The end of the year always seems to arrive before you know it. You finally get to Halloween, and then suddenly it is Thanksgiving and then Christmas, and then POOF! the year is gone.
2012 saw a new format for the web site (not that you can really tell from the monthly pages... maybe something new for 2013?) and 255 new pictures capturing snowy days, swimming lessons, Sindy, our first birthday without Harry, Lucie's pierced ears, the rock museum, Spring in Oregon, Lucie and Lauren, a trip to Chicago, Summer in Georgia (and the much cooler Oregon coast), back to school, Halloween prep, a different Thanksgiving in the Caribbean, the arrival of Plushie and Truffle, and Christmas. So much captured on "film, and so much missed...
I got a collection of essays written by William Gibson for Christmas. In one he writes that "Time moves in one direction, memory in another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting." The digital camera and the web had only just begun when he wrote that, and though I am grateful for the digital camera (in fact, the digital everything that allows me to make a living) that has allowed me to try to capture Lucie and Harry's lives, I wonder what Lucie will think one day... Will she be glad that it exists, or will she just want to delete all her Dad's jokes that she doesn't find funny?
Welcome to 2013. Another year begins...
 Remembering Sindy with a celebration of her life |
 Hamster cake balls! Even though they were gluten free, Mom left most of them for Dad... |
 We didn't get the tree right after Thanksgiving, but we
did get it early since we needed some time for all the ornaments! |
 First snow! 12/15/2012! Too bad it didn't really stick... |
 Plushie and Truffle join the family before Christmas |
 Christmas Eve! Making cookies for Santa! |
 In the event of a water emergency, please wear your life jackets... Santa brought the hedge hog too! |
 Mom doesn't look too excited about Christmas morning photos - wait 'til you see Dad! |
 My cool new scarf from Lauren! |
 I made this for Mom! |
 I am never leaving my new chair! (Of course I do get up, but I've already slept in it several times!) |
 Merry Christmas, Bob! A new blanket is not as exciting as cat treats, but it looks better than the ratty towel... |
 Hey! This isn't animal related! How did it get in with my
Christmas stuff? Oh well, it is still pretty! |
 I made this for Dad! |
 A new snow globe for Mom... and you can see the picture I made in the background too! |
 "Lucie and the girls?" I don't get it... |
 I couldn't have said it better myself! |
 These stories better have happy endings - that's all I'm saying... |
 See - Dad is thrilled to have his picture taken! |
 Pink and a penguin?! Score! |
 I don't know - Dad says I am a nutball, not a paintbrush... |
 I don't actually know what I was doing here, but Dad says I look like a head banger... |
 Hey look! Inflatable hamsters! (Just kidding... no hamsters were harmed in this Photoshop trick...) |
 Gwen came to see the new hamsters... or maybe it was to see the rest of us, but I made sure to maximize hamster time! |