Wednesday, September 18, 2013

September Days at Home & Castle Rock

Nathan making pudding on "guys night" while Mommy hung out with Karla and her daughter Andrea.  We watched old home movies of them at home on their farm in Iowa!
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Reading Nathan a new library book outside before nap time.  It was the first sunny day in awhile so we wanted to be out in it!  We went to the library that morning...which I suppose could have been done on a rainy day.  Nathan loves the library.
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Cutie.
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Sometimes he makes faces like his while telling me a something.  Looks like he still has jelly from him PB&J on his mouth!
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The other day I went to get Josh up and he was being so cute that I went to get my camera.  He wasn't thrilled with me leaving...which is why he looked like this when I came back!
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Peek-a-boo mommy!
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There's a smile!
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"Who did that??"
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He loves to throw his dog overboard as if to say, "I'm not napping!" or "I'm DONE napping!"

I'm innocent.
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It can be hard to change his diaper on his dresser these days!
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Having a cheese stick and shaking it all around!
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He thought it was so funny to do this.  Chicken, cheese and peppers...the lunch of champions.

Taking Josh for a ride in the dump truck.
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Nathan in his boots again.  There so versatile.  Go with anything. :)
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The new family photos in the play room.
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Both my kids love edamame!  I know, I hardly believe it myself!
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We have had lots of rain and a crazy and destructive amount of flooding in Colorado lately.  Very sad.  So many more homes lost as well as lives than the fires caused.  All we had was a little bit of water in the basement from our window well filling up.  The rug that was there pretty much contained it though.
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Our small shop vac did an awesome job sucking the water out.
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The rug completely dried in just a day or two after getting a lot of the excess water out.

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The boys certainly didn't mind an excuse to go to the basement and play.   Neither did Matt...as he worked on his shot on Nathan's new hoop!

Oops.  I thought I was done and then found some photos from last Saturday when we ran up to Castle Rock outlets.  That's why I added "& Castle Rock" to the post title!

Loaded up in the car.  Josh loves to be forward facing!
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And we love when he naps like this in his comfy seat :)
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After we left the outlet, we went to Good Times Burger & Fries to eat.  We don't have one in the Springs anymore so it's a treat!
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At this point I'm just messing with my camera settings and taking photos.
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Sometimes I'm amazed at how little I know about about some of the manual settings.  So I was playing around trying to figure things out.  Great subjects to work with though!
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His furrowed brow look!  He's watching another baby.  Trying to figure something out!
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I love this sweet face.
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I know it would be good to read a book or take a class on photography...but I don't have the patience.  I really love just playing around with it!
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Okay, I think we're caught up now!  Three new ones tonight if you don't want to miss any. 

1 comment:

mmncgrand said...

yes, such sweet faces. Aunt Verna put a picture of Matt and Mark when they were babies on fb the other day and I could see Drew and Joshua in them so plainly. It was easy to figure out who they were by seeing the similarities.