This and that

So I thought I would post a little of what's been happening...at least the picture versions of it...

On Fridays we do various things, but mostly I make the kids play outside for as long as I feel is not mean. :) Four children = a lot of dirt, cut me some slack. Oh right, back to the photo. So here we have Isa playing with the hose. Hose = hours of fun.

Violet is posing for me at the racetrack we went to (see below). Violet won't really smile on command but if you say "show me your teeth" this is what you get. Half smile, half "check out the pearly whites" Works for me.

So my brother had the day off and my dad found a indoor racetrack nearby. I wish I had a dad like that. Wait....

Anyway, just the men went out, and us womanfolk watched from the sidelines.

As a side note, there is no good reason why we didn't race too. My sister and I like to do stuff like that, like to throw balls, and swim and do, ya know....stuff, but these cars get going pretty dang fast and it just didn't feel like my kind of thing. But anyway, the shot. The shot above is a favorite of mind. A little fuzzy and out of focus, but whatever, I love the composition.

This is my dad racing past.

I think this is Memo. I love this picture. I'm a freak, I know.

Do you know what I girl has to do to get men to pose?? I want to reach across that damn fence and....sorry. Memo grabbed that sign last minute. Pretty cute.

My crazy mama on a scooter at KidSpace museum (our favorite kid's museum). We used to have a membership and go there all the time, but now that I am working we haven't been in a while. This particular trip was with our school, field trip day. Back to the photo, don't you love the tongue hanging out??? Fantastic. Gosh I love you Charlotte,

I was stopped dead in my tracks when I saw this picture. Geez girl. You are such a knockout!

There are moments when my camera is a total pain. It bangs into things, knocks children on the head as they pass me, it throws my neck out, i can't leave it in the car, but then there are moments like these when I am walking to the car after a long afternoon at a carnival where I spent so much money on nothing, I am half crazed with hunger, and I want to just eat Rosco's Chicken and Waffles and crawl into bed and sleep for 76 hours. But then I see something like this and decide to pull the dang lens cap off one more time for the day and voila! I get the yummiest memory of that day. (the chicken and waffles were pretty yummy too).

Another weekend my brother was off and we went to the beach. The whole family. Like EVERYONE. IT was glorious. I boogieboarded for the first time in 10 years I think. There was salt water pouring from my nose for approximately 7 hours that day. It was awesome.

Dang it Violet, you are just too much!

I have recently been trying to get over my "I hate every picture of me" line of thinking and so decided to take no less than 37 self portraits of me this day at the beach. Aside from the blue chair and girls in the background I dare say I love this picture. I don't hate the way I look, it's the "good" side of my face, my face doesn't look freakishly round and it's from the neck up. :) Always a plus.

This picture is not noteworthy but the reason it's here is just some evidence that John and I are alive. You might not know this because we never are in a picture together. Someone's always behind the lens.