Christmas wishes

Merry Christmas to all! Thinking of you, and thanks for all the gifts and the blessings.

Cormac's special blue bed

Gotta work out those bad bilirubins! Sadly we have to keep him strapped in here pretty often until the jaundice gets better. But our results from one day of treatment were already very good so we should hopefully get more baby holding time soon.

Eva really likes hot cocoa...

...although she usually refers to it as cocoa wheats!

Cormac pics

Late to the party on this. But I didn't have the transfer cable at the hospital and life was kinda a blur for the last 48 hours. No more until I sleep :).

Pics from our camera from the hospital at the start. Some nice family pics from when Tim came over the next night.

~E

Welcome Cormac

snowed in

Our 4WD car broke yesterday, and it has snowed all day today. So when life (or Audi) serves you lemons . . . make snow-cones!

-Dad

http://picasaweb.google.com/kshuff2/Snow?authkey=Gv1sRgCLGpzr7nmfvAlQE&feat=directlink

Thanksgiving weekend in a princess tent

http://picasaweb.google.com/kshuff2/SeattleThanksgivingWeekend?authkey=Gv1sRgCJjvyvj5gMeQoAE&feat=directlink

Moses Lake Thanksgiving before the snow

http://picasaweb.google.com/kshuff2/MosesLakeNov2010?authkey=Gv1sRgCNGpxfW79LvhGw&feat=directlink

Moses Lake's snowy Thanksgiving

From wintery weather comes to Moses Lake

musical videos

A bunch of videos from the last few weeks. Most involve music and dancing, as Eva has been obsessed with dancing and the musical instruments she got from Bop and Gigi for a few weeks. However, as you can see, she's becoming quite a bossy boss. She tells us how to dance, when/if to dance, how fast to use our musical instruments, and what instruments to use. She's also getting pretty good at the second half of the Alphabet Song. And she seems to cheer for the Packers but not the Bears. Sad!

Evangeline's first kiss

Eva kissing her friend Zeke after the church Halloween party (where she got the face paint) and trick-or-treating downtown. Of course, I don't know if she thinks she's kissing Zeke or Elmo, but either way, it was pretty cute.

Okay take 2 on the random fall pics. :)

Fall Pics (though Halloween)

Grandpa building furniture . . . with the radio on

Halloween pics

Halloween 2010

Pics from a few different Halloween events. There was a point where Evangeline had both her costume and the face paint, but there aren't any pictures showing that!

Ferry Boats

Now that the crummy weather is here I figured that I would pull together a quick little album of pictures of Molly on all her ferry boat rides. Our goal was to hit every ferry out of Seattle but in the end we missed out on a few of them. We did do like 6 or 7 trips though and hit 5 distinct routes. Lots of fun.

Ferry Pics

Dressing up pics

Documenting the triumph of getting Evangeline to eat something green and uncooked. Strategy: put blue cheese on it.




These boots are made for walking, just not for you:




A whole bunch of dressing up pics, although no Halloween pictures yet:

October pics

End of Summer

End of Summer

End of Summer

funny longish videos

Evangeline learns her lessons.


Evangeline wants her parents to be quiet, I guess...

Dale Chihuly and Meier Gardens together in one show!

http://picasaweb.google.com/kshuff2/Chihuly?authkey=Gv1sRgCOzJu6b048G-5wE&feat=directlink

birthday pics

Eva

Here are some pics from Eva's birthday week. She had fun with her new toys and clothes; she got a heavy winter coat and a lightweight two-pc. snow set that matches the heavier coat, so she should be all set for winter; and she enjoyed a fun group party with a bunch of her friends. We even made a house out of the kitchen box, which is pretty cool, although she (luckily!) likes the kitchen a little better than the box. :-) Phew. Now things are back to normal. We have her two-year checkup today, and we've been working on some thank you cards (scribbled on by Eva) that we should have in the mail later this week.

Labor Day pics

Alone in the chair, she felt suddenly small next to the looming fireplace.

She would soon come to learn that high heels are not as fun as they once seemed.

Blogging Unhappy Hipsters style (http://unhappyhipsters.com/). Now on to all the pics...

Labor Day

August pics

Here are some August pictures of our almost-two-year-old.

August 2010

in which Evangeline learns of the heavy burden of fashion

BLDGBLOG

Just wanted to share an interesting little blog that I found recently. I was thinking of Dad in particular, though others might find it interesting as well. It's called BLDGBLOG and I guess you could sum it up as a blog with detailed articles and lots of neat pictures on architecture, with a particular focus on urban architecture. I actually ran across it from a gaming blog that I read when one of their editors was guest editing BLDGBLOG and wrote a series of solid articles on architecture relating to video games (Evil Lairs, Generated Cities, Chernobyl). Those articles got me hooked and now I read pretty much everything on it.

The hipsterism factor and focus on modern urban designs is pretty high, but they have such interesting articles and pictures that I forgive them that.

Here are a few interesting articles from just the past month:
World's Largest Tent
Triangle in the Michigan Woods
Kid's Blocks
Landscape photo montages
A model of London circa 2030 water levels

'tis good stuff

~E

yummy thistles...

In which Eva learns to ask for artichokes to the exclusion of all other proffered foods...

Dry Wash

And here are a few pix from our visit to Laura and Jon and Evangeline on the dry side of the Cascades.

love,

Dad

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Wet Wash

Here are a few pix from our visit to Ian, Liz, and Molly (and Chuck and Julie) on the wet side of the Cascades.

love,

Dad

http://picasaweb.google.com/kshuff2/WashJul10IAndLBlog?authkey=Gv1sRgCJW4rZnJiNbBdQ&feat=directlink

San Juan Islands

We had a great trip with REI in the San Juans. And they're right in your backyard if you're lucky enough to live in the Evergreen State (which name seems rather provincial now that we've seen the Not-So-Green State east of the Cascades). Just saw Snow Falling On Cedars, and recommend you see it. Besides being a good movie, it's set in the San Juans.
- Dad
http://picasaweb.google.com/kshuff2/SanJuanIslands02?authkey=Gv1sRgCOWc4b3Lw7jOeA&feat=directlink

Capers!!!!

What can I say? The gal really loves her capers.

Evangeline in front of doors on Fourth of July weekend...

A Swiss sampler

Mostly people pix from our Swiss trip, preceded by a few Tour de France inspired pix.

-Dad

http://picasaweb.google.com/kshuff2/SwissSampler?authkey=Gv1sRgCK_osPGA55rHDg&feat=directlink

a few pics

Evangeline helping mommy paint a mini. When she says "minis" it sounds like "babies." Evangeline knows the plastic mini we gave her is not near as fun as the fragile metal ones mom and dad get.

Like all youth, Evangeline takes an apparently popular trend of her parents' generation (mommy wearing a hairband on her wrist) and takes it to a faddish and probably ironic extreme.

Molly sings the Beatles

Here is a little video of Molly having her duck puppet "baby duck" sing a Beatles tune.

Eva rockin' out

Evangeline rockin' out to the neighbors' music:

Evangeline practicing to be a big girl

Evangeline practices wearing mommy's flip flops and minds her pleases and excuse yous.

More camping pics

Thanks for sharing the pics Jon!

Here are our best ones as well.

