Not only is he hilarious asleep,

Nick is pretty funny awake too.  Here are some examples for your enjoyment:

One morning I extended a dry flaky hand (ew, sorry) for some lotiony relief to find this on my Aveeno bottle:

Yes, that’s right folks:

 

“soothing goat essence”

 

And yet another example of Nick’s creations: 

                                      Meet the Space Lamb

We have a video Nick filmed of the Space Lamb on assignment in outer space, but I can’t upload it here right now.  I’ll have to get Nick to do it, so stay tuned for that.

 

 

The Space Lamb’s next mission, I have been informed, will be to investigate this mysterious message:

 

And on other topics, the boys are doing well.  We feed them solid foods now, and they seem to enjoy it.

^Everett

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brookston v

Among other things they enjoys pulling the lights off the Christmas tree and eating them and playing with Tupperware. 

 

And here’s something that I’ve been up to: I made these for Thanksgiving (they’re from the book Hello Cupcake!  which is excellent.

Okay, someday I’ll post again.  =0  Bye now.

Nick’s on the radio

It’s been a while since I’ve listened to music other than classical on the radio.  However  tomorrow, Saturday December 5th, at some time between 3-4 pm Nick Empey Acoustic will be aired on the radio.  There’s a local radio station in Carrboro that has a low power FM frequency of 103.5.  They also have a live internet stream here that you can listen to anywhere.  We barely get the station clearly at our apartment, so we’ll be listening on the net.  Most likely the song “White Shirts and Ties” will be played.  Just in case you haven’t listened in a while or want to hear more Nick Empey Acoustic visit Nick’s official site.

ladies’ night out tonight!

So tonight is ladies’ night and we’re going out to see New Moon. I’ll admit, I’m more excited about the fact that it’s just ladies' night than seeing the actual movie, but don’t tell anyone. Shhhh. Don’t tell.

However, I really do enjoy seeing all the lady types get excited about the movie. Like, the t-shirts that say ‘TEAM JACOB’ and ‘My lips are my husband’s but my neck is Edward’s’ and stuff like that. It’s just plain fun. Real, true, once in a lifetime excitement would be to watch my good friend Al watch the movie for the first time, but, alas, we do not live in the same state. *sigh. Let me know how it was, Al.

Anyway, here I am going on about how I’m not an all out screaming fan of twilight, but you just won’t believe me after you see this:

Nick and me vampire style:

I know, I know, it looks like I’m lying about not being obsessed, and really, I’m not. Bella irritates me. She really does. But anyway, I did this last year when I made Al a vampire in honor of Twilight coming out and I thought I’d put it up in honor of ladies’ night tonight. I really enjoyed turning our eyes yellow. Behold, what Nicole does when she’s bored.

Anyway, I’ll see all my lady friends tonight!

Nick wanted me to put up the original photo. here it is:

kelly allen photography

this is so amazing that i don’t even know what to title this post.

Oh, my, goodness.  I am obsessed with this letterpress masterpiece.  I must have one -- too bad it’s sold out! gah!

Check this out from Cameron Moll

 

this is a test post

1 score ago when i was a wee lad of 6, i found an alternate path that led around the outside of my parents back porch. this path had excellent elevation changes, and led me to hold various climbing expeditions. my troops:

these men were true to my cause, which was to explore the back porch to its uttermost boundaries and rid it of dead rats. this is not a picture of dead rats:

after our adventures each day we would reconvene at my parents’ house for hot chocolate (on cold days) or blue kool-aid (on hot days) or milk (on every other type of day). us drinking drinks:

we were a ragtag crew mostly receiving our funding from illegitimate sources whose names will not be disclosed here, but they wore sunglasses all the time. needless to say they were not the type we’d like to tie our names to, but we needed so desperately to further our purposes for the backyard would have fallen into ruin otherwise. an undercover picture of our ruffian funders:

i hope that i’ve been able to convey the gravity of our stewardship to you in some degree and that it will motivate you to pledge your allegiance—and when i say allegiance i mean your monetary support in the sum of nothing less than 5,000—to our noble cause. us carefully handling your funds:

act now!

this was supposed to be a test post from windows live writer, but this turned out to be sufficiently random for a nick post, so i’ll just go ahead and leave it. don’t forget to peek at the previous post of all the boys’ cuteness!

a nice pile of leaves and boys

We stopped during our morning walk for some Halloween pictures under
my favorite tree on campus.

brookston

everett

At this point brookston decided it was too cold and everett readily agreed. Both politely asked to be returned to their red Cadillac stroller and be on their way home.

it's so cold, mom. can we stop now?

dude

Check this out. I found the reason that you sometimes get those less-than-frosted mini wheats that make you shake your head in disappointment.


Honestly, Kellog's, as much as I appreciate your kindness in this regard toward my family, maybe you should spread the love. On second thought, maybe this is just part of the deal they have with Sam's Club. Oh well, it's the wheat part we all like the most of this frosted and wheaty combo anyway. Pfft--haha!! Ok. Here's what we do if we encounter an extraterrestrially-sized frosting chunk in our cereal bag:

Again, thank you, Kellogg's.

Sincerely,
Nick Empey

pumpakins and apples

Autumn is great for many reasons. These reasons include pumpakins and apples covered in caramel. Well, only the apples are covered in caramel, I guess. The pumpakins are carved out and lit from the inside. You could probably cover pumpkins in caramel and carve out an apple and light it too (...hmmm...maybe next year I'll try it) but that's not the standard.

Here are some people we know and like with their pumpakins.
(I should say we like them regardless of whether or not they have their pumpkins.)

Notice the concentration involved in the preliminary process. Good pumpkins result when these steps are carefully taken.

An excellent sketch (she's an artist). Will it translate well onto the pumpkin?
Stay tuned to find out.

Here's Nick working hard on our pumpakin. He did the whole thing by himself this year. Feel free to let him know what a nice job he did.

Some pumpkins come in a more different shape. Here are the boys with a sweet little ladies' night pumpkin. Her footies were even labeled "little pumpkin." Brookston was trying to make his way over to put on the moves. You can see him swinging his arm about wildly to get her attention. It didn't work.

Caramel has to be melted to stick to the apple of course and we made sure ours was nice and stirrable. Here's one of our stirrers extraordinaire.

And here are the wonderful apples themselves. I decided to dip mine pre-sliced and was extremely happy with the results. I'll dip my apples like this for years to come. I had a big apple to start with anyway, and I'm not talking about New York. I have a nice friend in New York though, he's very fashionable.

We party hard here with our pumpakins and apples and our little tykes just can't keep up, bless them. Here they are taking a little nipper napper in the next room.

Meanwhile, here I am enjoying my delicious apple:



And here's the pumpakin line-up. Does the pumpkin on the far left look familiar? Yeah, that's because they did pre-lims. And all that concentration paid off on that butterfly. Our pumpakin is the twinners smiling and the excellently topped pumpakin is just excellently topped, I must say. It gets a gold star.


Nick addition: I added 2 new songs to the bottom of our playlist. I find the Japanese and Swedish voices interesting.