A Girl's Best Friend

Well, here is my latest little project. I took this picture last night with my new macro kit, I love it! As you can see, I dolled up the pic a little bit. The second image is what Em's diamond looked like when I first bought it, but sadly, after washing it several times over the years, it just shrunk. ;)

Love'n Us

As you may have noticed by now, Emily does most of the relevant posts in our family. This blog is more just an opportunity for me to post my interests and "hobby time", just so I don't feel like it's been entirely wasted and simply saved on our external HD.

Note, I didn't really go to Tahiti : ) obviously...this is just a compilation of several pictures and brush techniques I wanted to experiment with.

Family Flicks

Well, I haven't had much to post about for a while now. As Emily said in her most recent post, our baby's due any day now, it's only a matter of time. Though it's much harder on her, like most husbands I'm sure, it's hard on me to see the pain, stress and frustration that she has to deal with everyday. What's worse is when I contribute to those three categories! I love her. Lately, to deal with these feelings, we've become movie buffs. And if you ask me, or Emily I'm sure, the past 2 weeks have been the most eventful weeks of the year for movie releases on DVD and BluRay. 3 of my all-time favourite movies; I Am Legend, Enchanted, and the moving, August Rush, were released. Most of you out there have most likely already seen I Am Legend and Enchanted. But, I think our family favourite right now has to be August Rush, and I'm surprised how many people haven't seen it! We've watched this movie 3 times this week! We really can't get enough of it. Anyone who wants to watch a movie with us and hasn't yet seen it, doesn't get much of an option. We push this whenever we get the chance. The plot is great, the music is beautiful, and it's very clean. If you haven't seen this, buy it! Don't rent it...just buy it, because after you rent it, you'll have just wasted that money and you'll end up buying it later anyhow.

In honour of this great movie, the first 2 songs on my playlist and the 4th song (don't ask me why the order) come directly from the August Rush soundtrack. "All you have to do, is listen..."

Our Joey

I don't really have a whole lot to say about today, just that it was really hard, yet, very happy. Our dear little Joey left our family very peacefully this morning at 9:45am. His health has been pretty off and on over the past few years, but during these past couple of months, things reached a new level. Some members of the family haven't been able to mask their emotion, while others held it in and gave those who needed it, extra strength.

We sure will miss our little puppy. We love you Joey.

Welcome to the family, little Claire

Emily and I popped over to the Melchin home last night to visit our new, beautiful, little niece, Claire Cynthia Palmer. She is the littlest lady I ever did see. It got Emily and I both really excited for our little girl who's following soon behind Claire. Here are a couple pictures I took last night of the angel baby and her happy daddy. She's gorgeous!

Here am I

Well, I’ve given in. Behold, my very first blog. To be honest, I won’t post nearly as often as any woman would, nor will I post as often as Ryan Salmon, but, if you check on me from time to time throughout the year, I’ll probably have posted something. : )

For the record; Freeda is a nickname that was given to me by Gannon. The name, Jeffrey, originally was turned into Free by Michael and Luke Harris, which soon after turned into Freedom, which turned into Freeda, Freedachow, Chowder, Chowder & Associates, etc., etc…just so you’re aware.

For now, I hope you enjoy a couple pictures of our Mafia son, Jacey, and my sister and brother in law's engagement photos. Till next time.

Levi & Lizzie

Jacey, Our Little Man