Connor Graham & Grace

my little party

2012-01-29T19:09:00.003-06:00

with my little pony...

drought in Texas

2012-01-14T18:36:00.000-06:00

Eight feet lower than usual just means-- more beach at the lake!

can you see it?

2012-01-14T18:29:00.000-06:00

we wrote a secret message in SPARKLER!!!

hearing loss

2012-01-14T18:20:00.002-06:00

We discovered that the predilection for auditory confection doesn't only apply to chocolate bunnies...

we tried

2012-01-11T18:01:00.000-06:00

this is actually the best you can do with playmobil's advent calendar. There was no baby Jesus. So we had to make do. And yes, Joseph looks a little older than normal. But you would too, if you saw an angel face to face!

grandma got revenge

2012-01-11T17:47:00.000-06:00

remember the ol' goofy song, "Grandma got run over by a reindeer"? Well, we just learned... that incident will NOT repeat itself!

orbit

2012-01-09T20:11:00.001-06:00

they said we could swing her!

more tradition

2012-01-09T20:09:00.000-06:00

we thought he was just hanging lights... but, little did we realize...

Christmas tradition

2012-01-09T19:19:00.000-06:00

and you're probably wondering if I ate the WHOLE thing... ;)

4 mph

2012-01-09T10:27:00.000-06:00

Daddy, can we please put a mowing deck on this puppy? Pure bliss!

warrior badge

2012-01-09T08:11:00.000-06:00

okay we're not in scouting, but my good friend, Ben, and I, deserve some kind of badge for making this cool stuff that really works... tears paper targets in HALF! (someone even called the police on us!)

park it

2011-12-29T20:00:00.000-06:00

remember when you were a kid? seems like it was only yesterday...

feeling crabby

2011-11-30T16:18:00.000-06:00

this guy didn't stand a ghost of a chance against 2 boys with a stick.

if everybody had an ocean

2011-11-29T19:55:00.000-06:00

you just wish you could surf like me!

winter

2011-11-29T19:35:00.004-06:00

our friend, Winter, the dolphin with a tale to tell. (You should see her movie!)

beachy-keen

2011-11-29T19:13:00.003-06:00

it was cloudy. it was cold. but it's got this giant sandbox with water!

yellowfin?

2011-11-29T19:07:00.001-06:00

I wish I wish I knew what kind of fish!

for the birds

2011-11-29T18:58:00.006-06:00

me thinks he thinks i have something to eat-y...
but all i can offer to him is a "tweety"

good boys and girl

2011-11-29T16:06:00.001-06:00

We were so good this year, that even our little Sis, when Santa asked, she replied, "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth." Not kidding. She does need them, gotta admit.

hog wild and a long car ride

2011-11-27T20:45:00.004-06:00

Disclaimer: We are under the influence of cousins and uncle, and not necessarily responsible for our actions! And, we did eat lots of turkey...

birdie family portrait

2011-10-24T17:57:00.000-05:00

watch the birdie!

a glass act

2011-10-24T17:48:00.000-05:00

new glasses!

highly unusual

2011-10-23T21:14:00.000-05:00

caught this one out in the wild. Apparently it was a disagreement over calvinism. Or something nutty like that...

look at that noggin'

2011-10-23T20:58:00.000-05:00

As you can see, on this particular day, I was feeling quite melon-colly.

getting to the root of the problem

2011-10-23T20:50:00.001-05:00

We were busy branching out, but then were informed, "This photo session has been truncated..."

Go Rangers!

2011-10-23T20:39:00.000-05:00

we also like the Melissa Cardinals.

24 carats

2011-10-23T20:20:00.000-05:00

we're down to the last 3.

are you my neigh-bor?

2011-10-23T20:17:00.000-05:00

just horsin' around.

not so sure

2011-10-23T20:15:00.000-05:00

I love feeding giant horses! (I think.)

older

2011-10-23T20:10:00.000-05:00

We grow up so fast! We really do.

Tooth #1, Tooth #2

2011-10-23T14:39:00.001-05:00

All in a day's work!

