Project 365

catch the moment: week forty-four

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Hii! Darn – I did so well with my blogging spree last week and now … crickets again since the last CTM post.  I do want to recap our vacation before it’s totally irrelevant but STILL have not consolidated all of our pictures from various sources into one place.  My pictures these past several days have been pretty pathetic – I know this. It’s been more of a “just get it done for the day” theme than an “I’m feeling so inspired” theme lately.  But I am still going strong and have no doubt I will finish the year!

Linking up again with Mindi, Sarah, and Stephanie (a new-again mama!) for this installment of Catch The Moment 365.

302/365: Wednesday, October 29th –  The boys saw a commercial for the classic Operation game the night before and I remembered that I had stowed away a Toy Story version of the game that my sister-in-law had given me, new in the package, probably 2 years earlier. I promised we would get it out before school on Wednesday and they held me to it. They cracked up laughing every time it buzzed and were generally terrible at using the tweezers. Pretty cute. 10-29-14

303/365: Thursday, October 30th- Our sweet Cousin Kara sent us this neat and adorable book, which we have enjoyed reading several times since then. 10-30-14

304/365: Friday, October 31st – The crappiest trick-or-treating weather I can remember, but the boys didn’t care.  It was almost freezing and drizzling and windy and just gross. Dracula looks a little less scary in a winter hat. We lasted about 45 minutes but live in a great neighborhood for trick-or-treating so their little buckets were full of good stuff by the time we decided to call it quits. 10-31-14

305/365: Saturday, November 1st.  The holiday toy catalogs and ads have started rolling in and the boys LOVE looking through them. Theo has started grabbing a notepad and pen or pencil and going through them to make his Christmas list.  It is precious, even if it does take him 15 minutes to write one thing. “Hey mom! How do you spell Hulk Lab Smash?” followed by “How do I write an ‘h’ again?”  11-01-14

306/365: Sunday, November 2nd – My mom sent the boys some cash and told them to go out for ice cream or a cupcake for their Halloween treat from her. So we hit up the local frozen yogurt shop and enjoyed having the place to ourselves around 1:30 on Sunday. 11-02-14

307/365: Monday, November 3rd-  The first DST sunrise I got to see this week on my way to work.11-03-14

308/365: Tuesday, November 4th – A week-long Lego organization project is finally complete. I sold their toy tool bench, ordered this organizer, bought some additional dividers for smaller pieces, received the organizer and put it together, and finally spent 7 hours sorting their Lego bricks.  They are happy with the result and so far seem to be enjoying that they can actually play ON the Lego table, which was just a wasteland of deconstructed sets before.

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This week’s favorite for me? 306. I like the one of them at the yogurt shop. Which one do you like best?

~C~

 

catch the moment: week forty-three

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It’s been a very fun and festive week full of Halloween activities. This post is very fall-y.  Unfortunately by this time next week, most of the leaves will probably be down and my world will be a lot less colorful!  And thanks to Daylight Savings Time, my world will be a lot darker too.  Boo.

Linking up with Mindi, Sarah, and Stephanie for this installment of Catch the Moment 365. With only 9 weeks left, what do you think?  Should I plan on doing this again in 2015?

295/365 – Wednesday, October 22nd: Just something pretty I saw on my drive home from work. This represents rural Indiana in the fall – farmhouse across from a cornfield with beautiful leaves drifting slowly from the trees. 10-22-14

296/365 – Thursday, October 23rd: A quick play date at the park after work with our sweet little friend.10-23-14

297/365 – Friday, October 24th. Community Halloween party with another little pal. A pretty wild bunch!10-24-14a

298/365 – Saturday, October 25th: Another Halloween party at our friends’ house and Theo LOVED this Medusa decoration. He kept going back to it.10-25-14

299/365 – Sunday, October 26th: Little buddy was proud of the pumpkin that he designed and helped me carve for him. I couldn’t get Dexter to cooperate for taking a picture with his pumpkin. Sometimes I see a photo of one of these boys and imagine myself looking at it when I’m older, thinking “I remember that day. He looks so little.”  This is one of those.10-26-14

