Monday, July 27, 2015

Boys' Camping Trip 2015

Since us girls have started our beach tradition, Steve decided it was time for the boys to make something happen!  This year he took both boys camping over the time us girls were at the beach.  It was so fun to get texts from him throughout our days apart.  Seems like they had a great time.


Aaron had so much fun catching fish!  The lake was connected to their camp site.










When I woke up with this picture sent to me I kept staring at it.  As much as I love the beach, I love, love, camping in the woods.  I was so jealous they were eating breakfast with the morning sun shining on their backs.  I was wishing I was with them!!

They ended their trip with a stop at Cabela's


Friday, July 24, 2015

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Girls' Beach Trip 2015

We returned last night from our annual girls' beach trip.  It is such a treat for me to get away with my daughters.  My mom came again this year and it was fun to have Grandma along!!

I didn't take many pictures this year.  Though I love seeing pics from the beach, it's always a bit stressful to be pulling my camera in and out.  The sand and the water are all over my camera.  And...I think I'm still a bit bitter about loosing alllll of the pics I took from our last trip.  Grrrr...

We were there for 3 days.  The first day we met up with my cousin Shannon and kids and her mom.  We had not even planned it, but we met up about 10 minutes from the beach!  I'm driving along and suddenly I see my aunt hanging her head out the window waving at me!!  We were having a great day at the beach and suddenly we hear thunder and see lightning and they made us evacuate the beach so it cut our day short...and I never got a picture of us together!

The next day it rained so we spent the day at the hotel pool, shopped at thrift stores and the outlets.  Day 3 was perfect and sunny and we hit the beach again.

Love these crazy girls so much.  I see threads of similarities that run between them but mostly they are so, so different. It's brings me such joy to watch them grow and discover who God has made them to be.







Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Grateful

Grateful for this blurry iPhone picture of my dear husband and our kids on Father's Day.  He loves them fiercely and tenderly.  They are so lucky to have him.


Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Mad

Recently I have been having some major issues with my photography software.  I really really hate anything to do with computers.  I use it because I have to, I have learned things because I need to if I want to function in this age.  But ask me anything outside of my little realm of knowledge and I'm clueless.  If something goes wrong I am so intimidated by what's in front of me and feel like the computer will blow up if I touch it.  Not an exaggeration.

So Steve sat down with me recently to try to figure out what was going on with my software.  What I think happened was that with so many fingers all over our computer someone somehow accidentally changed my settings.  In the midst of Steve and I trying to communicate about how I wanted things set up, we accidentally deleted all the recent pictures on my memory card.  No joke, I burst into tears.  I was so mad.  Even though it was only a month of pictures, they were special things.  Cherry picking, Father's Day pictures with my dad, our 3 day trip to the beach, Claudia and Morgan at Youth Camp.

In my little pout and tantrum at being mad at technology and telling myself I was going to start shooting film again, I remembered the days of waiting to get a roll of film in the mail and the devastation of seeing all the pictures blurry or almost black.  Those weren't the glory days either!!  So I march on in my little digital world, trying to figure this all out.

My blog may be a bit quiet with nothing recent to post.  Grrr....