Josh Renaud's weblog detailing the exploits of his family in Ferguson, MO, USA. Starring Yoli, Jadzia, Ludi, Josie, and Joseph Renaud.
We’ve been wanting a piano for a while and decided this Christmas was the right time to get one.
We found one pretty quickly that seemed good to us: it was old and had a key out of tune, but it was in Ferguson, just a few blocks away.
We’ve been counting down the days until we could have it delivered. Today was the day! Check out this video of the girls in action:
Baby Joseph finally came home around 2 p.m. Thursday. Continuing the Renaud baby tradition, he had little gifts for his sisters: sunglasses for Ludi and Josie, and a set of play keys for Jadzia.
Click the “continue reading” link below to watch a video of the homecoming.
After a long day Tuesday, I decided to try and edit the 30 minutes or so of video I had shot from Joseph’s birth.
But I got an unpleasant surprise. Something is amiss with our Sony HandyCam TRV-280, and it is not playing back the video correctly.
Anyway, I borrowed my dad’s camcorder and shot some video at the hospital this afternoon. Click the “continue reading” link below to watch the video.
If you are related to me and you are part of our family tree on Geni.com, you should login and check out some of the videos I have posted there from my Dad’s 50th birthday.
We got a stack of books from the library this week, two of which we have read before: “Three by the sea” and “Three up a tree,” both of which are excellent. While we were at the library, I also noticed “Miss Nelson is Back,” another book I remember from my youth, so we added that to the stack.
Ludi doesn’t quite have the patience to sit through “Miss Nelson is Back” when I read it for the girls. But she likes to take all three books and “read” them aloud by herself.
Jadzia has been waiting all winter for us to get enough snow that she could make a snowman. Finally the moment arrived. She and Ludi came out with me and we began working on a snowman. But the fun didn’t last very long.
Here’s the second of two videos I shot on Wednesday. This one shows my parents, my brother, sister-in-law and nephews when they came over to the hospital to meet Josie. With four toddlers/preschoolers running around the room, there was potential for much havoc. Thankfully, serious damage was avoided. I’m so glad that Justin and Becca could come up with the boys.
Here’s the first of two videos I shot on Wednesday. This one shows Josie right after she was born.
This is something I put together for a Young Life / Student Venture reunion a bunch of us had right before Christmas. It’s about 140 photos set to songs we used to sing at club around 1996-98.
If you’d like to copy this slideshow to your own computer, just right-click this link and save it.
But a warning: it’s a BIG file — about 160 megabytes!
To just watch the video without saving it, click the “continue reading” link below.
One of my new year’s resolutions: get caught up on video editing. Yesterday I imported all the video thru Thanksgiving, and hopefully I can get most of it edited before the baby arrives and life gets more complicated!
Anyway, here is a video I shot of Justin and Dad throwing the football around at Thanksgiving. I am sure they will be happy to see it.