Comfort

What brings you comfort?

Emma has been loving on this blanket since she was tiny. She loves it and cries for it when we can't find it. It's quite the task to wash it.

She's also pretty attached to her binky. Now with our other two the pacifier had disappeared by now...but we just don't have the energy. Who am I to take away her source of comfort (or is it mine?) Hopefully one of these days we will get the gumption to toss them but until then soothe away. By the way is it wrong to give them to my 9 and 6 year old? Just sayin...

So we went to the park to have some fun and take some pictures (of course)...and little miss personality decided to have fun with the camera. Hey at least she was looking at the camera! I'll post a few more tomorrow.

That time again

Madelyn and Ethan were pretty excited to go back to school again. The day before school started we went to the school and took a few pictures to calm some of Ethan's first grader fears. Some of you may recognize those orange doors! The morning of the first day was a little crazy. I barely got a few pictures as they walked out the door in between the eye rolls from the fourth grader. Emma really thought she should be going to school too. Someday soon Emma!

Fauxhawk

Ethan decided to try out the fauxhawk look. His hair has always been really short up until the last 6 months or so. He wanted to start growing it out some. Right now it's pretty shaggy but with a little goop he's got this new look. We've only done it a few times but in the past his hair wouldn't spike or stick up no matter what we put in it. This do stayed for two days straight! Sorry this pic has my watermark on it for my photography blog. People put these on photos to deter others from stealing photos (not that my photos are steal worthy yet but you never know). I'm not in business I just have a blog to stick a few photos that I take.

Photography Class

For my birthday present I signed up for a photography class from a local photographer. We went to her house for three nights of instruction and then we did a photo shoot which happened to be on my birthday. She had 4 girls in prom dresses come and we got to take pictures with her helping us and we watched her take some as well. I learned a lot and had fun. Here are just a few of the pictures I took. It was a great birthday present!!

4th of July

I was pretty sick with a sinus infection the weekend of the 4th so we didn't really do much on the 3rd of July. Our neighbors invited us to a BBQ and swim party that night so Chad, Maddie, and Ethan went. I kept Emma home because she's a maniac around water and hard to keep track of. Luckily on the 5th, Chad's sister invited us over to their city's celebration. The kids got to be in the bike parade and then we all watched the regular parade with them after. We also wandered over to the park where they had a few things going on there. Later that night we did our own little fireworks at our house. It was nice to spend time with family and celebrate the 4th...on the 5th.




Check out Emma's dance moves below. Doin' a little robot!

Baseball

Ethan was in coach pitch baseball this year. He really enjoys this sport and was so excited for every game! They were the Giants this year. Ethan wore his hat everywhere, not just to his games. He's a pretty good hitter once he gets ahold of the ball and improved on catching and throwing this year. He's also getting a little speedier at running (poor kids got his dad's genes there!) It was fun to go and cheer him on.




Bet you can't guess who Ethan's biggest fan was!