Iphonography October

More from the phone that sees all - and sees that I am WAY BEHIND.


October brought the end of our harvest (including the sole butternut squash)...
...the end of swim lessons (the last set essentially private due to E's solo enrollment, and ending with a pretty impressive little challenge course)...

... and the beginning of T's time as second child, stuffed in this snowsuit (ask Ray for the pictures of E towing T about on a sled!).

E discovered that raking is worthwhile if you get to jump in the leaves (I'm not sure if that pile ever did get raked up - you can see it in the Halloween pics!)

I went back to work full-time and so did Ray, which means the ipad and Facetime became key to family dinners.

I mastered the art of the sharpie jolly roger tattoo (originally on my leg for work, then on E).

And E mastered the art of making Thanksgiving just as fun as Halloween. Gobble!

Lashes...

...we have them.

Iphoneography September

More from the phone that sees all...

Cutie Full-pants

Hey all!

You sure are persistent, coming back to check out our exploits.
Mom just wanted me to point out how cute I am! See?

What, you want more? I'll dance for you!


I do that dance, do that dance.....
......fill my pants!
Oops, could somebody fix that? Thanks.

MN car trip 2012 part 4

I did get a few other pics at Clarks. Like the huge colony (?) of turkey vultures, of which I only got half:

And Ray stealing apples on the way out - he should have stolen more, they were AWESOME (thanks Brian and Tiff).


Then it was back in the car for the drive home, and some Americana.

MN car trip 2012 pt.. 3?

From Lessingers we went on to Clarks so that T had someone to socialize with.

Actually, we all had lots of fun at Clarks, but most of the pics I took inside can be summed up as "blurry three and five year old". So you'll get pics of our day out in Stillwater instead.

MN car trip 2012- Pics from Jen

As I said, Jen was kind enough to take some pics for us. I'm not linking the actual pics, but if you click you'll get Jen's site to get ahold of her if you'd like them!Email jen@jenlessingerphotography.com. We put Jen under some tight time/childcare/physical constraints, but I still love these. If you want to see previous sessions, click here.







That last shot is an ode to this, and I'm so happy to have one for each!:

MN car trip 2012 pt 1

Yes, we did it- one car, two kids, about 2000 miles (total). For my own recordkeeping, we left at 5 AM on Sept. 16, the day after our trip to Washington. I packed the car while everyone else was at our neighborhood block party. I reallly wasn't ready to hit an airport after two days of flying already that week. I'd stink at Ray's job, apparently.

Anyway...

An artistic view of driving into Nebraska. For some reason we had no 3G service until we left Nebraska, which is when our families saw this pic.


Fun at the rest stop. Not sure why we thought the poles were SO fun, but I think 200-odd miles had something to do with it.

Survival - just before the kid starts to whine, suggest a show.

Eamon learned to climb trees at a rest stop in Iowa.

Ok, not really, but that pair of pics cracks me up. We did have a good long stop to play frisbee and make E run in circles. Ray had the genius idea of bringing a cooler of food, and being able to grab food we wanted whenever really did make the stops more relaxed. E was a trooper in the car, and T did well - but had a 240 mile limit that was amazingly predictable. Case in point, on the way back Ray was putting T in the carseat and told him he had to wait until the west side of Lincoln for his next stop. I was driving and realized eastern Lincoln would be 240 miles, western lincoln would be more like 280. Guess where we should have stopped? Guess which town had a lot of construction and  closed exits...

Anyway, first actual stop: Lessingers.

These two get along so well. I also love how concerned T is about the situation.
However, T got in plenty of his own fun and relaxation.



Perhaps too much relaxation?


Ray and the twins played a lot of games of "melting", which was basically hide and seek for stuffed animals. I tried to get decent pics of the game, but three active 3yo= blurry. I did get these, though, and they don't show the game but I love them:
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Speaking of pics I love- Jen was kind enough to take a few pics while we were there. Next post!