It's been a long time since a post of pictures or a blog post.  I went through a rather brutal few months at work after Christmas trying to hit a deadline which had me more scrambling for time to sleep than taking pictures of the kids.  Past that we had various illnesses with the boys in addition to adding a day a week to their school schedule.  I have a few pictures to post but I think before I do I'll be doing some work to the site.

I have an image gallery I want to implement and as a part of that I'll be locking the site down to those with logins only.  Many of the pics from the site have been linked into googles image search and we'd rather change the site to be private to avoid images being linked by people who shouldn't have access.  Everyone currently using the site will have access and I'll have it coded so you only need to login once per machine and then your settings will be saved.   The new gallery I found looks very nice and will allow faster image load and slideshow sort of features.  I'll send everyone who I know is accessing the site login information and leave a method to contact me on the landing page so those I forget can contact for login info.  This probably won't be implemented for a few weeks the way my schedule has been but I hope for it to be ready before summer. 

 Hope all is well with everyone.  

I took my trip this week to New England Demolition and Salvage to get the doors for the office room. The place is way down in New Bedford Mass. Quite the hike from Gardner.  I guess it took a little over 2 hours to get there.  It was worth the trip though.  I got two doors and all the hardware for 188 dollars.  The van rental and gas were about 90 bucks so for under 300 bucks I got what I needed to finish things up.  When I looked for solid doors at the homecenter here in town they wanted 280 a piece for just the door and they wouldn't have been nearly as close a match as these are.

We've all had colds this past week but thankfullly we seems to be near the end of it.  Keiran went into a real bed about a week ago after he was trying to escape his crib.  He's on an inflatible bed for the moment but we have a real one waiting for him upstairs.  We'll probably set him up with it early this coming week.  

Not much else to report.  There are new pictures up on the website here and some new video from Halloween and a couple others.  

Been a busy few weeks.  My Grandmother's 90th birthday party was last weekend.  The festivities were held at Aunt Pattie's house in Wilmington last Sunday.  Pretty much the whole family showed up for the festivities.  We brought Jon and Keiran and stayed as long as we could.  Grammie enjoyed the day.  There are a few pictures of the day up in the Jon and Keiran pictures section.

Our deck is completed and a few pictures of this are also up on the site.  There's still some work to do to dig out where our stone wall was and rebuild it but overall the deck looks good and is much more solid than the piece of junk that was there when we moved in.  There are a few pics up on the website of the deck and the kids out there.  They got to go out there once or twice before it rained for several days straight.  Hopefully we'll have a few more good days they can be out there with us.  

Yesterday we went to the apple festival held at Wachusett Mountain.  The company I work for gave us vouchers for the tickets so we got in for free.  Jon got to paint a pumpkin and paint a cookie (he really was more interested in just eating the cookie) and we had a nice lunch.  There were lots of vendors for gifts and crafts.  We left with some apple donuts, cider, chocolate covered pretzels and Keiran and Jon each got a lolly pop using the money their Grammie sent them for Halloween.  It was a good day and though it was cool it was a nice sunny day for it.  We didn't get apples because Jon is going apple picking with his school this coming week.  

Today the white death has come.  It has been steadily snowing for about an hour now.  Though it doesn't appear to be accumulating just the thought of snow in the middle of October makes me feel squeamish.  I  still have a lot of stuff I wanted to get done outside and still need to change the oil in the snowblower.  Hopefully the snow can wait to accumulate for a little while longer.  Jon was asking if we could go get our Christmas tree.  Sigh.