First Camping

~Ian

camping pictures

Here are pictures of our cold camping trip over Memorial Day weekend. Some of the pictures aren't the best, since I think the camera was on the wrong setting most of the time. Oops! I was too cold to check, I guess. But we got a few good photos of the babies together, although not generally looking at the camera at the same time! I think Eva had to look at the ground the whole time to maintain her footing, so she's rarely looking up...

camping in Salmon Le Sac 2010

new toys

Pics of Evangeline helping Jon put together the new bike trailer, and playing with her new dollhouse, which we got at a garage sale. The video is her playing with the dollhouse and, I guess, putting the daddy doll to bed. At least she's practicing her shushing...

new toys

Evangeline eating dinner

This is a typical dinner these days - lots of blowing on food, holding onto her favorite toy (in this case, her cell phone), and degenerating into whining for food from the grown-ups' plates even though hers is the same. Sigh. I'd gotten the camera to record her as she'd been talking on the phone while eating, but she stopped doing that once I had the camera out...

some April/May pictures

Pictures from the Wenatchee parade and hanging around our yard with the neighbors and their dog (we share a fenced yard, so Evangeline thinks it's her dog!).

May pictures

We has N MLE

Now let's see if we can get her to take a job in Seattle to join the West Side Crew.

end tables

I have reached the end of my end tables. If inspired by Star Wars, it (the inspiration) was subliminal. Perhaps the Force was with me. So does anyone know what those Star Wars machines were called?
- Dad

Two things you won't find in Moses Lake

A double rainbow . . . and a goose in a tree

- Dad

Taco Night

Super random post but this one is for Laura! We just had a minor triumph at the Huff house. Molly just ate ground beef!!!!! So we've been trying this for a little over a year. I guess when the doctor says to just keep offering some food item over & over again they weren't kidding. :-P


Super yummy meal. Molly ate leaf (lettuce), tomatoes, ground beef (yes!!!), alvocado, but she wasn't too keen on the cilantro. On a slightly sadder note we accidentally switched plates between me & Ian. Ian almost died w/ my huge jalepeno scoop & I missed out on those yummy green peppers. :)

Oh, the picture is just us fixing dinner. Molly wanted to help chop so she grabbed her cooking supplies & joined us at the counter.

getting to Moses Lake

Some pics of our downtime in Seattle and our first few days in Moses Lake.

getting here

Schwans

The happy swan couple is nesting alongside our driveway this year. The abstract shots are feathers under mama swan's wing. The shot that looks like the Loch Ness monster is not a swan; it is a loon, the first one I've seen since Boundary Waters. It was outside our front door last night but I couldn't get too close, hence the pixelated paparazzi look.

-Dad

http://picasaweb.google.com/kshuff2/AprilSwans?authkey=Gv1sRgCKbimtHwuoi08wE&feat=directlink

Eva's Eastern Easter

http://picasaweb.google.com/kshuff2/EvaMarch2010?authkey=Gv1sRgCM_KsKSah8mz5gE&feat=directlink

real Seattle babies at Fort Casey

Okay, okay... Here are the rest of the photos. We've also taken a few just around town, but those will be longer in coming. These pictures are posted as a joint project today between Liz and Laura, who have gotten an amazing amount of stuff done in a few days this week!

Seattle babies at Fort Casey

Seattle babies at Fort Casey

Here's a quick pic to tide you all over until we can post the rest of the pics of our time in Seattle. There are some good ones!

Laura (and Ian and Liz)

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter folks!

Had a fun time yesterday for Liz's birthday. She wanted housework in the morning so we did a bunch of work early. Then later on we had friends over and played boardgames (Smallworld, which was super fun) and drank limonchellos (sp???) and mojitos. Good times.

Was nice to see lots of friends coming and going from Easter service as well and baptisms are always nice to watch.

~E

Acapulco

http://picasaweb.google.com/kshuff2/AcapulcoBlog?authkey=Gv1sRgCMPYvq_W64jDgAE&feat=directlink

Sunshine, water, and good reads -- the three essential ingredients of a good vacation. Oh, yeah . . . and a camera.

Dad

Some new pictures

Hey all. Glad to have the full family back home together and that Liz's Dad is doing well. Here is some pictures from a recent hike at snow lake and other randomness. I'll have a few videos as well to post up once I sort though them a little bit.

Snow Lake

My Little Princess

~E