As promised, this years pumpkin was, er, decommissioned, by letting it fall off of a four story parking garage. Bye-bye.
2009's Pumpkin
2007's Pumpkin
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Halloween 2010
Spidey and Ironman.
The crowd at the pit fire last night.
We hosted a few neighbors at our house for Halloween and dragged the pitfire out to the driveway last night and had a few beers. The kids stated up a little past their bed time and we all had a good time. Didn't get a lot of trick or treaters, but thats OK.
The kids at the pitfire out front.
Ellie dressing up as a Unicorn.
Jack and Ellie enjoying Breakfast.
Jack, Ellie and Nate
Jack and Ellie. Nate didn't want to play along, he had enough of the "Cheeeeeese".
All three on the couch.
To get three kids, all under 5 to sit still for a picture, it takes an iPhone with cartoons.
The Rally
We had every intention of making the hike down to the Mall to watch the Rally to Restore Sanity on Saturday. Abbie, Jason, Ellie and Nate made the trip up the night before so they could attend with us. We got up relatively early, got the kids fed and packed everything we thought we would need. We started out and headed to get some cash from the ATM and then go to the Vienna Metro station.
Not even off of our street and we run into a wreck that happened a few minutes before. Looks like the crumple zones worked on that car. No ambulance was called, so the passenger(s) walked away fine.
We arrive at the Metro station after a few more traffic delays and after waiting in a looooong car line, we see that the line to get in is longer. So long, we decide to abandon the idea of going, since it would be hours to get into DC. We decided to go home and watch it on TV.
The line outside the Vienna Metro station.
Not even off of our street and we run into a wreck that happened a few minutes before. Looks like the crumple zones worked on that car. No ambulance was called, so the passenger(s) walked away fine.
We arrive at the Metro station after a few more traffic delays and after waiting in a looooong car line, we see that the line to get in is longer. So long, we decide to abandon the idea of going, since it would be hours to get into DC. We decided to go home and watch it on TV.
The line outside the Vienna Metro station.
Chantilly Football Games
The Friday before last, we attended the Chantilly Football game with Bill and Theresa because Colleen, their oldest, is in the band and it was one of the last opportunities to get to see her play for the season.
Well, we had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed the game, which went down to the last 30 seconds and after a late field goal, the Chargers won. A close game.
The band was great as well, it was hard to spot Colleen with every kid on the field dressed exactly the same. Its hard to tell the boys from the girls in those uniforms, let alone a family member from some shlub with a clarinet.
Jack loved it, he likes watching football, so the next week, just me and him went to the game and met up with Jim, Reet Bill and Theresa to watch Colleen in the final home performance for the Chargers Marching band for this season.
Jack and Bill, watching the game.
I took this with my iPhone from the stands, can't spot her can you? Of course you can't, you don't know what she looks like!
Well, we had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed the game, which went down to the last 30 seconds and after a late field goal, the Chargers won. A close game.
The band was great as well, it was hard to spot Colleen with every kid on the field dressed exactly the same. Its hard to tell the boys from the girls in those uniforms, let alone a family member from some shlub with a clarinet.
Jack loved it, he likes watching football, so the next week, just me and him went to the game and met up with Jim, Reet Bill and Theresa to watch Colleen in the final home performance for the Chargers Marching band for this season.
Jack and Bill, watching the game.
I took this with my iPhone from the stands, can't spot her can you? Of course you can't, you don't know what she looks like!
Ice Cream Cones and Motivation
A while back, I blogged about going to the Fall Festival in the City of Fairfax an I mentioned that when we arrived, Jack immediately saw an ice cream cone at the end of the next block. My Mom wrote me an email and mentioned that she couldn't spot the ice cream cone in the picture, so enhanced it in Photoshop so you can see it a bit better, but it illustrates just how good his eyes are when he is properly motivated.
For instance, if you ask him to pick up one of his toys in the living room, he will walk around searching for it for a half hour before finding it right in front of him.
Motivation.
For instance, if you ask him to pick up one of his toys in the living room, he will walk around searching for it for a half hour before finding it right in front of him.
Motivation.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
The Weirdness of the English Language
So we put together an article at work this week that talked about some of the increases in numbers as they apply to the library; visits to the website, attended programs and downloaded books.
Apparently we have over ten thousand books being downloaded from our website each month, an increase of 78 percent over the previous year, a real growth area for the library.
So when we publish this in our monthly newsletter, we stated "A 78 percent increase over FY2009". Interestingly enough, if it had been a bit more we would have put a "An" in front of it instead of an "A", as in, "An 83 percent increase..".
Weird how if the number can determine if an "A" and or an "An" is in front of it.
Apparently we have over ten thousand books being downloaded from our website each month, an increase of 78 percent over the previous year, a real growth area for the library.
So when we publish this in our monthly newsletter, we stated "A 78 percent increase over FY2009". Interestingly enough, if it had been a bit more we would have put a "An" in front of it instead of an "A", as in, "An 83 percent increase..".
Weird how if the number can determine if an "A" and or an "An" is in front of it.
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