Jamie Celebrates 27th Birthday in Utah

Mike, Lynn & Jamie came to Utah to visit Will and celebrate Jamie's 27th birthday. The days were spent hanging out, shopping and a there was even a bowling excursion for Jamie's birthday. Will enjoyed all the quality time he had with Grandpa, Mimi and Uncle Jamie. In just a few weeks Will is taking a trip to visit Great Grandpa and Grandma DePietto in New York and then we are hitting the road back to Ohio and heading to Michigan. During our trip to Michigan we will be visiting all the family we can and searching for the UM football program (Sorry, I couldn't resist). We will be traveling to Flint to see Great Grandpa Storer on the 13th and we will be in Kalamazoo at Great Grandpa and Great Grandma Hanley's on October 14. We would love to see all that can make it. We are excited to see everyone.

Drum Major Photos

OK, here is my first attempt to add something to this blog. It may take me a little bit to make it look prettier. These are photos of Elizabeth as drum major at game number 2.


Saluting the flag

smiling with excitement

and standing tall.

Andrea Bridal Shower

Howdy All,

A fun Andrea Bridal Shower,

Marinelli's - Madison Heights

9-9-07

Here are a couple pictures followed by the link to them all.

http://www.pbase.com/path/andrea_shower

Thank You and Update

Brian and I wanted to thank you all for your love and support during this difficult time. Your thoughtfulness, through cards, calls, prayers, etc. has meant so much to us and brought us comfort.

We have our good days and bad days but overall things are looking up and we are in good spirits. I am going back to the doctor weekly for blood work to ensure all the pregnancy hormone is out of my system. I'm almost there, hopefully only a week or two more of needles. I am very glad to have had the miscarriage progress naturally without having to have any procedure or intervention, but it takes a little longer this way. I am definitely learning to have more patience than I've ever had before!

Brian and are taking off on Friday to spend a week in Destin, FL for our annual trip with Brian's close friends from Purdue. We are looking forward to a week of relaxation and reconnecting with old friends for Brian and for me to get to know some newer friends even better. We'll have a Florida post with some pictures for you when we get back!

Love,

Liz

Lunar Eclipse 8-28-07

Lunar Eclipse


Before it all Starts ---->


To All,


Well - I finally made it to the Blog world !


Brian ( as Grand Web Master) made myself and Sue Authorized members of HanleyCentral.



Thanks Brian !




I figured I would try to post a few pictures from my Lunar experience this past week. A truly remarkable experience. I put a couple pictures from my album in this note. Here is the link to my pbase album:


(http://www.pbase.com/path/lunareclipse8_28)



If you go to this link - be sure to hit the slide show button in the upper right corner and put the timing between slides as 1 sec.





<------ The Eclipse starts








I need to tell you that I sat out on the back porch ( by the spa) with my new camera ( Canon Rebel XTi) with 300mm lens ( with image stabilizer). NO TRIPOD ( Hand Held only). Took a picture every 2-4 minutes. Mind you it was 4:45 am ( actually went out there about 4:18am to get the camera settings figured out). Just to add to the visual - I was sitting there in my shorts with no shirt and I was barefoot ! (Sorry - As much as you might like to have seen THAT picture posted - it was never taken - I could not take a picture of myself in that condition and I could not get Sue up to take the picture )!! waking Sue up at that hour would have been dangerous !!!!

This is about half way through:Actual Eclipse time was from about 4:48 am till 5:48 am. And Yes you should be able to guess correctly if you said "I bet Pat was late for work that day" - You would be right - but it was well worth it !

Here is a picture with the eclipse
about 70% complete:
One of the things I had to do was to play with the shutter speed as the light got lower - so it did get a little blurry later in the eclipse process.





I would also share that I did some post processing ( for sizing only) in photoshop LE , just to fill the frame with the Moon image.







I figure I would also put a picture in that was VERY close to the end of the eclipse and here it is










Well - here is my attempt at posting a Movie clip ( actual it is MS movie maker- not a real video clip - but I think you will get the idea) For some reason you hae to hit the Play button two (2) times for it to start ( maybe one of you techies can figure that one out for me):

I would have to say - once I was able to get into the HanleyCentral Blog as a REAL member - it was not that bad to navigate, update, and have some fun, and share with family and friends !

All for now,

Blogger Pat