last one (for today) I promise

Videos that only Grandparents could love, so everyone else, feel free to look away.

what's the use of a cell phone if you can't shoot video with it

you knew it was coming after all the cell phone picture posts. Video.

Gus is signed up for a class called Sing Dance Act (creative name). I had a blast watching the class. The video quality is horrendous but you get the idea. I realized after I recorded for awhile that I could zoom in and out. I'm a technological whiz kid! In this video they're making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches after having made pizza and put it in the oven.

more camera phone

First soccer practice

Standing with his foot on the ball because that's what his coach said you're to do. He was very precise about it.

A healthy, post-soccer practice snack: chocolate chip waffles with whipped cream on top

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This is how Gus prefers to have his picture taken. He makes me take them ad infinitim and then "lemme see, lemme see".

so now I'm really cool

*not*

I finally got around to getting pics off my cell phone. Here's a sampling:

This is the hat Gussie picked out for winter. I'm glad he agreed to wear one this winter- because last winter it just wasn't happening.

We took this picture to send to Kailey. This is the necklace she made him in WDW.

This is my camera wallpaper.

My friend Ilka just told me today that the only pics she has of her daughter Morgan as a newborn are on her cell phone (her DH John was in the hospital when Morgan was born... long tragic story etc etc), so will one of our Panama City friends (Deb, Linda, Georgia etc) please go over there and make her buy a micro SD card to get those off her phone? TIA.

Gus's 4th birthday

We had Gus's birthday last weekend and it went well. It was a very chilled affair and we just had a few friends over. It was extremely last minute and I debated having anything at all since he had a party at school, but Gus wanted to do something so we did. I took pics of the school party but my memory card went kaput and the pics are lost. Bummer.

I made this cake. Now I know what people mean when they say "The piping is what takes so long". That stuff takes for forever to do (piping = outlines, which I was previously unaware of). And apparently, it is possible to make black icing. I didn't really finish the cake, but it was finished enough. Gus looooooves some Wall E. Cara introduced him to the movie when we first moved here- which totally traumatized her- because he got so upset when he watched it the first time that he yelled "THAT MAKES ME SAD" and ran around the island then threw his spoon at the tv (or maybe he threw his spoon first, then ran around, I don't remember). Anywho, he still said he loved it and wanted to watch it again right away and now it's probably his favorite movie. Cara is still traumatized, however.

Tim got his promotion YAY! But that's not why I have a picture of this cake. I have it because this is a Cake Love cake. It's called My Downfall. What is a Cake Love cake you might ask? Only one of the reasons that God has so kindly given us for living. Could be the best food ever- we also got one of the strawberries and cream, a teeny one. I don't even really dig cake but OMG this cake is awesome. In all honesty, I think half the reason we had a birthday for Gus was so we could get a cake made with love. Not that Duncan Hines isn't great, but from here on out, any person that comes to visit us will probably serve as a reason to buy a Cake Love cake- there's a Cake Love store right down from Tim's work. May God bless Warren Brown.

Gus told me to take a picture "right when I twap (clap...still no C's or L')".

After the party was over, Gus's friend Liam and his mom and dad stayed the rest of the day with us. It was a great day.

*ok, the pictures didn't resize and I have no idea why, but next time I promise they'll be easily clickable. Sorry!

first day of school

Official school, not camp school. It went well and now we're fully in the swing of things. He started on August 31, but I'm behind (you think I'd be all caught up with things because Gus is in school, but noooooooo).