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Here is the new house. It is the only summer picture I have so far, but it really shows off the deck and backyard. Please check out my Facebook page for more pics.
Here is a picture that I took with my cell phone of my getting my sleep study done and this is just some of the crap they put on my face. It turns out that I have severe sleep apnea and I need to have one of those crazy machines help me breathe at night. I do sleep better and here is special bonus- no more snoring- Mrs Librarian is pleased, I think.
Here is picture of 3/4 of team Brevason.
The younger ones have on there Christmas robes. Very stylish.
Iver as a animal of some sort in school play in 2ND grade. I am not sure of the animal because it was in Spanish so I had hard time following along, but he really good- as far as I could tell.
Here is my attempt to fit everybody that shows up at my moms house for Christmas eve. If you look closely only one person is missing. That's is right the mysterious and beautiful Mrs Librarian has some how posed herself right out of the picture- I am sure that was an accident. She would not have done that on person- she much to nice. Well there are actually two missing- Leo is only has half a face.
To make up for slicing Leo down the middle here is the man himself making a Christmas Cookie from one of the do it yourself packs that Mrs Librarian gives us to keep us busy for a few minutes so she can get something done. We are are big drag on the Christmas production game. So she has to find little things for us to do so she get the 50 million tasks she has to do. So once again we see- Life is fair.
Here are the older boys carrying a present for Mrs Librarian. It was a cast Iron casserole and it was really heavy. They are not faking it- I thought they were going to drop right on her foot. But they didn't- another Christmas Miracle.
Here is Jack doing what Jack likes- Jack likes to Eat. The nickname that he has around the house is the stomach- just like the guy from Meatballs- with Bill Murray. Of course that guy was one of the Jerks from across the lake and our guy Jack is anything but a Jerk- kind of whiny, but not a Jerk.
Here is Jack and Harry playing with one there Christmas presents. It is a play fort that pops up with no assembly- so in other words the dream Christmas present.
Bonus Video
Here is a video of the twins playing the Wii game Outdoor Adventure. This game has a ton of fun mini-games and Harry and Jack love playing the racing ones. The object is to run on the colored squares to simulate actual running. Jack is the slow turtle, concentrating on staying in the squares and slowly reaching the finish line. Harry on the other hand is all over the place. He is running faster, but since he not on the right pad all the time he is actually going slower. As usually life is not fair.
Sorry about the long break in pictures, but here is today pic:
Here is Leo helping his Grandma and other assorted Brevason kids decorate the Christmas Tree. We have been holed up at Grandmas for 6 months now and it is starting to get the feel of a hostage crisis.
Bonus video:
Here is a video of Iver, Leo and the twins inventing and riding some crazy roadsters that they made out of spare parts. The best part is when Iver breaks out the wiffle bats as concrete oars. The boy may have future when the revolution comes and everyone need to make everyday objects out of useless junk. And that is something you can't teach.
One more bonus pictures to make up for the long wait:
I found this old picture of the pre-Librarians at my moms house. It shows a rather rakish Librarian and the lovely Mrs Librarian admiring their cat Itchy. I put the crown on his head to adequately demonstrate his noble place within the household.
I know I said I would only post one picture today, but since all this great content is free I would just accept the extra picture as a bonus.
This is a picture of the twins on there 2 birthday at baby school- ECFE for everyone else. Their teacher made up the crowns and they tastefully decorated them with stickers. They did not know it was their birthday I just mentioned it and in about 30 seconds they had their crowns. The decisiveness of preschool teachers is just marvelous, it would take me about that long to just think about the crown concept let alone figure out how to build them. It is sort like watching MacGyver for the preschool set.
We are trying something new here at Jerrythelibrarian- Picture of the Day. Lots of professional Blogs have a picture of the day so I thought why not. Also the amount of time that it took to post multiple pictures and come up with something witty for each one contributed greatly to the lack of posts. So I thought I would cut down on the pictures and post more often. Let me know what you think.
This picture is from last fall and the young guys are running toward a park. I like it because they are dressed the same and thus they look twinish and it looks nice and warm. Also Jack looks like he is about to lay a unsuspecting Harry out with a bone crushing tackle. Good times.
