The iPhone just doesn't do this sunset justice

I really should carry my camera around!

High tea

this is cool

So I've been messing around with Photomatrix Pro (http://www.hdrsoft.com/) and it is a cool program! Here's an example taken from my back porch. The temp outside has dropped dramatically in the last 12 hours and its FREEZING out there so I didn't venture far from the door. anyhow- here it is. Wishing you all a wonderful new year and lets hope 2009 is better than 2008, it's been a rocky year.

and grandma prefers the unedited underexposed picture. It's the first picture-untouched.

Burn some trash :)

A little gas makes a big boom! Notice all the black marks on the grass?

Our Charlie brown tree is up :)

The circus!

I took meg & Eli to the circus & they had fun

The nutcracker :)

We had a nice time at the ballet & meg spent the rest of the night
spinning in circles ;) my little ballerina

Meg & her cousins

Mmmmmmm

Meg is a trooper

The floor of KCI looks pretty inviting after getting up at 4am

On our way to Missouri :)

Wow. Meg & I were up and at 'em at 4:15am... One flight down- one to
go. We have a couple hours to kick back in Chicago- and it's snowing
here!

Snow!!!!

Ok, so it's just a dusting but meg was having a blast spinning on the
icy driveway :)

Check out that look

I was going through some pics to print up (Walgreens has a coupon) and came across this pic of Meghan from May of this year. My gawd, if she looks this way at 6 what in the world do I have to look forward to at 13-18 eeek!

Gmas hair looks nice

Cabinet

I don't think I posted a pick of the cabinet I picked up .... It's
pretty :)

My desk is CLEAN!

Ok, some peeps may say it still looks cluttered but really, it's not
often *both* desktops have a clear space! ;)