The Beesley Blog

The kids had Christmas Cookies for breakfast while sitting on the couch watching Sponge Bob. What are you going to do about it?

Here are the gravitational forces at work on the Gingerbread House:

Drawings of various people (and Daisy, the stuffed cat) by Violet:

Mason had his Christmas Party yesterday, click on the picture below to see more the party:

Here’s a few pics from the wedding album I’m putting together for the wedding I shot in July:

Dad and Ellen, this is the one that you babysat for…

Okay, a bit of business first. Working in corporate America, I am worried about my job. I work for a large, building materials supplier, we have seen our business decrease drastically over the last several years, laying off thousands and closing about 100 of our locations. There’s a plan out there to help the situation; I would like you to look at the website and, if you agree with what you read, please click the link to email your congressperson.

http://www.fixhousingfirst.com/

I’m not much for corporate handouts, but, I guess if it affects my family, I’m for this one.

On to the cute baby pictures, Mason in the bathtub:

Mason wearing Violet’s Native American head-dress, made at preschool:

We constructed a gingerbread house last week, before I heard the piece on NPR today about the proper way to make a gingerbread house. This is the second year we’ve made one, last year we didn’t use Royal icing and it collapsed in on itself. This year I rolled it too thin (even though the instructions said to roll it to an 1/8th of an inch), and the roof caved in from the weight of the decoration. Anyway, here’s some pics from that awfully adorable experience:

I occasionally get a good picture of Violet:

Violet fed Daisy a “hungerburger” for lunch the other day: