Sunday, November 21, 2010

Finally, It’s Here!!!!!!!

Snow, snow, SNOW!!!  We finally have some snow around here!  Currently we have more snow on the ground than we had all winter last year.  And we don’t even have “that” much.  The kids had a ball playing outside this evening and Yoda got his first good romp in the snow.

 

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Sweet Boot Tag…oops

 

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Yoda would not stop chewing on

this big chunk of wood.

 

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Kayleen tried really hard to make Yoda her sled dog.

 

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Sweet cold weather clothing, don’t you think?

 

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Snow, light, a moving camera, and a longer shutter speed. 

Yes, I meant to do this.

 

The outing was ended by the reminder that we didn’t really have

all our cold gear on and exposed skin was getting cold. 

 

They all yelled, “Hot Chocolate!” and ran inside.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

24 Hour Road Trip

 

‘Tis the Season!

 

Yep, we are just going to blow by the Thanksgiving themes.  There are just too many Christmas templates I want to use this year.  I love Christmas décor!!!

 

24 Hour Road Trip

The kids and I took advantage of a no-school last Thursday (Veterans Day) to visit Grandma and Grandpa Sester.  We needed to bring them our old queen mattress and it was the perfect timing!  Here is some of our trip…

 

We had to rent a Uhaul trailer because the queen is just way too big for our van.  Fun times.

 

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We came prepared this time.

 

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And it was a good thing…

 

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There were still some flowers in bloom and grapes on the vine.

 

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Most of the morning and afternoon was sunny and nice.  Mt. Hood even decided to peed though the clouds…

 

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Heading out to the tree “maze” is always a fun treat for the kids!  We made sure to wear our boots!

 

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There is just something about this old water pump that fascinates me.

 

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While we were there Grandpa and Grandma were getting a new layer of flooring!

How exciting. No more red carpet for these folks!

 

BEFORE

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AFTER

 

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While the guys were working, Grandma took us out to breakfast and a trip to WalMart for some goodies.  Then a stop at Starbucks to top off the outing.  After spending a good hour or so at Walmart, Grandma and myself really needed a yummy caffeinated beverage.

 

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We all had a great time visiting and it was off to school the next day!