Kendall’s Hula
Kendall’s class has been learning about some of the 50 states this summer at school, and this week she’s been learning about Hawaii. She’s been telling me about hula dancing and things like that! So, she has a renewed appreciation for the Baby Beach Band (a toy that our cousin Katie gave Brian almost 7 years ago!) Amazingly, Mister Octopus’s battery still works, and Kendall made great use of it to do her own style of hula dancing (which she calls “hula...
Read MoreScanning Day, The Third
Today we were back out at Grandmother’s house to finally wrap up the scanning project. Before heading out, we had a little playtime at home. We’d been watching some SNL Best-Of videos, and Brian had really taken a liking to Dana Carvey’s “Choppin’ Broccoli” bit. Kendall was baking her cookies, while Brian was decorating the piano with play broccoli and recreating the scene his own way! Then, we headed out to Z-town. Brandon and I finished up the...
Read MoreScanning Day
After Grandmother’s funeral, Mandy and I were talking about how sad it’d be if all the family photos got divided up, when we could use technology to share them with everyone. I offered to scan the whole collection, and Mandy said she’d help, too! Everyone agreed to our plan, and held off on dividing up the photos for awhile. Today was our first scanning day, and while it was a lot of work, it was very rewarding. 🙂 I’ll post the results on a family Flickr group so...
Read MoreBackyard BBQ
This morning, the kids both went to the Lowes Build and Grow session, and made a cool Turbo pull-back toy! We weren’t familiar with Turbo, but found the movie on Netflix afterward, and watched it with lunch! Pretty cute. This afternoon, after playing downstairs for awhile (with the kids abusing Brandon by riding him like a horse!) we decided to make use of the canopy we’d bought on the way back from the beach and Brandon’s new grill, and have a cookout. It’s a...
Read MoreJuly Beach Trip, day 4
Today on our beach trip, we went to the real, actual, sandy beach! We weren’t sure which one to visit, but we ended up heading towards Pine Knoll Shores and driving around until we found a public beach access. Of course the parking was not adjacent to said access, so, we had quite the hike along the side of the road, carrying all of our gear! But, once we got there, the beach was lovely. Absolutely perfect beach weather, warm and sunny, cool water, a nice breeze. Brian was super...
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