Showing posts with label oregon trips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oregon trips. Show all posts

5.25.2011

this may be my favorite post i've ever done....

i am learning how to use i movie.
i am so super into it and so freakishly proud....
check out my VERY FIRST MOVIE EVER!
it seriously makes my want to freak out.








the song is "the prettiest tree on the mountain" by ben sole
the inspiration came from grace and tom
and the ability to make this loveliness came from my reedo getting me all the tools...
love them all.

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5.24.2011

a grouchy lady edits pictures...

i did it.
i organized and edited my photos from bend.
sigh.
one thing checked off my list.

but, you should know that ella was in her dress up princess costume all day.
that includes two trips to walmart (gag),
three to the elementary school,
and two fast food restaurants...yep two.
i didn't wear make up or do my hair...at all.
i had that funny head scarf thing on all day.
i also wore head to toe navy blue.
i have nothing against navy, it's just the head to toe part thats kinda depressing.

i was grouchy today.
so give yourself a pat on the back if you smiled a lot today, you did better than i did.
i told the kids that i was in a bad mood.
i thought it would be a good example.
you know? to model just admitting it and asking for some extra understanding?
jake just asked seven hundred and twenty eight questions about why i was in a bad mood....yep....that didn't really help much.
it may have made it just a tad worse.
but it did make me stop and try to figure out what made me grouchy...i think i may be getting sick...that's what i came up with.

my trip to bend was really so great.
i had some super special time with my sisters.
we even went to a little town CALLED sisters.
perfect.
it had antique shops and a fabric store.

plus a little market that had fountain diet coke(hard to find around there).
we each got one and then there was this little spinner at the front counter and if you spun the slot that said "free drink" you got it free...
we spun two free drinks and it was as if someone had won the lottery...
val yelled and i wooped.(i was not in a bad mood that day)
the guy behind the counter had the giantess smile and we all agreed it was gonna be one of the best memories form our trip...
those two free 99cent drinks...



sisters also had a cute little ice cream shop with cool floors...










one evening val and i went for a walk by the deschutes river.
it was so perfect.  the lighting and the loveliness....



grace and i did some exploring too...
she is a goof ball.


but i finally got to photograph so real clouds...i have a lack of real clouds in california, so i loved finding these...
grace is like reedo, she doesn't shy away from the camera, but she doesn't pose either...or make weird faces (like i do).
i kinda go crazy when they are both just hangin out letting me snap away...
they love me.
we got lots of good time with grace and her boyfriend tom and that was so happy to me.
my favorite.

and then we were home.
bam.
can it really be over?


(i have tried and tried to fix the weird funky "text on the side thing" and i don't know whats happening with blogger right now...it won't let me fix it....that doesn't help my mood.... %$@#$ blogger! didn't you get the memo that i am grouchy!??)









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5.23.2011

bend

ok so here's my real deal.
i only have so many words.
i am incredibly exhausted in that area right now.
for a combination of reasons.
but I also know that I can count on you friends to work with me give me some grace for a lack of words.
so here is part one of my spring 2011 bend trip.
the minimal words version.
enjoy.
i am confident that my words will return soon(ish).















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5.16.2011

a special treat

hi friends!
i am in bend.
bonding away with my sweetie pie sisters....
and yesterday we even got to sing at my gracie girl's church!
o sisters!


Grace Laxson and Sisters :: Down in the River to Pray from Antioch Church on Vimeo.

my sisters are so beautiful to me
hope you are all well...
when i get home it's gonna be like christmas catching up on on the blog posts and pintrest updates!

xo (wink wink)
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12.17.2010

rewind

ok
lets just take a step back in time.
about one month ago, this is what was happening....
sleds and snow,
sunshine and snowball fights...
the laviks and smiles,
the laxsons and wrestling...
shovels and kisses,
snow angels and aunts grace....
eating snow and warming hands in daddy's shirt,
dog piling and laughing....
family pictures,
one with out me....
and one with....
ahhh, memories.
what fun we had!

11.29.2010

i know. you've missed me. i've missed you too.

well.
this is what i've been doing.

ROAD TRIP!




(the naughty beard and rudolph nose is a getting back at jake for the AT-TI-TUDE about having his picture taken)


uh oh.....here it comes....


we had to stop for the night since they closed the I-5 freeway, due to crazy amounts of snow.
we handled it this way....




then back on the road at 6am
and down came the snow



need i say it?
stressed
that poor guy.



this was the first time my kids had EVER been in falling snow....i HAD to take pictures of them peeing on the tire!
reedo thought i was ridiculous.
i was.
so?




sure, everyone is stressed.
sure, it is very dangerous road conditions.
but my boys have never seen snow fall!
i show them how to catch flakes on their tongues, on the side of the road....priceless.


to be continued...