Pumpkin Carving Fun!
Carving Jack O’Lanterns is a favorite family tradition at our house!
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Announcing a new web show: The Zebra Print!
This summer Sarah and Rachel wanted to start their own iCarly-style webshow, and decided to name it, “The Zebra Print.” I helped them register the domain name (www.thezebraprint.com) and get the site launched. We created a YouTube channel for the show as well as a Twitter account. Sarah selected the WordPress blog theme and made sidebar customizations, I helped her add a ClustrMap and add Feedburner chicklets. We published the first episode in June, but busy schedules have prevented us from publishing the rest. We still need to publish episode #3, which was recorded in Washington DC at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. For now, however, there’s three episodes for you to watch. It’s going to be exciting to see the girls develop their on-camera communication skills. (Some of us certainly have an apparent flair for the dramatic.) Enjoy!
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Rachel’s 6 Year Old Book
This was a story Rachel created in Manhattan in September 2009. I took photos of the story pages this month over the Labor Day weekend and created this digital storybook using the free iOS app “Storykit.”
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American Girl Pet Look-Alike Contest
Sarah is entering the American Girl Pet Look-Alike Contest. This was her choice, from the series we took today.
Casebeers and Fryers
What a great looking group of kids and wives this is! This photo was taken in July 2010 in Virginia.
Here’s our crew again, with dads this time, from August 2007 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Have these kids grown or what?!
Now let’s turn the clock back five years from today, to March 2005 in Monterey, California.
Now let’s go back NINE years, to January 2001 in Colorado Springs!
I don’t think I can go back further with digital photos unless I scan prints – I know I have a photo before kids… So when I find it in the garage I’ll add it here.
Just two more, and these are of the oldest daughters. First, March 2005:
Now, July 2010:
There are few blessings as wondrous as children and good friends. 🙂
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Wild fiddle playing
Earlier this month my daughters and I spent a week in Manhattan, Kansas, and were able to watch part of the Mountain Sprout concert in the park on August 6th. This was some of the wildest fiddle playing I’d ever seen! These are certainly not “family values” themes, but the fiddle playing was extraordinary.
If you ever get a chance to hear these guys play in person, by all means don’t miss it. 🙂
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More camping photos from the Pecos
I’ve added 46 more photos and 1 more video from our trip last week camping in the Pecos. These were taken using Shelly’s camera, which is Carl’s “old” Sony DSC-H2. What a difference this good lens makes! I added these to the same Flickr set as our other photos and videos from the trip.
Too bad Alexander’s eyes were closed for this one. The kids has so much fun swimming in the stream Saturday!
A few quick photos as we packed up Sunday. Note the whiskers! 🙂
In all I think we caught about 10 fish on the trip. We ate 6. These were some of the best trout I’d ever tasted!
Does this girl look ready for fishing or WHAT?! They even checked out ReelChase to get their fishing essencials.
What lovely flowers!
Sarah took this photo of Shelly and Rachel. Way to go, Sarah!
The video quality on the Sony camera is not as good as the iPhone, but still better than not having video– in this clip, Rachel explains that we are camping and fishing!
Check out the entire set: 120 photos, 7 videos!
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Signs from Canyon
Must be on the South Plains of Texas!
I think this is SO thoughtful. A parking sign at United Supermarket in Canyon.
Fun camping in the Pecos
Here’s a few favorite photos from the images we took this week in the Pecos wilderness area in New Mexico, and I uploaded to Flickr. I have more short videos to upload, along with all the photos from mom’s camera which I don’t have with me this evening. We had a GREAT time!
This was the best fish I’d ever eaten in my entire life. You can’t beat freshly caught and cooked trout.
We camped at Terrero Campground, since Holy Ghost campground was closed for bathroom upgrades. This was our tent and campsite early in the week. It REALLY filled up (unfortunately but predictably) for the weekend.
There were hundreds of hummingbirds outside the Terrero general store. I took some video of this as well I’ll upload.
This was the weather forecast for Edmond the past week: Highs every day of 104! In the mountains at our campsite, it got down to the 50s and up only to the upper 70s.
Good times!
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Wildcat’s Pilot Helmet
Sarah and Rachel enjoyed trying on Wildcat’s old Air Force pilot helmet today. 🙂
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Cartwheels pano style
Today at Union Station in Kansas City, the girls asked me to take composite photos of them doing cartwheels using Pano. The results turned out pretty good for a first try!
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Fun with art at Kaleidoscope in Kansas City
This afternoon my girls and I were able to have LOTS of fun with my sister and nephew, making art at Kaleidoscope in Kansas City. In these two videos, Rachel explains how she is making a puzzle, and you can see the puzzle cutting process.
This was some magnet art I created on the whiteboard.
What a fun place to create and have fun!
Lots more pics are available in our “Fun in Kansas City” Flickr set!
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Rachel buys her first iTunes Audiobooks
Rachel has seen her siblings listen to audiobooks on their iPods, so this week she decided she’d like to have some of her own – particularly in light of our upcoming road trip to Kansas in a few weeks. Last night we searched the iTunes Store together to explore what was available that might be of interest, and she found a Dr Seuss compilation of nine books along with Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” which she thought would be great.
Since she just had $9, I agreed to split the cost of the books which totaled $13. This provided a good opportunity for her to learn how to divide by two, in a practical context. This evening at dinner she took 13 sugar packets at our restaurant and separated them into two groups, eventually figuring out she had to tear one in half. In this way she figured out we both needed to contribute $6.50 toward the purchase. This evening before bed she made her purchases with my help, and then recorded a five and a half minute podcast discussing her experiences with Audiobook purchases on iTunes. Lots of great learning together tonight!
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