I got tagged

Christine has decided to tag me so I guess I'll play her game. ;)

6 things that make me happy (in no particular order):

My family

Dark Chocolate

Steamy romance book

Shopping particularly bargain shopping

My kids' smiles

Good friends

I would tag someone else however I don't think anyone else reads this but Christine. hahaha

More Catching Up

I am little irritated, because I can't find our old Tulsa Zoo pictures. I am missing a whole set of photo cds. But in the meantime I have more pictures to post.

We went to Martin's Nature Park a few weeks ago. While there we decided to Letterbox for the first time. www.letterboxing.org The kids were so excited when we found our first and second letterboxes. We are definitely going to have to go letterboxing more often.

Natalie being Goofy as usual!

Not quite sure why Bryce had his arm up in the air.





The kids were studying the map so we knew which way to go. Natalie felt like Dora.

We figured out how to use the self-timer for the first time! Yay, a family picture.

Taking pictures of two

I have to take a detour from playing catch up. I'll get back to playing catch up very soon.

So my mom asked me if I had a recent picture of Bryce and Natalie together for a 4 x 6 picture frame she had. I went through the last few months of photos and I don't have even one picture of the two of them together that's frame worthy. No problem I thought-I'll just take some pictures and surely I can get one good one.

I am by no means a photographer or even close to being a good picture taker. I had trouble with lighting and shadows and it's quite difficult to get both kids looking in the same direction and both smiling at the same time.
Here's some of what I got:

At least I got a few decent shots. I am going to print them all out and let my mom choose which one she likes best.

Catching Up!

I finally downloaded pictures onto my computer so I am going to play catch up.

Earlier this fall we took a trip to the Tulsa Zoo. Everytime we go there are certain pictures we have to take everytime. These are the ones from this year. If I can dig them up I'll post some from past trips to the zoo as well.







Of course, I don't have any more Tulsa Zoo pics on my computer. Later tonight or tomorrow I'll get the photo cds out and try to find older pics.

And of course, I have ran out of time so I'll have to do some more catching up later.

I am a such a blog slacker

I am on the computer every single day multiple times a day. You'd think I'd have plenty of time to update this thing and I do, but I admit I am a slacker.

Bryce is doing fantastically in school. I am so proud of him. He's learned so many new words in the past few weeks and he's gotten every spelling word correct on his spelling tests. He's also donig great in swimming. He moved up to the next level this month. We watched him swim on Monday and he's doing just as good as the strongest swimmers in his class.

Natalie and I are enjoying all our time to ourselves during the day. She's such a joy to be around these days. Today we went shopping, had lunch and then went to the park.

We are sad, though, cause our friends moved away. Today was especially hard at the park because usually I am there with Christine. There were a couple of other moms chatting and it made me think about all of our park adventures from the past year.

More random thoughts

We went ice skating yesterday for the first time. So much fun! Bryce did well for his first time. He clung to the wall for a while, but eventually got brave and let go. Natalie just held our hands and glided along with us.

Today was a perfect day. We spent 2.5 hours at the park! I didn't want to leave, but knew we had to come home eventually.

My brother is coming home from overseas on Friday. Woohoo!!!!

Heavy Heart

Unfortunately things in life aren't always happy. This has been one of the saddest weeks of my life. My dearest friend's 3.5 year old nephew died earlier this week. I am so sad and have shed so many tears for his family.