Christmas List 2009

The Bair side of the family sent out Christmas Exchange names yesterday, so we thought we'd do the same for the Lambourne's. The kids helped pull names out of a bowl and it seemed to be great until I compared to last year's list -- half the people had the exact same names!! What are the odds? Anyway, we re-pulled all the names and came up with this list:

Jenna --> Erika
Kaylee --> Jordan (Baby Sweet)
Nathan --> Garrett
Lisette --> Brooks
Talia --> Gavin (Baby Lambourne)

Caitlin --> Lisette
Lizzie --> Jenna
Abigail --> Ashley

Erika --> Kaylee
Ashley --> Abigail
Brooks --> Lynnea

Lynnea --> Lizzie
Jordan (Baby Sweet) --> Caitlin

Garrett --> Nathan
Gavin (Baby Lambourne) --> Talia

For the brothers & sisters, I believe we are four down this year:

Leticia --> Tiffany
Crystal --> William
Rodney --> Leticia
Cosette --> Crystal
Tiffany --> Rodney
William --> Cosette

Let me know if any of this is wrong or needs to be changed. Also, any opinions on amounts this year? Mom is coming out in November, so you Virginians might be able to get her to bring out gift to Oregon (if she has room).

Websites

At the beginning of the summer, Scottt & I took on an extra project to create a website for a friend, who is a painter. He created a video that teaches people all the tips & tricks he uses when painting and wanted to sell it online. Scott designed the layout and I did the coding. We finally completed the website last week.

It has totally interfered with the summer projects we had planned in the yard, but it's done now - yeah! We are going on vacation next week and then starting the fence/garden project on the side yard the next week. Of course, we still have to catch/kill the gopher digging up the backyard vacation or not (and no matter how much Jenna screams that we can't kill it)!

There are still things I'd like to add and a couple of nits to fix, but the website is functional. You can check it at the link below. (And, please, let me know if anything looks wierd or doesn't work - I can always use extra testers!) :-)

http://www.homerepair1on1.com/

Kaylee in "Evita"

Evita Flier

Kaylee's Bio in the Program

(What Kaylee actually looked like when they asked
for a headshot for the program!! I had to search
the computer for an older picture that would work.)


Kaylee as Young Eva
(this was her first wig - short & dark brown)


Kaylee as Young Eva
(in her new shorter, blacker & scratchier wig)


Just having fun backstage
(these are props from a different show)


Kaylee as an Orphan
(No wig for this one. So it's put the hair up for a wig, then
take it down, then put it all back up as she changes costumes!)


Kaylee (orphan) singing her solo
You can see other pictures from the show on their Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=119814&id=53667709082

An August update!

We got Caitlin's stuff for her online charter school this Fall. Whoa. We were a little overwhelmed. Boxes upon boxes of books, science stuff, math stuff, workbooks, blocks, and oh yeah, a computer, monitor, and printer. We have to eventually return most of the stuff at the end of the year, but we had no idea where to put it all or where to set up "school". So out went our washer and dryer into the garage and in went a galvanized-metal tabletop Rod made at work and chairs from craigslist (that I reupholstered). My hubby can do it all!! It looks pretty awesome. There's still some wiring to figure out where to put, and more school-ish things to go up, but you get the picture:
Abby is rolling over all over the place now! She's a ton of sweetness and fun.

These pics crack me up: look at her eyes, as soon as she had one toy, she wanted the other. She only wanted what she didn't have!

We're going camping at Lake Tahoe next week. Then Rod comes back and me and the girls are staying in California for another week to visit with my sister and parents. We're excited for our trip, and also excited because Rod's boss told him to expect to go back to 5 days a week when he gets back! Whoo-oo!

Strawberry picking...

Farmer Brooks and

Diva Ashley

Dowdy Update

I guess it's my turn to update....except we don't really have an update. Everything's the same!!!
Here's some recent pics of the kids.

Erika and her new found friend

The girls horseback riding

Erika strawberry picking

Update

Hi everyone. I've been uploading pictures from my camara to the computer and found some good things to put up on the blog. They're totally random and basically span this whole Spring. Enjoy!!

Adam bought us tickets to Wicked for my birthday last September.
This past May was finally the show.
We went out to dinner first then to the show.
It was amazing!!!

VIRGINIA AQUARIUM
Sarah and I took Lynnea and Garrett to the aquarium one day. It's so dark in there it's kind of hard to get good pictures, but here what I got.

Lynnea admiring the fish.

Garrett

Lynnea and Garrett together watching some fish.

We couldn't get both of them to look at the camara at the same time.

This is the best shot!!

EASTER 2009

Easter Egg Hunt at Grandma's house.

Brooks in the swing.

Garrett showing off what he got.

Erika, as cute as ever!

Will and Garrett

Lynnea egg-hunting

Will doing a back flip. This is his second flip - his first one he actually landed perfectly!

LYNNEA

This is just Lynnea being really cute. She was sitting at the table just talking and singing to herself and of course as soon as I pulled out the camara she quieted down, but here she is...cute as can be!