Moving to Flickr.com

Pretty soon, the photo galleries that we've hosted at http://pictures.seiler.us and http://vater.us/gallery will be going away. The server itself has an unreliable connection to the internet, and the galleries are using an excessive amount of storage space for a pro bono service.

What does this mean for you? If you want to share your photos online, you'll have to find another photo-hosting service. The Seilers are now hosting theirs on flickr, and you can see our gallery here. You can sign up for a free flickr account (it uses your Yahoo! ID, you may need to create one). The biggest limitation is only showing the most recent 200 photos. We've bought a "pro" account ($25/year), and can upload and share unlimited photos. We definitely think it's worth it. Hosting on flickr means having BIG PIPES to upload/download photos, not the tiny, unreliable connection we were using before.

Don has downloaded your photos (except for some new ones) and can burn you a CD if you need it.

A Very Sneaky Christmas

Early this morning Santa brought Catherine a new dollhouse for her Barbies. Mom and dad were anxious to all wake up and go down together to see her reaction!

Around 6 AM Catherine woke up mom and dad and everyone went downstairs. However Catherine wasn't so surprised, she was just pleased to show us everything. When dad looked, he noticed one of the dolls that Santa had carefully placed on the 3rd floor couch was now in the 1st floor bathtub! Some of Liam's toys were re-arranged as well!

"Catherine," mommy said, "were you already down here?"

"YEP!"