Because it's not every day you take your laptop apart...

WARNING! GEEKY POST!

One of my mouse buttons broke on my laptop, so Dad and I proceeded to take it entirely apart. Ever wanted to see the insides of a laptop? Your chance is now!

part of the cover

optical drive

my speakers!

speaker 1 close up

the hard drive

wireless card-thingy. made in China. :( 

keyboard. dirty - yes.

the coolest part of my laptop!
figured I'd take a picture of the front part of my screen -
much more interesting than the other side. 

this is the part I'm replacing....

... as you can see by the broken mouse button :(

oooh! pretty

RAM! all 4GB of it

all the pieces. my laptop. in pieces. in the rain. 

And now for some non-laptop-ness

Have you ever, in your life, seen the barometric pressure that low?! It's crazy!

the blizzard going on outside

LOVE this picture. Me and Ezzy :) 

Ezzy and Charlie <3

life

Random things we've been doing lately. :) Enjoy!

Yes, that is an origami chess set. 

And this is the road to our house :D

we had fun making snowflakes!

Ezzy felt the need to transform into a pirate...

...then a sea captain

And Noah worked on school

have a lovely weekend!

photo project

Took these for a friend - had lots of fun doing it.

Hopefully you noticed that it spells a word.... would be easier if I could arrange all the pictures from left to right - but I can't - so oh well. I originally wanted to make my brothers spell out the letters by laying down in the snow, with me taking pictures from the porch roof of our house. As they say in New York - "good idea, bad location." :D

swimming!!!!

Ezzy and Judah had a swim meet today! It was totally awesome to watch, and they both swam amazingly. Now, you'll have to forgive some of these photos... I have never taken pictures of swimmers before, so I fiddled with settings for the longest time - still didn't get them quite right. So if anyone has any tips for taking really cool action photos that don't end up super dark, that would be much appreciated. :)

the team doing warm-ups

one of Ezzy's warm-up dives

one of Judah's warm-up dives

Ezra in the middle doing freestyle

Judah's freestyle

Ez on the blocks - ready for his first race. The first race of the meet, in fact! (he won it, btw :D )

Judah doing butterfly

right after swimming a state qualifying time. WHOOT!!!

Ezra doing the breaststroke

there they are!! guys, if you read this, I'm so proud of you! way to swim amazing and do your best. :)