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  E4 has just discovered a new talent- blowing raspberries!  She does it very well- and often.

  E1 has been flying through books this summer.  Reading is a normal activity for our family anyway, but she’s taken it to a whole new level.  It hasn’t even been a month since we signed up for Summer Reading at the library, and I bet she’s read at least 20 books.

  This is a gorgeous letter holder my sister gave me a few years ago.  I think of her every time I see it. 🙂 Our mail is delivered to a group lockbox a few houses down, instead of a traditional mailbox at our house.  It is an entire family trek to go check the […]

  We got home and started getting everything unpacked and put away.  I walked into the family room and just had to laugh.  E3 and E2 had been playing a game before we left, and as we were getting ready to go I asked E2 to put it up.  I guess he did.

  We had so much fun!  The kids played hard, rolled down hills, got sunburned. 🙂 We didn’t want the fun to end so we decided to stay one more night.

  (I remembered to make the photo a link, so click on it to see the larger version.) They started the fireworks an hour early this year, so it was rather challenging to get the settings right to get the bursts without having the sky too light.  The sunset colors made for an interesting composition, though.

  We decided at the last minute to go to Winchester Bay for the next couple of days.  Starting several years ago, my in-laws head down to spend the week around the fourth of July there, along with several friends from where we used to live in California.  They all have RV’s and camp in the […]

  It is common knowledge that to take decent flash pictures, one needs to get the flash as far away from the lens as possible.  I had a great external flash for my C-2100, a Promaster 5750DX.  One of the best features of this flash is it has through-the-lens (TTL) capabilities for many different cameras, it […]

  I was cleaning the kitchen after everyone was in bed, like normal, and I thought the bowl of cherries E1 and E3 had been snacking on was a perfect photo for today.  We’ve had some rough times recently, so our current family mottoes are: “Our family is a team,” “It’s us against the world,” and “I’ve got your back.”  […]

  A very neat local independent toy and learning store, Mindventures, has now gone out of business.  I stopped in a couple of days before the doors closed for good to see what was left, and walked out with some pretty good deals.  I got a huge pack of assorted colored construction paper, a miniature […]