What a decade!

I've been reading all these magazine articles about the best of the decade and it got me thinking about how my life has changed in this first decade of the new century. So, I put my new digital scrapbooking skills to use and created a layout about it! Hopefully, you'll be able to read the Then and Now journaling. Of course, I've thought of several to add since I finished this page like: Then, I played CD's and cassettes on my boom box. Now, I download songs to my iPod from my computer. Then, I would wonder about something and then let it go. Now, I wonder about something and I google it. (A word that didn't even exist 10 years ago!)

Leave me any of your ideas in the comments and maybe I'll make a part 2 of this page!

Hope you all have a very Happy New Year! I look forward to what's in store for 2010!!!!

Our First White Christmas!

Yet another first in our life here in Oklahoma: A Christmas Eve Blizzard! That's right, not just a little dusting of snow for a White Christmas, we got a actual full blown Blizzard! A first even for Tulsa and not person has said to me, "It's not normally like this here!"


The snow was very powdery and pretty tough to make snowballs with, but that didn't keep Chet from trying! (Notice the pond didn't even freeze over because it was sooo windy! 25-30mph!)



This where our sidewalk use to be. Now it is a snowdrift. In other parts of the yard, the grass was still peeking out where the snow had been blown away. So, in some places we had 1 inch of snow and in others it was closer to three feet!

You would think an older dog with arthritic hips would not really like the snow, but there's Bo dog running around the yard (and outside of it) just having a great time. Here he is on the snow dunes that cover our driveway.

And there's the old homestead on a magical Christmas Day morning! It was so special to be surrounded by all this white, just like all the old movies and Christmas cards. I don't think it is a holiday we will soon forget!

Look what I did!

While it's true I wasn't terribly productive today, I am trying to learn more about Photoshop and digital scrapbooking at JessicaSprague.com. So, I did complete these two layouts today (with lots of video instruction)! My last assignment was to share it on the web or email since I learned how to saved to the web after all! Hope you enjoy!

The Boys' Telepathic Powers

Scene: Bo, the best dog in the world, is staring up at Chet eating his breakfast and wagging his tail furiously in hopes that a morsel will come his way.

Chet: "I am telepathically petting Bo. See? He likes it! He told me telepathically."

Ethan: "I'm petting Bo telepathically, too!"

Chet: "Bo told me telepathically he doesn't like it."

Ethan: "I'm telling you telepathically you suck."

Aw, Brothers....

A Conversation with Chet IV

Chet: "Who is that?"

Me: "I don't know."

Chet: "What are they doing?"

Me: "I don't know."

Chet: "Why are they doing that?"

Me: "I don't know!"

Chet: "How did they get there?"

Me: "I DON'T KNOW."

This conversation took place while watching the Lost season finale. Not easy to catch the 10 year old up on 4 seasons of Lost when, apparently, I'm the one that's lost!

Learning with Technology

You know, when I was growing up and in school we weren't allowed to use calculators because we were suppose to know it by heart before we could use a machine to help us. Now, Ethan brings home homework in 1st grade entitled "Learning with Technology" where he has to use the calculator! My, how things change...


And, yes, I realize I sound like I'm 105 years old!

Random Thoughts Stirring Around in my Head

Gardening

I know this will come as a shock to most of you, but I really do not enjoy gardening. Well, to be more specific, I hate weeding. I weeded our front garden today and honestly it is the most thankless job. I mean it looks nice when it's done, but then it just has to been done again in a week. I do wish I would've gotten Grandma Dorothy's green thumb gene, because I think if I had a natural inclination to care for my gardens, I don't think the weeding would be so bad. Ethan did come out and help me today. By help, I mean he collected and named the worms and enjoyed scouted out the frogs that live in our front garden.

I'm guessing they weren't too happy about me weeding either. Did I mention my whole body hurts now? Even my fingernails. On bright side, I think that counts as my workout for the day!

Facebook

Well, I took the leap a few weeks ago and joined Facebook. Of course, my two best friends who have been bugging me to get on it for months are no longer doing anything on there. (Yes, I mean you, Steph & Trace.) I feel like I just finally broke down and bought a pair of trendy flared legged jeans and now everyone is wearing trendy skinny jeans. Of course, now I'm the one filling them in on stuff going on at school so I guess it's not a total loss.

Things I like about Facebook:

1. Chatting with my sister! (Hello, my favorite sister!)

2. Playing Bejeweled Blitz. (My name is Kelli and I'm a Bejeweled Blitz addict...)

3. People I went to elementary school or college with finding me and catching up.

4. Catching up with my old Cast Members from Disneyland. (That really was a GREAT job!)

5. Finding out the lastest goings on at school. (Oh yea, so-and-so has swine flu and will be out for a week.)

6. Being able to discuss the latest reality show I'm obsessed with, with people I never thought in a million years would also be obsessed. (Can I hear it one more time for my girl Jordan winning Big Brother?!)

Things I don't like about Facebook:

1. People I didn't know that well or found creepy in elementary/high school/college wanting to be friends with me.

2. I get the feeling that every word I say is going to come back to haunt me.

3. Playing Bejeweled Blitz. (My name is Kelli and I'm a Bejeweled Blitz addict...)

4. It is a total Time Vampire, as my eloquent friend Stephanie would say. It just sucks the time away. (Maybe that's why she's not on there anymore.)

Mario Kart

If Mario Kart was a driver simulation requirement to get a license I would never ever be able to get one. (That's me in 12th place.)

Football

These cute kids played some good football and looked good doing it with purple hair for Spirit Day at Football yesterday!

I even got the purple hair treatment!

(If you look close you can see there at the top...)

Sunday Night TV

I am so glad my Sunday Night TV is back with Amazing Race, Desparate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters. I love Amazing Race! It is the one reality show I would love, love, love to be on! How fun to see all those places around the world! That's on my bucket list!

My Little Reader

Ethan has become such a confident reader that he decided instead of checking another Biscuit book ("Come here, Biscuit." "Silly puppy.") from the library, he brought home "Kokopelli's Flute", a 5th grade book because he said he was ready for chapter books! He had "read" 50 pages on the bus on the way home from school. ;) We decided he could read me more Biscuit books and I would read the chapter book to him.

Self-Portrait

In downloading pictures from Chet's camera, I found a few gems including this self-portrait! I'm pretty sure it's how he would look after reading all the above random nonsense!

Hope you enjoy your own random nonsense today!