Love Our New Screen Saver- maybe too much!

Our TV has this screen saver that rocks. It shows our pictures. All of our pictures that are on the computer. I've seen screen savers that show slide shows before and it's okay, but this one is awesome. It will show about 30 black and white images on the screen in little black or white frames and then it zooms in on one and shows it in full color. Sometimes it tricks you and just when it gets to the one you think it's zooming in on it shifts rapidly to one side or the other and you get a different picture. It's kind of fun. Then it fades back to black and white as it zooms out and reveals lots of other pictures like before. Those pictures shift up, down, sideways, diagonally and then it pauses. It then zooms in on another picture. I love it so much I could just sit and watch it for hours! The pictures look so good up there in high definition, so bright and vibrant. I L-O-V-E it!!! Did I mention that I love it? Well, I do. Sometimes it even gives you an extra treat. When it zooms in on a picture and you're like, "Oh, that was a good day. We had so much fun," it will show you more pictures from the same day. It's awesome. I've probably wasted more electricity and time looking at random photos from the past seven years(the years we have stored on the computer) than I care to count. It's so cool though and it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling looking at pictures from my past. Just another reason to make all those hypothetical memory albums I keep working on in my brain into reality. Maybe I could watch the screen saver while I work on them;-)

Four Seasons

Edited ***Oops, I meant to post this on my creative blog. It's over there now.***

Winter Va-kay Part 2

So we got to the hotel after our fun trip to Winter Wonderland. And what to our wondering eyes should appear, but a room full of inflatables and games. So, we went in and had some free fun. The kids jumped in the moon bounce, ran the obstacle course and crawled through a giant caterpillar. In the morning we got up and went to our Smorgasbord breakfast. Then we suited up and played in the pool for a couple hours. No wonder we love staying there!

Thanks to my husband's superstellar computer skills I am able to use the desktop computer from my laptop remotely and bring you these pictures.


I didn't get any really good ones, but these get the point across. As Ryan said when he saw the stuff at the hotel, "More fun?! This is the best day we've spent at Dutch Wonderland ever!"

Winter Wonderland

Every year we go to Dutch Wonderland for their Winter Wonderland Christmas Celebration. I love it for many reasons. For one thing all the amusement parks in the area close when it's not summer and it's a good chance to get some fun ride action in for the kids during the winter.

Here Ryan and Lily enjoy the Whip.

Ryan got to ride the Space Shuttle for the first time this trip, but I didn't get to take a picture because I stayed with Lily while she rode the Whip again.

We played with the "ice cubes" for a while. Zach actually managed to build an igloo like structure.

Of course the kids had to ride the Frog Hopper, always a favorite.

Jay and the boys rode the bumper cars.



One might think he knew I was taking this picture, but he didn't.

This is Zach. I know you can't tell except for the signature green clothing and green car, but the only time he faced me was when the bar in the front blocked his face.

This carousel is my favorite. It's so pretty especially at night.

Lily loves the carousel too. We rode it twice. Once at the very end of the evening. It was a beautiful way to finish our night. The had this really cool light show this year. I think it was new because I don't remember it from previous trips. It was amazing though. They had all these Christmas lights in a big field and they had them "dance" to Christmas music. Dance is the best word I could come up with to describe it. It was very cool. I would have taken pictures, but I wouldn't be able to do it justice and we didn't really stop to watch it. We just kind of enjoyed it as we walked around. I'm hoping to get a spring or summer trip to Dutch Wonderland in this year if anyone is interested. It's a relatively short drive.