A new life; same as the old life?

My inlaws just left (almost 3 weeks ago now, where does the time go??) There was, of course, the usual round of shopping and drinking, eating, etc. One of the things we did do was to go to a local pottery store, where you can choose items to paint and draw on, which are then fired for you. Mads mad some cat bowls, and Jan made a wall tile, which you can check out in the other pictures. Lorraine and I made this tissue box cover. There are a couple of other pictures in the collection, but as you can see, we put her name on there, and also go prints of both hands and feet. The feet were relatively easy to do, but she kept closing her hands, making it really difficult to get a good print, but it turned out OK. The weekend after they left, we went out with Godfather Mike to celebrate AJ's birthday with him. Did some shopping, got some of the cheapest gas in the country in Wisconsin and spent some time down at the lakeshore, walking around and actually in the lake paddling in just her na...

Please scroll down for pictures and write up of the three day birthday extravaganza. I have only posted a couple of videos here, the rest are on the photobucket page. This one is of us all singing Happy Birthday. No idea what happened to the focus, but it comes good at the end. This one is one the favourite toys she received. It vexed her, because she has a similar toy in which you push the balls in to do things, but this one kept blowing them out, watch her reactions. There are a ton more videos here