The Feltenbergers

Monday, January 14, 2013

Happy Birthday, Zak!!!

We celebrated Zak's 16th birthday Sunday. It started with a sleepover with a couple of his buddies Saturday night. They were just going to bed when I got up with the dogs at 5:00am!

Zak, Blake & Jordan

At some point in the night they had made lemonade...and left behind a sticky mess on the counter and powder on the floor. Apparently they decided to have a lemonade toast to Zak's birthday as I found these in the sink.

3 plastic wine glasses, haha!

I made them pancakes and bacon for breakfast and Zak got to open 2 of his presents from us before we had to leave for his hockey game.

Quite a motley crew!

Give blood, play hockey phone case.

Another pair of shoes he said he HAD to have. (He's as bad as Emelda Marcos!)

Bella wanted to help him tie them.

After we got home from the hockey game he got to open the rest of his gifts.

Art supplies: full set of graphite pencils, water color pencils, and oil pastels.

The coup de gras...Macbook Air.

We then went to dinner to his favorite restaurant, Fujiyama, it's a Japanese Steakhouse practically in our backyard. He loves the sushi and hibachi meal.

After dinner we returned home to finish off the celebration with an ice cream cake.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Another Change

After watching an episode of one of our favorite TV shows, "Parenthood", I started thinking about trying a different hair color like one of the characters did.

So my brunette hair, which is my natural color but I have enhanced for years with a color called "caramel":

got an update:

intense medium auburn.

As I mixed the color I got a little nervous, it was orange:

and was still orange as it processed:

But the final results are exactly what I was looking for:

and I think beautiful!

Monday, January 7, 2013

Fledgling Artist

Zak took a drawing class last year in school, but since then has not really shown much interest in it....until about a week ago. He has been drawing and I am impressed with his drawings. He does them freehand, no tracing at all.

He drew this one for his girlfriend, she likes Tinkerbell.

An evil Woody Woodpecker.

Showing some team pride.

"Live to Play"

Bugs Bunny

Fox

Tigger

Lion

Wolf with scar

Wolf in landscape

Friday, January 4, 2013

Laundry...ugh!!!

How do you know a load of clean laundry has been sitting in the laundry basket waiting to be folded for too long? It looks like this when you dump it out...

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Wordless Wednesday

~Linking up with Hilary at FeelingBeachie for Wordless Wednesday!~

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Our Christmas Celebrations

We started our celebration with the Miller family (Tami, Todd, Zachary, and Brandon) on Christmas Eve. We opened gifts, ordered Chinese food, and played the Dancing Egg game. See Tami's blog, Pretty Purplexing (http://www.prettypurplexing.com/), for more details on the game. We had so much fun playing the game and I have the bruises to prove it.

Todd & Chad

Zak, Zach & Brandon

Me & Tami

We got Todd & Tami a movie themed gift set.

My gifts from the Millers.

We had a very nice, very quiet Christmas day. We started with early gift opening...Zak was up at 6:30 this year to start. He loves his new iPad mini and Beats headphones.

Chad got a new center channel speaker that can mount on the wall beneath the TV and he got a bunch of new clothes. I know, boring, but that's what he asked for.

I was spoiled with a new camera, Coach purse, foot massager, and a bunch of kitchen gadgets.

We had our traditional baked breakfast (an egg casserole I have been making since Zak's first Christmas) and a Honeybaked Ham for dinner.

Throughout the day we watched FIVE movies! Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, Batman The Dark Knight Rises, We Bought a Zoo, and Trouble With the Curve.