The Marcottes

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything on The Marcotte’s page. I figured it was time. So, here are some photos from Halloween - including pumpkin patch and cookie making. Enjoy!

Stella had a great birthday! Thanks to everyone who came to help us celebrate!

I got a call at work yesterday. It was Patti. She was crying and Stella was screaming in the background. As she was turning into our driveway, a car tried to pass her on the right and slammed into the Pilot. The point of impact was Stella’s door. No one ended up being hurt, but it scared everyone involved. I went home to help. Continue Reading »

Because Leon has been being such a pain in the butt about getting photos of my family, we have tried to oblige him. But giving him just any old photo of Stella or Anya has not worked out. He needs it to be vertical, and he needs to complain that Stella’s head is chopped off in this photo:

From Stella Grace

This evidently ruins the entire picture. A fact that had somehow escaped the notice of everyone else who saw it.

So we went to Picture People in Arden Fair Mall and spent a bunch of money to get “professional” portraits taken by people who probably also turned in applications at Orange Julius and Hot Dog on a Stick.

We had a pretty good time and hammed it up a little. Our photographer was either a current or former “Miss Sacramento,” which was nice, I guess. Anya found friends to run around shrieking with while we waited. And, according to Patti, I told inappropriate jokes to the other families in the lobby.

So here are the results of the shoot, complete with watermark to prevent me from printing my own copies.

We got an 8″ x 10″ vertical for Leon of the whole family, and a few more for ourselves. If anybody else wants any of these, let me know and we’ll try to get some more prints made.

Patti, Anya Stella and I went to Monterey this past weekend. It wasn’t our original plan, but since the entire northern part of the state was on fire, we decided to go south.

We saw the aquarium, an IMAX movie and WALL-E, all in one action-packed weekend.

Here’s some photos from the trip.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any photos of Anya and Stella. They’ve both changed so much, and I can’t believe Stella is 6 months old. She’s sitting up, playing with toys, talks and jabbers a ton, and grabs for John’s keyboard when he sits at the computer with her in his lap.

Here are a few photos from the past couple months.

Enjoy!

Patti, Anya, Stella and I went to the Sacramento Zoo on Saturday. It’s one of Anya’s favorite places. She loves the giraffes, lemurs, zebras and kookaburra — although she’s a little afraid of the chimps. (They have a tendency to shriek loudly.)

We ate lunch by the flamingos, and considered going on the little train, but decided the exercise was good for us. I took some photos, and here are the first few that I uploaded. More to follow.

Here are some self proclaimed Christmas pictures