We got a Wii for an early Christmas Present and here is video of the boys playing Tennis on it. They do not actually wait for the little tennis ball to come to them before they hit, not my guys. They just flail around until the ball stops moving and then look distraught when they lose the point. Jack is in the frame to add a little moral support and these guys need it.
This post is dedicated to Lance. He emailed to thank me for re-launching the blog so for him I will post some pictures from our camping trip last summer. We went to Jay Cooke State Park, a past home for the Breva Clan- except Mindy, I think. It was a great trip, I highly recommend it.
Here are the pics:
This first one is the family minus Chris sitting around the picnic table. Sure it looks boring but it was actually a good time.
As seasoned parents we cooked up the end of the picnic bench for a table for the twins, clever, no? It only took about 4 days and about 20 pound of dirty food to figure that one out. None the less,I defy some of you 2 or 3 kid parents to come up with that one. It ain't happening.
We stayed in a camping cabin. These things are great. They have bunks, a table, and heat. We went at the end May, so the heat was nice. Tents are O.K., but I am not sure if they even make a tent big enough for us. I guess they probably do, but I don't care,I don't miss sleeping on the ground like some kind of animal, I am better that than that. I bet George Bush never slept on the ground, unless he was passed out or something. And if it to good enough for Ol Georgie boy, then its good enough for me.
Here is a shot of the bunks, nice, right? I just want to stress here that Jack usually has his pants on. In fact I would go so far to say that it is odd that he is pant less in the picture. Anybody who says differently is lying and I will swear on a stack of bibles that this is the case.
This is neither a great picture or all that interesting, but it does contain the one and only ChristyBreva and since she is the defacto leader of our little clan how about a little love. Also she is the one who used to ride her bike around the campground when she was a little girl and frankly, she is just too cute not to post.
This is a closeup of a picture from above. I posted it because I think in makes me look fabulous, one of my best post-glasses pictures. You can hardly tell that I am a fat tub of goo here. In fact, there is a case to be made that maybe the guy in this picture might be athletic in some capacity. I liked this pic so much that I cropped the other guy out of the picture and use it on my Facebook page. Although I have not got any actually compliments on it I am sure people like and if they don't, well this is as good as it gets.
After we left Jay Cooke, we swung over to Dan and Barb's Cabin for the rest of the vacation and as it was perfect, as always. Here is a shot of the twins finally getting their work on. I didn't produce all these boys and not expect them to pull their weight. They did a good job of loading leaves into the cobblers wagon. They did seem to lose interest rather easy- just like there Dad, but not a bad start on the hard life of menial task that lie in front of them.
Here is a shot of Leo fishing. The boys love fishing. Christy love that the boys love fishing because for some reason I have to be the one who "helps" them fish. I on the other hand had hate fishing. They get their lines messed up all the time. If all of sudden the forget how to cast they they are despondent. They do not actually use hooks or bait, Christy has convinced them that they are not old enough to get a licence so they remain hook less. I actually fear for my safety once Iver figures out that he can read the manual on the Internet and I will be on the dock with 4 free swinging fishing hooks looking to rip me to shreds- it won't be pretty, and best of all it will all be my fault.
This picture is not from the trip, but it was to neat not to post. It is Jack after he has fallen asleep reading a book.
This last one is just to annoy Christy. It from our wedding reception and I fixed it up using picnik and it looks pretty good. I like to keep these pictures around just in case I come home and a Twilight Zone episode breaks out and everybody is telling me that my life never existed. I have these pics to prove it. Good luck getting anyone to believe your history rewrite when they see the hair on Christy. That is pure 90's gold.
It has been a long time, but you can consider the Librarian back in the swing of things again. I had to take a primary season and election off- just too tense. But I will try to drop some Science you three or four times a week- That is a hip hop reference for you squares in the audience. To get things started out right here is a picture of Iver with his Lego pirate ship. I edited this pic on Picnik and I think it worked pretty slick. This web site allows you to use some basic picture editing tools right through your browser. This program is similar to Google's Picasa, but you do not have to download anything and you they help you save the pictures in your computer, not on some far away server. Give it a try it is a great way to goose up you pics.
