The Graham Family Tales: Holiday

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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Trimming the Tree

I decided to make a few tweaks to this page. Here is the "new" one:

This was the original.
I wanted the lightbulbs to look more like they were glowing, so I fiddled with those and moved things around a little.

Alton "helped" us trim the tree last weekend. He had so much fun hindering Daddy's progress to light the tree. :)

I used the Pixie Keepsakes kit, Christmas Tan for this layout.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Happy (ahem) Halloween!

So, bad mommy! I never posted pictures of Alton trick or treating.

Here is Alton with his two cousins, John John and Elayna. Trying to get all three kids to look at the camera was IMPOSSIBLE. We started the evening out here, and dined on El Pollo Loco's finest. My Grandmother is a creature of habit.

Then we went Trick or Treating at Grandma Vicki's house. Grandma Vicki's dog Noel, has tasty toys.
At least Alton thought so anyway.

Here Alton is trick or treating with Daddy. He did not "get" it. But there was one house that he really liked, (which is odd, because it is planned community and they all look the same) and he kept going back to that neighbor's house.

Daddy had to broadcast the football game that night, and he was late because of his trick or treating duties. His co-host made sure to announce that on air when Travis got to the game.

A little side note; see the green bowl in the right side of the picture? That is the same Tupperware bowl my parents made my sister, brothers and me dump our Halloween candy into when I was kid. They said it was so that the four of us would share our candy, and not make ourselves sick eating it all at once. In reality, this enabled them to cherry pick the mini snickers, reese's peanut butter cups and special darks after we went to bed. Mom, you can still have my special darks, I will send them to you.

Alton's trick or treating highlight? Meeting Oprah. Seriously, Oprah!

The neighbor's dog Oprah. Decked out in her Petco bumblebee costume.

The end of a long satisfying night of begging from Grandma's neighbors.

"Mommy, where did my Reese's peanut butter cups go?"
"Mommy?"

Monday, July 14, 2008

Happy 14th of July!

So somebody (cough cough Kate) chastised me for not only not updating frequently enough, but for also not posting enough photos.

Here are a couple of pictures from our Fourth of July. Our original plans got cancelled on us, and I decided to celebrate our nation's independence with a relapse of pneumonia. So we did not do much, except eat pizza at Round Table and eat cake.

Here is a picture of Alton being patriotic all by himself. We didn't pose him, honest. Travis actually called me out of come take pictures because Alton was being "Patriotic and photogenic!" Daddy's words, I promise.

This one we did pose him in, I think it came out cute. :)

My camera has this nifty feature where you can pick one color and have it make every other color black and white... now if I could just figure out how to change the color again that would be awesome!

Let them eat cake!

(Okay so the lady who said that was French by marriage (she never actually said it either, but everyone thinks she did) and not English, but their colors are red, white, and blue too.)
I made this cake and piped it all by myself! Did you know it takes almost an entire jar of red icing coloring to get the red icing that red?