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Monday, March 09, 2009

Manic Monday - Full

A Net Full of Fish

Okay, it's not full, but we caught our limit. We couldn't have put anymore in it legally. We spent the weekend in Mountain View, Arkansas. It was beautiful. The weather was a bit windy, but overall it was nice. We had a wonderful time! Yes, Tyler wore his cowboy boots in the boat. I could not get him to put on crocks. Yes, they are still wet! *LOL* More photos and details to come. I've got to get the kids up and ready for school. This time change is kicking my butt already! Happy Manic Monday, my fellow minions.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Manic Monday - Fire

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A Couple of weekends ago we took the kiddos to Cave City, Arkansas where hubby has his deer camp. When we got there, we (well, mainly hubby) built a campfire so that we could roast marshmallows and wieners. I thought it was the perfect time to grab the Canon and play around a bit. I've not ventured much from the automatic settings on it because I am by no means an advanced photographer. I knew that sitting around a fire at night was probably a tricky shot for anyone but I thought it would be fun to try. I played with many different settings. One of my shots came out looking like this:

It's kind of creepy to look at. But, I assure you that the children were in no way harmed in the making of this photo. You can see in the next shot that they were indeed fine and that they enjoyed the campfire while roasting wieners!

There's no need to send them self defense products, I promise, they made it through the fire unscathed!

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Ruby Tuesday - Red Slide

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Saturday was my niece's 1st birthday. She celebrated her birthday in style and the kids had a wonderful time playing on this red slide! I got several pictures of them with silly faces coming down the slide. I played with this one a bit to highlight the red. You can also see Tyler's red lip in this photo. He fell out of the camper on Saturday and still has a fat lip three days later! We're so lucky that he only busted his lip and didn't break his neck. It was a very scary moment.

Sunday, February 08, 2009

The Weekend in a Nutshell

Friday afternoon hubby and I planned an impromptu camping trip with the kiddos. He has a deer camp in Cave City. It's a beautiful place and there's lots of woods to ride around in on the four wheeler. Our camper is still there, so we decided to just go home from the office, pack up a few things and spend the night. My wonderful MIL graciously agreed to keep Emily for us so that we could enjoy some time with the older two. Oscar (the wiener dog) tagged along as well. The weather was supposed to be warm this weekend so we thought it'd be the perfect opportunity to head out. What we didn't realize was that the ice storm that hit the state two weeks ago had crippled this city.

We built a fire when we got there and the kids had fun roasting some hot dogs and marshmallows. Brien got some strawberry marshmallows. I did not know they made such. They were really yummy! Shelby and Oscar slept in the back of the camper in the bottom bunk while Tyler curled up in between Brien and myself in the itty-bitty full sized bed. Before the night was over, I ended up on the couch bed. Even the King sized bed at home isn't big enough for the three of us because this child likes to sleep sideways!

Brien woke up bright and early in the tradition of being at "deer camp" I suppose. He got dressed and went to look around. He came back and reported that he had seen nothing. By this time Tyler had woke up and was very disappointed that his daddy had went hunting without him. We couldn't make him understand that it was not hunting season and he could not hunt anything. When he got dressed we went out exploring. I took my weapon of choice, my Cannon Rebel. I had fun shooting all kinds of things. I didn't kill anything, though. I did get some great photos for Looking at the Sky on Friday for the next few weeks. I also got some shots of Oscar barking at cows, like the one below in the Camera Critters meme.

Brien made us some breakfast and we headed out on the four wheeler exploring. As I mentioned before there was a bad ice storm a couple of weeks ago and there were lots of trees down making our explorations a bit difficult. We managed, though and we all had a great time getting out in the woods. The temperatures were in the high 60s and there was still ice in the woods, so that tells you how thick that the ice must have been at one point in time.

We had a lovely time and it was nice to get away even if it was only for 24 hours. Here are a few more photos I took while we were there, if you're so inclined. I've put them in a scroll box to take up less room. To see more photos, you can click over to my Flickr account here.