Favorite Photos of 2009
A little later than last year, but here you have it. My favorite photo selections of 2009.
Goodbye 2009, lets see what 2010 will bring.
Getting Into the Holiday Spirit
We started the indoor decorating, and put up the tree. The kids loved decorating the tree this year – though we have to keep reminding them not to play with all the ornaments.
Halloween Photos Only Half a Month Late
Well I am still behind in posting the photos, but at least this time its only half a month, who knows maybe soon enough I will get back on track and get the photos uploaded not long after they are taken…..stop laughing, it could happen.
Summer decided she was going to be a lady bug this year for halloween and Oliver picked a grim reaper – which at first was a bit of a suprise, but he loved it. Our development had a little halloween party that I took the kids to for a bit. They had a bunch of games and snacks etc it was pretty nice, but ended up getting a bit crowded as the time went on.
We also had trick or treat in the development, which was a bit of an experience. The houses giving out candy were a bit spread out, so we ended up going back to pick up the cars and driving door to door for trick or treat. As the trick or treat hour went on, I noticed pretty much everyone else was driving as well, clearly they have been here longer and were prepared for it.
It’s been ages – but dug up some new photos to post
Nothing super new or exciting to report, probably the reason why I haven’t posted anything lately but I dug up a few pictures that havent been posted. Looks like we need to get the camera out a bit more – I blame the ease of cell phone cameras and auto uploads to facebook…or possibly just my laziness. In any event here they are.
A few shots of Summer showing off her ballet skills in September
Some goofing around in October
And the 2009 pumpkins
It’s About That Time
Well its been a bit since I posted anything about what we have been up to. We have been keeping pretty busy, trying to enjoy family time and the outdoors when the weather actually cooperates. Enjoying the beech, the playground, the pool, a few fishing trips, etc. I uploaded a few of August photos which I never posted about, some of the earlier ones are the kids playing in the driveway with chalk, and Summer in her dance outfit – she just joined a dance class, and as far as I can tell, loves it.
We are pretty proud of her, being as shy has she has been, joining a dance class where she is alone with the other kids and the teacher is a pretty big step for her, I would say.
This weekend that passed was a pretty busy one – maybe not tons more busy than others but one I definitely got the most exercise I have had in a long time. Saturday for lunch we went to the Garlic Festival, then when we got home the kids wanted to go hiking – so I took them on a little hike around Lake Frances, they had a blast – there were lots of breaks to throw rocks in the lake. After that we headed over to our yearly tradition of the Kielbasa festivial – however that ended fairly sour with a huge downpour of rain.
Today we had a day our beach – just fun and (some) sun with the kids. We made a pretty big sand castle, played a bit in the water- and I took them on a pretty long boat ride in a rowboat. This was Summer’s first ride so she was a bit more scared at the begining than Oliver since it was his second. I have a feeling all that rowing is going to catch up with me tomorrow though.
So thats pretty much it in a nut shell – we will probably continue to enjoy the beach while the weather allows us to, and if not probably the pool. Swimming has become one of the favorite activies for the whole family now that we have easy access to do so.
The Larrabee’s are home owners again
Well we have officially been home owners again for about 2 weeks now – but we just moved in this past weekend. The kids are taking it rather well, better than we (or at least I) expected. The slept in their own rooms and have been good for the most part. A bit more energetic and crazy, but its probably because they have more room to be crazy – and its a whole new world for them.
Since this time around we are in a new construction house its not the same as last time – there are still issues and bumps in the road but they are usually different than the things you have to deal with when you move into a house lived in for quite a while – like the last house we bought. I have been keeping busy with mostly small tasks like hooking up the water line for the fridge and setting up the electrical for the dryer, while also trying to unpack and organize as much as possible as well.
Soon I am probably going to end up taking on a bigger task, like clearing all the hay from the yard that was put down for the grass seed, and trying to clear away the large quantities of rocks we are now proud owners of. The kids helped me do a bit of that last night and had a blast. We actually did our first little home improvement or customization if you will before we moved in – which was installed some lights along the retaining wall.
Not completely sure whats going to be next – we have quite a few things in mind – and I am sure there are more we haven’t quite thought of yet, so we shall see.
Some more zoo pics
Finally got the camera and uploaded the pictures we took at the zoo. Looks like 11 new pictures in total.
A few July Pictures
We were originally supposed to move to the new house on the 4th of July weekend, but closing got a little nudge, so we decided to make the best of it and plan some family fun. We had a nice little family cookout on the grill, hot dogs for the kids, and crab legs for the adults. Not something I would have originally thought to grill, but it turned out pretty well if I do say so myself.
Since it was a holiday weekend and we had an extra day off, we decided to head down to the Philadelphia zoo again, parking was pretty much a nightmare, but the zoo wasn’t as packed as I expected based on the parking situation.
I took Oliver on his first fishing trip that he enjoyed, so much so that we ended up going again a few days later – and he has been asking to go yet again. He still gets pretty frustrated when the fish aren’t jumping out of the lake at him – but I think hes starting to get the hang of it.
Finally we took the kids over to Kirby Park to see the big fireworks show, as well as let off some little sparklers, smoke bombs, and poppers on our own the day before.
These were all taken on my phone, so perhaps not as good of quality as the others – but figured I would upload them to the site anyway.
A Little Trip to the Park
After another rather interesting day at home I decided to take the kids to the park. We were supposed to go to the park after dinner on Sunday but it started to rain – so I decided to give them a rain check. We had a nice short trip to the park, the kids loved the slides, the monkey bars – and are even starting to enjoy the swings. After we stopped for a nice ice cream treat.
Day at the Aquarium
Well for a few weeks now the kids have been asking to go to the aquarium, I am not sure what started it – if it was comercials on TV or if we mentioned it one day – but Oliver has been asking to go, and Summer has been saying she wants to go and see the turtles at the aquarium. Whatever the case we finally planned a trip to the Camden Aquarium this past weekend. As expected the kids had a blast – and were overall pretty good. It was interesting to see how exciting and almost frustrated Oliver got when he couldn’t end up right at the front of the tank – but he handled it well, even saying excuse me and making his way to the front.
Just uploaded about 60 photos from the trip -
