Sessions from this past week

Family session on Monday




So I was going to move, but now typepad is ticking me off. At the beginning of the new year I'm going to invest in a blog from Blu (who my site is with) so for now I'll stick with blogger.

Day 2, we PAINTED...

So Tuesday was a perfect day to paint the creations they made/formed with the salt dough. It was cold and rainy. They painted for an hour and it was so cute. They had way more to paint than they thought they did. I sat them on the counter to dry, not thinking that my great dane would think them cookies and try them. Well, she did and I mean she ate FOUR. This dough has a cup of salt in it. ACK... dumb dog. :P 
Grace concentrating
Gabby hard at work
I love the look on Jack's face
And this one is priceless, such concentration! 


In the end Jackson made a spongebob, two hearts, a star (I did that) a pizza and a J (again me) 

Gabby made a mermaid, a mermaid's brush, the mermaid's ice cream cone and a G and also a fairy. 

Grace made a monster, it's the one with the one long googly hair and a great big frog like head. :) They had fun and the art work is proudly displayed in their rooms. :) 

Our salt dough project

So I checked my anxiety at the door and we made salt dough on Monday. :P The kids had a really good time and I do think that it killed, oh at least an hour and a half of the afternoon. If you want the recipe, go to Karen's blog, which is linked on the side with my other photog friends' blogs. She did it with her kids first. :) Tomorrow I'll post the second day, we baked them and let them harden and then yesterday they painted their figures, shapes, whatever. 
Jack adding one cup of the 3 cups of flour
Gabby's turn to add flour
And now Grace gets to add the last cup of flour
Jack using a cookie cutter to cut out his "fire truck" lol 

More "beach" shots

From Sunday. :) 
digging in the sand
Grace
more digging
Gabby in the water. :) 
This one cracks me up. :) 

Our Sunday outing

I have a ton of photos so I'll do this one in a two day post. :) Don't want to bore you all. 

Yesterday we took the kids to St Joe State Park. They have a small beach area there with a man made lake. Now, I'm NO fan of lakes, the thought of not knowing what is swimming around me makes me want to gag, but I sucked it up and we went. I was so glad that we did. The kids had a blast. They would go up on the sand/pebbles and run and then splash into the water. Jack was the funniest, he wouldn't make it very far into the water before he would plop down on his bottom. They collected pebbles and "sea shells" and I think we'll keep collecting them for the rest of the summer then put them in their own little jars for them to keep. I took a ton of photos, they built sand castles and just had a great time. 

The only down side, last summer the beach actually had sand on it, this summer they had moved in some sort of pebble/sand mix and it HURT our feet. HURT.... the kids didn't care, but hubby and I complained the whole time. :) 

Last of our Chicago Photos (again) lol

Two posts in one day. I am on a roll. :P These are from the very last day. LOL 
Cool musicians playing on Michigan Avenue for change. 
Navy Pier
at Navy Pier
"argh" me hearty. :)