Dead Camera

If you've been wondering why it seems that our blogging has been slowing doewn lately, it's not due to a waning interest, it can mostly be attributed to a lack of pictures due to a broken camera. That's right, our camera has officially bitten the dust. It's probably a combination of getting old, a little too much sand, and Braedyn's growing interest in taking pictures that killed it off, but it doesn't work. We have a new one on order that I've been eyeing for a while, so we should be back in business again soon. This new one boasts 10.1 MP and a High Definition video recording feature, so be prepared for some better quality coming soon. I've been happy enough with Panasonic cameras that this will be our 5th Panasonic digital camera we have owned. You can check it out here.

Manila

We're Off! We are headed to visit Grandma and Grandpa and Aunt Michelle in Manila, Phillippines. We'll be there for a couple of weeks assuming we survive the 17 hour flight.

Our Blook

This blog started out as somewhat of a half hatched notion of a good way to share a few pictures when Braedyn was born. A lot of our friends and family were spread out across the world and we wanted to share our joy with them in someway. It's ended up being an ongoing photo journal of our lives and especially of Braedyn's life. It's also ended up being our main photo album as we don't print a lot of pictures to make albums with. And with all the time and effort we have invested in the blog it always seemed like duplicated effort to create a photo album. Well one thing that has been on my mind to do for quite some time is to figure out a way to print out the blog in a nice format so that we do have a way to keep it around to flip through. About a year ago a friend of mine, Ben Martens, at Microsoft showed me a book that he just had made of his blog. So I set out to write a little piece of software that would suck in every blog post and then format them all correctly so that I could print our blog as well. I made the mistake of telling Talisha about this idea about a year ago and she has been excited about it ever since. Well the first installment of our "Blook" is now completed (by the time this posts Talisha will have received it as a Christmas present). I sent off the entire first year of our blog to Lulu.com for publishing in a hardback, 8.5" x 11", full color book. It is 635 pages long with over 1200 pictures in it. And guess what, you too can buy a copy! Just go to http://www.lulu.com/content/5177449 and order yours today. I think you get a discount if you order 10 of them! Anyhow, it will be nice to see how this turns out. Unfortunately it's a bit expensive to experiment so I'm not sure how the formatting will look until I actually get the first copy, so I'm sure there will be some improvements made in the formatting module of my code for next year's installment.

Oddly enough the picture on the front of the book was taken in Hawaii in 2006, not Carpinteria, since Braedyn was only 7 months at the time. Apparently the beach way of life had a pull on us before we even knew Carp existed. Funny the twists and turns life takes!

 

1000 Posts

We reached the 1000 blog posts mark with this post. We started the blog back on March 1, 2006 and have been posting ever since! We hope you've been enjoying it.

Blog Roll

We've begun to amass quite a list of our firends and family who have blogs over on the side of this blog. We do this mainly so that we have an easy place to go to link off to all of them if we want to browse through them. So many people seem to take up blogging and then drop it not too much later or just post about twice a year so we were considering removing some of them, but didn't want to offend anyone... So we're trying out a new Blogger feature that sorts our list by how recently the blog has been posted to. This can be found further down on the sidebar, and will be moved up at some point if we decide we like it.

700 posts

We started this blog right after Braedyn was born and have just passed the 700 post mark!

Image Tally

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