38/365 – Mon. 2/7/11 :: Magic Code

Lots of time lately working on a new website for the Dallas Young Magician’s Club. Mark and another guy revived the group a few months ago. In the interest of time, I started with a template provided by our web host. Not sure I actually ended up saving a whole lot of time in the end after trying to wade through the code and make it do what we needed, and I can definitely see overhauling it when time permits to allow it to be updated more easily, but everyone seems to be happy with it for now. :)

37/365 – Sun. 2/6/11 :: We Are the Champions

One of the few times I’ve actually watched the Super Bowl all the way through. (Well almost all the way. It’s a long game, and there are kids in this house after all.)  Go Packers!!! So happy that they won, especially for my dad and brother who are much bigger fans than I am. I could feel the cheers from them three states away as loudly as the ones coming from Cowboys Stadium just 40 miles from here. :)

36/265 – Sat. 2/5/11 :: Poser

A Dungeons & Dragons Saturday. In the interest of quiet for my recovery (finally on the tail end of this blasted cold), we had the kid who sometimes comes to play with Matthew skip this one. Matthew decided to spend his time watching the game, so Kaylee and I had the family room to ourselves. As bedtime was approaching, she got into a silly pose-y mood and couldn’t get enough of the camera. Not sure if she actually just wanted her picture taken or if it was really more of a delay tactic. ;)

35/365 – Fri. 2/4/11 :: Unicorn Sighting

Day four of no school actually included snow! I had to step outside from my warm spot in the house to capture a shot of this pair of extremely rare ice-horned unicorns. :)

34/365 – Thur. 2/3/11 :: The eyes are the window to the … house?

Day three of no school. The view looking up from my desk. Icicles on the arched windows make me feel like the house is coyly batting her long eyelashes at me. :)

33/365 – Wed. 2/2/11 :: Roll With It

Day two of no school and being cooped up in the house due to weather also brought with it the unexpected fun of rolling blackouts across Texas. It was a bit disconcerting never knowing when it would hit next or how long it would be off. Our power ended up going out four times, for about 15 minutes or so each time.

During the second outage, I pulled out my camera to distract the kids from their disappointment at the sudden death of their video games. Matthew then decided to use his DSi to try to take pictures of Kaylee. She wasn’t in the mood and blocked the lens with a book, and Matthew got to see how frustrating it is to have an uncooperative subject. LOL

32/365 – Tue. 2/1/11 :: Ice Break

While a winter storm was predicted, we really weren’t counting on school being cancelled, since the forecasts often error on the side of caution. But when my alarm clock went off and I heard the freezing rain hitting the windows, I figured it might happen after all. So I booted up my computer and checked the district website and saw the announcement. So glad they actually posted it early enough that I was able to just go crawl back into bed. And glad I was actually able to get back to sleep, since I’m still dealing with this stupid cold, I really needed it!