Happy New Year

2008 has been a wonderful year in many ways. I hope all my friends and family had a good year too. As always I have been very busy, as you will see in a moment, and haven't kept up with people as I should. My self-imposed punishment is to fill you all in on a years worth of activities, events, photos, and news. I will attempt to make it entertaining, enjoyable, and not too wordy. Here Goes:

Oh, and FYI; After the video was made, we showed it to the kids with a secret microphone on the desk behind them. Their recorded narrative of the video is what you hear while you watch the beginning. Unfortunately the audio feed got interrupted so we only got a little bit recorded initially.

So, we added their few comments to the video with some music and showed it to them, while we were recording again! Gosh, it just gets better and better. So remember as you listen to the very beginning, you are hearing 2 conversations from 2 different times - have you had your mushrooms today? After that you are only hearing the second viewing of the video, so keep up here, there are circular references to things that happened while we were watching it the first time that you won't have any recollection of because you weren't with us the first time around (or the second) and the audio feed *&$%#'ed up, but if you pay attention it all ties together….and is amusing. Soooo Spinal Tap!




Notice...Dylan is suspiciously quiet. Once he knew he was being recorded, he clammed up. While I was uploading the photos into the video program, a picture of Brandon hitch-hiked and inserted itself right into the storyboard. So, I figured if he wanted to be in the video that bad I could let him stay. When we showed the video to the kids the first time, nobody said anything about the ghost photo, but the second time around Dylan did..."Who's that?" Goofy kid.