Grand Opening - an opening statement from Marella and Valerie

Let me start by saying that both Valerie and I are much more attractive than this photo lets on. Also, neither one of us have quite such big heads. You can't believe what we went through to get this one blog up and I think that the stress shows in the glam shot included.

First, I invite Valerie and her 1 year old son, Zach, over for a nice breakfast. Sound simple, right? Think again! I forget that I have left the burner on under the pan that I plan (Dr. Suess look out) to cook the eggs in. So, I toss a pat of butter in it and the whole thing bursts into flames causing Zach to freak out and run crying and screaming to his mom. Once we put out the pan flames and the Zach flames I resume cooking. In the end breakfast was yummy.

Now, we have to get Zach to fall asleep if we are going to have any time to get the blog up and running. So, we decide to take a nice walk to the park.

Oh wait - I forget to say that Zach has decided to make a game out of stomping on my kitties tail causing another crying jag for the cat and the kiddie.

We are back on our walk - Zachy spies a toy truck and since he loves trains, planes, and automobiles we let him play with it a while. Eventually, we have to go and Zach is not happy with us - to say the least. We really need to get him to fall asleep! So we circle the block - round and round we go - checking him every 2 minutes. We start to think our only hope is crush a little Exedrine PM and toss it in his bottle. We're just joking, geez, who do you think we are Britney Spears?

Finally, little Zach is asleep and we are all ready for an nap. Valerie and I decide we need to submit a photo so you can see who were are. We try the whole stand together and hold the camera out as far away from us as possible with our own arms thing. While this technique results in glorious glam shots in the movies - it didn't do much for us (as you can clearly see). We never get a single shot that someones head is not cut in half and our heads are aways HUGE! Therefore, we have titled this series " The Big Head Shots". Ah Ha!, we think, we need a makeshift tripod. We arrange, rearrange, shuffle, turn things upside down, turn them right side up, stuggle to find the timer setting on the camera ....... At last! we are ready. We have the shot set up! Ready, set,............. change the batteries. What! What the @#$%, are you kidding me? Oh for pete's sake! That is the last time I buy batteries at the 99 cent store.

So we are forced to use the best of the "Big Head" series and just as we hit "download image" Zach opens his eyes........................

go to Valerie's blog to see another version of the days events and view glimpses of her amazing art work

http://www.projectpinksuitcase.blogspot.com

I plan to post some real photos soon - so stay tuned!