Mamatography Week 17

May 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Just eating my snack in mommy and daddy’s bed. You caught me.

 

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Taking pictures of my baby carriers that I’m no longer using. For sale. . . *sniff*

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. . . I remember lovingly and carefully crafting this carrier while I was still pregnant with Joe.

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Impromptu Family Photo at the park!

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. . . and the Silly Pic

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The Silly Bears, ready to help, heading to the Home Depot to exchange some drawer pulls. Joe is really into flashlights lately.

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Joe’s finished “trash to treasure” sports themed dresser! I painted the dresser and hand painted the new knobs to be sports balls. I say “It’s not perfect” but Joe says “I like it mommy!”

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Wordless Wednesday: See Saw Yee Haw!

May 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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Mamatography Week 16 – Still chilly, but havin’ fun

April 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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This week, we celebrated Joseph’s 2nd Birthday with a Thomas the Train themed party.

He was so excited! “My party! My Thomas party!”

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Joseph, Abbey and their friends had a great time coloring, playing, and snacking.

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We had a small ice cream cake with a Thomas candle for birthday wishes, and my friend Erica made adorable “balloon” cake pops for Thomas to pull down the tracks to Joe’s party.

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Joseph was so sweet to all of his guests, especially the youngest, our little neighbor, Noah. I was so proud of his lovely manners.

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Later in the week we had friends over for a cookout and the kids got pretty messy in the slightly wet sandbox and newly cleaned up back yard.

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“Hey, mom!”

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“Oh, yeah, I guess I DO have dirty hands.” LOL

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Even though it is still pretty chilly here (Spring, where ARE you?!), we still make sure to get outside to play. It was about 43′ the day I snapped this portrait of Abbey. . . she had just finished having a giant fit about the fact that it was cold, and that she had to wear a helmet while she rode her bike.

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Joseph, cruising around the same day on his Rock, Roll, and Ride trike – with a lollipop (“loll- pop”)

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I got a couple cute snapshots of the kids at the park this week, too.

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Cheeeeeeeeeeese!

IMG_5838And I had to include this “still life” of Joe’s little Wrangler jeans. He is growing up SO fast!

That was OUR Week. How was YOURS?

mtbadge2This post is part of the Mamatography 2013 Project with Diary of a First Child and Momma Jorje.

We are taking (at least) a photo a day to keep a record of our year. Join us at any point during the year and start sharing your own daily photos!

Filed Under: 2013, Abbey, children, family, Joseph, Learning, mamatography, outdoors, Parenting, photography, Photography Projects, preschooler, SLR Photography, toddler, two children

Wordless Wednesday- Manual Portraits in the Chilly Weather

April 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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The weather is still pretty chilly here in New England, and we’ve all got allergy symptoms going on, but we still make sure to get outside and play! I decided to take out my Canon Rebel XT again and take some “real” photos (as opposed to iPhone ones!) in manual. IMG_5829

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Mamatography Week 15

April 18, 2013 By 2 Comments

Puddles

We started our week with fierce puddle splashing. Joe loves him some puddles!!!!

Camaro Ride

Tuesday afternoon, we had the inaugural ride of the power wheels Camaro. Abbey and Joe love cruising around the park together.


Cake

We love our mid-week bible study program at our friend’s church. Here is Joe with her daughter, London.

At one point, the two of them were feeding each other cake. It was adorable.

Next week, I promise, I’ll get a shot of the two of them hugging. It will melt your heart!

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Abbey and Joe built a “roller coaster” together on Thursday with some building toys that we’ve collected from Wendy’s kids meals. I love how well they are interacting and playing with one another lately. We are not without a little rivalry and disagreement, but it’s mostly sibling love around here lately. So cute!

Bruise

 

Unfortunately, on Friday afternoon, Jed, Joe, and I were in a one-car accident in the random sleet that hit our area. It was raining, and we had decided to drive to meet someone for a Craigslist trade. Rain turned to sleet really fast, and we hydroplaned on the ice. I was driving very slowly and carefully, but I couldn’t save us from crashing. The road went out from under us and there we were, crashing into a tree in the ditch. This is a picture of one of my bruises. It was awful and scary, but Joe and Jed and I are all OK, Thank GOD. My car however. . . is not.

