Wild Things

Alex and the kids were having a silly time with all the stuffed animals.  They kept egging him on to pile "more, Daddy, more!!"  I just love listening to the kids being silly with their Daddy.  I love watching him be an awesome father.

Digiscrap Credits:  Papers and elements from Jungle Boogie by Kay Miller.  This started from a template by Misty Cato but was altered significantly.

Tyler2008Book

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testing

testing a new feature

Shoot the pig

Well today was Study Day 0 in our participation with the sw!ne f1u vaccine trial. Both kids had examinations, blood draws, and shots. Tyler was a trooper and very quickly got over the trauma of the needles. Miss Thing, on the other hand, was quite upset. It didn't help that I had told her a few days ago that there would be shots involved. She worried herself to tears for several days and then was tense every time someone walked into the exam room. While we were waiting to be randomized (apparently involving faxes back and forth to Wash DC study HQ) she fell asleep crying that she didn't want any shots. When they finally brought up the vaccine, she awoke to Tyler crying while getting his shot. Next thing she knew, she was being held down to receive her shot. Not a wonderful afternoon for anyone, including PoPo who was a trooper about entertaining and distracting the kids. We all survived and now they can tell Daddy what brave kiddos they were. Only 2 more blood draws and one more shot to get through. They are definitely earning their study stipends. Now on to our daily diary documenting temperatures and degrees of irritability. Right now they are laughing and jumping into a pile of pillows so I don't think anyone is wounded for life.

TTFN

August 2009 update

Well, I've tried transferring my Typepad blog into Blogger automatically but apparently it can't be done. I started transferring entries individually but that is a tedious and overwhelming task. Apparently I started blogging 4 years ago. While I haven't been a prolific blogger, that is still a lot of content to transfer.

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Life, hardware failures, and depression have sucked my digiscrapping mojo away. We've finally got things rearranged at home into something that makes sense for us. Our front room is now the office for Alex and I. We've also got an arts and crafts table for the kids. The center is open to leave plenty of room for scooters. Moving my computer & desk to the basement a few years ago was just a bad idea. I didn't like being away from the family and I hated having my desk become a dumping ground. Now I'm back upstairs, my desk is unburied, my EHD is repaired and networked, and I've got lots of new pics to scrap and stories to tell. Here are a couple recent pages (click images to see credits).

I can't wait for July!!

Just reserved a condo for our summer vacation to Estes Park. This is where you will find the West-Adkisson clan come July. Hopefully it won't be too hot to give this hot tub a work out.

This is spring?!?!?

Of course, 48 hours later it was all melted. I thought the crazy TV weather people were full of hooey when they were predicting this. Guess I'll pay more attention next time.

A day in the life

A day in the life
Originally uploaded by Qcaller

The China Digital Scrapbooks forum is celebrating its 2nd birthday. There are challenges and prizes and chats, oh my! Today's challenge was to photograph some bits of everyday life. We didn't have to scrap them but I chose to put them all together in one simple page.

I forgot to take my camera to work so the first 3 photos were taken with my camera phone. I was surprised at the decent quality.

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Mardi Gras

We had King Cake in honor of Mardi Gras at our noon conference today. Then I got an e-mail from the Boston Globe with today's Big Picture entry on Carnival. Call me crazy but oh how I long to wear one of these costumes:

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COMMENTS
AUTHOR: Chubbie Hubbie
DATE: 03/11/2009 06:25:32 AM
Oh how I long for you to wear one of those costumes... :)
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AUTHOR: Tammy
DATE: 03/02/2009 07:31:35 PM
wow! that's gorgeous, looks so heavy though!! :)
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AUTHOR: Janet Butler
DATE: 02/23/2009 04:47:43 PM
I have a feeling that I might get charged with some sort of indecent exposure if I were to try to wear that! :o)
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AUTHOR: Sharon Adkisson
DATE: 02/23/2009 03:52:36 PM
Wow! What a costume! I don't think you could move in such an outfit, but it sure is enormous and over-the-top flashy gorgeous.
Mom

My Valentine Sweethearts

2009-02-14_BFF
Originally uploaded by Qcaller

Having fun with one of my prizes from the Amazing DigiScrap Race. Also doing a little personal touch up with Photoshop. I didn't have a chance to put on makeup before the wedding last Saturday so I used a little PSE magic to give myself some lipstick and hide my zits.

Life continues on here at the ranch. The kids are enjoying Kindermusik and think Ms. Heather walks on air. Tyler started speech therapy last week. I can't wait to hear what he has to say. Interview season is over at work. Next month we find out who matched with our program. Nadine, Johns, Marvin, and Marilyn died. Amy and Brian got married. Christmas, New Years, Chinese New Years, and Valentine's day all happened. There you go - now you are up to date on life with the Wests.

TTFN
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Sharon Adkisson
DATE: 02/18/2009 01:14:12 PM
Wow, you really condensed a lot of happenings the last 3 months into a very brief description! Yes, I am excited and looking forward to what Tyler will have to say to us (hopefully soon!). He really is trying to talk and put sounds together these days.
Love, Mom