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Favorite Christmas Present

Here's a picture of my favorite Christmas present this year. Six different types of root beers from Food Across America. I can't wait to open these up! My family knows me so well.

Snow fort pictures

Jefferson and I built some great snow forts yesterday. The weather was pretty mild, so we bundled up and headed outside. We, of course, had to make all military themed forts in the snow. We built 3 forts in all, we had some fantastic drifts that allowed us to make walls pretty easily. Here's a picture of one of them with more at my Flickr page.

Check out my fat rolls, they are new

Check out my fat rolls, they are new, originally uploaded by mad_markd.

My LX3 camera is amazing, I really like this shot. More artistic than what I usually do but then adjusting the levels to make it really black with highlights on Levi and I think it turned out pretty good. Also, I have a setting where every shot I take I can add to the meta data exactly how old Jefferson and Levi are in the pictures. It counts from their Birthdays and tells me exactly how many days old they are. Super camera that fits in your pocket and takes amazing pictures.

Video

I've been doing more with video lately, but I'm still a purist and prefer still pictures from my camera over those fancy moving images. However, I just made a video on Animoto called "Baby Levi's First Year" I'll also embed it below

First picture of Christmas 2009

Here's our first picture of Christmas 2009. Jefferson helping decorate the Christmas tree.

DEER GO SMASH

On my way home from work last night, I ran into a deer. I'm guessing that my speed was probably only 15mph. It's a 45mph area and I was breaking when I ran into the deer. The deer got up and ran away so I don't think he was hurt too badly. My Outlander suffered $2500 in damage. *sigh*

Levi Wakeup

Levi waking up at Grandma Roberts after his first night away from home. He traveled really really well. Slept all the way to Des Moines, most of the day and almost made it all the way home without having to stop to eat. He started screaming when we got off of Highway 20 at Dike, so it was only loud for a few minutes before we pulled into the driveway. Jefferson has such a kind heart, he told us his heart was aching when he had to listen to his little brother in the back crying for a few minutes before we made it home.

Thanksgiving Pinata Photos

Grayson, Jefferson, Jackson, Levi and Grandma Roberts in the first photos. Jefferson and Grayson getting rid to hit the Thanksgiving Turkey Pinata in the second photo.