.
Elin is chowing down and Joseph wondering if he could sneak some.
Calvin wanted in on the action.
Zoe's finished product.
Is there actually a pancake under all that stuff, Tori?
This is the birthday cake or cupcake.
One candle down, seven to go.
Eating the birthday cupcakes was more of "let's see how much we can get on our faces that actually eating them."
Then it was time to open the gifts. everyone was anxious to help.
It was a great pajama/pancake breakfast birthday for Lorelei. Everyone had fun.New Years Day at Chuck-E-Cheese
New Years Day is a day for Chuck-E-Cheese with the Smenteks.
Mairin was the perfect angel and slept half the time there.
They each got a cup of tokens to use. Kellan is trying his hand at this game.
Then Kellan was getting some pointers shooting spiders from Logan and Liam. He thinks they are pretty good.
Kellan is at the Wack-A-Mole.
Liam is the explorer in the jungle maze. He loves to climb.
Mairin was the perfect angel and slept half the time there.
They each got a cup of tokens to use. Kellan is trying his hand at this game.
Then Kellan was getting some pointers shooting spiders from Logan and Liam. He thinks they are pretty good.
Kellan is at the Wack-A-Mole.
Liam is the explorer in the jungle maze. He loves to climb.This is the boys doing damage to the big angry spiders.
Just dance
One of the most favorite things the Barnharts like to do is "Just Dance 1, 2, or 3", three being the best.
Gretchen, Calvin and Lorelei before the dance off.
Lorelei and Calvin, phase one.
Lorelei and Calvin all warmed up and the dance off is on.
Calvin must have beat Lorelei because he is challenging Joseph to another dance off. Looking good!
Gretchen, Calvin and Lorelei before the dance off.
Lorelei and Calvin, phase one.
Lorelei and Calvin all warmed up and the dance off is on.
Calvin must have beat Lorelei because he is challenging Joseph to another dance off. Looking good!Another catch up time
As usual I have not posted much for a while and so there will be several new posts so check back often. One week last December. Liam was the Star of the Week. 
We visited his kindergarten class with Kirstin and Mairin.
It was his job to introduce all of us to his teacher and classmates. Then the kids had a chance to ask questions. They all seemed to center around Mairin.
After the school visit, we went to Kirstin's house for the annual Christmas cookie making/decorating project with the kids. We had to bake all the cookies before Logan and Liam got home from school so that they could get right into the decorating phase. Mairin was there to observe and get pointers for next year.
The boys got home from school and got right into decorating, and they did not take it easy on the frosting and sprinkles. The cans of frosting didn't last long. The shirts came off at the beginning to help with the cleanup afterwards.
Look at mine! aren't they great?
Even Kellan wanted to help.
In full swing.
The white frosting was applied to the gingerbread man or star wars character....
Then the red frosting was added. Now that looks store bought. Don't the ones in the store have this much frosting?
This one is perfect.
Just a bit more and I'm done.
This is one of Logan's finished cookies with sprinkles.
My best one is the triple layered one. Delicious.
This is Logan's finished plate of of goodies.
And this is Liam's finished cookies.
Kellan with his bunch. Now he is the youngest one in this Christmas cookie decorating project and it looks like his cookies are the most eatable.
Ta da! I'm still pretty clean. Now the question is, did they actually eat them afterwards. I know that the super-duper cookies were eaten becasue I ate them.
We visited his kindergarten class with Kirstin and Mairin.
It was his job to introduce all of us to his teacher and classmates. Then the kids had a chance to ask questions. They all seemed to center around Mairin.
After the school visit, we went to Kirstin's house for the annual Christmas cookie making/decorating project with the kids. We had to bake all the cookies before Logan and Liam got home from school so that they could get right into the decorating phase. Mairin was there to observe and get pointers for next year.
The boys got home from school and got right into decorating, and they did not take it easy on the frosting and sprinkles. The cans of frosting didn't last long. The shirts came off at the beginning to help with the cleanup afterwards.
Look at mine! aren't they great?
Even Kellan wanted to help.
In full swing.
The white frosting was applied to the gingerbread man or star wars character....
Then the red frosting was added. Now that looks store bought. Don't the ones in the store have this much frosting?
This one is perfect.
Just a bit more and I'm done.
This is one of Logan's finished cookies with sprinkles.
My best one is the triple layered one. Delicious.
This is Logan's finished plate of of goodies.
And this is Liam's finished cookies.
Kellan with his bunch. Now he is the youngest one in this Christmas cookie decorating project and it looks like his cookies are the most eatable.
Ta da! I'm still pretty clean. Now the question is, did they actually eat them afterwards. I know that the super-duper cookies were eaten becasue I ate them.Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Digitizing project
What have I gotten myself into? But after it is finished, you all will be glad I did it. I have as one of my projects digitizing all of the photos I have ever taken over my lifetime. I have not taken "film" photos since switching to digital about 2005 or 2006. Everything after that is already digital. I bought a small photo scanner that copies photos to a memory card. I already have all of them organized by month and year and filed, which makes digitizing and renaming them much easier. However, after I got part way through (copied about 1250 photos), I realized that is only 10% of the photos I have filed since 1971 besides all the photos that I took prior to that and all my mission slides, and I have a long way to go. Part of this process is to color correct or brighten faded pictures with PhotoShop. I have done this to about 22 rolls so far and realize I have months of work ahead of me and I have learned that the photo scanner is a cheapo and does not copy photos very well (ie photos that appear to be okay are not okay after being scanned). That means that I have rescanned several of those on our big 3-in-1 office flatbed scanner - those turned out much better and I can correct them with better results. Using the flatbed scanner takes three to five times as long to copy. But I am determined to finish this project. You will all be glad I am doing this.
This is one example. Judy and I went camping in the Snow Range in Wyoming one day on Aug 1971. I had a bright orange pup tent (still have it) that I set up next to a mountain stream (very romantic, you know). I left my car ('68 Torino) in the small parking lot next to the highway, just hoping it would still be there in the morning (we couldn't see it from out camp site). Next morning I went up to the car to get breakfast and saw this sign. Camp take down and breakfast was very fast.
This is one example. Judy and I went camping in the Snow Range in Wyoming one day on Aug 1971. I had a bright orange pup tent (still have it) that I set up next to a mountain stream (very romantic, you know). I left my car ('68 Torino) in the small parking lot next to the highway, just hoping it would still be there in the morning (we couldn't see it from out camp site). Next morning I went up to the car to get breakfast and saw this sign. Camp take down and breakfast was very fast.Thursday, January 5, 2012
Is Blogging Outdated?
I am just wondering if blogs are going extinct because Facebook is easier and shorter, but you can't get all the content of a blog post in Facebook. Seems like more and more people are only posting once or twice per year or have abandoned their Blogs all together. My counter is not going up and there have not been many comments which tells me I am posting to myself. I guess I will need to copy my posts in a book for Family History. Just sounding off.
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