I just praise God that everyone is safe, and thank God for the great family of friends we have here in our neighborhood that helped us out on Friday and kept my spirits up over the weekend. I was really SORE and sad about the crash.

Abbey Dance Class

Abbey had her second dance class this weekend. She loves it!

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After dance class, we went to Abbey’s preschool program – Passport through America. It was a big party/festival type thing, in the gym at the Shipyard. There were booths with food, fun, and activities to represent all the regions of the US. Coincidentally (since we are moving to Alaska soon), Abbey’s class worked on the Alaska/Hawaii booth!

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Abbey and Joe’s favorite part of the festival was definitely the petting zoo, though. They loved feeding the goats with us.

That was OUR Week. How was YOURS?

mtbadge2This post is part of the Mamatography 2013 Project with Diary of a First Child and Momma Jorje.

We are taking (at least) a photo a day to keep a record of our year. Join us at any point during the year and start sharing your own daily photos!

Filed Under: 2013, Abbey, children, family, friends, God, hubs, Imaginative play, Joseph, Learning, mamatography, natural learning, outdoors, photography, preschooler, toddler, two children

Mamatography Week 12: Welcome, Spring?

March 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Happy Spring!

The snow won’t keep us from enjoying the outdoors, but it’s supposed to be SPRING, y’all! This is craziness!

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We have been spending this past week having lots of playdates at the park with our neighborhood friends.

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Enjoying laughs and toddler and childhood antics with all our dear friends before we pack up and move to Kodiak *sniff*

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Joe has really been enjoying puddle splashing, even in the cooooooold weather.

“Mama, I splash puddle! I splash puddle pleeeeeease?”

How can I say no?

Snack Time!

Joseph and Abbey have been having a brother-sister blast lately. It’s so fun to watch them together.

That was our week! How was YOURS?!

mtbadge2This post is part of the Mamatography 2013 Project with Diary of a First Child and Momma Jorje.

We are taking (at least) a photo a day to keep a record of our year. Join us at any point during the year and start sharing your own daily photos!

Filed Under: 2013, Abbey, children, family, friends, Joseph, Learning, mamatography, natural learning, outdoors, photography, Photography Projects, preschooler, toddler, two children, USCG Life

Mamatography Week 7

February 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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Our week started out helping Abbey make and sign 28 Valentines for her classmates. I got the bookmark idea from Pinterest (It’s on my Valentines Crafts board, along with quite a few other crafts that I didn’t get around to doing!) She had to take breaks about every fourth or fifth Valentine signature.

Practice for when she becomes famous, I guess.

. . . because you KNOW she will! haha

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Joseph has been getting over a double ear infection (poor guy!)

and one night would NOT go to sleep

so Daddy read The Seals on the Bus over and over.

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The next day we baked pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, replacing the oil with greek yogurt. They were delicious and we snacked on them all week long. Abbey enjoyed helping to measure the dry ingredients. Joe enjoyed licking the batter off a spoon.

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We got some more snow this past week, so our sledding hill was once again snowy enough to go sledding down. We thought Joe might be scared since it was his first time going down the big hill, but he had a blast!

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Abbey’s kind of a sledding (and marching back up the hill) expert at this point, having already had two winters of practice!

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I was mamarazzi as we walked back the few blocks to our street.

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We had a few hours of lazying around this week

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And some playtime with good friends (“rawr!”)

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We also got our very first Thomas the train toy.

Joe LOVES Thomas.

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And his friend “my plane, Jeremy!”

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Raven, however, is unimpressed. She just naps on the couch and barks when people come to our door.

Good dog, that Raven.

That was OUR week. How was YOURS?

mtbadge2This post is part of the Mamatography 2013 Project with Diary of a First Child and Momma Jorje.

