Sometimes we like to have a family movie night. Admittedly most of our movie selection is far too intense for small children. We received Night at the Museum from Netflix and decided to watch it with the kids. It’s probably just over the edge of intensity for our kids but Heather had been hyping it up so much that we were locked in.

Sadly I had ripped the blu-ray incorrectly and the resulting video file did not work properly. We found this out after popcorn, blankets, and snacks were laid out for the little ones. We were then in a dash to find a movie the kids had not seen. Thank you netflix streaming for having The Neverending Story as a streaming selection. It’s probably at about the same level as Night at the Museum for action intensity, but I had forgotten completely about how dramatic the emotional aspects of the movie could be for children.

The girls were complete enthralled with the movie. We didn’t realize just how much Sophia was wrapped up in the plot of the movie until the Rock Biter appeared again later in the movie, and in a moment of sad recollection, becomes saddened and distraught at his inability to hold onto his friends and save them from the Nothing. Sophia was in tears. Sobbing actually. She was so very very sad over the loss of the racing snail. We encouraged her to continue to watch, and as the happy ending resolved the frustration and loss of the different characters, her own sadness gave way to overwhelming joy. She mentioned multiple times on her way to bed that it was the best movie she had ever seen.

On another note: While typing this, I just heard Sophia asking if Phoebe would like to play “Dolls vs. Zombies”. I’m raising my children right.

Tags: movies,Phoebe,photos,Sophia
Categories: BJ, Phoebe, Sophia, Weekly Family Update
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Sophia figured out how to take a picture a couple of weeks ago. She proceeded to take about a hundred pictures of various items around the house that are important to her. Given her perspective of the world it’s interesting to know that this included plenty of pictures of her parents’ butts. I deleted those. Instead I’ll highlight the interesting things she focussed on.

I’d like to note that she primarily photographed things that were important to her and her family. The office door, the mess in my office, phoebe’s blanket, her blanket, her dad, her mom, and at least one photo of every room in the house. Given the weight of the camera we also had about 50 pictures of her toes. I have deleted most of them.

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Categories: Sophia
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I’ve finally gone through the photos from the last 3 weeks. They’re in the process of being uploaded right now.

We have a few posts that we need to make. We’ve been falling behind. I blame facebook and Heather’s famous 5 page e-mails. Heather will blame Warhammer and laziness. We will meet in the middle and blame the government and large corporations. Hugs and kisses all around.

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It’s been a while since I’ve been in a position to post anything of note. I spent most of last week at a work conference. The fun part is that it was held at the Ft Worth stockyards, so I got some fun pictures.

Some of the following pictures are HDR pics, but I’ve tried to be a little more subtle about them than others you might find on the web.

Also, the hotel was supposed to be haunted, so I took some long exposures to see if I could catch anything. You’ll have to look close and probably turn up your brightness a bit, but I think I see something by the window…

Tags: bj,photo highlight,photos,work
Categories: BJ, BJ's Life, Photo Highlights
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I turned the square thumbnails plugin back on in our gallery. I like the look and the order it gives to the gallery even if it does crop a bit of the information off. The gallery is going to look a little weird for a while as the thumbnails get rebuilt. If you see something off just hit refresh and it should correct the issue.

I had forgotten what a pain it was to switch square thumbnails on and off. I can’t rebuild them all at the same time since my webhost has a limitation on execution time for any processes running.

Tags: naasen,photos
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