Grace in a maze

2011-09-12T16:00:00.000-05:00

it's the opposite of Amaze 'n Grace.

meow

2011-09-12T15:15:00.000-05:00

we laugh in the face of furballs! When danger comes calling, we purr like a kitten. sometimes we even stand on one foot... ahahahahaha!

stick

2011-08-19T15:14:00.000-05:00

"they shouldn't call it lipstick... they should just call it 'stick'-- 'cause then you could put it anywhere you want!" --Grace

birth order

2011-08-19T15:07:00.000-05:00

1. Connor looks relaxed, at ease (firstborn)
2. Graham looks like he's got something devious up his sleeve (second-born)
3. Grace looks like, No prob--I've got all this under control! (third-born, and the girl)

building blocks

2011-08-19T14:13:00.000-05:00

you've probably heard of iron man...

flippin burgers

2011-08-01T17:34:00.002-05:00

we're not brainwashed, like all the Cali people, but we would eat this every meal if we could... what's in that secret spread?

ancient tribal dance we learned

2011-07-21T14:45:00.002-05:00

Around these parts, it's hot. So we just do a little tribal dance that makes the heat go away...

bless me

2011-07-04T19:59:00.000-05:00

That was one BIG sneeze!

no sharks

2011-07-04T19:56:00.000-05:00

Just a lawn and a slip-n-slide!

summer 101

2011-07-04T19:54:00.000-05:00

Dallas Mavericks are not the only ones who can beat the heat!

July 4

2011-07-04T19:27:00.001-05:00

We were going for patriotic here...

blueberry roundup

2011-07-03T22:32:00.000-05:00

finishing off a berry-pickin' bonanza.

Easter

2011-06-29T18:30:00.002-05:00

...and beyond

2011-06-29T13:51:00.001-05:00

Yes, I climbed to the top. And yes, the shirt says, "Sure hope someone fed you breakfast."

(click on the photo to enlarge... click again to supersize me)

what the world needs today

2011-06-29T13:42:00.000-05:00

it needs a big heaping slice of this cake! Amen?

on your summer booklist?

2011-06-29T13:39:00.001-05:00

Ever read "Lord of the Flies"? Me neither.

all he could do

2011-06-29T13:35:00.000-05:00

I asked my cousin Landon to rank me on the "cousin scale". This was his response! Yea!!! (Then Uncle Hunter told me that actually ever since the Mavericks beat the Heat, Landon's finger has been stuck like this. Not sure what that's about...)

oh the joy

2011-06-28T10:57:00.000-05:00

discovering that I am double-jointed!!! Looks like things are headed my way!

technicolor

2011-06-21T13:03:00.002-05:00

all this style, AND I like disco.

coup de grace

2011-06-18T15:14:00.000-05:00

I don't normally do this. Only abnormally.

coup de grace from jacq scott on Vimeo.

serendipitous

2011-06-08T16:26:00.001-05:00

there we were walking through the forest... we snapped the shot... and this butterfly had flown right in front of the camera... and it's face happened to look just like Grace! They don't call her Amazing Grace for nothing!

swing-thing

2011-06-08T16:02:00.001-05:00

it's amazing we're this happy and not even moving. Okay. One of us is happy.

berry good stuff

2011-05-16T14:46:00.001-05:00

daddy should interview the president! The way he just draws it out of us...

Untitled from jacq scott on Vimeo.

jumpin' jehoshaphat

2011-05-16T09:48:00.001-05:00

Actually, it's just us on the trampoline with our cousin, Landon. No Old Testament kings are photographed here. Any similarity to actual Old Testament kings, living, or otherwise, is purely coincidental and prohibited by law.

giant

2011-05-05T17:57:00.000-05:00

If the giant hands don't get you, the sticky icky bugs surely will...

makeup

2011-05-05T17:52:00.000-05:00

It's every little girl's dream to one day do this?

the other day

2011-05-05T17:45:00.000-05:00

it has been one crazy day. trying to safely land my spaceship on this weird planet...

fight!

2011-05-05T07:42:00.002-05:00

This is my first (Connor here!) stop-motion video to publish. It's right up there with Star Wars, Tron, etc.

