Christmas Pooka Style

This was really the first year Pooka knew what Christmas was about. Thanks to last year's Christmas Micky Mouse Clubhouse, Pooka started asking if it was Christmas yet in June. You can only imagine how excited she was when I finally said, "Yes! Its Christmas Eve!!"

We started over at Grandma Gayle's house, where the Auntie Megen gave Pooka her
first present.

She was so excited she didn't even finish unwrapping it before she asked us to take it out.

The HOUR that it took to put the bed, floor mat, swing and stroller together.

The Priceless reaction when we were done

The Preparation


CHRISTMAS MORNING

Before

During

and AFTER

Merry Christmas

Behind

Am I the only one who is about three weeks behind schedule for Christmas? I have gotten 3 of the 8 presents I have on my list, and that doesn't even include stockings. Ugh....

A New Hobby

This post serves three purposes:

1. Invite everyone to my Graduation!

2. Show off a new hobby

3. Show off my mad skills :P

The party was supposed to be a surprise, but Matthew couldn't hold it in any longer. I don't really mind because I got the idea to make this invite. I discovered (thanks Scott and Nancy!) a free photoshop-ish program on the web called gimp and I had messed with it a little, but this was my first major project. I got the background base at photobucket and just copied it a billion times for the effect. The border was tricky because I couldn't find any line tools, so I just selected the area for a different color. You would die if you knew exactly how long I spent tinkering with this thing to get the effects I wanted. But it was tons of fun. What do you think? A good hobby? I think I'll keep working on it.
: )

Terminado.
Fardiga
Fertig.
Finito.
Fini.

FINISHED!

After 5 1/2 years, I have finally finished school. I've had a few people ask me why I'm not going on to grad school and I just give them a blank stare until I realize they're serious. I truly love what I studied, but my family has had it really rough since Pooka was born. This is my time to learn things outside Academia that are more important than microbiology. Like how to keep my house clean and laundry done. How to do my geneology right. How to take my little girl places and spend time with her just becasue we have a few extra hours to kill. I get to be a Mama and a wife now and honestly, I don't think I'll ever look back.

ONLY THREE MORE DAYS!