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June 22, 2008

Weekly Winners June 15-21: Wegerzyn Gardens

This week we had the opportunity to go to a local park, Wegerzyn Gardens, for a birthday playdate for Joshua’s pal Mitchell. Wegerzyn not only has beautiful gardens and grounds, they also have an amazing outdoor play and learning area, the Children’s Discovery Garden. It includes a man-made creek, cave, and waterfall as well as lots of sand play where kids can make their own gardens, and a wonderful picnic area. If you live in the Dayton area, you should really check it out! It’s free, free, free and fun, fun, fun! Here are some scenes I took in the Children’s Garden.

Mitchell, the birthday boy, celebrates in the waterfall

My scaredy-cat boy would only go behind the waterfall

Sophie wasn’t so sure about the waterfall, but she loved being inside the cave!

Joshua played “Cave Monster”

Which Sophie thought was hilarious!

I love this one of her, too:

We had a great time! For more great photos, check out the Weekly Winners HQ at Sarcastic Mom!

June 15, 2008

Weekly Winners June 8-14 – Family Vacation Edition!

Hosted By Sarcastic Mom

I took over 400 photos on my family vacation, which is a reedonkulous amount! But I have narrowed the field down to a few of my favorites to share with you this week! We went to my parents’ house in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, so all of these photos take place in that area, and all were taken with my amazing Sony Alpha DSLR-300k, which rocks!!!

Sophie was very serious about playing at Otter Creek:

Joshua has a little more fun playing in the Maury River:

The view from my parents’ porch:

It was almost 100 degrees, so we stripped Sophie to her diaper and put her in a tub with a little water in it to play:

She was having a great time, I don’t know what this look was for! Maybe she was sick of me taking pictures!

My Daddy. Is he not adorable? He is in his element here on the mountain. (Happy Father’s Day Dad!)

My Dad’s irises. My favorite flower!

My father & my son at the Maury River. Those dots you see in the background are my brother and my niece & nephews swimming.

We made a bonfire and had s’mores. This was Joshua’s first s’more ever. He was in heaven!

Sophie really wanted to get near that bonfire and she was really mad that I wouldn’t let her. I am such a meanie!

But she cheered up a little later when she got to watch her brother and her cousins run up and down the mountain over & over again. They are fascinating!

All right, I’m FINALLY done! We had a great time and I hope you enjoyed these shots. For more great photos, head over to the Weekly Winners HQ at Sarcastic Mom! Oh and HEY! If you are here via Weekly Winners, make sure to also check out and enter our Fa-blog-ulous Blogaversary Giveaway!!