Untitled from jacq scott on Vimeo.

flower child

2011-04-29T11:31:00.000-05:00

I'm in charge of picking all the flowers for Easter. Can't wait to "dig into" your garden, too!

gritty

2011-04-29T11:28:00.000-05:00

You should see what Mom gets out of a load of laundry after a day like this!

oh my

2011-04-29T11:24:00.000-05:00

Kids, cousins, aunts and uncles, grandparents and parents... Oh my! Must be Easter!!! He is risen indeed!

got him!

2011-04-29T11:20:00.000-05:00

Sure, Daddy has me in the upside-down reverse "knee grab"... or so he thinks! What he doesn't know is exactly what has put his very LIFE in jeopardy; and that is this-- I have him right where I want him. Ahahahahahaha...

classic graham

2011-02-17T16:42:00.000-06:00

you should've been there.

don't mess with breakfast

2011-01-04T21:00:00.000-06:00

More of what you eat breakfast for!

it's what's for breakfast

2011-01-04T20:59:00.000-06:00

Would you like a lone star with that?

all hail the mighty state

2011-01-04T20:58:00.000-06:00

Tastes great!

lunch time!

2011-01-04T20:56:00.001-06:00

Don't try this in your own home...

what to wear

2010-10-30T19:05:00.000-05:00

It's always a challenge for Halloween deciding whether to be a fajita, enchilada or a burrito...

plus shipping and handling

2010-10-30T19:02:00.000-05:00

It's only illegal if they put a lid on it and one of those stickers that says, "checked luggage". Boy, is the TSA in for a surprise!

out of the archives

2010-09-27T09:01:00.002-05:00

we missed a soon-to-be classic here, so we just had to post me dancing to some song called bubble toes, with the ever-versatile cheese-stick making an appearance...

Graham cheesy toes from jacq scott on Vimeo.

flying Grace

2010-08-29T18:29:00.000-05:00

the way to beat the summer heat!

guess my age

2010-07-03T23:43:00.001-05:00

That's right. It's my birthday. I can wear the new child-fad sensation silly-bands. Nine of them... in order to dress to the nines!!! I'm literally on cloud nine because I got everything for my birthday... the whole nine yards.

summer plans

2010-07-03T23:37:00.000-05:00

We are eyeing some big plans for this summer. Aye, we are. A big aye-aye, captain. All eyes on what we're planning for this summer. I can't tell you how big these plans are. I can just say, BIG. A big eye-full of plans. Big eye.

lost

2010-06-25T10:02:00.000-05:00

I might not have survived the mysterious plane crash onto this mysterious island mysteriously unless I had been sporting the pink-and-other-flowery-multi-colored life-suit which I happened to find underneath my seat on the aircraft...

politics

2010-06-25T09:49:00.001-05:00

I was just doing my job of digging myself into a hole until Connor came along slinging mud on my face. Daddy said, you guys should work for the government...

beached bums

2010-06-25T09:42:00.000-05:00

look what washed up from the depths...

dare we say...

2010-06-09T11:40:00.004-05:00

Mom and Dad said to each other, "Don't call him a daredevil or a stuntman--it might stick. It's not his identity..." I don't know what all that means. But this is fuuuuuuuuuunnnn! My name is Graham and I am 7 years old.

dare we say... from jacq scott on Vimeo.

They also mumbled something about "birth order." Not sure what that means either...

doorknob trick strikes again

2010-06-05T13:49:00.001-05:00

This time it was me. So what do YOU do when it's 10:14pm and you're tossing & turning & just can't sleep? I tie a string around my tooth, tie the other end to the doorknob, and WHAM! One less eye-tooth, and one peaceful night's sleep! Dad really gets into this stuff...

oh dear

2010-05-20T07:25:00.001-05:00

on adventure day we pull over on the side of the road and watch "the deer and the antelope play..."

Dan?

