Happy Birthday...Everyone

If you look below, you'll see that Henry got his own birthday video.  Not so for everyone else that blew out candles in 2015.  This efficient video shows Eliza and her party with the Williams, Clarissa and her trip to the zoo, Miriam and ice skating, and Tammy and the Folk Festival.



Note: There's no video of Alvin's birthday as Tammy wasn't there to document it.  (Peter was born but didn't have a birthday celebration in 2015.)

Part of Our World

Thanks to Tammy's talents Halloween is always a fun time around here.  The kids enjoyed playing up the Little Mermaid theme.  It doesn't seem like that long ago until you see how far Peter has come in his mobility.

Party with Team USA

Henry is now closer to age 9 than age 8, but his 8th birthday was a great one.  His birthday 'cake' was intended to look like the solar system, which he had been studying (and has 8 planets).  His big present was watching Team USA play soccer against Cuba. 

One of the great things about Henry getting older is that he is able to help out with the video editing.  He did this one by himself.



Note: We've now forgotten why Henry was sad before blowing out his candles.  He claims he wasn't sad, that his eyes just get watery sometimes.

Say Hey, Brays

Yikes, we've almost gone a full year without updating this blog.  Well, lucky for all of you disappointed fans out there we've been snowed in and are starting to make some progress on making videos from the last year. 

We'll be posting from random times throughout the year, so be warned that these are not in any sequential order.  For example, the first video is at the Bray Family Reunion in July in TN, and the second (done entirely by Miriam) is with the Brays over Christmas in NC.  Note that neither is an attempt to show all of the things we did or who was there, just an odd collection of moments we happened to record on video.

Trailer Park

We had a super long weekend thanks to a teacher work day, President's Day and snow.  Then we got more snow this weekend.  When your kids are inside too much, you have to give them things to do.  So they made two movie trailers on the ipad.  The program is super simple, and they were able to do all of the editing themselves.  All of it.  Because believe us that we would have changed a few things.  The first one is a recasting of the David and Goliath story with female leads.



The second was done with their friends the McClatchies and does not actually show any of our own family in it, though Miriam and Henry were heavily involved in the filming and editing.

Bad Things Happen When You Get An IPad

Here's a look back at our Christmas and New Year's Eve.  It was such a fun time with Quince and both sets of grandparents back to back.  Of course, there were a few unexpected events that may appear tragic but had our kids in stitches.

Everything is cool when you're part of a team

 Our kids played sports last year, and this is a recap of most of them.  We didn't get video of Miriam playing soccer, and the only video of Henry playing soccer is from a scrimmage.  Oh well.