saturday:
becca sent me this ...
along with the thought ...
"I absolutely love cheese, and this is 35 heavenly calories. So good, sometimes I eat two! I guess that kind of defeats the purpose of it only being 35 calories...as the commercial says, have you laughed today?"
yup. just did. you sent me a photo of a tiny little pathetic triangle of low-fat cheese. good grief. eat some brie, woman! oh, and don't bother running eight miles today ... there's no point in that, either. once you have kids and hit your 30s, it won't matter.
(said only with love ;o)
my contribution to the day was this ...
henry had a big day. he finally learned to blow bubbles!! sure, there were lots of spitting noises and sticky, gluey masses of hubba bubba hitting the earth, but he did it!
my husband had a big day, too. remember last week he was in texas, taking some big exam? well, here's how big it was:
marc works for a company called red hat. it's the anti-microsoft. it's super geeky. and marc is a super geek's super geek. so for the past year and a half he's been traveling all over the country each quarter, taking these one-week-long classes and then an all-day exam at the end in order to become a rhca, a red hat certified architect. meaning, he's certified by the company to be an expert at "architecting" red hat systems for clients. there are five exams in pursuit of these little letters behind his name on a business card. each exam carries the history of a 70% failure rate.
marc just found out yesterday that he passed his fifth and final exam on friday.
he passed it on the first try.
he passed ALL five exams on the first try.
and he is now one of only 180 or so certified red hat architects in the WORLD.
that's pretty big time.
so yesterday was a good day.
then we headed to bed around midnight and i peeked out the curtains to see this:
the snow was falling like crazy and was already covering this little barberry bush by the front steps. and what did that barberry look like eight hours later?
poor little barberry.
even sadder, though, was the lilac which, until then, had been valiantly trying to bud:
sigh. oh well.
henry played outside for a good hour, then harper and i went out after lunch for an hour ourselves and made a snowman, a snow baby, and snow cat. and now, 24 hours after it began, it's nearly all melted.
so while my sister's photo of the day echos the time of year where she lives ...
mine does, too.
see you tomorrow. hope your weekend was just as lovely as ours was!
awesome photos from both you and your sis!
Posted by: Lisa Dickinson | 06 April 2009 at 11:07 AM
Congrats to your smarty-pants hubby! Love all the pics. I have to figure out how to do that kind of action on my pics.
Posted by: Amy Coose | 06 April 2009 at 11:28 AM
Beautiful photos!
Posted by: jacquie | 06 April 2009 at 05:42 PM
congrats to both your boys! :) also, i love how you've framed yours and becca's photos like a poloraid with the handwritten dates and names. how'd you do that? you have such a great design sense.
Posted by: Kyong | 08 April 2009 at 07:45 PM