We sure took a lot of pictures with the grands here. It seems like so long ago already, especially with thanksgiving and Christmas looming up upon us. As soon as I get one gift project underway, I seem to think up 3 others. Hopefully I'll have enough time to do them all.
We did get a biggy out of the way today- the family picture. We always give the grands and uncles/aunts an updated family picture. The problem is that we are picky. Brian doesn't like studio shots. We like the picture up close too. The last couple of years we got friends to help and while they were good, they weren't what was in our heads. Our best picture was one Brian took with the timer set on the camera when Ivan was a baby. So we tried it again- only now we have two toddlers. Brian acquired his dream camera this last year along with a great stand, so we set that up and tied one of the helium balloons to it (yes, they still fly some) and took about 17 shots. By the end, the kids were cranky and eating up my mini m-n-m bribery tool like they were going out of business, but hopefully we'll have a good picture in the bunch. We'll see come Friday.
Today I didn't have extra kids and Brian needed time to practice for a gig Sat. so I hauled my twosome on some errands. We went to 6 places! Usually I limit outings to one or two places. It was pretty crazy.
With no extra kids to watch this week, we can get out of the house! This is major fun. Tomorrow we are going to library time, which we haven't done in ages. Friday we are going swimming, with the most fun being that a couple of our friends and their kids are going to join us. Usually, it's just me and the kids in the pool with a couple of adults. We have fun, but the kids like it way more when other kids are swimming too.
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I know you try to enjoy every minute with your kids and we did too. That "swing" time was really a fun time and glad we got it recorded for posterity.
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