Ever since someone hit the 2 button a couple of weeks ago, Fletcher has excersiced his royal 2-ness every chance he gets. This particular evening he thought that by "hiding" in this basket, he could avoid getting his pajamas on. Of coarse I couldn't tell if he was more mad at having to get his jams on or that I grabbed my camera and proceded to take future bribery pictures of his cute little self!
For Christmas I got David, my husband, and my brother remote control helicopters, and since that day, both kids have worked every angle to get their hands on it. So the other evening, after Fletcher was in bed, Finley's big opportunity came to prove herself as a co-pilot.
It was so much fun watching her run around and around yelling "look momma, LOOK AT IT GO!" It has now turned into a much coveted nightly event for David and The Spud. At a 6 o'clock every night, Finley says "Maybe Fletcher goes to bed" or "momma I think Fletcher is wwwillllly tired".
Here are a few captured moments....Graining looking dark livingroom moments.....but definitely captured!!
Ok so I know my Momtog resolution for this year was to post my weekly challenges EVERY week, but resolutions are meant to be broken right? Well I am back on the wagon and here is week 5 of 52. It doesn't quite "fill the frame", but I still love it.
Being home sick with a icky cold and a sick baby girl gives me no excuse to not get some blog catchup done, so a little late but still fun..here is halloween.
A couple of posts ago I talked about our yearly trip to long beach. Well, every year, so far, we have been there for halloween. The first year I didn't bring costumes because I wasn't sure what to expect and couldn't find anything that said if the town was doing anything. Stupid me! When we got there everyone was dressed up and the front desk had handed out candy to all the visitors, so any kids staying could go trick or treating. Fletcher, being only 1 year, didn't really care, but Finley...well that was a different story. We almost went trick or treating in a super scary costume...beach tourist, but in the end I ended up distracting her with popcorn and a movie. No rerun this year! I was ready! Costumes...check. Trick or treat bags.....check. And camera.....of coarse!!
So after planning ahead and making sure we were ready and the kids were super excited, we get there and it didn't take me long to wonder if the staff at the condos had forgotten about Halloween. Yep, nothing going on! Great.... what are we going to do now, right? And there is no way a movie and popcorn was going to work this year. So we ended up packing up and finding some great halloween fun down town long beach!!
Because i am having issues with my computer, none of these pictures are edited, but they are still fun. Finley was a very helpful big sister this year and was instrumental in getting Fletcher into his costume!
I can only imagine what they are thinking in this picture. Finley "are you exhausted, I am". Fletcher "Yeah, it is hard work caring around an extra ten pounds of chicken costume". Finley "yeah and these antenna balls are really annoying falling in my face all the time. Lets go back to the condo and work on a sugar high", Fletcher "YaaaaaaH".
Now I didn't actually hear the conversation, but after sitting there for about two minutes both of them got up and went running. They really didn't last much longer and before we new it, we were all in the car with a crying chicken and a dozing butterfly! Sugar High followed and no one slept that night!
Wow! Grocery shopping is the theme for this week? Just imagine the possibilities...two kids screaming because they can't have balloons, Finley saying "excuse us, excuse us we're coming thru" to all the elderly people at fred meyer on senior citizen day, Fletcher taking a bite out of an unpeeled banana before I could stop him...before we paid, that could be a good approach to lower produce prices? All in all we ended up on a run to WFG, waterville family grocery, getting snacks to, shhhhhh sneak in to the movies! Finley is always a big helper at the store and for the most part is fun to take with. Here is what we ended up with.
My challenge for week 1 of my 52 week photo project is to post a picture reflecting my resolution or resolutions for this year. Even though I have many, I think this one is important in the fact that I find myself to be a better mom, wife, nurse, and friend if I take time for myself, but as most Mom's know, this is hard to do. So my first resolution is to take time to finish my unfinished projects!! This is the purse that I had planned on having done for a christmas gift for my friend Amie, but as you can see, it isn't quite done! : )
Finally able to post this. Have been trying for a month now and haven't been able to upload photos. Am definitely going to be doing some back blogging in the next week.
From the day I met my husband it was painfully obvious that he was big into his yearly elk hunting trip. In the beginning it was great for me. One to two weeks of me time to do fun things like completely redesign our house one room at a time. I always planned things David wasn't to sure about, so then he had no say. So far he has liked all of my projects. Just wait until he comes home and there is a pool in the back yard or a pasture with some horses in it. Might not be so happy with those!