2010-05-19T17:00:00.005-05:00

Daddy taught us a phrase that he learned at youth camp one summer. We know how to respond whenever he says, "Dan." We know that's when he means business. Here is where he caught us on hidden video...

we don't do that here from jacq scott on Vimeo.

horsin' around

2010-04-20T21:13:00.000-05:00

Mommy and Daddy always say, "No horseplay," then they make us get up on a big fake horse and tell us, "This will look great on the blog!" Then they say, "Hey, what's wrong with that?" to which we always reply, "Hey is for horses!"

doorknob trick works!

2010-03-07T08:47:00.001-06:00

I lost 2 teeth in one day. This video captures the demise of the second.

doorknob trick worked this time! from jacq scott on Vimeo.

Tooth?!! You can't handle the tooth!!!

behind the curtains

2010-02-25T08:07:00.000-06:00

Wanna know what happens behind the curtains? We do too!

kung-fu birthday girl

2010-02-22T08:34:00.001-06:00

Grace Turns 4 from jacq scott on Vimeo.

making snowballs

2010-02-12T12:35:00.000-06:00

I guess that's what this guy is doing... Daddy makes weird stuff out of snow. Sometimes, he's just so immature. We said, "Just because we set a 100-year record for the most snow doesn't mean you have to make THAT." But he didn't listen. Parents!

snow fun in Texas

2010-02-11T09:58:00.001-06:00

It's snow fun here in Texas today. We thought that homeschooling meant that today's class project would be studying the aerodynamics of snowballs, etc. But Mommy said that snow fun in Texas is a pun and that today we get to learn what puns are. What's a pun?

snow fun in Texas from jacq scott on Vimeo.

Apparently homeschoolers don't get "snow days."

the new black

2010-01-22T14:32:00.000-06:00

you guessed it...

tribute to jimi henrix

2010-01-21T20:55:00.004-06:00

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just don't seem the same

If I sneeze I fall on my knees
And the feeling starts to wane...

mommy look what i found

2010-01-21T20:44:00.002-06:00

This group of animals is also known as horsefoot, king crab, or saucepan. Some people call the horseshoe crab a "helmet crab", but this common name is more frequently applied to a true crab, a malacostracan, of the species Telmessus cheiragonus, so... Mommy, can we eat it with ketchup?

saved from the giant puppy

2010-01-16T17:17:00.001-06:00

Yes, I single-handedly rescued the earthworm from the huge stomping chomping Chowder-dog. I was about to eat breakfast when Daddy reminded me that every little life is precious. This was soooooo worth it. He now has this photo to prove forever what a brave little girl I am to save the slimy oozing sticky earth-dwelling snapshot of squirminess from an almost certain death and/or maiming. And then I got to eat breakfast! I am soooooo happy!!!

beachy-keen

2010-01-03T13:15:00.000-06:00

We're always this happy at the beach whenever we don't get chomped by sharks!

yes sir!

2010-01-03T13:11:00.000-06:00

Some of us may be a better fit for the military than others... but we are a family of many hats.

brain-freeze

2010-01-03T13:06:00.001-06:00

Here we are, perfecting our communal brain-freeze! By the way, you can still see how high the water rose on Galveston island during the last major hurricane--like about 6 or 8 feet! This was at the Strand district on the Bay side.

a plank in me eye- aye!

2009-12-25T19:19:00.001-06:00

Shiver me timbers if I didn't find this old salt of a sea dog trying to swipe me booty with an old map... So I just wished this shark bait, "Fair winds to yah" and made him walk the plank!

short work

2009-12-25T19:14:00.000-06:00

Ahoy, me hearties! Aye I may look like a landlubber, but I'll keel-haul the next jolly Roger who tries to take me pieces of eight from me poop deck!

it's a roundup

2009-12-25T18:56:00.000-06:00

Rattlesnakes may be common... but WE are a rare breed.

2009-11-17T10:13:00.000-06:00

Time "flies" when birds of a feather flock to you. Was it my "tweet" personality? Or was it this stick of bird seed in my hand?

first recital

2009-11-16T18:29:00.000-06:00

Graham's first recital piece!

Untitled from jacq scott on Vimeo.

the storm's coming...

2009-11-16T16:01:00.001-06:00

Connor's original song, "Weather Forecast," at his first recital.

rainstorm-- Connor's song from jacq scott on Vimeo.