Carter's Christmas gift list (with some dad annotations)

1. lego death star (warning: way expensive)
 

2.barca 9 ibrahimovitch (translation: authentic FC Barcelona 2009-10 home jersey w/ that player in authentic letter/numbering)
 

3. Venator-class Republic Attack Cruiser™ (legos)

4.mindstorm legos
 

5.wii sports resort (already on the way, but don't tell Carter)

6.The Battle of Endor™lego

 

7.mario and sonic at the olimpic games,wii game

 

8.Liverpool Kuyt 18 red or white - see liverpoolfc.com (authentic Liverpool FC jersey with that player in authentic number/lettering)

9.Spanish National Team Torres 9 red (again, authentic Spain jersey)

10.packing cubes (already bought)

 

11.guiness world record book 2010 or 2011

 

12.Ultime Millennium Falcon™ Edition Collector lego

 

13.echo base (legos)

 

14.earthsea series books (by Ursula K Le Guin)
 

15.wii games
 

16.percy jackson books (by Rick Riordan)

 

17.Real Madrid white Ronaldo 9 (you guessed it)

18. roman mysteries books (he's read most of these, so if you're interested, please get more details from him or us)

19.pokemon cards

20.Man U jersey Rooney 10 red or blue
 

21.Separatist Shuttle lego
 

22.Armored Assault Tank (AAT)™lego
 

23.hyena droid bomber (legos)

Carter's fencing tournament

More pics, and a video!

Girls' Weekend in Lisbon

I had a great weekend in Lisbon with my best friends. We loved the city -- nice weather, beautiful scenery, really friendly people, good wine and food, wonderful ambiance... nothing at all to complain about. If you ever have the chance to go, do!

Visit to La Monnaie

Back in August, we visited La Monnaie, historically the French mint but nowadays mostly stamping out tourist medallions.

Egypt trip book

I wanted to grab the page-layouts from our Egypt book, but unlike our annual books which I made in iPhoto, we made this in myPublisher. Turns out there's no decent way to get "photos" of the page layouts OUT of myPublisher. Last time I use that crap. I had to use screen-captures of their on-screen previews, and the quality isn't so great. But, here 'tis.



(Can't believe we haven't posted here in nearly two months. Mostly on facebook these days I guess ...)

Biking in Brittany, day 1

Last week we spent a week cycling & camping in Brittany, in northwestern France. Here are some pics from our arrival day.

Lormes again