Abbey and her new friend. LOVE.
and courtesy of Shannon at Pineapples and Artichokes:
Joe and his new little “buddy”
Wordless Wednesday
June 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Mamatography Week 23: On the road.
June 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
We are currently moving from Kittery, Maine to Kodiak, Alaska for my husband’s US Coast Guard Assignment.
Some highlights from our trip this week:
Packing Up (Maine)
Hotel Room Hide and Seek (New Jersey)
Coolest Kids at Sesame Place (Pennsylvania)
Daddy and Daughter Amusement Park Navigation (PA)
Vacation Hydration (PA)
“ONE little blonde child, TWO leetle blonde cheeldren. Mua haha!”
Elmo’s Rocket Roller Coaster! Kids loved this one!
Joe was really into the sand, not so into the hanging “bag maze”
Abbey and Nana Playing before bed (WI) Special Effect is from the ToonCamera App.
Daddy and Joe relaxing after a long day at the Mall of America (Wisconsin/MN)
Leinenkrugel’s Brewery in Wisconsin.
More pictures of the brewery and Amish Country WI on my flickr page.
That was our week, moving through the United States on our way to Alaska! How was yours?
Wordless Wednesday- Legos!
June 12, 2013 By 2 Comments
At the mall of America in MN on our PCS trip across the US
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Wordless Wednesday
May 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
We have been so blessed to meet some great friends here at our Coast Guard Assignment in Maine.
This week, I caught some great images of Joe and his friend “Londy” (London) having a natural learning experience with some free play in the puddles!
Mamatography – May 2013
May 27, 2013 By 2 Comments
This past month (ok, maybe a month and a half?) I have been so busy with preparations for our family’s huge military PCS to Kodiak, Alaska that I have neglected my Mamatography posts.
Ok, I was neglecting posting altogether.
But I was in fact still taking pictures during that time, so I thought I’d catch up with a Mamatography for the month of May. It’s been a fun-filled, joyful, yet very busy month!!!!!
The month of May started out by bringing us some actual spring-like weather. We celebrated by grilling and playing as a family at the park!
I posted a photo of the Coast Guard Family sign that I made for our (now three) duty stations as a family, and then a couple of friends wanted to place orders with me for their own custom signs. It was fun making them, and my friends loved them!
Some more seasonal weather (this day was around 60′) allowed us to do snack time and lunch time outside.
The kids all LOVE picnics!
The Silly Bears also LOVE playing on the rock down the street from our house.
Abbey couldn’t stand straight and forward for her passport photo (we need them to travel through Canada on our way to our new home in Kodiak AK) for anything! She kept doing “cutie” poses like this one. “May I do a cutie pose? You can still see my nice smile, right?” The website also said that our photos needed to have “neutral faces” . . . let’s just say it was a joyful moment when I finally got a neutral, not blurry one. Now, I hope the State Dept. likes it!
Mother’s Day Weekend was Awesome. We had a nice brunch at IHOP, where I enjoyed kissies from Joe
And smiles and love from daddy and Abs
And then a lovely surprise – a cookie cake, flowers and my favorite wine!
Oh, be still my heart!
Abbey and Joe are both getting SO BIG. Abbey is enjoying a dance class (and choosing to walk home from the rec center some days!) and Joseph is in big boy wrangler jeans, and having so much fun growing and changing!
I also did a couple furniture trash-to-treasure rescues, painting a dresser for Joseph’s room, and helping my friend paint an old dresser for her house.
We’ve been getting ready for our move out of our house here in Maine and preparing to move to Alaska!
And now. . . our whole house is in boxes and we are awaiting the moving truck. . .
That was our May. How was YOURS?
This 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!
Mamatography Week 17
May 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Just eating my snack in mommy and daddy’s bed. You caught me.
Taking pictures of my baby carriers that I’m no longer using. For sale. . . *sniff*
. . . I remember lovingly and carefully crafting this carrier while I was still pregnant with Joe.
Impromptu Family Photo at the park!
. . . and the Silly Pic
The Silly Bears, ready to help, heading to the Home Depot to exchange some drawer pulls. Joe is really into flashlights lately.
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!”
Mamatography Week 16 – Still chilly, but havin’ fun
April 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
This week, we celebrated Joseph’s 2nd Birthday with a Thomas the Train themed party.
He was so excited! “My party! My Thomas party!”
Joseph, Abbey and their friends had a great time coloring, playing, and snacking.
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.
Joseph was so sweet to all of his guests, especially the youngest, our little neighbor, Noah. I was so proud of his lovely manners.
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.
“Hey, mom!”
“Oh, yeah, I guess I DO have dirty hands.” LOL
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.
Joseph, cruising around the same day on his Rock, Roll, and Ride trike – with a lollipop (“loll- pop”)
I got a couple cute snapshots of the kids at the park this week, too.
Cheeeeeeeeeeese!
And 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?
This 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!
Wordless Wednesday- Manual Portraits in the Chilly Weather
April 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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. 
