Family Photos at Apollo Beach

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Our Family

Brothers

Happy Thanksgiving!

The End of An Era

I have been using Shutterfly for ages and ages.

Since the dawn of the internet.

For more than a decade.

I have been posting my photos to a Shutterfly Share Site.

It's like an index of my life.

It brings me great joy.

It was very useful, like a filing system of my own history.

It freed up space in my memory for other things.

And now it's done. Over. Goodbye.

Shutterfly is shutting down all the Share Sites.

They gave us warning, but not a lot of options. 

There is nothing I can do to save it.

I didn't even bother adding my December or Christmas 2022 photos, because I knew the site was doomed.

It seemed pointless.

So, today, I finally decided on what I wanted to do to preserve my Share Site.

I scrolled through everything and captured the screen on my phone.

It's not great, but it is what it is.

A memorial to my photos.

RIP My Shutterfly Share Site

Atlanta Christkindl Market

I have a short list of things that I really want to do this Christmas, and one of the things on my list is going to the Atlanta Christkindl Market again this year. 

And so, today for lunch, we went to eat German food. I had a kasewurst with sauerkraut, and potato pancakes with applesauce. Yum! 

Official 2022 Atlanta Christkindl Market Family Photo

The Ornament of the Year is Here

Merry Christmas!

School Pictures

Connor's Official 10th Grade School Pictures have arrived.

To wit:

In Which Kris & Lauren Come to Visit

*Official* Family Photo

Playing chess and eating ice cream at City Springs

The kids said they were walking home, and then they hid in the back of the trunk to surprise us.

We went for a hike by the river, and we discovered that Kevin and Kris have the same hiking boots.

Atlanta Christkindl Market

Behold! The Christmas Season has begun.

The boys and I all ate Leberkäse sandwiches with fries. 

I had a nice hot cup of mulled wine.

Official Christkindl Market Family Photo

Lunar Eclipse

I went out to look at the lunar eclipse at totality, which was around 4:30 this morning. It was spectacularly pretty. I took some photos with my phone, but they really don't really do it justice. 

I thought about getting out my telescope to get a better view/photos, but the best place to set it up was in the middle of the street. I decided that was a bad plan, so I abandoned that idea.

I accidentally woke Lex up, so he got to see it, too. It turns out that the moon was perfectly positioned to be visible from the tiny window inside the guest bathroom. Lex didn't even have to go outside to see it.

The moon was red, with just a tiny sliver of bright silver light on one side. Super pretty. Worth getting out of bed and putting on some boots and coat to take a gander.

In which we go apple picking

We spent some time picking apples at the B.J. Reece Orchards this morning.



We each picked 1/2 peck of apples.

Do you see the little rabbit?

The dogs didn't!