We're famous!

Liam and Rose during the interview

Larry Berger



Down Under Day at the Children's Museum


The B. Family were recently interviewed about living in Australia. It's a short little piece but it was broadcasted. If you click on the link provided below (Down Under Day) in light brown and then click on Archives and then again on the date 10/27/07 and then scroll through the times by simply clicking on the forward button until the above time says 11:00 to 12:00 and then slowly scrolling through until you hit right around 11:20 you will be able to hear us. Broadcasting from Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Down Under Day

The Saturday Light Brigade is a radio program featuring acoustic music and family fun. Broadcast since 1978, it is one of the longest-running public radio programs in the United. States. Quality music, on-air telephone calls from kids and adults, innovative participatory puzzles and games, and interesting guests have made The Saturday Light Brigade a family radio tradition for tens of thousands of people. Kids listen with adults, adults listen with kids, and everyone has fun listening to the radio together!

I do have friends.

I do have friends I just don't get to see them often enough.

Cake

I seem to have misplaced my sense of humor along with my brain and my ability to stop my self from eating a cake all on my own. I want to crawl under a rock and stay there. I don't want to talk to the insurance company for the fifth time today and no I don't want to think about what will happen next month if a job is not procured. I just want to sit here in my hole and cry!

I feel lonely and depressed, over worked and stressed. I have two kids and one brain you do the math. Morgan

Please someone put me out of my misery. 30 min after writing this email I broke my only pair of glasses no insurance and no money so now what? I don't think I am going to be blogging for awhile.

funny they smell...

So how have you been? Me, well I've become the human catch basin. What does that mean you may ask yourself... Lily has been sick. She sounds quite a bit like an old dog chocking on a Mr. Coffee. Once the dear girl has hacked up a lung and has nicely taken her meds she proceeds by throwing up the contents of her stomach, camouflaging me in green and orange. That's okay I tell her lovingly as I turn her to face me so she can cover me in regurgitated peas (funny they smell the same coming up as they did going down). She obliges me and snuggles in after the eruption. I strip both of us down to our skives and lovingly bath her in warm water as I kneel shivering over the edge of the tub. I finish this off by smothering her body in Vic's vapor rub and dressing her for the 4th time. I however, have procured a item from what I like to believe is the "clean pile". Dressing myself in a shirt professing the greatness that is Guinness. I spend the rest of the day repeating the above with the exception that now, during my spare time I run around attempting to locate the odd smell coming from everywhere and nowhere. Ps, its me!

sometimes you just need a laugh

Me and my Shadow

Have you met my hump? Were permanently attached you see!

stowic aren't we!?

Hell?

Busy week=sick children

I believe that's one of Murphy's laws, right?

and yes that is an image of hell.

an elderly couple

The couple on a leisurely stroll












Darling look at the flowers














I seem to have had to much to drink













Dear isn't it lovely to be out














Oh, I just love fall don't you dear?
















Why do they keep taking photos of us?










Shut up and be happy darling!








The above grouping of photos had me laughing so hard I feared I would pee my pants! Don't they remind you of an old couple?

we call them

The twins

oh yeah they may come out swinging but there's a whole lot a love going on!

Randy Pausch

Charles Gibson's "Person of the Week."

Jen and Randy at our house
Randy, Liam and Don

Don and Randy ETC graduation 05'
This week, 46 year old Randy Pausch said goodbye to his students at Carnegie Mellon University with one last lecture called "How to Live Your Childhood Dreams," on his life's journey and the lessons he's learned. Randy is not just another story on Good Morning America or even on the local news here in Pittsburgh. He is a man I worked for, a Professor of Liam's and a friend of the family. Randy is dying of Pancreatic cancer and in his words only has "3 to 6 months of quality life". We met Randy about 5 years ago when Liam and I went to a Building Virtual Worlds show. Liam was hooked and applied to get his masters under Randy at the Entertainment and Technology Center or ETC. Randy even came to our home for Liam's graduation party and earlier that year we saw the flying Flying Karamazov Brothers with he and his wife Jaye. Liam got to know Randy as a professional over the course of two years as a graduate student and then as faculty member. Randy has three small children all under the age of 6. Dillon his oldest and Rose are the same age and his youngest is only 9 months older then Lily. I believe Randy is a good man for a few simple reasons. He gave my husband a future doing something he loves, teaching and he was a kind boss, but the thing I admire most about Randy is that you always know where you stand with him. He maybe blunt and harsh at times but you knew he was honest. He will be greatly missed at Carnegie Mellon. I wish Jaye and the children the best that life has to offer. Please click on the above underlined link and watch his inspiring lecture. It will be worth your time!

