Life After The Thesis

Hello!  Yes, we are still alive and well.  I can’t seem to get into the blogging mood.  Don’t get me wrong, I spend hours a month reading other people’s blogs, but never blog myself.   I have had some great posts written up in my head while I’ve been sweeping, cleaning, nursing, etc., but alas, nothing in print.  Time to change things. 

Oh, what did you do in the summertime? 

Did you fish in a pond?

Tie up a firepit?

Eat s’mores?

Dig in the gravel?

Paddle a boat?

Ride on a “four wheel”?

Bask in the sun?

Get an owie?

And, finally, bless one cute baby?

 (Sorry no picture with the parents.  We didn’t get to it.   GRRRR!

Is that what you did?  So did we!!

After the death of Brandon’s beloved Dad, we were thankfully able to spend most of our weekends up at the family cabin.  It was so wonderful.  It’s paradise up there.  We love it and always feel so blessed and lucky to be there.  Labor Day weekend Cory was blessed.  A very happy day.  We can’t wait for the world to be green again!

So, after it took awhile for Brandon to convince me that we REALLY needed at PS3, I finally gave in, saying we couldn’t play video games on it, but just our blu-ray movies, home videos, pictures, etc. We were able to use a gift card from our CC rewards points to pay for half of it, making the purchase doable. Well, since we have gotten it, I must say that I love it! We are officially hooked on blu-ray HD movies, we watch our HD home videos with it, and we watch all the episodes of the Office on it that Brandon uploads to it from the Internet, as well as all the Disney movies that you can digitally save to it for the kids to watch at a click of a button, no more finding the DVD. WELL, we now have TWO MORE REASONS to love our PS3. First of all, NetFlix now lets you stream movies from their website to your PS3, so you don’t have to watch the streamed movies on your computer screen, but on your HD TV mounted to your wall. AWESOME! Secondly, Brandon discovered that you can buy a “TV Tuner Capture Card,” which you put into your computer (like a video card) and then you access a TV DVR program (Myth TV) and then you put in what you want your computer to record to stream over to the PS3, when, how long, etc, JUST LIKE A TiVo! So, for much cheaper and one less machine to clutter your house, we now have a TiVo! So now, we can watch The Office the VERY night it was shown after the boys go to sleep, rather than having to wait a couple of days for it to be posted to the Internet. Also, we are able to record the PBS shows we want our boys to watch and have them watch those, instead of letting them watch any show that we may not like (such as Word Girl), not to mention the Hallmark Hall of Fame shows that come on sometimes. Ah, the joys of being married to my nerdy electronically minded hubby!  Ha, ha, just kidding. But, it is so nice to have him around. We have quite the set-up electronically in our house–computer set-up (never have a broken computer or slow or down Internet); our TV and shelves with the PS3, surround sound receiver, speakers, all mounted on the wall with no wires outside the walls; and our “homemade” TiVo, etc. Come over and enjoy! And, we may even play Guitar Hero on the PS3 (we have two guitars). Don’t ask, yes I did give into THAT game (and maybe Sonic the Hedgehog)–it’s fun! Go buy yourself a PS3 (the price has gone down to $300), you’ll be glad you did!

Next up, Halloween pictures!

Here are the costumes I sewed up for our boys. Yes, they are going to be m&ms and I’m so excited. I think they turned out cute. I must say that Cory looks the cutest–since he can’t walk and make the costume bunch up. The colors are red, blue, and green.