I posted several photos from this past weekend on Flickr. As you can see here, Grandma and Grandpa had a good time – at least until it was time to leave.
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This is my last blog post
Andrew is NOT happy.
After thinking about it for several weeks and talking it over with Brenda, I have decided to stop making entries to this blog. I guess the more I think about it, the more I realize the boys are just not all that interesting and who really wants to hear about them anyway. Sure, the grandparents do but we’ve even felt like the grandparents have lost interest. I mean really, they’re just babies – what can they do anyway? So, like I said, this will be my last entry – in this blog.
On a very related note, I have started a new blog on our own server called “Just Another Day”. What’s the difference? There are a few.
First, and most importantly, this blog is run on my own personal server, and it was built for us. That means that 20 years down the road I’ll still have full access to this site and all of the video/photos that I have posted. This blog is hosted by another company, and that’s not to say it won’t be around in 20 years, but I didn’t want to take a chance. It would crush me to put several years of work into this and then just have it go away.
Second, I’m a total nerd. I love getting under the hood of things computer related and this site lets me get under the hood (the hood on this blog is locked). That means I can customize the blog more and add other features that are otherwise just not available.
The last biggest change, and one that I’m really looking forward to, is that Brenda will now be able to do her own blog posts separate from mine. Every post on the blog will have the name of the person who posted it, so she will be able to add her own thoughts and comments as well.
Over the next few weeks, all of the old entries from this blog will be transferred into the new one, so there will still be a complete history. Also, this site is still being tested and tweaked, so every so often a post may appear that seems out of place. Don’t be frightened.
So while this is the end of this blog, it’s really just the beginning. I hope that you enjoy the new site.
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Parenthood… Not bad, not bad at all
As we enter our third week now, things are getting easier each day. That’s not to say there are not challenges, it’s just that we’ve been able to handle things as they happen most of the time.
The boys are well behaved (except for being peed on now and then) and it’s a pleasure just holding them and having them look back at you. It’s amazing how something so very simple can be so rewarding.
Brenda has been doing better every day handling them both on her own. This week she will handle both of them by herself later in the week, and she feels confident that it will go well.
This week I’m back to full time which for me means 9am until about 9pm most days of the week. There are exceptions, but on average that’s what it will be moving forward. My first task will be to line up a few solid editors that I can use as replacements for Brenda. She has left some huge shoes to fill!
So otherwise, there’s not much to report. Just taking it easy with the boys!
New photos are also posted on Flickr. We took some new family photos today, and there is a separate album of the photos Mike took the day they were born.
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Happy Birthday Boys! – New Photos
Happy Birthday Boys! – New Photos
The boys are only 2 weeks old as of today, but we already feel like we’ve known them forever (I mean this in a good way). It’s already hard to imagine life without them.
Thanks to Mike Younger we have some awesome photos from the day they were born. Mike was nice enough to create a automatic web gallery slide show that you’ll find by clicking on the link.
There are a lot of photos, so if you want to skip around and look at different ones click in the lower right hand corner of the screen and use the controls that appear.
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Andrew and Max Debut Video
12:33pm – This is a re-post from yesterday. There were some problems but now it’s working so if you had any problems viewing the video try this link.
This is not my best work considering I edit videos for a living, but for any editors watching I used iMovie. Enough said. I’m also not the best camera person, so just look past the jerky moves.
If you can deal with those two problems, then you’ll enjoy the little moments we shared in the last week or so. They’re awesome boys and we’re thrilled to have them!
You will need quicktime installed on your machine to view this. For most people the default MEDIUM quality should play fine over the web, but if it doesn’t because you have a slow connection try the MOBILE version instead.
Hope you enjoy it!
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