Member pics

[JadziaKathryn]

Congrats on the recommendation!

[Linda]

Yes, I forgot to say congratulations. I was too focused on the child.

[Emberchyld]

Congrats, Elessar! I echo the comments on the cuteness of your niece. (And, wow... eclectic mix of room decorations.)

Re; JT and the pink skulls... so in cute (and available) that even I (at my nowhere-near teen age) am contemplating a bathing suit with a pink skull print for this summer. But for boys...? I guess you never know what will be "in"...

[Linda]

As long as I was fighting with Photobucket to get that photo of Dylan receiving his science fair award for the happy news thread, I decided to put up a couple family photos here.

Dylan and his two younger sisters Shayla and Skyelar:



Me holding Shayla at her first birthday party. Skyelar is standing to the right:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d48/B ... hLinda.jpg

Dylan's older sister Image:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d48/B ... e20072.jpg

[Linda]

Hey sorry about the different formats of the photos in my last post. As I said, I am graphically challenged.

[justTripn]

They are all beautiful. Image is especially beautiful. Did Grandma take everyone to Chuck E. Cheese??!!!

My kids used to LOVE that place. I could pull out some very similar pictures, but I'll restrain myself.

[Linda]

Yes it was Chuck E. Cheese! Actually my daughter planned the party for Shayla's first birthday. Guess it reminded her of when I did that for her when she was little. It is hard to believe Chucky has been around so long! He wasn't there when I was a kid, which I mentioned to my daughter. I could see the wheels in her head turning - but I REALLY hope she does not plan a Chuck E. Cheese party for my birthday because I was so 'culturally deprived' as a child. These days I would really prefer a quiet restaurant and a nice bottle of dry red wine.

[Asso]

These days I would really prefer a quiet restaurant and a nice bottle of dry red wine.

[justTripn]

Once when Jeremy was in preschool, I was reading him a book about dinosaurs. The book said the dinosaurs lived in this country way before there were cars or houses or even people, and Jeremy adds "and no Chuck E Cheese . . ."

[Linda]

Jeremy has a good historical sense. My grandkids have suggested that I rode dinosaurs to school. Of course those old school buses are proabably the dinosaurs of the transportation industry by now.

[Elessar]

When I was in kindergarden I explicitly remember learning that Mt. Everest was the tallest mountain in the world, and I must have looked at the world in a really 1-dimensional way because I remembered saying to the teacher, "So how do they know what's on the other side of it? Could there be dinosaurs? Couldn't there be stuff there that nobody's seen before?" I was a natural born explorer

[Linda]

Cool, Elessar. I'm not much of a mountain climber - those people going up rock faces give me the shivers and shortness of breath just wathcing them. But if I thought that was the only way to see some dinosaurs...I'd seriously consider doing it!

[justTripn]

Well, this isn't strictly speaking a member picture, but . . . NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day is by John Pane, someone I know! He's a member of our astronomy club! It's a composite of comet Holmes over a period of months. So I saw this picture progress. Well . . . see if you think this is exciting!!!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080205.html

[Linda]

That's pretty big for a comet, isn't it?

[Asso]

Indeed remarkable!