1,000 words

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this weekend was a novel. A really long novel. A Harry Potter type series!

So, maybe it's a bit obvious that I, I mean, ahem, Jonathon got a new camera. I, I mean, ahem, we have been having a lot of fun trying it out.

Here's the weekend tour. It's backwards because moving pictures around in blogger is ok with only a few pictures, but this mini-series is a bit loaded.

Saturday morning after the build and grow make a pirate ship at Lowes, my very cute children insisted on blowing their hard earned $$$ at the dollar store. Aspen and Olive got glow stick wands. They were going to save them but after we were all ready for bed Olive dropped hers and it started to glow. It was getting dark out and Jonathon was just finishing up mowing the lawn. Well, they looked so cool that the little kid in Jonathon and the rest of us little kids couldn't resist trying them out on the trampoline. Then we started playing with the camera and the results were really cool pictures, really late bed time and a really fun spontaneous family fun time.

Click on the pictures to enlarge them to full screen. They turned out really fun!

Check out that face on Jonathon. And his soon to be new wall paper.

Aspen waving a wand and Cedar doing a flip.

Olive and Aspen jumping.

Cedar

Somehow, Cedar made a shadow on his light thing.

Jonathon doing a flip

The fun and crazy kids!

Saturday morning we built pirate ships at Lowes and so we got to paint them Saturday afternoon.

Aspen is trying to set a record on how fast she can do a 100 piece puzzle. 20 min is about the time it takes. (So far!)

Mowing, mowing, mowing.....


Friday after school was such a hot day! We jumped at the invitation to walk over to our friends house to swim in their pool!

Cedar is so proud of his little chameleon. He worked sooooo hard for it. Being in kindergarten it can be hard for a little boy who likes to run and jump and shout to remember the rules ALL DAY. His teacher had just started the new "rewards"systems of if you don't "pull a bear" (it's like writing your name on the chalk board, or getting a warning etc..) for the entire week. That means NO messing up (How hard is that!) then you get a toy out of the treasure box. We were all routing for Cedar. Keeping all of the rules all of the time is tough! He would pray every night and was so proud every day when I picked him up that he had made it through the day without pulling a bear. And by Friday, he did it! This is his memento of all of that hard work. Really there couldn't be a prouder boy around!

Phew, we made it! This is the second blog I've posted today. I'm ready to read some of your blogs now! Keep 'em coming (Hint hint Marie, mom, dad...)