Park fun with Aunt Chantel and Bracken!

Finally! Here are some pics from our trip to the park back in February when Chantel and Bracken came for a visit.

Max

(that boy was hard to get a picture of that day, this is the best one I got!)

Si

(I love that he has his tongue sticking out!)

Jordyn

Jake

Bracken

(my cutie-patootie nephew)

And the best 2 pictures of all!!

The redneck treadmill! LOL

Awww....she fell!

Thanks for coming down, Chantel and Bracken! We had a blast, can't wait to do it again!

Blasts from the past

I am using Rob's laptop because mine decided it needed a new hard drive. All the pictures that are on this computer are pretty old and I've been having fun looking at them, so I thought I'd share a few....

So Sweet!

Great Grandpa Max and our Max!

I Love this picture of Max

Jordyn and Si

Si at Sand Hollow Lake. Look how clear the water is!

Cutie Pie Max

Si and Jordyn.
She used to put all the washcloths on her head and wear them around the house like hats!
Silly girl :P

Another of Si and Jodyn

Happy Family!

Love that smile.
Can you believe he was that little?!?

Went through pictures

So, I just spent about a half an hour getting all the pictures from our 3 cameras put onto the computer and my thumb drive. I like to put them all on my home pc and then back up on our external hard drive. I also like to put them on a thumb drive and then transfer them to my laptop. I do most of my blogging at work, so I like to have a copy of my pictures on my laptop. I had pictures clear back from Max's birthday in August that were not transferred! Now I just need to go through and delete the bad ones and put them in their correct folders. I like to put them in monthly folders, then sub categories inside the month if there was a special event like a birthday or school program.

A few months ago I borrowed all my mother in laws photo books and scanned all her pictures to my computer. About a week ago she showed me a book that I had missed, it was mostly pictures of Rob as a baby. I don't want to miss getting those photos! After those are all organized I plan to burn them to CD's to give to Jan and any of her family that wants one.

Fireworks!

Here are some pictures of the Fireworks. It was a great show!

First Day of Spring!

Last Friday was the first day of spring and it was a beautiful day. I decided to take the kids to the park and we all had a blast. We have never been to that park before, but we will definitely be back, it was awesome! It also has a Splash Pad that will be fun when it gets just a little bit warmer.

Jordyn

Jake

My cousin's boy, Tray

Silly boy, Max

(I have several pictures of him with this face!)

Can't have a post full of pictures and not have some of the kids!

Ooops! Sorry, guys. I'm a mom, I have to! Here are some pictures of the kids from that ATV ride we took in September

Heres Max

Here's Jake and Jordyn

Heres Si

ATV ride

The last time we took an ATV ride was clear back in September. Wow!! I can't believe it's been that long. Shows you how hectic our life is getting and our kids aren't even in any extracurricular activities.

Anyway, it was still warm when we went and we all had a good time. We were on a dirt rode and drove around a bend and there was this old house sitting next to a pond or a lake. It was really unexpected, but I love old houses and we had to stop to read the plaque and take pictures.

Here is a picture of the house

Here is a tree house next to the pond, which is next to the house




There was a circular driveway in front of the house and this old wagon was situated in the middle, so I had to take a picture. I'm fascinated by old wagons. I'm fascinated by lots of old things, tractors, barns, lots of stuff.




This barn was up the road a bit from the house. It's not that old, but I thought it had an interesting shape.



These next 3 pictures are just some pretty views from that ride.

Raptor Romp!

I've been bad at updating on here. I've been meaning to do a post about the Raptor Romp for at least a week. I've finally got a minute and the pictures put on the computer, so I'll try and put together a post.

October 9th was our Elementary school's annual PTA fundraiser carnival. It's always lots of fun. I took the night off of work, so our whole family was there and then Grandma Jan and Grandpa Dave were able to be there, too. Grandma Jan had to work that night, but was able to take her lunch hour during that time, so she was there for Jordyn and Max's dances. I'm actually really thankful she was there, because when I got to the school and started to take pictures I realized that my batteries were dead! That hardly ever happens to me because I usually keep an extra set in my camera case, but those were dead too!

The Kindergartner's did a dance to a dinosaur song that was really cute. Jordyn dance was 50's style with hula hoops. For the life of me I can't remember what song Jordyn's grade danced too! That's what happens when you wait a week or more to write things down!! Oh, and after all the grades were done with their individual dances everyone met back on the field and did the chicken dance together. It was pandemonium!

Here are some pictures

Cute pic :0)

I just wanted to share this adorable picture of Jordyn

Pictures, Pictures everywhere!

As the mother of 4 kids, you can imagine that I am drowning in pictures. TONS of pictures. I went through them a few years ago and tried to catalog them by date. It's a good thing I did that, because looking at them these past few days I've had a hard time remembering even the year they were taken. I've had to look on the back and check the date.

I told my dear hubby Rob that I wanted a nice printer/scanner combo for Christmas and he got me one. I was so happy! Now I can scan all of those pictures (that I took before I had all my negatives put onto cds and went digital) into the computer and organize them chronologically. I'm also thinking about getting some kind of external harddrive and uploading all my pics to that and only leaving a few of my favorites on the actual computer. It's getting old and tired and Rob will shoot me if he has to buy more memory for the danged thing!

So, for the past week I've been scanning and organizing pictures to my computer. It's been fun. I've come across some long lost photos. I found my senior photos and 2 pictures of me as a toddler. Jordyn was in the room with me when I was scanning some high school pics of me and I came across my junior? picture. I showed it to Jordyn and asked her who it was, she said she didn't know. I told her it was her mom and she was just amazed. She sat there by me for a long while and looked at all the pictures with me. It was so much fun. I also came across a few pictures of my dad and one of my sister Chantel when she was about 5. What a cutie she was!

I also got alot of Si and Jordyn's baby pictures onto the computer. Once all the pics are on the computer I plan to upload them to my photobucket account, so in case there is a major catastrophe I will be able to have access to all my photos and not loose them all. That is something I think about all the time, loosing pictures of my kids.

I don't have very many pictures of Si as a baby and I feel bad about that. I was young and broke and didn't have a camera. I would borrow my moms camera and take pictures sporadically. A few years ago I was at Mom's house and she had a big box of pictures out. I went through them and she had one or 2 rolls of Si. I asked if I could borrow them to make copies and was so happy to find them! So, Mom, if you ever read this, I have those pictures scanned and you can have them back! It's only been, oh, 2 or 3 years!

I really need to go back up to moms and dig through the pictures again and bring back some of all of my family and scan them, I'd really like to have copies and be able to look at them with my kids. Speaking of family photos, I shoud talk to my mil, Jan, and get some pics of Rob and his sisters for my kids to enjoy while I'm at it. We all love looking at pictures!

So, post a comment and tell me how you organize your pictures, digitial or hardcopy.

Amy