The first of our family Christmas parties was tonight and included some Jenga!

We went to Wheaton again for Scott Smith's All Animal Expo and Madison got a gargoyle gecko.  I held some snakes and loved them but I'm still meeting some resistance on that.

Happy birthday Nicole, thanks for devoting your day to a reptile disfunction.

Sometimes I have to take photos at work and it amazes me the number of guys that will throw a pose.

The "after" shot from my run.  I guess the front facing camera doesn't have the same resolution as the rear regular camera.

Using a smart phone to do dumb things.

When you're using a cell phone as a camera it's pretty easy to disguise the fact that you are taking a picture.  I decided to try my hand at some "street photography" today.

I took quite a few pictures at Thanksgiving dinner.  I decided to use this one because the back of the newspaper has an article about the Morrison High School football team who will be playing for a state championship tomorrow.

I'll post some more in the "Read More"

Picture of Logan having his picture taken with the picture he took for the picture contest.

File this one under never would have happened without an iPhone.  The ceiling fan above our bed had a couple light bulbs burnt out.  We were trying to figure out what size we needed and this happened.

Nicole sent me a text saying Logan had some exciting news to tell me when I got home from work.  I figured there was a good possibility he had won the photo contest he had entered.  See Day 135 for more on that.  I had my cameraphone ready when he met me at the door.  I snapped a few as he was telling me the news.  He got 2nd place in his age group which is a $50 prize.

Working at Great Gramdma's house.

Spent the day raking and bagging leaves.

This was shot with a cell phone in low light but the memory of Makayla telling Grandma that she should get a fishing pole outweighs the need for perfect photo quality.

Logan really wanted to go home and play video games but I talked him into made him take a stroll on the dyke.