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A Great Weekend

Amanda — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:02:57 +0000

We had a great weekend: Parades, a Firemen’s Festival, a bike ride, creeking and more! Here are some family shots to share with you!

I gave the girls Silly Bandz to remind them of a few things: Meg was not to break any bones, Mita needed to make sure she didn't rot out her teeth with junk food and Enu and Elle needed to use their ears to listen!

Meg selling things for Girl Scouts.

Enu coloring up a storm at the Firemen's Festival.

Elle was in her first Parade!

Handsome Hubby on his bike.

Mita and Elle washing my car! It so needed it.

My Favorite Photo

Amanda — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:12:04 +0000

I recently won $100 Visa gift card from BlogHer on the question of the day! I was so tickled, I immediately entered the other $100 questions of the day, as I became very greedy

Today Jenna at StopDropandBlog has the question of the day. Of course it is about pictures (!) as she is a photography among other things.

Meg in a Fire Truck

So here it is. My favorite picture. I took it last year at the local FireMan’s Festival (which fits in with Jenna’s theme well LOL!) and didn’t try to take it the way it turned out, it just happened. I love it. I also won a $5 gift card to our local coffee hangout with it. Wow am I lucky!

So click on over to BlogHer and enter the question of the day…it is a real contest that you can win. Enu wants to know why I won’t buy her ice cream with my winnings…I’m just stingy that way!

Photo Credit Mandy W. 2009

Our Week In Pictures

Amanda — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:49:03 +0000

This has been a bit of a busy week. Most of our weeks entail me running around, mind you, but we had some major events this week. Major for us, anyway, the world didn’t stop spinning and CNN didn’t call. We did however, have two girls Fly Up from Brownies to Junior Girl Scouts and it was Elle’s last day of pre-school today. Definitely a time for pictures!

Meg later helped Enu get into her new Junior (green sash).

Mita wouldn't put on her sash, but liked the flowers!

The Flying Upceremony in Girl Scouts can be a simple affair or a major ceremony. The leaders for Mita and Enu planned this ceremony perfectly. There was food, goodie bags, some official ceremony of the pledge, the promise and a song and of course the girls walking across the stage (pretend bridge) receiving their badges and pins they earned over the last year.

Elle attended her last day of pre-school. Last day EVER! She starts Kindergarten in August and will be a full-time student for about two decades. She is excited of course, but I will miss our days at home with just the two of us. Don’t tell the other girls, but sometimes Elle and I would just watch TV or eat popcorn after the kids went to school. It was like having our own little Neverland, where she didn’t have to share with her sisters and I didn’t have to make her share! Here Elle is after I picked her up today. They did clown face-painting as a last day of school activity.

Not to leave Meg out…she had to decorate a potato as a book character this week. She choose to make a Hermione Grainger potato (big surprise there!). Hermione Potato Head was dressed in purple netting for the Yule Ball. I failed as a mother and didn’t get a picture taking of said potato before Meg took it to school. No big deal you say? Just take one when she brings it home from school? I would if some potato mashing bully hadn’t wrecked poor Potato Hermione at school! Ruffians. Anyway, Meg is confident she can repair her creation, so I may have a photo in the next few days!

How was your week?

Photo Credits Mandy W. 2010

Wordless Wednesday: I Wanna Go Back To Disney!

Amanda — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:00:59 +0000

You Capture: Spring

Amanda — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:52:26 +0000

Hubby getting rid of the winter-damaged limbs.

Spring makes for great photo opportunities. Every day is full of like and color, even if it is rainy colors. We have had such a great time getting back outside again. The kids are happier, more content and love to run, run, run. How great is that? I have even played a few rounds of tether-ball recently. you have no idea how much energy that game takes until you play it.

For more You Capture check out I should Be Folding Laundry . Happy Spring everyone!

Two baby birds

Elle climbing a tree. She doesn't need help this year!

Enu with some barn kittens the kids found.

Wordless Wednesday: Mama Hiking

Amanda — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:46:03 +0000

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Wordless Wednesday: Easter Bunnies

Amanda — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:11:50 +0000

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My Vacation Is Still On-Going!!!

Amanda — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:24:30 +0000

The fact is that my two week hiatus from blogging is turning into a month or so. I’d apologize, but I know that any mom would understand! Here are some pictures from Disney. We had a great time. I hope to re-enter the blogosphere soon…

The New Toy Story Ride Was The Best!

We Had Princess Overload!

We Ate In Cinderella's Castle And Were Joined By Sleeping Beauty!

WordLess Wednesday: Elle Has The Camera

Amanda — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:38:09 +0000

Waking Up The Cat

A Favorite Book Purplicious.

Panda Pet Shops Rule Elle's World!

Elle (age 4 will be 5 in less than a month) got ahold of my camera. I think she has talent! For more Wordless Wednesday check out 5MinutesForMom.com.

Shutterfly Makes Me Happy

Amanda — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:37:56 +0000

I was very excited to find out that I had been chosen to host a Shutterfly House party last Saturday. For those of you that are not familiar with Shutterfly, they are a online site that you can store, edit, buy prints and make projects out of your digital pictures. There are a lot of online sites that can do this, but I have always been partial to Shutterfly as there site was easy to use when I had slooooooow Internet speeds and other sites didn’t work. Plus, Shutterfly loves to give out free stuff and seems to always have a sale or free shipping going on. These things make me HAPPY!

At my party I had 14 sets of photo book coupons and coupons for 12 free Christmas cards to give out. I felt like Santa Claus on Christmas Eve! Photo books are some of my favorite things to make as I failed with the scrap-booking thing and love pictures of my children.

Add some wine, great tasting cookies and we had a nice time. My wire-less Internet proved to not be able to handle ten different users at once unfortunately, but everyone got to see how to make a photo book extremely quick and easy for those of us creatively deficient or lacking time. For the scrappers out there, Shutterfly has some great ways to create your masterpieces with many options, fonts, lay outs and themes.

Thank you Shutterfly for helping my friends and family have a great time. I cannot wait to see every-ones finished books and cards. If you want to have your own House Party, you can click here and see what opportunities await you.

Books I've made through Shutterfly.

FireMom and Outnumbered mom enjoying themselves.

(Disclosure: Shutterfly gave me and 14 of my guests coupon codes for 8×8 hard cover photo books and 12 holiday cards, as well as a Shutterfly bag and pen. I also received a 7×8 soft cover book, and balloons to have at my party. All of this was in exchange of sharing my Shutterfly products with friends and family. I was not asked to blog about it…but I had such a good time I wanted to!)

Photo Credits: Mandy W. 2009