Second week of June » Aldergrove Family Photographer

Post #2 of Personal Project 52 weeks.

If all goes as planned, we are well on our way on our first camping trip of the year. Depending on how it goes, it also may be our last. A friend of mine calls it “making memories”. How true. Camping trips are not relaxing when you’re running after babies and toddlers. Again. Making memories.

As for posting this to my blog. The computer did it for me in my absence. Technology: mostly my friend.

* I am always thrilled to get any kind of half decent photo with my kids. I love this one Art captured.

* The week started out so promising. Sunday was beautiful and warm. Actually the whole weekend was really nice. But by Monday the rain started and it rained all week.

* We spent a lot of time inside.

* So we baked cookies to make ourselves feel better. I made a batch of these big, fat chewies. Except I quadrupled it. I expected to get 6 dozen cookies. Yeah. Try 10 dozen. Not complaining because they are delicious cookies. I substituted half of the chocolate chips for craisins and they were still plenty chocolaty. Surprisingly, the recipe called for melted butter. I always thought that the rule for good cookies was creaming the butter. Apparently the melting of butter is critical to the chewy texture.

* Another one of our Saturday morning rituals is garage-saling. Actually it’s an Art & Noah thing. Almost every Saturday, they find something. This week a tub of dinky cars. About 150 of them. For $5. We spent the afternoon having a ‘car wash’ and lining up the cars in rows.

* A favorite part of the nighttime routine is story time. He always asks for Dad to read the story.

* While Art and the kids were garage-saling this week, I was at a photo shoot. This cow in the field next to us was very interested in what we were doing and agreed to model for me.