Merry Christmas!

Christmas has come around so fast this year it seems like I barely had a chance to blink after Thanksgiving and tonight is Christmas Eve. This is the first time in quite a while that I did not send out Christmas cards. I was sad not to do it but our numerous photo shoots didn't produce my dream photo to put in the cards ( I know I'm ridiculous, I have been told MANY times). Next year we'll go to a pro. We have been flooded with cards and presents, so many that I haven't been able to keep track. I'd like to thank everyone who sent all the lovely pressies for the boys. It's wonderful to recieve packages and it makes us feel closer to family and friends who are thousands of miles away.

This evening was spent over at Thao and Robert's house, along with Thao's parents and a bunch of PEPS families. We ate a feast and we actually played a game even with all the kids there. It's nearly 10pm now and John and I are just about to put our Santa caps on and stuff stockings.

11:30 now and Santa's been and gone. He had his tipple of Welsh whiskey and a couple custard creams. I can't wait to see Owain's reaction to Christmas morning. To all of our loved ones we wish you love and peace and a super fun holiday!

Here Comes Crimbo!

We've not taken enough Jimmy photos so there are a bunch in with this lot:


Frankly, Owain just gets to be more and more fun and spends his days entertaining his poor, exhausted mother. I really must cobble some more video footage together. In the meantime, raw and uncut, here are the boys! Doing nothing much! For six minutes!

Exhibit A

Backyard Brawl

And here it is: my first proper movie...

(No babies were hurt in the making of this movie.)

November

As promised, I've put together some photos from November.


Nothing very exciting has happened here recently. Our basement got a bit wet from the rainstorms, which has hopefully solved the ant problem for us. Heather put some curtains up - but of course you heard about that on the evening news.

We did go to Snoqualmie to visit one of H's Peps ladies. Then we checked out the local waterfall.

Here is Owain getting very excited by pictures of animals...


Right, that should be enough for now. Heather is baking furiously for tomorrow so I'm going to have a play with iMovie and see if I can't edit together some good footage of Owain being a git. In the meantime, here's some uncut gittage to keep you going...

Planets

Disclaimer: A regular post full of baby photos and idle chit-chat will follow shortly. In the meantime...

Here's a rather rough-and-ready movie of my current pet project - a planet generator. It works by elaborating on the features that are close to the camera, giving the illusion that a whole world is being drawn in high detail.

It needs quite a hefty re-write before I can take it to the next level so I thought I'd rush out this movie first. Next step: ease up on the green.

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