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Friday’s Foto Finish Fiesta

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Nancy

Candid Carrie sponsors this one – head over to her blog and find LOTS of links for bloggers who’ve joined in! (You can join in too!)

This edition of Fx4 is brought to you by Maggie’s new digital camera.

Pictures taken by Maggie:

Cousin Grey

Nana

Burke

Nana Lou

(You can put scenes on the pictures!)

Don’t get me wrong…there are a whole bunch that are black, or really fuzzy cuz she moved the camera while taking the picture…there are a lot of butt and chest shots as well. (What do you expect when that’s pretty much what she actually sees…)

Burke uses the camera as well, and I’m SUPER impressed with his artistic eye. I may have to dedicate a post to Burke’s creativity, but for now, here are a few he took:

Mommy and Maggie

Daddy

Self Portrait

Logan

And…Christmas night, the adults got into the Porron (an Italian wine decanter that has a spout on it…so you can pour it directly into your mouth) – fast becoming a Christmas tradition at our house. Remember that whole “you can add scenes to pictures” thing? Needless to say, there were a few pictures taken:

Aunt Cathy

Aunt Meghan

Mommy

Aunt Sharon

Aunt Meghan and Grandpa had an entire session at the end of the table that no one was aware of until massive giggles were heard…

Hope Dad wasn’t thinking of having a political career…

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HAPPY

Posted on December 28, 2008 by Nancy

Happy Birthday Granny Frani!

Know that we’re thinking of you and we can’t wait to see you again. 🙂

I hope you’re having a nice, relaxing day that goes exactly the way you want.

Love you!
The Zoo

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Christmas Morning Craziness

Posted on December 26, 2008 by Nancy

With 13 people gathered – 4 under the age of 4, Christmas morning can get a little overwhelming.

Christmas Morning

Burke and Maggie found their stockings almost immediately.

"This One's Mine!"

And where was Logan this fine morning at 8am?

Sleeping

Logan slept until 9:30 until my Dad went in and poked him. Poor guy had two nights in a row where he was up until after 9pm … of COURSE he was sleeping in!

Tradition at our house is to open the stockings and presents from Santa (in PJs, of course) and then about half of us go to church. Sharon, Jason, and Grey have breakfast with with her in-laws. Everyone who doesn’t go to church, gets dressed and plays with toys that have been opened.

Burke's Rudolph Nose

Maggie's Rudolph Nose

Mommy's Rudolph Nose

Uncle Jason's Rudolph Nose

Grandpa and Aunt Cathy

Cousin Grey's Whistle

Dr. Maggie

Burke the Builder

Santa's Gift to Nana and the Grandkids

Grandpa Woke Me Up

Guitar Man Logan

Waiting for everyone to come back is also a great time to Skype with Pop Pop and Mop Mop.

Skyping

More about Christmas after Church later…

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Way Back When-esday

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Nancy

Cheryl over at Twinfatuation hosts this one. Go on over to see who else is playing – and join in too!

Grandma - Christmas 2005

She would be horrified if she knew I was posting it, but it’s one of my favorites of my Grandma. She never got through all of her gifts 🙂

This was taken exactly 1 month and 1 day before she passed away.

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Friday’s Foto Finish Fiesta

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Nancy

Candid Carrie sponsors this one – head over to her blog and find LOTS of links for bloggers who’ve joined in! (You can join in too!)

I have a very creative brother-in-law (he’s an art teacher). So any time we all get together, the kids – of course – have a BLAST. These pictures were taken at Thanksgiving of 2007. Jason decided he was going to turn the twins into dinosaurs with random things found around my Dad’s house.

DinoBurke

Note the clever use of kitchen clippy magnets as the spine and the pop beads as the tail.

DinoMaggie

I believe Jason even did Maggie’s crazy hair.

"AHHHHHH!"

This went on for hours… 🙂

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HAPPY

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Nancy

This should have gone up yesterday, but I lost track of the date!

Happy Birthday Pop Pop!! We hope you had a great day, and we can’t wait to see you again!!

Love,

The Zoo

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HAPPY

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Nancy

Happy Birthday (cousin) Grey! I can’t believe that you are TWO today!!

Can’t wait to come see you and hear all of the words you’re saying now. 🙂

Have a great day and sneak more cake from Grandpa then Mommy will let you have!

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Awesome Visit

Posted on October 8, 2008 by Nancy

My mom flew up from Florida and hung out with us for the entire weekend. As most Grannies do, she came bearing gifts…that have been played and played and played with. I think Burke’s new book has already been read about 20 times…probably more!

Granny Frani showed up at our doorstep Friday afternoon and played with the kids all evening. Aunt Cathy came over too, as Granny Frani was actually staying with her. They both left after a chicken and broccoli braid meal (Love Pampered Chef!), but came back on Saturday with a yummy lunch! We spent much of Saturday afternoon in the back yard at the swing set. Did I get any pictures? nope.

Ordered dinner from one of our favorite pizza joints and then said goodnight to Aunt Cathy and Granny Frani again.

On Sunday, Granny Franni came back to go to church with us. We’ve been attending this church since January and *love* the people there. Jury’s still out on the minister, but he’s slowly growing on us. SLOWLY. Anyway – more people nodded in recognition to my mom saying “I’m Maggie’s Grandma” than to “I’m Nancy’s Mom.” Go figure 😉 I guess that’s to be expected after getting a hand-written note from one of the elders letting us know that they missed us and our red-heads. LOL (We missed two weeks in a row due to our anniversary and then the entire family being ill.)

I FINALLY remembered to take some pictures on Sunday.