16 posts tagged “family pics”

Brenn and Mickey were helping their daddy in the back yard today.  I thought I would share pictures.

My garden, Steve's new tiller, and Steve & kids with the tiller.

My birthday bench, Micky randomly and Mickey & Brenna on the birthday bench.

Well, Brenna, Mickey and I colored eggs all by ourselves this year.  Was different doing it without Steve, but we persevered with smiles so we could send pictures to him and brighten his day.  He says where they are located is high in the mountains and he feels very isolated. 

These first photos are the prep-work.  Vinegar, egg dye, and finally, the first eggs in the cups.

More shots of the eggs, coming out of the dye, mostly.

These are Mickey, playing with plastic eggs.  He wanted to help with the real ones, but he cracked two, so I figured the plastic ones were safer for him.

And now Brenna being a ham. 

Lastly, some random shots of the finished products.

Soo... the 3-6 inches of snow that they were talking about on the news yesterday never happened.  We woke up with just enough snow covering the ground to look at. 

Brenna, who had been waiting all day yesterday for the rain to turn to snow was highly disappointed by the whole thing.  She lives for that one snow fall a year we get down here, and after all the hype the news gave it, this should have been something you know?

Mickey disliked the cold and started crying within a couple of minutes.  Poor little guy.

But here's pictures I took of the kids and the snow. 

The first two are Brenna and Mickey in the front yard.  As you can see, Mickey is clearly expressing his discontent. 

Random shots of snow around the house -- our railing, on the hood of my car, and some snow-covered grass.  Woo!

As I type this, the sun is melting what little snow there is.  *sigh*  Better luck next year, I guess.

We took Brenna and Mickey to get their pictures taken with Santa last week and finally got the pictures back. 

Brenna's an old pro, but this was Mickey first encounter with the Jolly Old Elf. 

He was not impressed, can you tell?

... at our house. 

That is to say, in the course of trying to avoid acknowledging that Steve is leaving tomorrow, we put up our Christmas lights and decorations this weekend. 

Mickey is walking now, and this is his first "real' Christmas (he was born on (Dec. 22 last year, but he doesn't remember that), so I got a few pictures of him trying to help. 

These are him helping get stuff out of the boxes and checking out the Christmas tree.  We only put up ornaments that wouldn't break if he pulled the tree down.  These included little apples, which he decided were good enough to eat.  (The last picture is a shot of one apple with teeth marks in it.)

Not to be outdone by the baby, our cat, Allie, had to get in on the act, and she hung out by the tree all the time we were decorating it.  She's almost 8 years old now and she has seen this same tree every year for all that time, but it never gets old for her. 

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Brenna dresses as 'Cinderella before she was a princess' for the school's Halloween parade.

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Mickey as a pumpkin.  Wasn't he cute?

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Nathan as Tigger.  (and yes, I realize Nate's not ours, but as much time as we spend with Mike, Andrea and the kids, he might as well be

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A group shot... Brenna as a spider queen, Brianna as Cinderella, Brittany as a pink princess, Jacob as Elmo, Nathan a Tigger, and Faith as a lady bug. 

I tried to get singles of Brenna and Brit but by that time, we had trick or treaters swarming up the sidewalk and 7 kids of our own excited to go. 

Steve and I didn't even get a chance to change into our own costumes. 

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One more shot of Mickey, after a night of touring the neighborhood.  He didn't get scared once and had fun playing with his glow stick... although you can see that the hat didn't last long. 

Every year at Halloween, my family makes paper maché "scarecrows" and place them on our front porch.  It's a fun little family tradition and I thought I'd share it with you. 

It starts with a bowl of flour and water, a balloon and strips of old newspaper.  You blow up your balloon and tie it off.  Then you dip the paper into the flour/water mixture and slowly cover your balloon in wet, drippy paper. 

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After they are covered in several layers, you let them dry.  We hand ours upside down from the kitchen fan. 

It usually takes over night to dry, and once they are, you get to paint them anyway you want. 

Then (you guessed it) we hang the up on the fan again to dry (again).

Next, we stuff old clothes with newspaper and use safety pins and wire clothes hangers to attach the head and clothes together. 

This year's end result looks like this:

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More pictures of the kids from this past week.  Just random stuff.

These are Brenna and Mickey, sitting on our porch with the pumpkins. 

Mickey using his sisters bug toy as a paci. 

Oh oh oh an ice cold milk and an oreo cookie...

I'm doing laundry and trying to get our stuff around for our summer vacation and thought I'd share some of the cuter highlights of the day.

Is it time for my bath already?

Can't fold these now, Mommy, I'm eating my lunch.

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Right now, I'm folding clothes and listening to him babble jabber about life.  He's saying (or what sounds like) "Ma-mom-mom-mom-mom ba-ba-ba yeah da-da Ma-mom-mom." 

Which translates into "Mommy, quite playing with the laptop and gimme my bottle or I'm telling Daddy on you."

I think.