Anyways....after having kids the whole idea of David being gone for a week or two changed. In so many word it sucked. Only because of work. When you have to be at work at 0645 and you have an hours drive...well you can imagine the disaster of child care at these hours. After attempting it for a year I decided I needed attitude adjustment, from there on out I decided to take the week or weeks off and take my babies on our own hunting trip.....to the ocean.
This year was so fun because Fletcher was old enough to do more on the beach than eat sand. Not sure what the attraction was, but after handfulls when I wasn't looking, I figured it must not be to horrible tasting. But let me tell you....the diapers were interesting. Lots of grit! LOTS of grit!
This is the first installment of pictures from our adventures at the beach this year. Mud, mud, mud, mud, mud, and seagull chasing!
Totally wish I could have gotten a picture from in front of her because she had her finger up to her mouth like "shhhhhhh" as she snuck up on that seagull.
After making sure to pack many beach toys and bags to go beach combing, seagull stalking seemed to be the biggest hit and it is free. Well I suppost not free from anxiety by the seagulls....or at least the kids would like to think so. Fletcher kept saying "I scare him...I scare him...shhhhh".
I am not sure about everyone else, but when I think of fall the first thing that comes to mind is bright leaves. Pumpkin pie is a close second though! Because I am a hunting widow right now, my babies stayed at Bruce and Betty's (adopted grandparents) house this weekend while I worked. You can only imagine how giddy I was when I found them playing in the leaves when I went to pick them up. If you have ever been to our house, you know that we don't have any...established...trees. We have like two leaves...not kidding! My poor kids are leaf poor, and coming from a childhood of growing up with a small orchard it seems so unfair. I think it is more my issue. I actually have an unhealthy love of raking leaves for some reason and have been known to rake my neighbors leaves at times! You can imagine my pride when the first thing Fletcher grabbed was the rake!!
Both my littles loved the leaves. Thowing them, jumping and running though them, and Finley for some reason really liked picking them up with her mouth.....until I showed her the bird poo on one! I know not nice right? She will probably be scarred for life now thinking that she can't play in leaves because of bird poo!
Was starting to get pretty dark out, so was really happy when some of these turned out. Lots of writing for a few pics!!
Alright, so I am really REALLY trying to spend more time on my blog. Come on...it's not like I don't take pictures. Just ask my hard drive and my kids! I am also working on the perfectionist side of me that doesn't want to post anything that doesn't have great light, exposure and focus. I just want everyone else to like looking at my photos as much as I do...that is not to much to strive for is it?
Well here's to a new blogging beginning!!
For the last two years, Finley has been a chicken for halloween, but when the big day arrives, she chicken's out (ha, ha) and won't put the costume on. So this year I was going to use the chicken costume for Fletcher, but, of coarse, in fine big sibling form, Finley yells "but that is my chicken costume, I'm the chicken".
As I was out shopping for some clothes that fit my growing girl, I came across a ladybug/butterfly outfit, so I picked it up for Finley hoping to fix the costume drama and not have to buy two costumes this year. Well it was a hit because Finley put it on the first night and wouldn't take it off, and I am mean wouldn't take it off. She was all sorts of upset when she couldn't wear it to bed, but we finally convinced her that it would be waiting for her the next morning, and sure enough, when I got up and looked in on her, there she was all decked out in Buz light year underwear and ladybug wings!
The big problem arouse last evening when Fletcher decided that he wanted to be the butterfly, so to Finley's dismay and purely out of selfish momtog reasons, I let him put it on. I wasn't disappointed. He was the cutest boy butterfly ever, and even though the lighting in our house is terrible in the evening, I still got some fun pictures.
After waking up this morning to fog and rain, I finally admitted that fall was here. Don't get me wrong, I love fall. It's just that we really never had a summer....did we? I do love every season though. David always laughs at me because when each season comes along I say "Oh, I am so glad it's fall. I think it is my favorite season". Just change the word fall to winter, summer, or spring and you will understand why he thinks it is funny.
Harvest is over and hunting is beginning. As much as I hate the fact that huntingtakes my husband hostage for the month, I do enjoy the season. Davids friends come over from spokane and I make my famous lasagna that I only make once a year because my butt grows exponentially every time I make it! We get meat for our freezer, and best of all, my babies and I head for the ocean while David is away elk hunting. Although, I am little worried this year because as we were driving home this evening we saw some deer and Finley said "mommy, they look just like bambi". Could be ugly if David brings a deer home!
Fletcher dominates the 10 on 10 this month.
Popcorn breakfast; choo-choo; bathtime; new boots; used boots; truck driver; lunch with my hubby; self portrait; buddies; dinner for the nauseous mom!
