Saturday, February 21, 2009

Utter humiliation

Quite possibly the most humiliating video of me in existence, and that is saying something, and quite possibly the ultimate payback from Shelley for all the times I've pranked her.

Seeing the multitude of chins, I now realize that my recent high cholesterol results were perhaps not quite the surprise I thought them to be.

Booorrrrriiiiiinnnngggggg

I never thought I'd say it, but our family are officially bored of the snow, and we missed a month of it when we were in the UK. Here some pictures of the last month. Guess what? More snow is forecast for tomorrow. Super.

Jessie patiently waiting for her snap-happy mommy.

Anyone for a bagel and coffee?

I'm not sure what's under the mounds. Hopefully no children.
Some father made this igloo on campus. No doubt he was passing time whilst in the 'dog house'.

The view from our back window.

Sienna walking

Here she is 5 days before her 1st Birthday. Toddle....crash....

Sunday, February 1, 2009

29 and 30th December

Nanna shows Jessica how to milk a TV.
How to make a meal of ham and peas more interesting.
As tempting as it is, I won't spoil these pictures with silly captions.








Nan and Pops

On the 28th we drove to Nan and Pop's in Loughor where we stayed at Hotel Patterson for a week, with incredibly reasonable rates. Full board, room service, and no cost.

Here's Avril looking very much like Shelley, or vice versa. Little did she know her beautiful lounge would soon resemble an earthquake site in the ensuing days.
Sienna has never been physically close to a TV before (we have ours on a high dresser) and so she spent many happy hours slapping all the characters on the screen with food encrusted fingers.
The first thing Chris did was to get Jess to check for mice in the attic. He had been hearing scratching the previous night, but didn't fancy going up himself having watched American Werewolf in London the week before. Fortunately it wasn't mice. It was just a family of rats who had made their home in one of Chris' moustache wigs.


Present opening time is always a blast with little ones and doting grandparents.


Chris eats the final rat to fall from the ceiling, in one. Avril imagines what it would be like to get a bigger present.
Ah, a musical toy. I was rather hoping for a hunting knife...

Pops looks with utter delight at the pattern he has just sneezed into his hanky.