300/365 – Monday, October 27th: I was backing out of the driveway when the beauty of this shot struck me.  We have a lot of work to do on this house, but we’re lucky to live here.  Seeing the trees getting more and more bare makes me sad. Soon there will be no color left in this scene other than the red brick on our house. 10-27-14

301/365 – Tuesday, October 28th: Overexposed but I don’t care – I love his little face to much not to share this one. We’ve recently started bathing them separately more than together and while it’s a sad sign that they are getting bigger, it’s so much nicer. Honestly. No fighting, no splashing. 10-28-14So what picture(s) do you like best from this week?  I like them all. So there.

xo,

~C~

catch the moment: week forty-two

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Well, crap. I just looked through my recent posts and saw that I have only posted one thing that was NOT Catch the Moment since early September.  I keep thinking I will get back into blogging regularly but…I don’t know.  It’s just not clicking right now.  I’m thankful for Catch the Moment because one day 10 years from now when I look back at my blog, there won’t be a huge 2 month gap with no record of what’s been going on in our lives.

This installment of CTM includes the second half of our vacation and {UGH} it was hard going through these and narrowing them down.  It’s hard being home. It’s hard being away from my little family, as we were essentially an isolated little unit of 4 for 10 days. On an island.  It was 80 degrees.  Now I’m back in chilly Indiana and suffering from PVDD. Post Vacation Depressive Disorder.  Back to work, back to reality, one day further from those amazing sunsets.

288/365 – Wednesday, October 15th: The boys’ first time playing putt-putt.  They didn’t necessarily follow all the rules but we had fun regardless. After vacation, I laid with Theo in bed and asked him if he could go back to the beach for one more day, what he’d like to do again. He said he’d like to dig a deep hole in the sand and play golf.  I really had no clue he was enjoying it that much at the time. So sweet.10-15-14

289/365 – Thursday, October 16th: We had a cooler morning so we walked the beach down to the pier and had lunch at Angler’s Beachside Grill before going swimming for the afternoon.  Lunch and dinner views like this never get old.10-16-14

290/365 – Friday, October 17th: SOO many fun pictures to choose from for Friday, our last full day in Florida.  We enjoyed the beach, the pool, a sunset dolphin cruise, and dinner overlooking the harbor. I have a lot of photos to go through, sort out, and organize into something special for us to hold and look at for years to come.10-17-14

291/365 – Saturday, October 18th: Oh, sad day. I snapped this and a couple other quick photos of the entrance to our condo building as we were getting ready to pull out of there on Saturday morning.  I ended up not taking any more DSLR pictures that day so this will have to do. Bye-bye Sea Oats. WAAH!10-18-14

292/365 – Sunday, October 19th: We stayed at my best friend’s house on Saturday night and finished our drive home Sunday. An hour or so into the ride home, I had that feeling. I said “I don’t wanna go home yet. I feel like doin’ somethin’.” The next road sign we saw said “Lost River Cave” so we took the exit and followed the signs. 20 minutes later we were getting ready for a boat ride into a cave.  It was a fun and unexpected add-on to our trip that we all enjoyed.  The history of this place was very interesting and any nature loving person passing through Bowling Green, KY should check it out. 10-19-14

293/365 – Monday, October 20th: Back to Indiana and leaves that are changing colors and long sleeves and silly kids playing in the backyard and all that stuff.  10-20-14

294/365- Tuesday, October 21st: A little after dinner activity. At Lost River Cave on Sunday, the boys mined for gemstones.  We had a gemstone guide so we washed our stones and matched up as many of them as we could figure out. Pretty and pretty fun. 10-21-14

In case I haven’t mentioned it enough yet, waah. I miss my vacation. I want it back. This week, I think my favorite picture is day 290 – Ryan tossing Theo high into the air at the condo’s pool.  I also really like those gemstones though.  How about you – which one do you like best?

~C~

As always, I’m linking up with the hostesses of this Catch the Moment 365 project, Mindi, Sarah, and Stephanie.