Saturday, November 16, 2013

Fire House Tour–May 2012

A local Fire House has an annual Open House, where families can tour the fire house and the kids can climb in abulances, fire trucks, police cars, and see wrecked cars.  They also get their faces painted.  Cooper was THRILLED.  I don’t think Charlotte felt good because she refused to do anything and stood by daddy all day.  She LOVES fire trucks, so I was confused.  This post reminds me of when we went to the Fire Fighter Museum.

 

DSC_8472_edit_wm

DSC_8482_edit_wmDSC_8477_edit_wmDSC_8503_edit_wm

DSC_8485_edit_wmDSC_8498_edit_wm

Hah, got it eyes closed.  The sun was sooo bright.  I think he has sensitive eyes like daddy because he squints with nearly eyes closed in very bright sun.DSC_8489_edit_wmDSC_8508_edit_wmDSC_8514_edit_wm

And this was what Charlotte looked like all day.  She did get her arm painted with a basketball though.DSC_8520_edit_wm

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Duck Pond–may 2012

There is a local park that has a pond, a water park area, field hockey arena, soccer fields, a few playgrounds, and a little hiking trail/tree house area.  The kids love this park.  Here are some long lost photos from May 2012.

DSC_8378_edit_wm

DSC_8383_editDSC_8390_edit_wmDSC_8385_edit_wmDSC_8395_edit_wmDSC_8413_edit_wmDSC_8402_edit_wmDSC_8421_edit_bw_wmDSC_8418_edit_em

DSC_8426_edit_wmDSC_8433z-edit_wm

DSC_8435_edit_bw_wmDSC_8439_edit_bw_wmDSC_8436_edit_wm

DSC_8445_edit_wmDSC_8453_edit_wmDSC_8449_edit_em

DSC_8458_edit_wmDSC_8459_edit_wm

DSC_8374_edit_bw)wm

The kids have always loved duck ponds…these photos remind me of this and this.

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Weekend Starbucks

On the weekends I take the kids to either Starbucks in the morning, or frozen yogurt in the afternoon.  They always look so grown up when they get hot chocolate.

DSC_1138_edit_wmDSC_1142_edit_wm

DSC_1139_edit_wmDSC_1141_edit_wm

Several weeks ago I also took them to Golden when I had some volunteer work to do.  This was not too long after the major flooding in Colorado, so the creek was really high.  Charlotte had to use the bathroom, so I didn’t get much time to snap photos. Sad smile

DSC_1147_edit_wm

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Long Lost Photos–May 2012

I have ignored this blog for so long, I haven’t posted photos since May 2012.  So here is one from that month…I need to do some editing on the others.

Someone got into the markers.

DSC_8368_edit_wm

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Halloween 2013

Cooper is absolutely obsessed with Mario Bros.  He quickly chose Mario.  I absolutely adore that Charlotte doesn’t choose any of the typical girl costumes, because I kind of have a huge beef with Disney princesses.  There are SO many other things I can encourage my daughter to be and looking up to a Disney princess is not one of those things I will every encourage.  Charlotte makes it easy on me.

Charlotte is way more into posing than Cooper these days.  Most of the time Cooper rolls his eyes and me and says, ‘Seriously??!?’.

I haven’t picked up my camera much lately and I am experimenting with editing again to find my style.  Not sure what feels right…none of these quite yet.  I also really need to calibrate my monitors since I’m not longer on my laptop.

DSC_1173_edit_vint_smDSC_1221_edit_vint_smDSC_1175_edit_vint_smDSC_1195_edit_sm

 

DSC_1180_edit_vint_smDSC_1170_edit_vint_smDSC_1224_edit_wm

 

And our pumpkins…I can’t wait until they can carve their own!  At least they help with the guts. (Minion-mine; Mario-Cooper; Boba Fett-my husband; Cat-Charlotte)

DSC_1259_edit_sm

Sunday, November 3, 2013

What did you do with your extra hour?

Us?  We did the much needed house cleaning, yard work, and cleaning out the garage.DSC_1340_edit_smDSC_1346_edit_sm

Cooper says it’s important to wear gloves so you don’t get splinters.DSC_1345_edit_sm

My husband blew the leaves out and the kids had a blast!DSC_1337_edit_sm

DSC_1319_edit_sm

DSC_1297_edit_sm

DSC_1311_edit_wm

DSC_1317_edit_sm

DSC_1318_edit_sm

DSC_1307_edit_sm

DSC_1304_edit_sm

DSC_1325_edit_sm

DSC_1323_edit_sm