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New Year’s in Houston, Texas

This Week On Instagram Dec 28-Jan 3

Travel Dates: Dec 28, 2013 – January 3, 2014

We’ve never been much into staying up late and ringing in the New Year at the stroke of midnight, so our week was actually pretty laid back. We stayed up over the weekend, however, having late night talks with friends before moving on to an RV park in downtown Houston. We’ve explored the museums & zoo, had a traditional New Year’s Day breakfast, bought new batteries for the Airstream, celebrated Sam’s birthday with Blue Bell Ice Cream, toured the USS Texas, and started gym class with the kids for homeschool. See? Not much going on.

 

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This Week on Instagram: Dec 21-27, 2014

Cara has started learning letters other than A-B-C. Those three were the only ones she recognized for months on end, and then I think something clicked and now she knows almost all of them. Its such a relief to have her shouting “Mom!! Look there’s a Tappin’ T!” instead of just A over and over and over again. Naturally, with 2 older siblings this has also led to learning, or attempting to learn how to spell words.

Overhead in the backseat:

Cara: Rachel. This is how you spell Kiki (her stuffed monkey’s name), “E-I-O-H-A”.

Rachel: No. That’s not how you spell it. It’s “K-I-K-I”.

Cara: No! No! No! You spell it “H-I-T-C-A”.

Rachel: Let me get a piece of paper to write that down for you.

This Week on Instagram Dec 21-27

What a glorious Christmas week! Full of stories, ornament making, Christmas trees, canoeing, and time with family. Hope you had a great one as well!

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This Week on Instagram: Dec 14-20, 2013

We’ve talked quite a bit about compound words during school. How you take two words and smash them together to make a new word. “Star” and “fish” become “starfish”. Cara has even caught on, although sometimes she makes up her own.

After spending an early evening in the French Quarter, New Orleans eating Beignets (ben-ya) and wandering around to see the architecture we were driving home in the car.

Overhead in the backseat:

Cara: Hmmmm…. You take a “been” (left hand out) and a “yah” (right hand out) and smash them together (claps her hands) to get Beignet!

And then we all laughed.

This Week on Instagram Dec 14-21

This week was a bit of a whirlwind. Gulf Island Seashore National Park, Fort Picken and Geromino’s “hotel” room, meeting new friends at a random LDS ward and being invited over for dinner, the coolest Airstream food trucks, The National Naval Aviation Museum, New Orleans, seafood, the Tabasco Sauce Factory, and finally on to Houston where we will be spending the holidays.

How was your week?

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This Week on Instagram: Dec 7 -13, 2013 + A Blog Feature for Jess

This Week on Instagram Dec 7-13

Church in a small LDS Branch, more beach, boiled peanuts, daddy-daughter dates, Christmas cards, new traditions, lost clothes.

I’m so honored to be a featured photographer on Mozi! It’s a blog and magazine dedicated to helping photographers find their unique vision and style, improve their craft, and fully discover the joy of photography. Check it out here!

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This Week on Instagram: Nov 23-29, 2013

This week on Instagram Nov 23-29

What we have been up to this week: Courtesy parking in Jacksonville, FL with friends. Jacksonville zoo & beach! Survived an intense rainstorm driving to Tampa, FL. Spoiled by our friend Cassie’s amazing cooking for Thanksgiving. Its been a great week!