Among the Realm

Well the basement is finally complete minus some few touch ups here and there. I have yet to move over there but after the baseboards are painted I will begin to migrate over!

I know its 2010 but I have fallen behind in blog posts and before I start my 2010 blog posts I need to wrap up 2009! Here are the pics from 2009 Holiday season.. enjoy!

Amish Turkey

My Thanksgiving beer!

Its tradition every year to play Scattergories after dinner.

This is also a tradition and Thanksgiving is the one time a year I build a fire. I have learned my fire building skills from my dad and hopefully one day will pass them on to my son.

Amie loves her turkey leg!

Amie is old enough to drive… so her Grandma gave her this cool present… a ton of money towards a new car!

Sarah finding her drum set from Grandma… I sent her on a scavenger hunt to find the drums!

Emily

The best cookies… ever!

I have some new plans for this blog… or lets say I want a new plan for this blog. I want to finish my 101 list of things I want to do during my life and blog more in general. I tend to go through phases where I enjoy to blog and then there are the phases where I become lazy. If any of you readers have any ideas drop me a line.

Welcome to a new category titled Iphone Pictures. Photography is a hobby that I enjoy and while I have really nice camera I always do not like to carry it with me. Going on the principle that the best camera is the one that is with you I decided to start this category. All the pics were taken and edited on the Iphone.

The original picture

The Final Picture

Blue Moon

My grades for the semester… A-, B-, C, A.

J to the Bizzle sporting a fantastic wig!

Brooke might hate me for this one…

But she will love me for this one…

Mr. Bones making an appearance for the festivities.

Again…

Bathroom

My soon to be bedroom and office

Another view of the bedroom and office

Here are some updated pics of the basement remodel. All the framing is finished and we are waiting on the electrician to come tomorrow then I will run cat5 cable for Internets.

Also had a shed installed recently… prepping the area was not a fun job. I had to dig out a 10 x 10 square and it had to be 4 inches deep. Then I had to fill it with crushed limestone. Just finished moving all the limestone today.

The renovations have begun on the basement… I will be posting pics as the work continues.

This next pic is unrelated but had to throw it in here. I snapped it one night when I got home from work which is about 2 am. Never seen a halo around the moon that big.

computer repair

On the way home from The Killers concert!

The Killers

Gaslight Anthem at Bogarts

Bluejeans and white tshirts…

So today I spent a couple of hours tearing out my bathroom so the remodel of the basement can begin. Here are some pics from the adventure.

This is one awesome tool…

Just in case anyone does not have any common sense.

Emily, my cousin graduated and though she is older some things never change. Don’t worry you will find out why but you have to wait until the end of this post… meanwhile enjoy some pics of Emily’s graduation.

Emily thinking really hard… and maybe pondering the meaning of life.

Emily not thinking real hard because in this pic she is picking her nose.

Emily sticking her tongue out at me… not sure why she insists doing this when I take pics.

Again…

And again…

Emily and Matt

Emily is one smart cookie! Ok she isn’t really a cookie… mmm cookies.

Getting ready!

Emily, Debbie and Jim

Love this pic… probably my favorite from this session.

Not sure what is going here… Matt opted to chew on the doggy treat instead of the gum…???

See somethings never change…

Emily I am so proud of you and I love you! Have fun at college!

I went over to take some pics of Emily and Matt before prom. Its hard to believe that Emily is graduating this June and going to Ohio State for Biomedical Engineering.

This is a cool picture but the background is way too blurry. Had my fstop cranked to 1.4. Seems like when its brighter outside it makes the background more blurry.

Meet Matt, Emily’s boyfriend.

Matt’s face: Did somebody fart?