Photo a Day July 21-Aug 10

This week marks the start of the 2014-2015 school year for me and we are having a lazy day at home before I gear up.  I thought it be best if I got caught up on my photo organizing which means getting caught up on my Photo A Day!  We have been cramming summer into these last few weeks of July and first weeks of August since we got such a late start due to illness.  Beach trips, a baseball game, swimming almost every night, the drive in and mini-vacation to Great Wolf Lodge with an ear infection thrown in the middle of it because apparently we were too healthy.  

Anyway, we have had a lot of fun.  School may be starting up but we will have good weather for awhile (fingers crossed) so our summer fun isn't over...we just have to schedule it a little differently!

july 21, 2014
Mr. Hopkins finally was on the carousel

july 22, 2014
cuddling on the couch

july 23, 2014
puddles

july 24, 2014
kindergarten backpack purchased

july 25, 2014
baseball game family picture

july 26, 2014
ear infection = disney store shopping

july 27, 2014
black eye thanks to a slide

july 28, 2014
scrapbooking together

july 29, 2014
mama and taelin beach day!

july 30, 2014
playing at the park

july 31, 2014
beach day with Lucy and Tina!  they had so much fun!

aug 1, 2014
school supplies purchased!  this girl is ready for kindergarten

aug 2, 2014
drive in time again!

aug 3, 2014
pool fun!

aug 4, 2014
beach day with Nana!

aug 5, 2014
that bowl is going to take forever to dry!

aug 6, 2014
new pink boots!  yeehaw!

aug 7, 2014
mini-vacation to the play in the water

aug 8, 2014
all showered up and ready to drive back home

aug 9, 2014
Maddie turns 7!
the matching outfits were NOT planned but sure were cute...

aug 10,  2014
hard waking up

Let's Go Fly A Kite!

A couple of weekends ago we went and stayed overnight in Pacific City in a cute little cabin with Joe's mom.  Right before we left, Taelin was begging to fly a kite.  We didn't have one but I am sure you wouldn't be surprised to learning that there were several for sale for the people like us that have a 5 year dying to fly a kite. Joe's mom picked one up and a half hour later declared that it was the best $5 she had ever spent.  Taelin didn't actually love the holding the kite part but was elated by the running below the kite and trying to figure out where is was going to land.  Joe and I took turns holding the kite and running after where is landed, which was more than a joy as we listened to Taelin's laughter.  

So, # 20 'Fly A Kite' is officially checked off the list.  And now that summer is here, I have few more things on the list that are working there way towards getting checked off too!

Photo a Day June 1-9, 2014

It's June!  I am so excited for this summer!  Technically I still have 3 work days next week and a work trip to Chicago, but we have been "doing" summer whether the school calendar says we can or not.  BBQ's, beach trips, and ballet have filled our 9 days of June so far!  I am excited to see what the rest of June brings.  

june 1, 2014
my first attempt at grilling pizza...it was amazing!

june 2, 2014
fantastic sunny day at the park with my favorite five year old

june 3, 2014
a good reminder courtesy of our local chinese restaurant

june 4, 2014
there is always a race for the purple vitamin at the end of the night

june 5, 2014
dress rehearsal day = happy girl

june 6, 2014
a day at the children's museum with one of
Taelin's favorite people...her cousin Lucy!

june 7, 2014
beach selfie

june 8, 2014
let's go fly a kite...her first kite!

june 9, 2014
that's a lot of ballerina's
on stage dress rehearsal...recital Saturday

Photo A Day Nov 1-16

We only have a month and a half until the end of 2013!  It is incredible to think about how quickly this year has gone.  I am so grateful to have such a record of our year so far and while I almost gave up last month because I was feeling so far behind in organizing it was thinking of not completing it that kept me going.  

So...here are the pictures from the first part of November.

nov 1, 2013
a day trip to visit Nana

nov 2, 2013
she loves her shaving cream baths

nov 3, 2013

nov 4, 2013

nov 5, 2013
collecting pine cones for painting

nov 6, 2013
the obligatory school picture

nov 7, 2013

nov 8, 2013

nov 9, 2013

nov 10, 2013

nov 11, 2013
ChaCha and Taelin at the Portland Children's Museum

nov 12, 2013
Taelin has taken to wanting to "play" school so we write out what she
wants to do and then check it off.  She is just a little like me.

nov 13, 2013

nov 14, 2013
I love this magazine, but especially the December issue

nov 15, 2013

nov 16, 2013
birthday party at Super Bounce
there is little else I have found that is quite as awkward as a
 preschool birthday party where you know no one but your kid

Photo A Day Oct 11-31

YIKES!  Over a month behind posting these...  Taelin is enjoying Snow White and the Seven Drawfs as I try to catch myself up on photo organizing.  Waiting this long ends up in it being quite a project.

Anyway...here are the rest of the pictures from October.  I am going to admit that a couple of times, I had to borrow a photo from another day but it just how life goes!

Oct 11, 2013

oct 12, 2013
obligatory pumpkin patch photo

oct 13, 2013

oct 14, 2013

oct 15, 2013

oct 16, 2013
Happy 12th Anniversary to Joe and I!

oct 18, 2013
a weekend in Newport with friends!

oct 19, 2013
don't let this crazy girl fool you, it was cold
she is built like her father

oct 20, 2013

oct 21, 2013
she loves painting pumpkins far more than carving them

oct 22, 2013
AWESOME concert...Macklemore!

oct 23, 2013
awesome concert that didn't get us home until 1 a.m. with
 the alarm going off 5 hours later
Starbucks was necessary

oct 24, 2013

oct 25, 2013

oct 26, 2013

oct 27, 2013
Halloween countdown

oct 28, 2013
we don't have leaves at our house so we went to the park with a rake 

oct 29, 2013
at the field at the end of the street

oct 30, 2013
Taelin's haul from Halloween
(clearly a borrowed day)

oct 31, 2013
Izzy from Jake and the Neverland Pirates
She is convinced here that Captain Hook is in the bushes
 trying to steal her pixie dust