Showtime, Sunshine

First, I have to share my new favorite song. enjoy, and then go buy this whole album, because it's all really good, and he's awesome:

Sigh. Ok, read on. I'm just gonna cry for a minute.

Jayne and I are really happy because we just got the new Sims 3 Showtime expansion pack, and I will say that it's a ton of fun. We can have singers, acrobats, magicians, DJs, and just lot's of funness. In fact, this morning we made the Jones family: Jackson is a magician, Tim is an acrobat, and their daughter Danielle is going to be a singer when she's older.
Like I said, funness.

One of the problems with playing so much, is that you miss out on life. And March in my backyard happens to be one of my favorite parts of life. So I thought I would show you some lovely spring pictures taken on my trusty digital camera :) (The very one that my dear friend Edison hates ever so much).

Plus, I really wanted to try out the macro setting on the camera to see if I could get it to work properly, and springtime is great for that, because there's so many tiny little things.

SUPER close up on a dandelion leaf

rose leaves.

We have a ton of fruit trees in our yard, and this plum tree is the first on to blossom, pretty much every year :)

I love the blurred blossoms behind this one.

If you're wondering how tiny this is...

That's my thumb next to it.

I really love this one, you can see every little "hair" on the leaves

"Mommy, when I grow up, I'm gonna be a plum tree, just like you!"

Whenever I take pictures like these, I feel like a nature photographer, and I'm especially proud of this 

batch!

Legos

Often, Jayne somehow convinces me to come look at something in her room and we end up playing legos for hours. And not those stupid Friends things either, we have a whole town called Shane, complete with Katy the engineer/mayor, Shelly the brilliant doctor (and overprotective mother), Lisa the spy, and a pack of badass genius teenaged warrior girls. We're pretty awesome.

I am so going to tell you all about it, and maybe I'll put up pictures of our favorite Minifigs later.

So the story is complicated, and changes around all the time, but basically, it started with the combination of several star wars sets, pirate sets, and this set:

Being the fantastically creative, "THROW AWAY THE INSTRUCTIONS!!!" people that we are, we just built whatever we wanted to.

The first thing we did (of course) was build some people. I think it began inhabited by Luke Skywalker, Mace Windu, and some random pirates. Of course this all changed.

We were sorely disappointed by one thing: we owned exactly one female face (technically, we had two but the other looked really weird, so we didn't use it), and Jayne promptly claimed Princess Leia's head as her own. So I improvised.

I took a rebel trooper face, and stuck it on a police uniform backwards. Then I gave her a black bob, and a gun and named her Katy Ferris, weapons and robotics extraordinaire. Oh yes.
 I think she only really changed a couple times. I once gave her longer hair, but that didn't stick, and now she wears a leather jacket and black pants instead of police clothes.

Jayne had been busy too: She had constructed Ivan Murray, a military dude who was married to the doctor I had just made. And then Jayne proceeded to make them some kids.

There's Elderone (yes that's his name. say it like Elder one), and he has a two younger sisters: Snow, and i can never remember the other one's name but she's really cool.

Now our world has expanded, making room for islands filled with pirates, sassy redheaded chefs, gothic spies, magical trains, pirate princesses with head scarves, an overemotional robot commander named Sob, spacecraft of all shapes and sizes, and three different jails that have all been destroyed.

In short, we kind of got carried away by the awesome.