Pics from weekend at the Wilson’s

It seems that I only took out my camera when we walked to the local school playground one foggy morning…here are some pictures from the walk there, the time there, and the walk back.

Spring-filled playground time

The temperatures were so nice today, we actually made it out to the playground. And, more amazing than that, I brought my good camera out for some pictures!

Setting a record…

…for the longest time between posts.  Yikes! my last post was almost three months ago. 

I’ll take a moment to catch up in pictures.

My employer put on a holiday party for its employees’ families.

The kiddos sipped hot cocoa. We’ve learned that one serving of hot cocoa is too much for either of them, so they end up splitting a serving.

Our Christmas card for 2011.

My birthday dinner at Noodles & Company. Josh took the picture.

‘

Raleigh’s assessment from pre-school shows that he thinks his name is Batman and he can spell Batman.

We’ve had the warmest winter ever! For example, Leah built a sand castle at the local park in the middle of January!

but we’ve still had a few cold days and snow finally did arrive.

We watched the cobber women’s hockey team lose to Gustavus (which we’d later learn was a good preview at the MIAC championship game).

We bought skates for Leah and went skating on one of the warmer days.

We scored a sofa and a loveseat (Leather/Vinyl) for a very cheap price from Craigslist.

Josh gave in and finally let me buy a minivan

The kids have been consistently going to gymnastics. Leah is wearing her Leo in the pic below.

I just like this picture of Leah.

More snow fun.

The kids in their jammies.

The kids in their snow fort.

I’ll try to remember to post more pics within the week.

Early Christmas at the Wilson’s

We had an early Christmas at the Wilson household last weekend. And, like usual, we attempted to take a family photo. Here are the best ones.

Opening presents…

Cocoa, Copper, and Murdoch. Apparently girl dogs’ names start with a C. Murdoch felt left out.

Hugs…

Smiles…

Skating…

Me and Josh

Nice to see you again :)

It’s been a while since I last posted…Yah, sorry about that. I’ve noticed that I take fewer pictures with my good camera now that I have a phone that is smart and takes pictures for me. The downside to that is that I am hardly at my home computer to import pictures from my camera, which is when I actually post pictures to my blog.

I’ll try to be better at taking and posting pics of the kids, but no promises. If you haven’t found me on Facebook yet, try to find me. You’ll see many more pictures of the kids on there than you will on this blog.

The pictures below were taken by Jamie ‘Savage’ Anderson earlier this fall.

Late to the party

This first picture of Raleigh sums up how these past few weeks have been. A little funny, a little weird, and a little messed up.

 

Josh and I have been nursing some head/chest colds for the past two weeks. Neither of us remember ever being this sick before.

I’ve harvested produce from our raised garden beds. The carrots seemed to be the cream of the crop this year.

We’ve been making lots of apple-y recipes lately. I’ve had three different people give me bags of apples in the past three weeks. We’ve made apple cake, dehydrated apple slices, and apple sauce so far. We only have about a bag of apples left now.

One of my coworkers got married and we got to bring the kids to the wedding. It was the best wedding ever to bring kids to…the ceremony lasted only just over 2 minutes.

My little brother, Corey, came to visit again. He was transitioning jobs and got to stay with us for a week or so between jobs.

The kids really miss him. And me too.

We bought a lovesac for our reading area downstairs and the kids love it so far.

And knowing that winter is coming, we’ve been trying to spend as much time outside as possible lately.

Leah is becoming more friendly with the camera, and she is growing up too quickly.

We had a rummage sale, our first ever, and Leah was a huge help. She kept finding stuff from the sale to wear around.

Raleigh started preschool again and so far he says that he has four friends…Ayden, Louie, Sophia, and I forget the fourth one.

It’s been a while

Due to the awesomeness that is Facebook and also due to the fact that I now have a Windows 7 phone, I find myself taking less and less pictures with my really nice camera and less and less time posting pictures on this blog.

If you’re on Facebook, I suggest friending me, because then you get lots of pictures and videos of the kids more frequently.

Until then, please be patient with my infrequent postings here.

We’ve been harvesting some carrots and other produce from our raised garden beds.

We’ve been landscaping a bit too.

The kids have been eating the produce from the garden.

And they’ve been eating other things as well. The next three pictures were taken at the Cobber corn feed this year.

We’ve also been visiting parks, a lot.

Just pictures at the park

 

A Tioga Weekend

What a fun weekend!

We spent it with my family and had a blast! Friday night, we enjoyed grapes on the beach.

Leah practiced her sour-frowny face.

…and she pointed out the boats to us.

Sam and Raleigh had fun playing with letters on Grandma’s fridge.

Leah was stung by a mosquito on her eyelid…and…it swelled up a bit.

Sam had fun squirting fish.

Raleigh had fun pretending to drown…ok…he just threw his hands in the air and it seems like he was drowning.

He was actually fine.

Grandma took her favorite spot…in a floaty…on the lake.

Tyler snorkeled and Raleigh splashed him. What? oh, really, you don’t need a play by play of all these photos, fine, suit your self.

I can’t not comment on this one. OMG look at her eyelid!! And those yummy yummy black olives.

And these weirdos seem to make it into a photo. We’ll have to instruct Jed the bouncer guy to not let people like this get close to us anymore.

Pssst… we really don’t have a bouncer named Jed. In fact, we don’t have a bouncer at all.

DJ risked life and limb to jump off the dock.

and he survived.

Phwew…it was a close one.

We were semi-successful in getting a picture of all the kiddos at once. My brother’s kids seem to know when to smile. Leah, however, has had the camera stuffed in her face too much and has built up a defense mechanism that automatically turns her heads away when the shutter opens.

Grandpa capped off the weekend with some fishing advice for DJ and Tyler.

It was a great weekend.

Summer icicles

We can’t seem to get enough of our little backyard pool lately. With temps above 80 and sometimes a heat index warning, we definitely make use of this fabulous 10 dollar item.

My kids (see above) are also having fun playing with the hose (see below).

I had my fancy camera out (it’s really 6 years old now, but I still think it’s fancy) and actually took some cool pictures of the water coming out of the garden hose. It looks like really clear ice.

I also took some goofy pictures.