Visit with Amma & Long-Amma

We had a great visit last week with my mom & Amma. Amma is Icelandic for Grandma, and while she is actually Irish, my Afi (Grandpa) was Icelandic and we have always called them Amma & Afi (pronouned Avi with a soft A). Long-Amma is Icelandic for Great-Grandma and is actually spelled Lange-Amma, but to make it easier I just spelled it as it's pronounced. All this to say, it did get a little confusing having both Amma and Long-Amma since I am so used to calling MY Amma "Amma" and the kids are used to calling my mom "Amma" ... but we managed to figure out who was talking to who. That was the least of the confusion actually, since my mom and Amma both repeatedly addressed me as Marilyn (my mom's younger sister) and of course Long-Amma usually went through at least a couple of the kids or grandkids names before arriving at the right name. Mom was mostly ElaMarLinda, which I think she's been referred to as for most of her life (her name is Linda, her younger sister is Marilyn and her older sister is Elaine).

At any rate, we had a great visit with a lot of laughs! Click here for more pictures of our adventures!

Professional Pictures

Here are the photos we had taken while my mom and grandma (Amma) were in town:

Quick update, photos coming soon!

Oct. 23rd-25th: Annual Fall Women's Retreat in the mountains (with church)
Oct. 26th-Nov 1st: Trip to Los Angeles, California (with Scott)
Nov. 8th-15th: My mom and grandma (Amma) visit from Calgary, AB and Brandon, MB respectively. This has included a day trip to South Carolina (outlet malls, yaaaay!) and an overnight trip to Asheville (Biltmore Estate, etc) as well as outings with the kids. Today we're getting professional portraits taken since there are four generations here and we're not sure when we'll all be together again.

At any rate, things have been more than a little busy around here but I look forward to posting photos soon!

Virtual Reno's Too

I got inspired to change up my blog after Dayna did "virtual reno's" on hers! I still have to make an image for my title but this is a neat change for now. :)

Fun with Picasa Collages

Picasa 3 (beta) is available for download, I'm not sure when this released but I think it's been fairly recent. Anyway, I've just been playing with the new Collage features and I love them, I could play for hours! Different style photos, choice of your size & color of borders and backgrounds... the fun never ends! I haven't looked at the new video features but they look fun too! More collages coming soon...;)