Friday, July 18, 2008

Adventure - Day 3

It was a great day of training! Long and I'm still very tired but I learned a bunch!

Picture 1 - Being silly at the dinner table....
Picture 2 - A view from the pool....
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Adventure Day 2 - We made it....

After 15+ hours driving in the car with 4 complete strangers, we have arrived safely in Tulsa and I have 4 new friends! :-)
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Trip Adventure - Day 1

Today, Hayden and I came to Columbia to Molly's house. We took the children to Fort Jackson (yes, the military base). They have a water park that is open to the public during the week. We had a wonderful time.
Picture 1 - Pete in the water loops.
Picture 2 - Molly and Cal on the lazy river.
Picture 3 - Hayden sliding down the water slide.
Picture 4 - Cal playing in the water.
Picture 5 - The crew coming back from the slides.

Hayden will spend the rest of the week here with Molly and gang and I will be leaving early in the morning for Tulsa. I am riding with a group of girls and it will be a long one day trip! I am sure the adventure will be full of pictures!

Monday, July 14, 2008

Our nightly walk...

After a boring day of laundry and house chores in prep of leaving town tomorrow, we took our nightly walk and came home with a few photos. The rest of the week will be full of trip blogs. :-)

Picture 1 - The best picture of night....
Picture 2 - See the face? A fallen tree....
Picture 3 - The first snake we have seen.....
Picture 4 - Drunk or Parkinsons? Still a fun pic...
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Saturday, July 12, 2008

Favorite hobby.....

For years....my favorite thing to do has been get up on Saturday morning and go to yard sales! Today was no different! Hunting a bargain is always fun! :-)
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Friday, July 11, 2008

More random pics...

Since my subject is temporarily missing, I'll share some pictures I like that I have taken over the last couple of weeks.
Enjoy....



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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Wow...they are moving!

Hayden got her braces 11 weeks (April 22) ago! I can't believe how much they have moved!
She goes at the end of July for her 3rd visit and we will find out then when the bottom ones go on.

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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Is it even possible.....

to be a really cool mom in a minivan?
A dirty white one at that....
I really don't think so but it gets the job done!
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Monday, July 7, 2008

The calm before the storm...

We had thunderstorms move in last night. I loved the way the sun was lighting up the edge of the clouds.
It was very hard to find the right setting on the camera for this shot.

The blog might be quiet this week because Hayden is spending the week with her grandparents. That, of course, makes for a boring home! :-) I miss you, Hayden!
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Saturday, July 5, 2008

The family band...

Hayden and I got Brent a Wii and Rock band for his birthday and he brought it to Charlotte so we could try it out with the family. There are 4 connected instruments but as you can see we had a 2nd singer in the group (Pete). He was using his snorkel. :-)

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Friday, July 4, 2008

Talent Show...

After dinner and before the fireworks, we were entertained by the children. This video is about 3 mins. but it is really funny. Each of the boys have their own little personalities and love their Hayden! Oh, you probably can't see it in the video but they all have make-up on (as in blue eye shadow)!

Fireworks show...

We came to Dad's (in Charlotte) for dinner and fireworks. We were on our way to the lake for the show and realized the neighbors were doing a very large fireworks show of their own so we just watched those....Brent was the camera man tonight and we got to use the 'fireworks' feature of the camera. They have some fun details if you enlarge them.


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Happy 4th of July....

I'm sure there will be plenty more pics to follow but in case it is tomorrow before I get to post them...Enjoy your holiday!
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Last swim lesson...

Hayden got stronger as the week went on and her strokes improved greatly! My favorite part of swim lessons as a child was always on the last day when we got to improve upon our water entry....enjoy!

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Two this week...

We have had cousin Pete this week. He was not very cooperative with pictures like he was at the beach. The second one is a fun one of Hayden.

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

She has an eye also...

We went to a ballgame last night and Hayden walked around with the camera and this is what she took! Pretty awesome picture! I think it looks like Africa for some reason....
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It finally came in the mail....

We took family pictures at the beach with a photogragher and it arrived today.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008