Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Dancing with the kids!
Luke got out some of the lights he had from when he was a rock star and we turned our dining room into a club. It's amazing how fast Lexi picks up on lyrics, she's singing along with Blink! I guess we should start watching what we put on the speakers....
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
We Survived the Indianapolis Airshow
and all I got was a lobster for a husband ;)
We finally got on the road about 6:30am on Friday (5th)and didn't stop until we got across the border (about 3 hours). We arrived at Mt. Comfort Airport a little after 10:30am. The girls did extremely well on the car ride and only napped a tiny bit towards the end. We spent all day until about 4:30 looking at the static displays (they were still parking some of them) and watching the practice fly overs. (Friday was Media Day, so not a real show) The girls and I were tired and went back to the car about 3pm to soak up some air conditioning, so we watched the Blue Angels from the car while Luke went back to the flight line for pictures. Luke ended up using the 5D most of the day, because it seemed like his Sony wouldn't focus on any of the far away airplanes.
Our hotel was in Greenfield, about 15 minutes away, so we drove and stopped at an AppleBees and ordered the Carside-to-go. The girls were crashed, but woke up when we got to the hotel. We ate and got into our swimming stuff and swam in the pool at the hotel for a bit. After that Luke headed out to Wal-Mart to buy some supplies he would need to try and fix his focus problem on the Sony. He had wanted to head back out to the airport at dusk because they were doing hot air balloon flights, but it just got so late so fast, and I was so tired, and with his camera problem and sunburn, it just didn't happen. We had lights out a little after 9pm and we were out!
On Saturday we were up pretty early, about 8 or so. Luke went down and got our continental breakfast and we slowly packed ourselves up to head out for a day at the airshow. Luke had fixed his focus problem with the Sony, so we packed up. Luke feared a sunburn on top of his sunburn (He was too manly for suntan lotion) so he wore pants and his hoodie to keep off the sun. Since we had already seen the static displays, we went straight for the flight line and picked a spot to sit in. Luke went off to buy a couple of the umbrellas that mount on the back of folding chairs so we could have a little shade. The girls kept busy with some toys and coloring books. By the time the Angels flew by (they came in from the Indy airport) Lexi was busy cleaning the wagon and had little interest in them, and Lilly wouldn't keep on her earmuffs, so she sat in my lap and I held her ears. Luke had had enough and was nearing heat exhaustion, so we packed up right before the Blue Angels ended and got to the car and fought traffic out of there and heading for home. We made it home about 10pm and put the girls and ourselves to bed, and that was that.
We had a good but exhausting time, and Luke is by far the worst of with burn on his arms and legs. He also has had a problem with one of his ankles swelling a little bit before, and now both ankles are pretty swollen, so they have been up and wrapped and iced, and I'm sure we need to find a doctor for him to go to.
We took over 1500 pictures, and have been going through them and lots of video, so I will post them here as they turn up.
The airshow does have a photo contest for unedited pictures in 4 categories, so we picked a few and he's been asking everyone for their top 2 favourites in each category so we can decide which ones to send in. The link for them is here: Photo Contest Page
Here is a video Luke put together about our trip.
We finally got on the road about 6:30am on Friday (5th)and didn't stop until we got across the border (about 3 hours). We arrived at Mt. Comfort Airport a little after 10:30am. The girls did extremely well on the car ride and only napped a tiny bit towards the end. We spent all day until about 4:30 looking at the static displays (they were still parking some of them) and watching the practice fly overs. (Friday was Media Day, so not a real show) The girls and I were tired and went back to the car about 3pm to soak up some air conditioning, so we watched the Blue Angels from the car while Luke went back to the flight line for pictures. Luke ended up using the 5D most of the day, because it seemed like his Sony wouldn't focus on any of the far away airplanes.
Our hotel was in Greenfield, about 15 minutes away, so we drove and stopped at an AppleBees and ordered the Carside-to-go. The girls were crashed, but woke up when we got to the hotel. We ate and got into our swimming stuff and swam in the pool at the hotel for a bit. After that Luke headed out to Wal-Mart to buy some supplies he would need to try and fix his focus problem on the Sony. He had wanted to head back out to the airport at dusk because they were doing hot air balloon flights, but it just got so late so fast, and I was so tired, and with his camera problem and sunburn, it just didn't happen. We had lights out a little after 9pm and we were out!
On Saturday we were up pretty early, about 8 or so. Luke went down and got our continental breakfast and we slowly packed ourselves up to head out for a day at the airshow. Luke had fixed his focus problem with the Sony, so we packed up. Luke feared a sunburn on top of his sunburn (He was too manly for suntan lotion) so he wore pants and his hoodie to keep off the sun. Since we had already seen the static displays, we went straight for the flight line and picked a spot to sit in. Luke went off to buy a couple of the umbrellas that mount on the back of folding chairs so we could have a little shade. The girls kept busy with some toys and coloring books. By the time the Angels flew by (they came in from the Indy airport) Lexi was busy cleaning the wagon and had little interest in them, and Lilly wouldn't keep on her earmuffs, so she sat in my lap and I held her ears. Luke had had enough and was nearing heat exhaustion, so we packed up right before the Blue Angels ended and got to the car and fought traffic out of there and heading for home. We made it home about 10pm and put the girls and ourselves to bed, and that was that.
