Irritated with Google Video

Ok so I have a few new movies I've uploaded to Google video; however, when I go to post them on my blog I can't get past the "validating user information" page. It just keeps saying "undefined". I don't even know what that means! I'm just frustrated because I want to post them on here. Anybody else having trouble with Google video??

Guess WHOOOO's On Our Porch??

It's an owl! Sorry the pictures both kind of look the same. The owl doesn't do much but sit there. Patrick spotted him today when he was looking out our front windows. He's just sort of sitting and sleeping on our porch. Any owl experts know what kind of owl this is? And are they dangerous? We're afraid he might swoop down and scratch someone! It's pretty neat though, I've never seen a real owl in the wild up this close before.

Our New Mantel

This is our very original fireplace. White brick with a simple mantel.

Here's Patrick's "character find". Dirty brick from floor to ceiling.
Here's the fireplace in progress.
Freshly bricked fireplace.
Our brand new mantel!!


For anyone who has ever been to our house, you know our fireplace has always been a work in progress. When we moved in we had just a mantel and some white painted brick around the fireplace area...that was all, it was plastered above. Then as a part of renovations Patrick knocked down the walls in the living room to dry-wall and put in new electrical. Well, when he knocked down the wall that the fireplace was on, the fireplace as we knew it crumbled to the floor revealing this floor to ceiling brick fireplace which Patrick proudly called a "character find". I was not so excited about it. But overtime (you can follow the transformation top to bottom) he re-bricked the fireplace and just a few weekends ago built a mantel in just a few hours!! I am so impressed with his skills and am now loving the fireplace I once thought was just an eye-sore.

Uh-Oh

Yet another night I was making dinner and Henry was playing....very contentedly. After a few minutes I realized that he was being really quiet. Overly quiet. So I came into the living room to check on things and here's what I found. (along with a very happy Henry-he loves the vacuum and was thrilled that this mess necessitated the need to bring it out!) (FYI...just in case it's hard to tell, he had taken dirt out of our plant and strewn it about the office floor and into the living room.)

Finally, I'm updating!

Henry has been really into making messes of multiples lately. I bought some clementines at the grocery store thinking he would love them as a snack. He wasn't crazy about eating them, but he still found something to do with them. I was making dinner in the kitchen while he busied himself sorting and pouring oranges.