Open Your Eyes, Sir!

When Mr. Bean and I were newlyweds, we had our photo taken for the church directory. The cameraman said, "Smile!" Before he took the picture he paused and said, "Open your eyes, sir!" Mr. Bean responded with, "My eyes are open. This is how I smile."

Photo by Mr. Bean on December 20, 2009
String Bean: 26 months

Apparently, String Bean inherited that trait from her father.

County Fair Photos

It is a tradition (3 years running) that Mr. Bean and I enter photos into our county fair. Today we are editing our photos and uploading them to Costco to be printed. Tomorrow, we will mount all our photos and Tuesday we take them to the fair!

I thought I'd give you a glimpse of some of my favorites we are entering this year. None of these have been cropped or color corrected, yet. Enjoy!

Entering String Bean on the toilet eating blueberries in the "funny" category.

Funny. Black and white.

String Bean enjoys a bucket of water in the water category.

Mr. Bean, his sister, and her boyfriend posing for the photo of 2 or more people. this will be turned into black and white.

Mr. Bean and String Bean dressed up for String Bean's movie debut. 2 or more people-color.

Reflections (taken at same mansion as the photo of Mr. Bean with sister and boyfriend).

A Vote For Me

Mr. Bean and I both have facebook pages where we enjoy keeping up with family and old friends. Recently, I've gotten pretty lazy about posting photos to mine. When he does all the work of captioning the photos and tagging the people in them, why should I duplicate the effort?

Since Mr. Bean has been uploading photos to my page for me, we've had somewhat of a competition about who gets more photo comments. Usually I do because my album is newer therefore higher on the list that your friends see.

Last night, Mr. Bean uploaded an album, but refused to upload it to my account since he wanted all our mutual friends to comment on his album instead of mine. Since he had only 7 comments in 24 hours, he went ahead and uploaded the album to my account a 17 minutes ago. I already have 9 comments. He he he. Sucker.

I told him that his status update should read, "A comment on my album is a vote for me. A comment on my wife's identical album is a vote against me. You decide."

And for your viewing pleasure, one of the uploaded photos from that album:

Photo by Mr. Bean

String Bean considers a career at Steak-n-Shake, but reconsiders when she realizes it involves wearing this hat, Guy (in her left arm) can't go to work with her and does not involve coloring the whole shift long.

Things on My To-Do List

I'm going to cross these off the list as I accomplish them!

Today:

• Eat lunch (If I don't add this to the list, I snack all day long)
• Empty dishwasher
• Check e-mail
  
• Call everyone who signed up church directory photos tomorrow and remind them.
• Update Facebook status
• Check e-mail
  
• Feed String Bean
• Pick up Mail
• Call attorney about updating wills
  
• Daydream
• Nap, if I can fit it in
  
• Go to worship team rehearsal
• Check e-mail
• Send final appointment list for church directory photos to Bill
  

Later:

• Sleep in past 7 am
  
• Finish planning String Bean's first birthday party
• Clean the house thoroughly
• Laundry
• Pay bills
• Finish Christmas shopping (yes, I've already started!)
• Get String Bean's flu shot
• Get my allergy shot
• Find a new address for that wedding card that was returned to sender
• Blog
• Think about whether to decorate for Thanksgiving or just skip right over to Christmas
• Get rings inspected
• Get assets turned over to a Living Trust
  

That about does it.