There are a couple new photo album available in the gallery for your viewing pleasure.
The first gallery is the result of a full day worth of scanning pictures. Scanned Images
The second gallery are Neill and Celeste’s pictures, taken during the Christmas break. Neill and Celeste - Fascination Photography
Enjoy.
Well Christmas may be over, but its never too late to add some videos.
Here is the video from Delaney’s school program:
More to come as I find time.
At least on the Beringer/Nichols/Starbuck/Wynn/Sherer/Mettler side of the fence, here are the pairings:
Theresa - Walter
Mike - Jen
Jen - Theresa
Matt - Celeste
Melinda - Lori
Lori - Kayla
Kayla - Jesse
Chad - Matt
Walter - Mike
Ashley - Chad
Celeste - Danyelle
Neill - Melinda
Jesse - Neill
Danyelle - Ashley
Couple things…
It’s been a while, this much I do know. So it’s finally time for an update.
We just got back from Fayetteville, North Carolina to visit Neill before his deployment. He was scheduled to leave on April 17th, which was changed the day we got out there. It changed again while we were out there, with the current date scheduled for April 25th. Whether that remains unchanged is hard to say right now. Celeste was already out there, and Shelly beat us out there by a few hours, so was nice to have other family out there to spend time with. We did as much as we could in our couple days out there; visited a couple museums, ate until we about exploded, played some putt-putt golf, and even went to the carnival! Carnies…..mmm….small hands, smell like cabbage!
What is a trip to the carnival without bumper cars? Well it’s just not a trip, especially when you throw in some ultra competitive personalities.
It was Delaney’s first carnival, of any sort, so we did what we could. She was highly disappointed in not being able to ride most of the rides.
Ugh, after watching that, I think someone should fire that camera man! You could get seasick on dry land by watching that last video.
I’m still working on the other videos from the trip, but it’s a start.
In regards to updates, I’ve also uploaded new pictures to the following albums:
Ft Bragg/Fayetteville Trip
Party Pictures
Miscellaneous Family Pics
Dave and Ellie
I know its been a while, but you know how things go.
Brief update. There are new pictures available. Rather then link each album that is updated, I’ve gone to the process of reordering the albums such that the updated albums are always the first in the list. That should make it pretty easy to determine what you’ve seen and what you haven’t.
In regards to the site, I’m preparing to do a complete overhaul of the site. I hate the current site and its limitations, thus I want to move to something that is easier to use and opens up things a bit more for you all. Essentially, rather then it being our site, about us and maintained by us, we’re considering going to a site that is about all of our family and friends. Thus I’m leaning more toward a community driven site, or social network if you will. This would provide photos, blogs, and activity for everyone rather then just us. Of course any input and ideas regarding this are always welcome.
Based on the title I’m sure you can guess what Neill’s big change is; Neill and Celeste got married today, 12/27. It was a small ceremony, with only immediate family. They do plan to have a formal ceremony once Neill returns from Afghanistan (he gets deployed in April), thus there will be more information in the coming year regarding the details.
We couldn’t be happier with his decision and welcome her to our family with open arms. Of course, it does raise the question as to whether she is actually prepared for our family! To be fair, we did warn her beforehand!
The holidays are upon us once again. I apologize for there not being more updates. It has been a busy couple of months, although not sure where the time has gone.
To summarize what has been going on lately…
I know there is far more to detail, so I do hope to be more proactive in updating the site in the future. But to tide you over, we did attend Delaney’s Christmas Concert tonight. This is her very first concert, so you can only imagine how excited she was to go. It had been rescheduled from last week, which turned out great as Neill was able to attend as well. I do apologize for the video quality; our camcorder quit in May and we’ve never taken the time to get it fixed, thus all the videos are shot with my little Sony digital camera.
As a little bonus, and just because everyone loves when the little ones get up there, here are the 2 year olds.
Once again, another year has gone by and I still did not find the time to rewrite the entire gift registry application. No loss though, since everyone is already a member and I’ve left it as is. What that means is that it is now time to start thinking about firing that puppy back up and getting your lists made. There was an issue, recently, with email being sent from that box, which is correct now, so everything should be pretty much ready to go.
Best approach is to go through your list and remove everything. If you have something on your list that you still want to keep there, I’d remove and add it again, just to ensure that no one had it reserved still.
Being proactive now makes it easier for those shopping, such as me! Please drop me a line or shoot me a message should you have any issues regarding the registry. Same as last year, thus should be pretty straightforward.
