Amazing

Our friend Chris took a series of pictures of the lunar eclipse and made this collage. Pretty cool, I think.

It's amazing what you can do with photography. I don't think our camera has these kind of capabilities, but I don't either. I point the camera and click the button. No real sense of angle or what makes a good picture. The beauty of digital is that you can take lots and lots of shots and hope that one or two comes out, so every once in a while I'm lucky.

In other news, my brother and his family, my mother, and my cousin and his girlfriend were over this weekend. I don't know about anyone else, but I had a blast! It was so nice to see my cousin (it's been years) and my two nephews in particular. Axel was quite unhappy after being woken up from the car ride and didn't break out of his mood until fortune smiled on us and brought another coyote to bark in the yard. It was like a long lost friend! Axel thought it was pretty cool, too, and really opened up for the rest of the weekend.

Sunday, we spent some time outside after dinner and had a grand time with the sled Timmy got for Christmas. Axel and Oskar had a ride together and then Timmy had a go with it, Dave pushing the kids along. When Dave stopped, Timothy started moving his whole body, not wanting to stop. We went out again today and he was as comfortable as could be.

It has been nice--the last couple weekends we've done a Sunday dinner at our house. In some ways, it was a lot of work, but it feels so good to be with family. I love that tradition and hope to carry it on, even if not every Sunday.

Anyway, here's a picture from today's outing.