Friday, May 13, 2016

Photo Fantastique: Part II

So... many... pictures... to share...

This post will only bring us up to (but not including) Christmas.  How did I ever let myself get so far behind???


Anyway.  This is at Bentley or Kendra's soccer game, on the day we took the kids to a UVA football game.  We didn't have any UVA gear, but we at least wore orange shirts!  AND ate some very orange Cheez-its.  We try hard.


Drawstring bag as hat?

Camille likes snuggling with Daddy!

And being wrapped in a fuzzy blanket!

Ryder at Carter Mountain

Camouflage baby!
This was our yard sale last fall!  It was SO much work!
Colton all dressed up for church

Craig in front of a Wall O Swords at the Governor's mansion in Williamsburg

Of COURSE you have to take a picture of yourself in the stocks!

I got to be in the mock trial!  See me up there on the left?

I just like this picture

Older girls hanging out with Ryder during Kendra's soccer practice...?!?!

The chickens are still alive and well!



Camille is thrilled any time she can hold a ball

They have a day where kids are invited to trick or treat on UVA campus (called "The Grounds" by locals, thanks to Thomas Jefferson's insistence, way back in the day!) so we just took Bentley and Kendra, rather than have to deal with dragging everyone all over the place.  It turned out to be a very popular event!

Bentley and Kendra had fun!

Except for Camille falling through Bentley's arms, this is a really cute picture...

There's Camille's face!

Our neighborhood was AWESOME for trick-or-treating!  Don't worry-- the firemen were just there for fun!

Craig took Bentley along to a recruiting event and had him show off the CATEC fireman's program!

Pure joy: he takes after his Daddy...
Colton and Ryder act as lifeguards during Camille's bath

And so I guess it's only fair to post pics of them during their bath time, too!

Watching the Thanksgiving Day parade in pajamas

First he said he was Blocky Man.  Then he shortened it to just Man.

Bentley LOVES eating the drumstick
Thanksgiving with Craig's parents and Aunt Lynda and Uncle Greg

Making spritz cookies-- Craig's favorite Thanksgiving tradition!

Amongst the white pumpkins at Carter Mountain

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Photo Fantastique: Part I

In the process of writing the Birthday post, I finally forced myself to figure out how to get pictures from Craig's phone onto my blog.  Like so many things in life, it wasn't even all that hard-- I'd just been too lazy to figure it out for a long time.

But the process of combing through all his pictures to find the birthday ones uncovered oodles of other fun pics dating all the way back to August (!!!) that never made it onto the blog.  So I guess it's time to remedy that, isn't it???  There are too many for one post, so I'll break it down into a few.  You've been warned.

This was how I found Kendra one morning...  I really like her combinations of blue and pink, actually.  It reminds me of the 80's.  But in a good way!

While Bentley and Kendra were at a birthday party, we decided to chill at Lake Monticello!  Gotta love Craig's selfie face!

I bet you thought my kids weren't even enrolled in school since I never posted pics of the first day of school (I should be fired as a blogger) but here they are!  Nine months later!

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!! 
I like that they had matching backpacks.

The exciting thing this year was that it was the first year ever when Craig got to be home with the kids to see them off!  Before, he's always been in the middle of second period when their school started.  So this was kind of fun for all of us to have him around.



This is from our (Manassas) ward campout in August.

Bentley makes himself comfortable in someone else's camping chair...

Hot air ballooning seems to be a big thing here.  And that building that you see there below the hot air balloon is Craig's school! Yay, CATEC!!!

Lots of balloons over CATEC!

Everyone loves mommy!

Words cannot even express how much I love the look on Colton's face here.  Like he suspects there's something a bit off about his hat, but he's not sure what exactly...

Me and my baby

Teddy still gets involved in some of Bentley's adventures!  This creek is somewhere behind our house.

One of the really fun things about Craig's job is getting to visit all the classrooms and see what the students are learning.  Here, Craig lets them teach him a thing or two...  And, if this job doesn't work out, we know he's got a lot of fall-back options!

Can't fake that smile.  :)

This *might* be Craig's favorite class...!
One Friday we took the kids to the Charlottesville outdoor mall for ice cream, and ended up running into all our neighbors because there was an huge, awesome "welcome back UVA students" party going on. We felt so cool for being there, even though we didn't have a clue about it.




Notice the UVA flag above us?  And the boys got balloons...  I think Camille even got a bib!  It was a delightful evening.


I think that's enough pictures for one post.  More to come!