Tuesday, May 25, 2010
videos...
The videos were supposed to be in my megapost, but aren't, so some explanations are in the megapost for the videos. Sorry for the confusion...
Monday, May 24, 2010
megapost
So this is what I get for not blogging for months...a ton of pictures to go through along with some scattered memories and a bunch of old news. In no particular order because the pictures are hard to move around. Is there an easy way to do it, bloggers?
Here we are, out for ice cream. Ice cream has become a big deal in this family, I'm sure all the running we've been doing is negated by all the ice cream. Notice Luke's cast (he fractured his wrist at the park...he was hoping no one would notice his cast but chose orange. Nice camouflage Luke. Here he's wearing an orange shirt, I've really tried!) and Sammy's ice creamy delicious shorts, shirt, legs, face, and grin. Love it.
I just like this picture of her. She's a nice baby.
Luke sporting his new cast at the top of our swing set. He's been going harder than ever these days. He just wants to make sure he can, in his words, "still do all his stuff".
My lovely friend Jaimee with her two kids. One is still in utero, due today. Come out little one!
Anna's first time eating mush. She likes it, despite her rather unimpressed look here.
Silly boys, hanging out on a wood pile.
Anna's baby dedication at church. I just noticed Sam's picking his nose. Classy.
Trip to Elkhorn and a walk at Clear Lake.
He looks way too grown-up here.
A hike we went on, which ended poorly, in a sense. We ended up taking a wrong turn somewhere and trudged through a marsh, which had just barely thawed. Trudging through iciness does not bring out the best in anyone, but the boys stuck with it as Julio would run back to get Luke after pushing Anna through in her stroller and I carried Sam through the really deep stuff, but we all were cold and wet by the end. And somehow the end of the trail seemed elusive, I kept thinking it was right around the corner and tried to stay cheery but it was much longer than my positive attitude. Anna slept through the whole thing and was all grins at the end.
On the boardwalk part of the hike, before the marsh trudge. This is me, pretending to know something about nature.
This is Julio, actually knowing stuff.
We did a lot of this at Elkhorn. It was cold and a bit rainy most of the week so we went for a daily swim. Luke had had one swimming lesson before we left and was pretty keen to swim. When we got back he kept telling his teacher that he went to Elkhorn and can now swim. I'm not sure she was as impressed as he was hoping. Nor was the substitute the week after.
A rainy walk, from the chalet to the main lodge. Note the snow on the ground...it felt like we changed climates driving those three hours, it was that much colder there.
Eating marshmallows inside.
Super roaster.
Cutie face. She's an old pro at this now and is nearly crawling. (Insert video "Anna rolls" here). She backed up from our bathroom to our living room the other day. Somehow all my kids have mastered going backwards before going forwards.
Proof that we started the week at Elkhorn off with my parents, and that we love ice cream.
Oh look. Another three kids pic. This was at Easter.
My biking boys. We have done a ton of biking this year, mostly up and down our sidewalk.
Easter cookies! We made them with my sisters and their kids.
I like pictures of brothers too.
Easter egg dyeing with Nannie. She had a lot of cool supplies and it was really fun. We're thinking of making this our Good Friday tradition.
Here we are, out for ice cream. Ice cream has become a big deal in this family, I'm sure all the running we've been doing is negated by all the ice cream. Notice Luke's cast (he fractured his wrist at the park...he was hoping no one would notice his cast but chose orange. Nice camouflage Luke. Here he's wearing an orange shirt, I've really tried!) and Sammy's ice creamy delicious shorts, shirt, legs, face, and grin. Love it.
I just like this picture of her. She's a nice baby.
Luke sporting his new cast at the top of our swing set. He's been going harder than ever these days. He just wants to make sure he can, in his words, "still do all his stuff".
My lovely friend Jaimee with her two kids. One is still in utero, due today. Come out little one!
Anna's first time eating mush. She likes it, despite her rather unimpressed look here.
Silly boys, hanging out on a wood pile.
Anna's baby dedication at church. I just noticed Sam's picking his nose. Classy.
Trip to Elkhorn and a walk at Clear Lake.
He looks way too grown-up here.
A hike we went on, which ended poorly, in a sense. We ended up taking a wrong turn somewhere and trudged through a marsh, which had just barely thawed. Trudging through iciness does not bring out the best in anyone, but the boys stuck with it as Julio would run back to get Luke after pushing Anna through in her stroller and I carried Sam through the really deep stuff, but we all were cold and wet by the end. And somehow the end of the trail seemed elusive, I kept thinking it was right around the corner and tried to stay cheery but it was much longer than my positive attitude. Anna slept through the whole thing and was all grins at the end.
On the boardwalk part of the hike, before the marsh trudge. This is me, pretending to know something about nature.
This is Julio, actually knowing stuff.
We did a lot of this at Elkhorn. It was cold and a bit rainy most of the week so we went for a daily swim. Luke had had one swimming lesson before we left and was pretty keen to swim. When we got back he kept telling his teacher that he went to Elkhorn and can now swim. I'm not sure she was as impressed as he was hoping. Nor was the substitute the week after.
A rainy walk, from the chalet to the main lodge. Note the snow on the ground...it felt like we changed climates driving those three hours, it was that much colder there.
Eating marshmallows inside.
Super roaster.
Cutie face. She's an old pro at this now and is nearly crawling. (Insert video "Anna rolls" here). She backed up from our bathroom to our living room the other day. Somehow all my kids have mastered going backwards before going forwards. 
Here are a couple of videos of Anna jumping. (Insert videos "Anna jumps" and "Anna jumps some more" here.) They make me laugh, but don't feel obligated to watch them all, they're a bit long.
I like to line my three kids up and take pictures of them.
Proof that we started the week at Elkhorn off with my parents, and that we love ice cream.
Oh look. Another three kids pic. This was at Easter.
My biking boys. We have done a ton of biking this year, mostly up and down our sidewalk.
Easter cookies! We made them with my sisters and their kids.
I like pictures of brothers too.
Easter egg dyeing with Nannie. She had a lot of cool supplies and it was really fun. We're thinking of making this our Good Friday tradition.
And for a final video (now in a separate post), here are the boys wrestling. What I love about this video is how it captures them perfectly...Sammy all into it and all over Luke, and Luke just taking it and eventually getting away. He's just not the aggressive type, and I can't say I mind. And I just have to love Sam, despite all his potty talk and aggressiveness...my dad said the other day, "Sam, what I love about you is that you're not like anybody else!" Too true!
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