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Personal Creations (and KidKraft Train Set)!

November 1, 2013 Molly 1 Comment

A few weeks ago, a representative from Personal Creations emailed me and asked if they could send our family a gift of my choosing. Thank you to the Personal Creations team member who suggested us!

We gladly accepted! I picked the KidKraft Ride Around Town Train Set & Table. I thought it would be a good toy that my kids could share and play with together.

She told me it would take a few weeks for personalization and shipping, but just over two weeks and the mailman carried it into my living room today. Yay! That seems very fast for customization and shipping!

I had a half hour before the kids were home with the babysitter, so I decided to see how quickly I could put it together.

Ambitious! It’s not a hard thing to put together, particularly the actual table. I assembled the table in around an hour and that was with several interruptions. However, the actual train track and other pieces took me a bit longer and I was glad to Aaron’s help figuring it out when he got home.

Then, we called the kids downstairs to take a look. I had kept it a secret until that point.

There was much excitement and everyone dug right in and started playing!

(My much-taller-than-me husband had to help me with that photo.)

They played for over an hour, until it was dinner time. It is like an entire town– a mountain, a hospital, an airport, a lake, a farm, a crane. So much to explore!

And the personalization is fabulous.

Thanks, Personal Creations!

They can’t wait to get up and play with it again tomorrow.

ETA: Because the train table is near selling out, please check out some other great wood toys from Personal Creations.

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Capturing October: Dressed Up

October 31, 2013 Molly 1 Comment

Happy Halloween!

This isn’t my favorite holiday. I’m just not a fan of spending a ton of money on costumes for just one day and I don’t have a lot of time to invest in making them right now. I asked the kids what they wanted to be and Reed said “Batman”. He hasn’t expressed any interest in Batman before, so I asked what superhero was his favorite, and if maybe he wanted to go as Spiderman again. Bingo! Easy enough. And Lena wanted to be “Spider girl”, a costume she got for Christmas last year. And, I bought a cheap hoodie off of ebay so Gus could be a cow.

Before we went to get Reed and Lena at school, Gus was super grumpy and I told Aaron we might have to change his costume to Mad Cow Disease.

Then, after the school parade was done, Lena came over to Gus and said, “you a cow!”

And he happily giggled and played along after that.

He adores his sister.

Vampire teeth.

More Vampire teeth.

I love this one. I just love the look on Gus’s face.

Today is the last day of my photo challenge! Yes! Congrats to my friend Jennifer, who instagrammed her photos. And thank you to those of you who played along as you could.

I have decided to turn it in to a 365, a photo every day for a year, since I already have more than 1/12th done. However, I won’t be making prompts. Instead I will come up with a general list of about 5 things I want to capture each month and a few goals or things that I want to capture throughout the year. My goals is to shoot as much as I can with my DSLR, but I am going to allow myself to use my phone as needed, like I did this month when I was sick.

This list is a great starting place.

My goals for the year are:

Practice composition, particularly in candid shots
Focus on getting images right SOOC (straight out of camera)

My November Must-Capture List is:

More beautiful fall leaves
Thanksgiving
Autumn weather

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Capturing October: Natural Light

October 30, 2013 Molly 1 Comment

I ended up picking the rainiest day of October for this one! Ooops!

I was still determined to get a bit more creative after yesterday’s BORING photo.

Autumn leaves and rain.

Isn’t the water wild on that last one?

We had a brief break in the rain after school got out, so we headed to the playground for a bit.

I really wish I had gotten the sleeves of her shirt in this photo. They were matching red and white polka dots. And the sides of the sunglasses are blue.

The park we went to is right next to where Aaron and I had our super laid back rehearsal dinner.

My best buddies.

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Capturing October: Knit

October 29, 2013 Molly Leave a comment

I had the idea in mind of scarves and sweaters for this photo. But, it was 65 degrees today! Not so much.

On top of that, I have a cold and had to work almost all day. Sorry, guys. Instead of anything interesting, here’s a picture of my socks.

This could be a sock review, as these are the socks that I got for Aaron and myself when we went to Russia. These socks, along with sock liners and warm boots, can keep your toes relatively warm in the sub-zero temperatures of Eastern Europe.

And, here’s a late night picture of Gus. Who really needs a haircut.

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Capturing October: Foliage

October 28, 2013 Molly Leave a comment

I love the changing tree colors. We seem to be mid-change right now. Still lots of green, while some trees are already dazzling shades of red, orange and yellow.