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Saturday, December 27, 2008

new pictures


Between my Christmas project for Mom and Leslie's sifting through some of her old pictures, I've accumulated some great new pictures of Murphy. This is one from the day we brought him home from my grandparents' farm in 1995. How could we have said no to this dog? You can find the pictures in the Murphy album, as well as some seriously interesting fashion statements by Leslie and me, located here.

I hope everyone had a terrific Christmas!

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Happy Christmas Eve :)

I hope everyone is having a fun and happy holiday with friends and family!

The creator of Simon's Cat has been busy, this time for the benefit of the RSPCA. This video reminds me of someone who will be very missed at tonight's duck dinner at the Halls.


Tuesday, December 16, 2008

snow!

We got about an inch of snow today. Pene isn't too experienced with ice and snow.


Something new Pene started doing while we were in Hawaii was jumping up on the area around the grill (and looking over the fence to say hi to the neighbors). When she tried to jump up this time though, she slid into the fence thanks to the ice.

I had an amazing 2.5 hour lunch today at Amore with Robert Chambers, one of my best friends from the middle school era. New friends are lovely, but reconnecting with old ones is even sweeter, I think.

Monday, December 15, 2008

underwater pictures

I got the film developed from the disposable underwater camera we took to Hawaii. The pictures turned our surprisingly well for the semi-murky water and disposable nature of the camera. We had a hard time looking through the viewfinder though (goggles don't help), so the framing isn't the best. =P Check them out here: http://roberts.overt.org/main.php?g2_itemId=9125

Also, since Emily doesn't believe in blogging any more, I thought I should share this cake she made for a bachelorette party last week. Yep, she does special orders! Get one today!

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

did I mention...

...how awesome the Rock Band birthday cake was that Emily made for me? I just remembered to upload the pics to our website, so I thought I'd give the cake a shout-out.


Sunday, December 07, 2008

Hawaii pictures

Officially announcing the arrival of all the Hawaii pictures (and 4 movies), mostly captioned, at http://roberts.overt.org/

12 Days of Christmas

We heard this version of the 12 Days of Christmas quite a few times while in Kauai - enjoy!

Numbah One Day of Christmas
(The 12 Days of Christmas local style)
by Eaton B. Magoon Jr., Edward Kenny, Gordon N. Phelps

Numbah One day of Christmas, my tutu give to me
One mynah bird in one papaya tree.

Numbah Two day of Christmas, my tutu give to me
Two coconut, an' one mynah bird in one papaya tree.

Numbah Tree day of Christmas, my tutu give to me
Tree dry squid, two coconut,
An' one mynah bird in one papaya tree.

Numbah Foah day of Christmas, my tutu give to me
Foah flowah lei, tree dry squid, two coconut,
An' one mynah bird in one papaya tree.

Numbah Five day of Christmas, my tutu give to me
Five beeg fat peeg... foah flowah lei, tree dry squid, two coconut,
An' one mynah bird in one papaya tree.

Numbah Seex day of Christmas, my tutu give to me
Seex hula lesson, five beeg fat peeg (that make TEN!),
Foah flowah lei, tree dry squid, two coconut,
An' one mynah bird in one papaya tree.

Numbah Seven day of Christmas, my tutu give to me
Seven shrimp a-swimmin', seex hula lesson,
Five beeg fat peeg, foah flowah lei, tree dry squid, two coconut,
An' one mynah bird in one papaya tree.

Numbah Eight day of Christmas, my tutu give to me
Eight ukulele, seven shrimp a-swimmin', seex hula lesson,
Five beeg fat peeg (that make TWENNY!), foah flowah lei, tree dry squid, two coconut,
An' one mynah bird in one papaya tree.

Numbah Nine day of Christmas, my tutu give to me
Nine pound of poi, eight ukulele, seven shrimp a-swimmin',
Seex hula lesson, five beeg fat peeg, foah flowah let, tree dry squid, two coconut,
An' one mynah bird in one papaya tree.

Numbah Ten day of Christmas, my tutu give to me
Ten can of beer, nine pound of poi, eight ukuklele, seven shrimp a-swimmin'
Seex hula lesson, five beeg fat peeg,
Foah flowah lei, tree dry squid, two coconut,
An' one mynah bird in one papaya tree.

Numbah Eleven day of Christmas, my tutu give to me
Eleven missionary, ten can of beer, nine pound of poi,
Eight ukulele, seven shrimp a-swimmin', seex hula lesson,
Five beeg fat peeg, foah flowah lei, tree dry squid, two coconut,
An' one mynah bird in one papaya tree.

(Numbah Twelve day of Christmas the bes', and the bes' stuff always come las'...)

Numbah Twelve day of Christmas, my tutu give to me
Twelve TELEVISION, eleven missionary, ten can of beer,
Nine pound of poi, eight ukulele, seven shrimp a-swimmin',
Seex hula lesson, FORTY steenkin' peeg,
Foah flowah lei, tree dry squid, two coconut,
An' one mynah bird in one papaya tree!

Music and lyrics published by Hawaiian Recording and Publishing Company, Inc., and copyrighted in 1959.

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Home

We got home this morning. I haven't slept since Monday night. I think I might go to bed now!

Double mahalos to Mom and Dad for picking us up from the airport during morning rush hour.

I'm working on editing the full set of pictures from our trip and hope to get them all up on our picture website within the next few days.

Piper spent all day in one of our two laps. Pene is punishing us by pretending she didn't know we were gone for eight days.

Is it really December 3?