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It is Embrace the Camera time…..better late than never…I didn’t get this post up til late!…oh well…..I so rarely get a shot with me and all my children..I thought it would be fun to do a photo booth style shot….so here it is..I love the site Laphotocabine.com. It is a lot of fun…try it out!
This Thanksgiving we decided to do something totally different….and take a trip over Thanksgiving. It was the first time that we have ever done something like that. At first, we thought we would go somewhere local…maybe camping….then it sort of grew and grew and grew from there…….we ended up going to Niagara Falls! It was so much fun!
We don’t take many trips, so it was a lot of fun and a great adventure! I have never been to any part of Canada, so I really loved finally getting to go……we all had a blast.
We saw the Falls from the Canadian side (Tuesday almost fell in…or at least pretended to….), ate in a revolving restaurant, went behind the Falls (the boat tour was closed for the season…..), saw a rainbow, froze, got wet, went swimming in an incredible water park, saw the Falls from the American side, ate a lot of food, did a lot of Mad Libs, saw snow and froze some more!!
It was very cold…so there were hardly any tourists around! I’m sure if we went in the summer…..we would have been complaining it was too hot! It was a great little vacation!
I am grateful for so many things this Thanksgiving holiday…my wonderful family, their health, our happiness…and so many more things…..I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving..and see you next week….
So every Halloween we take photos of ourselves imitating our pumpkin…well, that is the idea…..some years we forget and by the time we take the photos..the pumpkins are rotten…..Well, this year I remembered…but the squirrels had already eaten them a bit…..and…
I let River help me carry the pumpkins inside…from the front porch…and she was carrying her big pumpkin and we were saying..be careful…you don’t want to drop it…because it will splatter….and she very carefully…..made it to the dining room…and she very carefully placed it onto the table…and then…..very carefully let go of it……..and it very carefully…rolled off the table and splattered……but we “mended” it back together and all was good…..thank goodness….
The idea is to “look” like your pumpkin….but that doesn’t always work out……
So, I wanted to participate in Embrace the Camera with Emily over at her blog, 3 boys and a little lady….and I wanted to take photos with my three children…I can’t tell you if I have ever taken photos with just me and my three children…how sad is that?? Well, River instantly decided she wanted no part of it…..so Quinn and Tuesday and I took a bunch of photos..we had so much fun..and then at the end…River joined us..though she was still a bit grumpy.
We had so much fun taking all the photos..and it was great to get some good ones of just me and Tuesday and then me and Quinn and then the three of us….and then River…..
We took a million photos..I had a hard time picking out my favorites!!
We had a great Halloween weekend…the weather was perfect! We carved some pumpkins (and threw some pumpkin guts around….), perfected our costumes..and did lots of trick or treating!
I hope you had a great Halloween!
Sometimes the simplest things…seem to be the most fun…..every year we make these simple tissue ghosts….they aren’t complicated..they take minutes…yet, the kids love doing it….which makes it even more fun….
So, this past weekend we got to go to The Seeing Eye in Morristown, NJ. My mother-in-law is in the process of getting her first seeing eye dog!! It is an incredibly complicated process…but she is near the end. We were all so excited to visit her at the Seeing Eye campus, where she is staying during her training…and meet her new friend….her Seeing Eye dog…Layla…
Layla is a two year old Labrador Retriever. She is incredibly gentle and kind. The Seeing Eye is an incredible place that gives people, who are visually impaired, the chance to gain independence and a sense of security with their new companion. It was great to finally get to visit the campus and meet all the different people who volunteer their time and who are part of the program. We can’t wait until Layla and Gram come back home!!
So, last Wednesday, over at Giverslog, Amberlee and Carrie Butler had another shoot along challenge…..then and now….recreating the same photo……
Well, that is an easy one for me…I am a bit of a fanatic about this! I love to recreate the same photo every year! We do it at Christmas, Halloween…all the time! Seriously, I am addicted to doing this…I had a hard time deciding what photos to show for this post! This is one of my favorite things to do with photography!
One of my favorite “then and now” photos is a photograph that I took of my oldest daughter when she was about 2 1/2 years old. I loved this photo so much and played around with it in Photoshop…..then my husband surprised me by having it made into a poster. When my son was the exact same age, I redid the photo…..and my husband again had it made into a poster. I was so excited to redo the photo when my daughter was the same age…I literally counted down the days….but I no longer had the same hat and we didn’t live in the same house….so it looks slightly different. But all three photos were taken when they were almost exactly the same age….2 years, 11 months and 25 days….
The photo montages hang in our living room…..we haven’t gotten River’s made into a poster yet…..some day soon….
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Tuesday has been going to violin lessons at an art center since she was six. On their beautiful property is a wonderful tree that Tuesday and Quinn have always loved to climb. While Tuesday is having her violin lesson, Quinn likes to sit in the tree and do his homework. River, of course, also wants to climb the tree…but she isn’t exactly big enough.
She tried and tried to get up on her on..but couldn’t…so she had to agree to let me help her onto the branch. Once she was on the branch, she was so pleased…but then she realized she wasn’t as high as Quinn…..she says she can’t wait until she is bigger, so she can climb higher.
Tuesday and Quinn still love to climb this tree. I think because there are so few “good climbing trees” by where we live. There are a lot of trees…but none of them with wonderful low branches…so you can climb.
