weekend rundown

We had a fabulous Thanksgiving.  It was pretty quiet and mellow, but we enjoyed the relaxing day together.  In the morning, Brooke went and played in the Turkey Bowl with people from church.  While he was gone, I worked on our feast and watched some of the Macy's parade with Jake.  When Brooke got home, he started working on making the Lefsa.  He insisted on taking a picture of me with all the Lefsa stuff, but he did all the work. 

It was rainy and overcast all day long.  We really didn't mind too much...it reminded us of home.  A cloudy rainy day is a rare thing here, so i had to document it.

Here we all are about to enjoy eating our Thanksgiving meal.  Even Gracie joined us and chowed down on some mashed potatoes and rolls.  As you can see, the kids are in their pj's.  Like I said, it was a very relaxing day.

Today we were busy getting Christmas decorations up and doing stuff around the house.  Jake was watching Superman and I put his blanket on top of him.  I think it took him about 2 minutes to fall asleep.

And here are a few shots of Grace looking cute as usual.

Our weekend

Saturday we went to The Museum of Natural History and Science.  Jake was SO excited to see the dinosaurs and he had a great time exploring the Museum.  

After the Museum, we went to a local air field because there was a B17 there for the day.  We got to take a close look and then watch it taxi and take off.  You could go on a 45 min. ride on it for the bargain price of $395....ouch!  It was a great weekend and we are looking forward to the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend we have to spend together.

learning

I'm trying to learn more about photography.  I have a LONG way to go.  Here are a few of my experimental shots.  Luckily I have fabulous subjects to work with!  

funny times

I pulled out some of Jake's baby toys and she is having a blast with them. Jake is too.

Look at those cheeks. I just want to kiss them all the time!

The other day, we were in the kitchen and Jake put his face close to Grace and all the sudden she started clapping her hands against his face. They started laughing and laughing. By the time I got the camera out, things weren't quite as wild, but it will give you an idea of how much fun these two have together.

Last night, It was bedtime for Grace, but she was full of energy. She kept making this cough/laugh noise...we love having her in our family!

Kung-Fu Jake

We got Kung-Fu Panda this weekend and Jake has gotten into it.  On Saturday night we were at the grocery store and they had some halloween make-up on sale so we picked it up.   Sunday after church, Jake wanted to paint his face and decided he wanted me to give him Kung-Fu Panda eyes.  He then proceeded to show me his Kung-Fu moves using his weapon of choice...a bat.  He definitely keeps us entertained!

family pictures

This past Saturday we decided to take advantage of the fall colors and take some family pictures.  Everyone got ready, we headed to the park and river where we were going to take the pictures, set up the tripod and got the camera all situated.  Brooke turned on the camera and started laughing.  He asked me when the last time was that i used the camera.  I told him it was last week.  I still didn't understand what was so funny.  Then he told me the memory card wasn't in the camera.  UUUGGGGGggg.  I was totally kicking myself.  Well, Walmart was up the street, so we got another memory card (i don't think i mentioned that the park was 15 min. from our house and the amount of time that the kids would remain happy was rapidly disappearing).  We got back to the park and now all we had to do was get everyone to smile and look good just when the timer went off.  We had lots of not so good ones, but i think we got a couple that turned out decent.  

Here is one of the funnier one that we got.

Brooke and Grace having fun...

A couple shots of Gracie

She hasn't quite mastered sitting on her own, so here she is mid-fall.  luckily it all happens in slow motion.

She wasn't a big fan of the swing

When we want to take a picture of Jake and ask him to smile, we get a pretty cheezy result.  He hasn't quite figured out how to have a nice relaxed smile for a pictures.  It kindof reminds me of a Chandler picture smile.

He had fun throwing rocks in the river when we were taking a break.

Lessons learned...remember the memory card and invest in a remote for the camera!!!

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Here are a few pictures I took of the kids this week.

It was a little windy outside and Gracies comb-over was having trouble staying down.