Movember

Q: What is Movember?

A: It's a campaign to help change the face of mens health, by raising awareness of cancer in men.

Q: Why should I care?

A: Because 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and thousands will die from it. Take a look at your family and friends. Do you know 6 different men. Well statistically one of them will have to deal with cancer and could die from it.

Q: Why is it Called Movember?

A: The men that sign up to participate will be growing a mo (moustache) for the entire month of November

Q: So how do I get involved?

A: Go to the Movember website and sign up. Start off November first clean shaven, then grow your mo for the entire month.

Q: What if I'm girl and can't grow a mo?

A: Encourage the men around to you to get involved and grow their mo.

Q: What if I don't like donating to charities because only a portion of the actual money donated goes to the cause?

A: It's not all about the money. It's the awareness that is the most important. The more men that get checked out by a doctor the better. By simply talking about cancer you are helping.

Q: What if I do want to donate to charities because I know that even though only a portion of the money raised is going to the cause every little bit helps.

A: You can donate to the cause through me by going to my MoSpace Page

So what are you waiting for, go get involved. Sign up or donate you decided, but don't do nothing.

Family Photo

Figured it was about time we took a new family photo. I'm still trying to figure out this whole portrait photography thing. Yes I know the shadows are too harsh, it's noisy, not very sharp and the composition is lacking, but I'm posting the pic anyway. :)

family of four

Max moments

there's not really a story with these photos. I like them and I thought I'd share 'em with ya'll

this first one is shot of Max after chasing a squirrel up a tree.


this (in case you couldn't tell) is a shot of Max after eating a peanut butter sandwich.

Apple Picking

As most of you know, my Mom was up here to see her new Granddaughter. We decided to go apple picking (little did we know that she would go apple picking with Nate and Doe's family a week later in North Carolina) in an effort to keep Mom for getting bored.

We packed up the car and headed to Chudleighs Farm to pick our apples.

They had a massive play area with some really steep slides. if you look at the photo you will see a bunch of scuff marks on the slide just above Max's head. That is where the slide changes from a 50° slope to a 30°. It looks a lot steeper when you are at the top of it. Max liked the slide and we went down three times before the lineup got too long and we moved on to play elsewhere.


The petting zoo area was a lot of fun because the goats where chasing Max. (Didn't get photos of that, cause I was chasing after him too) The Cows however where not moooving at all (sorry I couldn't resist)


Once we were out in the orchard we stopped to take some photos. Here is GG (Grandma Gretchen) with two of her favorite grandchildren.


Then we decided to get a quick family picture.


Carrie shot this one of Max and I with our big bag of apples


And that was our day out picking apples.

Making Dessert

I had Max help me make a banana pudding dessert and Carrie decided to film some of it. Once the pudding was on there he couldn't resist sneaking into it, so this time I grabbed the camera and filmed him while doing a bit of cleaning up.

Max Max Max Max

just a fun image of Max playing on the playground.


and okay I throw in the one of Him and I cheering from the bleachers.

how Evelyn got her name

We posted all the names that we (Carrie) liked on the wall and had Max choose the name he liked best. Before Max was allowed to choose we showed him a picture of the baby on the iPad (pampers hello baby app) and explained to him that she needed a name and then asked him to choose one from the wall.

Another Campbell

This is where I will be updating you all. So check back here if you want to be up to date.

2:00 Epidural is in and things are much calmer now. Looks like this baby will be here before most of you wake up.





6:45 still nothing. We are just waiting for this little girl to arrive. Everything is progressing normally. I got about an hours sleep so I'm good to go. Carrie has been able to get a little more sleep then that. All in all I'd say we are doing okay.

7:20 baby will be here just as soon as the Doc arrives and says "start pushing"

8:15 Doc says it too early to push so we are back to waiting.


9:20 here we go

9:25 Evelyn Frances Campbell is here pics to follow 9lbs 14oz

Max was the one that named her. There will be a post on that later, with video.





we've been asked to post more pics of Evelyn so here they are.

Nanny holding Eve


Max is still a little unsure about his sister


another shot of Evelyn to appease the masses

Baby Blanket

Just finished the blanket for our new little one



I tried making the stuffed animal out of the lion, twice, but it just wouldn't work for me so I tried the giraffe. If you think it looks funny in the photo you should see it in real life, it's hilarious.

Kitchen Reno

I'm calling it finished, and posting pictures. Now before we get to the good stuff I'll post a few "work in progress" images.

okay there were too many to post, so I've created this fun little time lapse video for you.



and now to the panoramas:

before

after

after (from the other side)

a 360° view

before and after together


This project started way back in January when we (Carrie) decided that it would be a good idea to renovate our kitchen. Well seven months, countless trips to Home Depot, Rona, and Lowe's, a bit of blood, a lot of sweat, a truck load of swears, a dead vacuum, and lots of cleaning up (thanks Carrie) it's finished. And we did it all with out a single trip to a Marriage Counsellor.

Although I'm sure there were times when Carrie wanted to just "call in the professionals", (I was about ready to with the plumbing) we did it all ourselves. It's not perfect, but neither are we. :)