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From Picture of the Day 2013

Today we celebrated Suzanne’s birthday. I could sit here and write a long post about the fun we had today, but I’m to tired, so enjoy today’s picture of the day.

From Picture of the Day 2013

Today we celebrated Violet’s birthday with Friends and family. It was a great day, and I want to thank everyone for coming. I hope to get a post about the party with some of the many pictures I took. For now enjoy this picture of Violet showing off her birthday outfit and great sign.

From Picture of the Day 2013

Today I have a picture my mom took while hanging out with Violet at her place to do. The smile on my baby girls face is just so cute, I had to use this picture.

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Today while waiting for Jacob’s school day to end, Violet played in on a snow pile in the school yard. Apparently that’s her snow fort.

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This is Hot Head, on of Jacob’s new Skylander Gaints that he got for Christmas. It’s an interesting mix of toy and video game, but most of all a cleaver marketing strategy. Kids play the game want the figures.  I know that he’s had them only a few weeks and Jacob seems to be hooked, and if I’m to be honest I’m enjoying playing the game with him. I think I’ll be sharing more of his figures over the coming weeks. What I’m not sure if I will do it as a weekly thing (like Skylander Saturday), or just pull out a Skylander on the days that the clock is running out and I haven’t captured a picture of the day yet.

From Picture of the Day 2013

This afternoon the my Mom took the kids for a walk to the store, during their outing they found a mountain of snow. Today’s picture is some of what they did when they found it. Thanks mom for the great pictures.

 

From Picture of the Day 2013

For the last couple of days Jacob hasn’t been feeling 100%, today it got to him and he spent most of the day sleeping or relaxing. He didn’t even manage to get out of his PJs today. I’m hoping he’s feeling better tomorrow. It’s not the best way to start the new year.

Another year is beginning, I write this as Violet finally get’s back to sleep after our New Years Eve celebration. I knew when she woke up that I was in for a long night, but I really hopped that I would get to bed before 2. Now it looks like I’ll be lucky to get to bed before 4. Of course you wont be reading this till probably after lunch as I’ll probably want to check it in the light of day before I press publish, between being tired and the wine I’ve had tonight I think it would be best if I look over everything I write before sharing it.

Looking Back:

So once again I start a new year by first looking to the past and the goals that I set for myself to see how well I have done. So I start by looking back at the goals I set for myself for 2012. I expected to find a post early in the year were I reviewed 2011 and talked about my goals for 2012. I remember working on one, but as I look through my posts from the month of January I can’t seem to find it. Whether it’s that I never got it around to publishing it, or that I’m just not up to finding it right now, I’m not sure. What I do know is that it’s been a mixed year for my personal goals. My POD project has continued with great success, the only odd thing is that in my Picasa Web Gallery there are only 364 pictures, not the 365 that should be there. Which means that either I missed a day, or that I just forgot to add one day’s photo to my gallery. I’m pretty sure I didn’t miss a day so I must have posted on to my blog without adding it to the gallery. I started reviewing it this afternoon, but only got as far as march. I’m hoping to find the time to do it properly over the next few days.

Where I feel that I’ve failed the most over the past year is my personal health and running. I went through spurts of great focus and progress with my running, but I didn’t keep it up for more than a few weeks at a time. What’s worse is that my eating has been terrible and I find I’m starting this year with a weight that I’m really disappointed by. I’m also starting to think that I’ve let my goal of running a full marathon on my birthday become unrealistic. So I’m trying to decide if I want to go for the full Marathon or focus on doing the Half-Marathon in under 2 Hours. I don’t know which is the better goal. Do I go for time or distance?

I also find myself struggling to feel that I accomplished much on my professional development. Much like my running there were times were I really focused on learning new programming languages or frameworks, only to have them sputter to a halt. I’ve been working on trying to improve my focus when working on my personal projects, but so far it hasn’t help. I’m hoping to make that

So where do I go from here. Do I make concrete proclamations of what I intend to do for 2013 or do I write wishy-washy goals or do I press the delete button on this post. These are the questions wandering through my cloudy mind. that I think I’ll leave it till morning to answer.

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From Pictures of the Day 2012

Our family spent a magical day together today. Starting with a family outing to the Ice Path, followed by an afternoon of wrapping presents and baking cookies. Dinner with Family at Melissa’s dads. And finally it was the kids opening their Christmas Eve PJs in front of our tree. Before putting out the Milk and cookies for Santa (and Carrots for the Reindeer) and sending the kids up to bed. Once again instead of choosing a single picture I put together a collage.

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It seems for his last day with use Jingles has decided to spend it in the tube. It’s hard to believe that tomorrow is Christmas Eve and our little Elf on the Shelf will be leaving us for another year. The kids can hardly contain their excitement for the big man’s visit tomorrow night.