The Adams Family Blog

Iphone (or any camera phone) pictures have to be some of the most interesting pictures. They make me laugh. They are usually spontaneous events that you think you want to capture and yet you rarely do anything with them. So I thought I’d dump some on here.

I literally walked up the stairs from exercising and instantly saw this occurring. I had my phone in my hand because I have a running app I use, so I snapped a picture of the dog on the home-made leash. And then I made them take it off Tyler’s neck (for safety of course).

And to help ward off the desire to be a dog, we brought the boys to the puppy store to let them play with the puppies. And no, we had no discussions of ever getting one.

I have my usual insane motivation for healthy eating & exercise again this winter. It hits me every year. This is a funny picture I took to send my Aunt Kate (aka, my accountability partner in exercise/diet….and by the way she leaves for Aruba in the morning wearing a new clothing size since she hit her goal) to prove that I was going to exercise on a particular day I felt like bailing.

I’m hoping to comfortably wear my new jeans some day soon. Love the bling.

But I won’t fit into the jeans if Cindy keeps sending me these (best cookies ever…!!)

….or if we continue to stop at places like these!

In January we got dressed up in our black tie duds and I found my next car at the Auto Show. Ok, it’s not really practical at this point of my life, but it’s still cool.

I recently inherited a slide projector from Mom. And it works. I know because I also inherited 10 reels of approx 100 slides each (that’s roughly 1,000 slides) and I looked at every single one of them on the wall. I was glued to them. Slides starting at my 1st birthday and going for about 7 years after. My goal is to scan them so we have them electronically. I found pics like these of my family….me, Kari, my mom and dad.

In big news. I mean really big. My Mom joined Facebook on Monday. Her work sent a link to employees saying they could follow the link to see it on Facebook. Which prompted her to sign up. Funny thing is, 5 days later and I am still her only friend. This is priceless.

And finally…..a picture of a typical winter evening here in our house. Dave caught this picture on his Ipad without us knowing. We are warm and cozy together.

Wow, 2 posts in a row about playing outside in the snow. I guess that’s January in Michigan for you. We finally had a decent amount of snow and the right kind of snow to make a snowman. And Dave didn’t wait for the snow to stop, he took the boys out in the midst of a blizzard. Well, not really a blizzard. But the kind of snow that blows sideways and pelts you in the face and feels like a blizzard. You can see Brady defeated the blizzard with his umbrella at one point.

You’d think they would end up by the fireplace with sweatpants and a sweatshirt on sipping hot cocoa, but instead I found them in their underwear on the cold kitchen floor sipping a can of pop (which was a total treat for them because they rarely ever get to drink pop).

I took this picture last month and found it today. Brady is now doing all of the checking out at the grocery store for me at the self checkout line. He stands in the shopping cart so he can reach the grocery items and the checkout stand. He scans everything in the cart except for the produce which has to be weighed and the products codes needs to be entered. Tyler is positioned half way down where he helps guide the items to the end and he stacks them. And I am at the end bagging up the groceries.

It’s become our new routine at the store and it’s kind of fun to have the help!