We are taking (at least) a photo a day to keep a record of our year. Join us at any point during the year and start sharing your own daily photos!

Filed Under: 2013, Abbey, children, family, hubs, Joseph, mamatography, natural learning, outdoors, photography, two children

Mamatography Week 2

January 18, 2013 By 6 Comments

mtbadge2This post is part of the Mamatography 2013 Project with Diary of a First Child and Momma Jorje.

We are taking (at least) a photo a day to keep a record of our year. Join us at any point during the year and start sharing your own daily photos!

Joseph, passed out not even a minute after grocery shopping at the beginning of the week.

Redecorating the dining room. . . making slight changes to the house. The mirror (that used to be opposite the window in the living room area) brings so much more light to our “cavelike” dining space!

Diaper change- complete.

Rockin some new stylish hand-me-downs from a neighbor!

Bye, mom! I’m ready to go play in the SNOW!

YAY for fresh snow!!!! On Wednesday morning :)

“Hey, girl. . . I’ll shovel the drive for you.” LOL

Looks just like daddy in this picture!!!! LOVE!

Walking in a winter wonderland!

Sledding on Thursday. Look, mom. No hands!

The snow also makes Raven happy!

Picked up Abbey from preschool early so she could sled with us before the sun went down!

hanging out with my little snow-boy!

Sledding!

 

 

 

 

I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!

No, really. . . I’m gonna need some help here.

Nervous at first, these adorable sledding buddies really got into riding down the hill after a while.

 

And that was OUR week!

How was YOURS!?

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Without further ado, here are the Mama/Papatography 2013 participants!

 

 

 

Filed Under: 2013, Abbey, family, Joseph, Learning, mamatography, outdoors, photography, Photography Projects, two children

Back in Time: Summer Memories

December 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Let’s go back in time today to when the sun was bright and warm and my kids were smaller.

I mean, seriously. Look how much they have grown since August. . .

Abbey’s hair is at least three inches longer, and Joe has outgrown another size of clothing!

Wheeeeeeeeeeee!

“Whoooooooooooo” says Joe! He just totally loves swinging!

This week, as always, we spent lots of time at the park by our house with our neighbor friends.

Abbey and Joseph LOVE asking me to underdog swing them. “Run and then get through!!!!!” Abbey shouts.

Joseph, Abbey, and Hubs watched football this weekend. . .

 

Joe wouldn’t even give me a “Cheese!” he was so enthralled with the game.

Here’s a “Cheese!” picture for you. Joseph is 16 months old in this pic, and he is getting so big.

He is such a ham, and his happy, silly, and stubborn faces are exactly like Hubs’. It’s hilarious.

Abbey and Joe have been enjoying coloring together. Love those two Silly Bears!!!!

Two peas in a pod!

New Hybrid Fitted Diapers. LOVE the stretch and absorbency of the HFs!

And Joe has been giving them a thorough testing!

Wow, how things change in  just a few months! Summertime feels like yesterday, but the new year is just around the corner! Crazy!

What are some of your favorite Summer Memories?

Filed Under: 2012, children, family, outdoors, photography

Mamatography: The Start of Winter

December 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

It’s winter time, and I’m finally catching up on my Mamatography posts. Finish strong! Only have a few weeks left to go!

It’s gotten COLD, so our afternoons (post 3:30) are spent playing together and sharing arts and crafts projects.

LOVE watching this little bundled boy play at the park with his friends. Total ham. So photogenic!

Jed and I were both awestruck by Abbey’s progress in shaping letters, and her growth this fall!

She brought this home from preschool before Thanksgiving and I practically cried.

Joseph and Abbey both helped me make Buns for Thanksgiving with our friends.

Joe did more poking of the bread than helping to make it. Abbey loved punching down the dough.

Abbey and I have been enjoying warming our bellies with hot cocoa after playing in the cold.

This week we got our first play-able snow! How exciting!

Filed Under: 2012, Abbey, children, family, Imaginative play, Joseph, Learning, mamatography, natural learning, outdoors, photography, Photography Projects, two children
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