Happy Birthday Sadie

Photo creds to Abigail

Summer Vacation 2011

After over 4 years of steady blogging and untold numbers of blog posts about beach trips, its getting harder to not just copy and paste the text from one post to the next.

So rather than sound like a broken record, let me summarize: We spent July 4th week at the Delaware shore. Spent a lot of time at Tower's Beach. Met up with an old High School friend. Played some miniature golf. Rode bikes.

And beyond that, I'll let the pictures do the talking...

Home (made) Movies

I think most every kid at one time or another has dreamed of making their own cartoon or stop-motion movie. I know for myself, growing up with the likes of Rudolf and Frosty Christmas specials on TV, I tried to figure out how I could use my parent's old Super8 camera to make some kind of movie.

Fortunately for the kids growing up in this technological age, accomplishing this feat has become much more of a feasibility. Between the proliferation of digital cameras and free, easy to use video editing software, making your own movie is now just a matter of patience and vision.

So with all that in mind, I present Alex's very first attempt at a stop-motion movie.

Please note; I hadn't finished adding sound effects before Alex moved on to filming his 2nd version, so at this point, we're chalking this up as an unfinished experiment.