Pictures, Pictures, Pictures

For our Dossier we have to submit photos of our family, the interior of our home, and the exterior of our home. I had the photos of our family on my computer, and I've been taking pictures of the interior of our house on those rare occassions when it doesn't look like a tornado hit a toy store in our house. I have not done the exterior photos yet. Someone needs to mow the grass. I don't mow the grass. I had to mow it growing up, and so I now refuse to do it. I'm a good wife that way.

Anyway, the thing is my husband is a realtor and takes pictures of houses all the time. He also has programs on his computer to set them up. I have no programs, and I have very few skills when it comes to placing pictures on pages or flyers or whatever you want to call them. I could've let him take the pictures and arrange them on pages, but that would've been easy. I prefer to do things the difficult way if at all possible. It's how I roll. So I've spent the better part of my day trying to arrange pictures on Microsoft Word so that they look halfway decent. It is far from perfect, but it is done, and I'm not changing it.

You know what? I just remembered that my work laptop is sitting in the other room. It has all kinds of programs that do all sorts of things (wow that's not vague at all). Too bad I'm too lazy to redo everything on it.

Okay, so because I worked my tail end off, and because I think you care so much . . . not . . . I copied the flyers or pages or whatever into paint and saved them as a jpeg so I could share them with you (I know there is an easier way . . . I like to do things the hard way . . . see above). A couple (or about 27) things. First, I added a frame to most of the pictures. You know to jazz them up. But that frame looks like a bunch of dots when copied into paint. Also, I used the classy spray paint feature and painted over our last names and middle initials. Seeing as how you can find my last name on other parts of this blog that is completely pointless, but I did it anyway. You know, just in case you're trying to steal my very cool identity. Don't worry it doesn't have all these dots and spray paint marks real life (as if you're having trouble sleeping because you think these pictures look a little on the tacky side). Secondly, try to control your insane jealousy over the beauty of my house. Especially, the lime green table cloth in the kitchen. I put it on for Easter. It's not still there, but yeah it was a very distasteful part of our lives for a few days. Thirdly, yes we have a lot of televisions. No, we don't regularly use all of them. Yes, the nicest one is in the playroom. The old one in there bit the dust so the playroom got a flatscreen. We also have a flatscreen hanging in our bathroom (no comments, it's the only place I get to watch t.v.). We have no other flatscreens for a couple of reasons. 1.Our t.v.s work fine . . . and I'm holding out until they break (baseball bat anyone) 2.Our entertainment center can't hold a huge t.v. and Patrick won't buy one that fits inside. He actually suggested we set one top. Uh no, I don't think so. Anyway our entertainment center is huge and heavy and wasn't cheap, and so it and the t.v. both stay. Sorry about all that completely useless information.

And now presenting . . . in all their glory  (or not). . .  The Photos of Our Home and Family (again, ignore the dumb dots)

 This may hands down without a doubt, be one of the worst blog posts I've posted so far. I mean could it get any uglier?