We had a good but exhausting time, and Luke is by far the worst of with burn on his arms and legs. He also has had a problem with one of his ankles swelling a little bit before, and now both ankles are pretty swollen, so they have been up and wrapped and iced, and I'm sure we need to find a doctor for him to go to.
We took over 1500 pictures, and have been going through them and lots of video, so I will post them here as they turn up.
The airshow does have a photo contest for unedited pictures in 4 categories, so we picked a few and he's been asking everyone for their top 2 favourites in each category so we can decide which ones to send in. The link for them is here: Photo Contest Page
Here is a video Luke put together about our trip.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Nick's Birthday Party
My cousin Nick turned 15 on May 4th and the girls ate all of his cake when we went to his party. He is totally into the group of high school people that are all about the vintage look and music of the 70's. Some kind of new age hippie thing (my brother is the same way) He got lots of posters and t-shirts of all the cool rock bands of the day, and the highlight was Judas Priest tickets!
The girls always have a blast when we go over there for party, I hate to think of the next time we go over there and they aren't having a birthday party...I think Lexi may expect cake everytime we go there since everyone's birthday is all in a row!
The girls always have a blast when we go over there for party, I hate to think of the next time we go over there and they aren't having a birthday party...I think Lexi may expect cake everytime we go there since everyone's birthday is all in a row!
Lilly's 2nd Birthday
On May 3rd, we had Lilly's birthday party (her birthday is the 2nd), and the 3rd was also my dad's birthday. We did the exact same thing as Lexi's, meat and cheese platters, and fruit and veggie trays. We wanted to do cute invitations with pictures like we did with Alexis, but Lilly is just such a stinker, she won't sit still for a decent picture. We ended up hand writing invitations and gave them a week before the party, and 2 days before the party we got to OK pictures of her to make into wallets to give out.
Well, hardly anyone on my extended side showed up. A week in advance isn't really advance for them, so we only had Luke's side, my dad, and my Aunt and Uncle with their boys. Lilly didn't care though, it's not like she notices things like that. She received some cute outfits that she will ruin with one wear, and a few noise makers. (Thanks for the drum machine Mama and Papa Cowgar!...) All and all it was a good day.
Her pictures are up on the photo blog, along with pictures of Jayden, my Aunt's cousin. We did his photo shoot on the 2nd for a Mother's Day surprise.
Here's Lilly giving dad his birthday present, a new Star Trek Enterprise model from the new movie.
My dad with his granddaughters.
The cake!
Lilly blowing out her candle.
Aunt Taresa helping with presents.
Tearing the paper.
Lilly and her new Lightning McQueen.
Papa Cowgar and Claire.
The new drumset from Mama and Papa Cowgar. (It's LOUD!)
Well, hardly anyone on my extended side showed up. A week in advance isn't really advance for them, so we only had Luke's side, my dad, and my Aunt and Uncle with their boys. Lilly didn't care though, it's not like she notices things like that. She received some cute outfits that she will ruin with one wear, and a few noise makers. (Thanks for the drum machine Mama and Papa Cowgar!...) All and all it was a good day.
Her pictures are up on the photo blog, along with pictures of Jayden, my Aunt's cousin. We did his photo shoot on the 2nd for a Mother's Day surprise.
Here's Lilly giving dad his birthday present, a new Star Trek Enterprise model from the new movie.
My dad with his granddaughters.
The cake!
Lilly blowing out her candle.
Aunt Taresa helping with presents.
Tearing the paper.
Lilly and her new Lightning McQueen.
Papa Cowgar and Claire.
The new drumset from Mama and Papa Cowgar. (It's LOUD!)
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Lexi's 3rd Birthday Party
Here it is...a week late. I have party pictures of Lilly playing peek-a-boo with Cody, Claire sleeping the the girls' tent, Lexi opening gifts, and all the kids throwing tissue paper around. It was a great day. I didn't run out of food (it was close though). I did run out of my reusable plastic plates, so we had to use paper plates as a backup, and Lexi made out! I didn't expect everyone that came, because almost no one RSVP'd, but I kind of expected that with my dad's extended family. You just bank on everyone coming, that way you're safe. She made out with a new wardrobe, coloring books, paint books, play-doh, hair bands, Dora toys, and everything else under the sun! So anyways...here are the pictures...
After taking some pictures, Luke picked up the camcorder, because I had only had it for her blowing the candle out, and then helped her with presents. Here is the video of her blowing out her candle.
After taking some pictures, Luke picked up the camcorder, because I had only had it for her blowing the candle out, and then helped her with presents. Here is the video of her blowing out her candle.
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