Archive for the 'Holiday' Category

Allons enfants de la Patrie

July 14, 2008 | Holiday

Happy Bastille Day. Enjoy this classic scene from Casablanca.

Lyrics and background on La Marseillaise on Wikipedia.

Born near the Fourth of July

July 4, 2008 | Holiday

Tomorrow is my birthday. I’m not really counting anymore, but if you are that curious, it’s number 46.

Last year, I shared a few thoughts on how much I loved having a birthday near the Fourth of July as I was growing up.

I’ve always loved fireworks. I was well through most of elementary school before I admitted that the fireworks weren’t actually for me. The best ones ever? About 14 years or so ago, my husband and I hiked Mount Washington over the holiday weekend and were staying in one of the AMC huts. We saw the North Conway fireworks from above. Nothing like it.

The weirdest birthday ever? In recent years, it would have to be the year David and I were touring Scotland and England for two weeks in early July. It was odd to be celebrating my birthday without a national holiday.

This year, though, I just want to wish everyone a very happy holiday weekend and a special happy birthday to everyone who was also born near the Fourth of July.

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my: our visit to the San Diego Zoo

April 22, 2008 | Animals, Douglas, Holiday, Travel

Zhen Zhen, 8 month old panda bear

Today, I am sitting in my hotel room in Santa Rosa while Douglas and David continue to enjoy San Diego and the Lawrence Welk Resort (tiny bubbles…) in Escondido. I’m up here for two days for New Comm Forum, flying back south tomorrow evening.

Sunday we spent the day at Legoland followed by dinner in Oceanside.

Monday, as the title of this post suggests, we went to the San Diego Zoo and had Mexican food for dinner in Old Town San Diego.

Technorati Tags: San Diego Zoo, Legoland, panda, legos

SciFi Sunday: Pre-empted by vacation

April 20, 2008 | Douglas, Holiday, Science Fiction, Travel

SciFi Sunday is pre-empted this week by our family vacation. I’d much rather spend time exploring the environs of San Diego California than waxing poetic about science fiction and fantasy.

Although I will say that Battlestar Galactica rocked last week. I didn’t even mind that there was so much Cally in it for once

Regularly scheduled rantings and ravings about science fiction will be back next week. In the meantime, please enjoy the pictures of our first day in California.

And don’t be confused by the picture of the dog and the cat, or our family room at home. They were on the same card as the CA pictures and I have a small person who wants to do Webkinz hanging on me, so no time to create multiple sets.

Technorati Tags: La Brea Tarpits, Lawrence Welk Resort, pillow fort

Christmas Video

April 11, 2008 | Animals, Holiday

Yeah, I know. Christmas was a while ago, but I finally got around to messing with some of the Flip video I took on Christmas morning. Now that I’ve more or less figured out the editor, I’ll try to get some of the video from last Friday’s karaoke party up.

Technorati Tags: Christmas, Scottish Terrier

Happy Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2008 | Holiday, Parent bloggers

We’re off to Vermont tomorrow for school vacation week. I’ll be working most days but hopefully will get to ski a bit too. And take some pictures. I literally haven’t had my camera out of the case since I got back from Sundance.

In the meantime, please check out my Media Bullseye article, Some Advice on Reaching Out to Mommy Bloggers.

Technorati Tags: Media Bullseye, mommy bloggers

Whew, Christmas!!

December 27, 2007 | Animals, Douglas, Family, Holiday, Products, the Uncle

Well, Christmas has been and gone, and we got lots of photo-related gifts in our family. I got my longed-for Canon Digital Rebel, and Santa brought the family a Flip camcorder. Even my husband got into the game — one of the few things he really wanted was a device that attaches to his telescope and uses the PC as the camera engine to take astronomy photos. And my brother, known here as the Uncle, got some items for his new Nikon D40, including a book on how to get the most out of his camera.

So I expect we’ll have lots of things to write about in the coming year. Starting with a report on last Friday’s Hannah Montana concert, which we were lucky enough to attend courtesy of my client HP, one of the sponsors.

Because HP was a sponsor, photography was allowed at the concert, and it was amazing to see so many people clicking away. Our photos are on Flickr.

In the meantime, let me leave you with a video I took with the Flip of my dogs playing with another one of my brother’s gifts, an alarm clock that runs and hides if you attempt to snooze. It was dead easy to upload the video directly to YouTube using the Flip interface.

Tags: Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus, Flip, Scottish Terrier, HP

It came upon a midnight clear

December 20, 2007 | Holiday

Or something like that. Tomorrow is Hannah and then Saturday we are off to Vermont, but before we left, I thought I’d share a bit of the holiday spirit we’ve been enjoying here at home.

More photos on Flickr.

Happy Holidays

December 14, 2007 | Douglas, Holiday

Next week is shaping up to be pretty crazy — a new client, more bad weather, I’m taking 3 kids to the Hannah Montana concert next Friday and then we’re off to Vermont until the New Year — so let me take this moment to wish you all a Merry Chrismakah and a Happy New Year.

After Christmas, I’ll have a report on the Hannah concert and new photo contest. I’ve got a bunch of 8×11 HP Photo Books, plus extra packs of paper. Stay tuned for details.

I so appreciate everyone who has discovered Snapshot Chronicles. Thank you for reading, and I look forward to more photo fun in the New Year.

Peace.