Category: Weekly Winners

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All my photos were taken with my Sony Alpha DSLR-300k. Which I LOVE!

Ok, friends, I have way too many pictures this week. I just couldn’t narrow it down! So just bear with me and keep on scrollin’ down the page!

First, from a family fun gathering at my mom & dad’s house:

My niece Murrin with Sophie. She was drawing letters for Sophie to name (one of Sophie’s favorite past times).

Sophie was beyond excited watching Murrin chase Joshua around:

I caught a praying mantis trying to have some quiet time in one of my dad’s shrubs:

The main event for us this week was Joshua’s VERY FIRST FIELD TRIP! We went with our homeschool co-op to Brumbaugh’s Fruit Farm and it was a great experience! I highly recommend it!

The playground was surrounded by apple trees:

They also had a structure full of corn for the kids to play in!

And a little barn full of hay!

After learning about bees and apples and cider, we took a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch!

Here’s our whole group fanning out in search of the perfect pumpkin:

Most of them were covered with these bugs. Yuck!

Some of them had seen better days.

But eventually everyone found their perfect pumpkin:

Then we headed back to the play area for more fun! They had tons of activities. Joshua loved these little bikes.

Thanks for hanging in there with me! We had a great week. For more favorite photos, go see the Weekly Winners HQ at Sarcastic Mom!

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This was a crazy week around here, what with the windstorm and the power outages and what-not. Six days later, most people in our area (including both of my brothers & their families) do not have power at their houses still. We are so fortunate to have never lost ours!

Anyhoo, here are some pics I snapped this week. This first one is of the ginormous uprooted tree I first showed you in my Wordless Wednesday post.

The park that tree lived in is also home to a very cute trashcan!

Since I was taking pictures near downtown, I decided to go up to the levee and take pictures across the Great Miami River.

This is the back of the First Baptist Church in Dayton.

I am usually rather annoyed by these geese when they are on land but they suited my purposes here!

I tried to get some sun spots. This is looking out over the usually unattractive I-75.

Finally, on to the kiddos. She’s not cute or anything, is she?

When you’re 4, there’s nothing like running as fast as you can down a steep driveway.

When you’re almost two, there’s nothing like watching your big brother race toward you as fast as he can up a steep driveway!

Except getting sidewalk chalk all over your buns!

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This week’s photos were all taken in one fun, beautiful, near-perfect afternoon at the park.

Sophie climbed up the steps to get to the slide all by herself. She was SO proud!

Then she took the plunge and went down! Whee!

It was a fast slide, and she landed kind of hard on her buns. She didn’t want to go again. Oops, I guess I should have caught her instead of taking her picture!

Then, we moved on to the swings, which were guarded by the Scarecrow,

the Tin Man,

and the Cowardly Lion.

Joshua took a solo swing while I was chasing Sophie around:

Then Sophie had her turn!

Joshua also really enjoyed the playground equipment:

It was such a great day! I hope we get some cooler weather this week so we can go back there again.

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