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Teachable Moments

I have been learning how to color correct my images this morning, after coffee. No big adventures planned today, but are they ever planned? We wanted to go camping, but we need to do a little more research on the place. It’s not like in the Northwest where you just go up to the mountains and pick a spot and camp. Well, there are campgrounds there as well, but sometimes it is nice(aside from the lack of toilets) to not camp next to John and Jane Doe in their RV with their yelping chihuahua and their electricity generator.

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Last night we doused ourselves in bugspray and went to a carnival. For the first time we all rode rides together. We gave the kids a good dose of  scary rides, because before they just stayed on the ones that went in circles. Jonas and I rode the scrambler and the ferris wheel together. The scrambler goes much faster than I remember. My brain felt like it was being pushed to the back of my scull. He screamed the whole time, but wasn’t scared, and came out with an ear to ear smile. Josh rode with Trinity and took her on the umbrella things that go really fast at a tilt. The kids rode the swings together and it scared me more than anything. Trinity was way too brave. It was a really fun night.

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You thought the “beer summit” was sending the wrong message!
Josh took this photo.

I was beside myself when Jonas looked over at me and said “mommy, I gonna shoot you!” This is one of those teachable moments, isn’t it? Isn’t it?! Speaking of beer, since when do people walk around with buckets full of it? I have never seen that while living in the Northwest-but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I did see people with wine glass necklaces at the Newport, OR wine festival.

Missouri Botanical Garden

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Here is one I took. I love it cause it is more interesting than the average flower.

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Soda!=Food

Despite the miserable midwest humidity, we have been managing to walk a little more than normal. So. Fecking. Sweaty. We took a short walk to the library tonight. The kids did a lot of bike riding again today. I can’t wait to post the images I took of them riding bikes. Jonas was smiling ear to ear.

One thing I don’t miss from Granite City is that we don’t like by any large trees. Normally I like trees, but here there are cicadas that are SO loud and annoying. I know some people like the sounds they make, but I can’t stand it.

I saw this commercial on TV today. LOL… Oh noez.. don’t tax SODA!!! I love that they have a picture perfect family camping and they have the soda sitting on the table, as if to say-camping is not camping with out my soda i.v. I also love how they call it "food" um, yeaaaah.

While I was at school…


There is a snowcone stand about 1/4 mi. from our house. Josh took the kids there & took this picture.
Jonas learned to ride his bike finally, all the way(like starting w/ out us)
so this is his reward.

Me? Excited? Nawwwww.

Forest Park | St. Louis

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Tonight totally made up for this weekend. The weekend wasn’t horrible, but it was what it was. Ugh. Anywho… we got out of the house and walked around the central west end(St. Louis’s equivalent of the Pearl District or NW 23rd for those of you who are Portlanders) we took Chloe and she horked in the car, but we walked all around the extravagant row houses and she had a great time getting lots of love from strangers. We also stopped for gelato before dinner.

Then we drove over and parked at The Muny (Municipal Theater) and took a billion pictures. We saw a ton of turtles and ducks and I found another broken robin’s egg on the ground complete with poor little dead bird fetus inside. Robin’s must have a shit-ton of predators. After walking around the gazebo @ the muny, we walked over to the Boat House restaurant and ate outside with Chloe. More petting & dog loving ensued and we took tons of pictures of the lake and watched people launch off in their little foot peddle boats. There were baby ducks and more turtles waiting to get a little bit of our food or some croutons from the waiter.

Before dinner we met a huge poofball dog named Murphy. He was like a giant cotton ball. He was so big and soft… IDK a giant poodle or something. Well, when we were being seated for dinner we looked out on the lake-naturally. Then we hear this guy yell “MURPHY!!!” and we look over and Murphy had gotten off leash and decided to chase the ducks in the lake and got all soaked. It was pretty hilarious.

We got home just in time to see the Fourth of July fireworks that they decided to launch tonight instead(due to the rain & whatnot last night) We walked out to the big field by our house, but we got eaten alive by bugs and started to walk back to the house. We took some pics over the peanut lake so that the fireworks reflected off of it, then arrived at our apartment and sat with our neighbors–which actually happened to be the best seat in the house! The fireworks were directly in front of us!

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Movie, Bikes, Puppy!!!

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Yesterday, when we went to see UP.

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Aww. A little warrior.

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This is a book sent from Aunt Marina in Korea.
I have heard from a friend that a backwards J is “shi” in Japanese, which means “warrior.”

Jonas will often write his name with a backwards J, but never fear!!! All he has to do is make the shorter part longer than the long part, and it is fixed… I was really surprised the first time he did this. I wonder if he learned this trick from one of his teachers???

FIVE!

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I finally found a use for all the extra paper that I get from the school.

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Jonas insisted on a “bow” because he was wearing a dress shirt. Haha. SO, I made him one!
The cake turned out terrible, but it was edible.

Presents & Pancakes!

What do you like best? Explain.

1. Pancakes
2. Waffles
3. Crepes
4. French Toast
5. Other

For Christmas breakfast we had French Toast. It was yummy!

I got a pair of nylon-y yoga pants from Aunt Mary. Weird because I have been wearing cotton ones and they are cheap and fade easily & I wished for nylon ones. The nylon will look less worn, in theory. This will be nice for going to the YMCA.

Kids have been playing in their room ever since receiving their gifts. This is the most time they have ever spent in there. Good indication that Christmas was a success.

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This is the dollhouse that Josh built for Trinity. She was very proud to receive this gift. She couldn’t believe he MADE it for her.

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