Category: Friends / Family

Thrice Baked Wedding Invitations

Some of you who know me, know that I'm getting married soon... Yesterday I ran into an issue that I felt was worthy of a short story. My girlfriend and I are trying to do a modest wedding and are keeping costs down where we can; one of the places we cut back was on wedding invitations and rsvp cards. We stopped into Michaels and picked up 3 DIY packs that should suffice our 100+ crowd of adults plus children and created them in MS Word. I have an small-office laser printer in my home office that prints faster than I thought was possible and it was WAY easier than I ever expected and we only spent $100ish dollars.

So 2 days after we printed them all and put them aside I get a call during the day: "Honey what are we going to do? All of the wedding invitations are still wet, and they smudge at the smallest touch!". When I got home that night and surveyed that they were in fact not drying that she wasn't nuts, I came to the most obvious conclusion that any sain purson could: "Lets put em in the oven".

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2 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 1:19 PM - Categories: DIY | General News | Friends / Family

My new family addition (5wk old Boxer)

This past weekend I picked up a 5 week old Boxer puppy from a rescue (Ella). Her mom had stopped feeding the puppies, but she was already doing very well on her own anyway. We already have an almost 2 year old Lhasapoo (Buster) who up until the afternnon of the day when this video was shot, was being extremly snobish and doing his best to ignoring the new pup.

I'm not normally a guy to post pictures of my pets, or even take video... But last night I captured a couple really funny scenes on my pocket camera and thought this one was worth posting. Whats amazing is that the MIC on the camera was actualy on. These two will now play for 15-20 minutes like this all out and not make a SINGLE sound.... This is a welcome change from her hound-esque howl she can get going at night...

 

0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 3:22 PM - Categories: General News | Friends / Family

What happens when Russ babysits

So my friends Kim and Seamus had some things going on tonight and they asked me to watch their 3 kids: Emma, Aodhan and Lillian. But what happens when you drop off 3 kids at my house?Well beside playing Xbox and climbing on the indoor bouldering wall, they can run around in motorcycle helmets of course :) Once they saw an entire shelf of these and asked to put them on, I could barely get them to take them back off...

Hilariously cute photos after the jump

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0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 11:11 AM - Categories: Motorcycles | Friends / Family