Kitchen Remodel, Wish us luck!

Day 1: Demo

8AM:





4PM:

Merry Christmas

Our 1st presents for Christmas 2009

Thanks Selena!

Giving Thanks

Trick or Treat, smell our feet

Hello Mr. Jack-O-Lantern

Getting ready for Halloween, or as I like to call it, All Hallow's Eve!

Pumpkin Farm, U.S.A.

Some pics from the event...

Happy Halloween!

October 1st marks the beginning of the holiday season for the Duggan Family! We are officially in Halloween celebration mode! Still deciding on what the girls will dress up as for the big day, I'm thinking dinosaurs....

Apple Picking 2009

Our yearly trip to Twin Maple Apple Orchard in Galien, Michigan.

ACS Rummage Sale

Taking care of a few small projects

No big remodeling project going on at the moment, so we're taking care of a few small things. One being the window seat cushion for our bedroom. We used some instructions found here and what do you know, it worked! A 1.5 hour stint in Jo-Ann's Fabrics trying to find all the supplies, 3 hours of measuring and cutting the materials, and 3 hours of sewing, and voila, a custom seat cushion. A second little project was to get Regina's name on her and Keegan's bedroom door. It's a good thing they share a 'g' in the middle of their names.

New Camera

We've made pretty good use of our Canon SD600 for the past few years. It wasn't the greatest camera, but it did yield some pretty decent quality shots, allowing us to easily make 8x10 photos. Having fully depreciated, it was time to look into an update. I had a fairly small list of camera specifications including Image Stabilization (in the lens, of course), a few more megapixels than my current 6.0, speed (both in terms of cold start to 1st shot, and the so-called continuous shot mode), and it had to use SD or SDHC cards, since I already own an Eye-Fi 2GB SD card. Having such a great experience with my Canon Powershot SD600, I checked out the latest offerings from Canon, as well as the other usual suspects; Nikon coolpix, Kodak, Panasonic Lumix, and others. After many late nights reading cnet.com reviews, we made the decision; the Canon SD1200 IS. The IS is for Image Stabilization. It's a 10.0MegaPixel, 3x Optical Zoom, point and shoot with a few bells and whistles. It has a great Smart-Auto mode as well as a programmable mode which allows you to set specific ISO settings (up to 3200, but past 200 is pretty much a waste), custom white-balance, and a few exposure stops...plenty of custom features for what I can do with a camera. So, here are the 1st images captured with the new Canon SD1200 IS.

New Tricks for Regina

Regina Rolls from ryn dggn on Vimeo.

I think she likes it!

Regina's Avocado Trial from ryn dggn on Vimeo.

Warning, Do not leave the keys to your office with your employees when you go on vacation

After a long vacation, this is what I came back to. Yep, that's who-knows how many rolls of scotch tape stretched across every inch of my office in a web-like fashion. Took a good couple of hours to clean up...