let kirk speak for me

baby (pause) trying (pause) to kill me (pause)

can't last much longer (sheer desperation)

go on without me! (self sacrificing)

From Sharon ...

Sharon Emery Ok!
Here are your questions:
1) How did you choose your daughters' names?
2) Do you miss Florida at all? Not the people, because I know you miss them, but Florida itself?
3) What was your job when you traveled with the Faire?
4) How's the knitting coming along?
5) Who is your favorite famous person and why?
Thanks for playing! Post these on your blog and share the love!


1. ummm okay how did I choose the names of my daughters well.
Moya (Great) is the name of a ship on Farscape a show we were watching while I was pregnant with her. We called her Tenaious B. untill her birth. Anwyn (very beautiful) well she got her name because I wanted another Gaelic name and her name spoke to me.

2. Do I miss Florida? Not so much it made my hair curly and frizzy and well we can't have that!

3. I never traveled with the faire I was a cast member at the Greater Pittsburgh Rennaissance Festivel where I played the bakers wife.

4. Knitting I am still doing it does that count. I have made a gazillion scarves.

5. favorite famous person Albert Einstien he most likely had ADHD and Deslexia just like me.

currently not working

umm yah

Yah, that looks about right!

click play button

Thanks network_weasel

Your Score: The Cougar

Here's your results! Your spirit animal has a Nobility ranking of 13 out of 18.

Your spirit animal is the cougar. It is a stealthy and deadly protector. With a cougar as a spirit animal, you have nothing to fear in this world. Your life is blessed and you are on the right path. You will still have hard times, but you will pull through them, always stronger for your travails. Congratulations, few are fotunate enough to have such a spirit animal!

***Wondering how this animal was chosen for you? These questions were carefully thought out to see how important you hold certain virtues such as: humanism, self-knowledge, rationalism, the love of freedom and other somewhat Hellenic ideals. Some of the questions were very subtle. Your score was then matched with an animal of corresponding nobility. However, you shouldn't think this was a right/wrong sort of test, but more of an idealistic values test. It's ok to not hold these values, you'll just get an animal spirit of lower stature if you do!***

Link: The What is Your Spirit Animal Test

My girls

Rose will be having her adenoids out tomorrow at 7:30 am so everyone say a pray she comes through okay and only slightly traumatized.
Anwyn will who we will be calling Lily (on the blog) from now on will be staying with her father. Doesn't she look thrilled

a dream

Last night I dreamed that I was riding on a small horse. With much excitement I believed I was taking the lead. When I looked around with pride I realized that not only was I not in the lead, but that I was going the wrong direction.

~Casey

Humm, I wonder what that could mean?

The apple and the tooth

A story in photographic order

Rose was a bit traumatized at first, but soon discovered that money is received in payment for the tooth and got over it quickly.

like my sweater?

Thank you Aunt Lori!

food glorious food

My technique never seems to improve.

All the cool kids are doing it!

Please don't ask me why my 2 year old is smoking in this photo, but doesn't it make her look cool! Obviously one cig just isn't enough.
Taken 12/10/03

Down on the Freemans Farm

Big Edson and Rose out plowing the back 40.

Miss Goaty goat

Lori makes perfectly round and measured chocolate chip cookies.

Milking Edson

Daddy and baby mower

Rose is free

Walking along the fence after a day of fishing

look another goat

Edson and baby Anwyn

Watcha got there?

Fishing

Maya the neighbors horse

Eli and Rose

You won't find better best friends then these two. Having been raised together until we moved to Australia, Eli and Rose are inseparable. They love each other like siblings. Having a cousin only a year apart in age is wonderful. Isn't love grand.

Oh, who needs hair anyway?