Adventure 14

Adventures in Family Picture Taking

so here are the two kiddo's on Easter Sunday.

We snapped this picture and the next couple of them right before we left for church. no one was around to get a picture of the four of us so we just hauled the camera with us hoping to get one at church. (that is what we did last year)

 

after church we stopped to visit Nana. My Hubby's Grandmother.

Before going in to see her I had my Hubby take a picture of me with Little Girl

and then one with Golden Boy.

I am the one usually behind the camera so I am not in all that many pictures unless I put the camera in someone's hands and say take this picture of me and the kids (or whoever i am with)



 

we visited with Nana and even got to eat Easter brunch with her. My mother in law was there as well as her sister and brother. we got this cute picture of the kids with Nana

 

and we did get the four of us in a picture with Nana and my mother in law




A four generation picture

I had hoped to get a picture of the four of us in our Easter clothes but this shot is about all that I was able to get. It was us as we were about to go on a family bike ride. it was a beautiful day.

i like the look of posed and formal-ish pictures. but sometimes i just have to settle for in the moment and us. this is how we really are. not all dressed up (even though we like to dress up) but just in our casual every day clothes and hanging out.



Spring Break 2015

We started off our spring break at the Lake House.

Golden Boy caught a turtle and we colored and made a fire and played games and watched the Swiss Family Robinson and had an egg hunt.

From there we headed to Atlanta for one night with the kids. we rode The Marta in Atlanta
to Centennial park. (i think just the waiting and riding of the train was the most fun for the kids)

Centennial Park

After the Marta ride we got in the car and went in search of the Ikea.
The kids just loved it and i sure did too. I couldn't get out of there without buying something. I looked for a frame for one of Little girls pictures but there wasn't anything that i liked but i did find this basket that i am now using on top of my refrigerator to hold bread and place mats and other things and the very large basket that was up there is now the shoe bin.

The next morning we took the kids to The Aquarium. It was really awesome. One of the things that they have is a dolphin show which is really pretty cool. they have it two times in the day and we went to see it both times because the kids loved it to much.

check this little fish. it would go into that hole and come out with a mouth full of sand and spit it out.

another amazing this was the whale sharks

we got waited to see when they feed them

Once we left the Aquarium we went to the Lego discovery center but need to stop to get something to eat. we were discussing what they had in this really high scale mall that we were in and when the hubby said Johnny Rockets, i jumped on that idea. i remember eating there when i was in college and how much i loved it. 

a peanut butter chocolate malt was for sure one of the things that i had my heart, mind and tummy set on.

The Lego Discovery Center was right across the mall from Johnny Rockets so we headed there after we ate. it was so much fun

i kid you not i thought for sure someone had dropped a hundred dollar bill on the ground. i bent down to pick it up and realized it was a fake. it sure does look real. both the kids fell for it as well. it gave the hubby some good laughing too.

When we got back home the Circus was coming to town. we went to the Elephant Walk.

and then we ended spring break with a trip to The Circus 

Easter Goodies

these cute little Easter goodies are over at The Idea Room

she has the cute frog printable as well as a chick and bunny to pair with an EOS lip gloss that looks just like an egg.

I don't have a colored printer so I chose green card stock and had to write the words

"Hoppy 'EOS'ter!" on it

I used my hole 1 inch hole punch in the picture below but it still wasn't big enough

 

I think they came out so cute for Little girls teachers. I ended up making one for Golden Boy's teacher as well.

 

another pin that I saw that I just loved was this bunny bait treat

I used the little buckets that I had from the Night Circus book club that I hosted and Little girl helped me to fill them with pretzels, mini marshmallows and Cadbury eggs (my favorite)

they came out really cute and I think the kids really liked them.

thank you ladies for such great ideas for Easter treats for teachers and friends.