RIP: The CD 1982-2007

"Once praised for its clear, crisp audio quality but panned for its susceptibility to scratches and smudges, the compact disc passed away in 2007 after a quick but painful illness. It was 25 years old."

Isn't this crazy? You can find the whole story at www.startribune.com
I didn't think that they came out in the early 80's. Who knew?
I remember getting my first cds when I was in 7-8th grade (1991-1992ish).
Toni Braxton, Grease Soundtrack and Selena. Top that!!!!

Baptism

Here's Mr. Wyatt with the pastor and his guardian angel, his cousin Ryan.
The Nordys
What a cute matching pair. Ryan (8 yrs) and Wyatt ( 3 months).

LA Fitness

Well, with the new year comes resolutions.
This is the first year I actually got started on my resolution early and have been pretty good about stickin' with it, so far!
Mike and I joined LA Fitness. It's a stone's throw away from our house. Easy to stop by on the way home from work or going to on the weekends. We have also recruited Jason, Suzie, Eric and Liz.
Suzie and I have met up a few times and decided that some of the machines need to be renamed for those of us who need to get right down to business on our target areas.
Those machines new names are:

*Ghetto Booty Press
*Bingo Arms Lift
*Jungle pouch cruncher
*Back Fat minimizer

Random Zoey Picture

Here she is, having a spaz at Daddy's new Beer Buggy.

Happy 2008!!!

Jason playing Wii bowling.
Pam (my doctor, co-worker friend) and I, making silly faces.
Getting ready to do the choo choo train shots.
Here are the girls and their juice box wines. They even came with straws. Compliments of Kris.
Hey!!!! What are you doing??? Giving my dog champagne?? Are you nuts?

Nordmeyer Christmas

Laynie is jumping in a fit of joy for her new bathtub cabbage patch kid, Berenice.
This is our really screwed up Nativity scene that we individually received from Santa....... we're still confused. (the fish was placed there and is not, I repeat not, playing the role of baby Jesus!)
It's a baby Wyatt!! Isn't he the cutest! He had a little paperboy-style hat, but Laynie didn't like it on him. during pictures.
The traditional family picture. This consisted of trying to get both children happy enough to sit still for the picture. At this point in the evening, Laynie was running around and did not want to sit still at all. So Uncle Mikey to the rescue, he was throwing her up, up, up in the air and told her he would do some more if she sat still. As you can see, his plan worked!!
Here Laynie is giving diaper-shy Uncle Mikey a few pointers on how to correctly put the diaper on the child's bottom and not on it's head as he originally thought. As Laynie said " NOOOO!"

Chicago Christmas

This was our first time using the chocolate fountain. I think we had the chocolate/oil ratio way, way wrong because it did not flow right. It was thick and cool, tasted great though! We were dipping fruit, graham crackers and marshmallows in it.
I wanted to start a new tradition with the kids when we are together for x-mas. So, we loaded up in the car after dinner and went looking for the best lit houses in the neighborhood. We were out for about 15 minutes or so. Ran into a dead end, saw a landing strip for Santa and a drive-in style movie in someone's yard, playing none other than Miracle on 34th Street. Then we went back and opened presents.
Lexi played her trombone for us this year on Christmas morning. She played Jingle Bells and even did a slide move on the "all the way, hey!" part. It was really good. Sounds like she is planning on switching to clarinet next year.