Score at Wolf Camera

Many of the Wolf Camera stores are going out of business in Memphis. I missed the going out of business sale at the Bartlett location so I went to the Trinity location today. Most things were 70% off. Now they didn't have cameras or lenses left but they had several other things. I got all of this for just over $14, including the tax!



Those little camera bags were only a dollar, the little photo books were 25 cents. My most exciting purchase was a star filter. I have been wanting one of these for a while. They normally cost between $13-15, I only paid $2. The one I bought doesn't really go with my camera so I am going to have to rig something up to hold it on there but I really only wanted it for taking a picture of my Christmas tree so I will figure it out. Here is what the star filter does:

Without:



With:



Now imagine that your Christmas lights are twinkling like that in your picture, SO COOL!!

Teeball finally

The first 3 teeball games were rained out so Kyle finally got to play his first teeball game this season last night. He played catcher again.

Mother's day

John is fired as a picture taker and Kyle would not cooperate but here is our attempt at a photo of me and the kids. None of them turned out well. Plus Kaitlyn insisted on taking the photo by the tree and it was muddy, I was wearing heels so I was sinking in the ground. The one of me and Kaitlyn is okay. And I even trashed 2 of them. John was just snapping pictures.

First softball game

Kaitlyn finally played her first softball game of the season yesterday. We have had a couple of rain outs so far. They ended up in a tie, 10 to 10. The girls played really hard.











That gray fuzz on the picture is from the fence. I didn't have a good angle, we were sitting on the other side and Kaitlyn is left handed so I had to move around.

Eli's Star Wars party

Kyle went to Eli's party on Saturday. He had a Star Wars party. Kyle played some games, otherwise known as the Jedi training.







I asked Eli if I could take his picture with Kyle and he shook his head no, so I took this one anyway.




Official little Jedi:

First soccer game of the season

Kyle played his first soccer game of the season last night. He missed the first game because we were in Nashville so he was really excited to play. However he did not play very well, of course I still took pictures. I had to leave half way through to take Kaitlyn to softball practice.

New house color

The kids have been playing outside for a long time for the past couple of days. Yesterday I pulled in the driveway and realized that Kaitlyn had drawn her name with the sidewalk chalk pretty big, right on the front of the house. The rain does not really wash this stuff off the bricks (this I know from past experience). Then they colored in several of the bricks on the side going into the front door.





Kyle always wants me to take his picture anytime he sees me with the camera. I am not complaining, this is a good thing but I end up with lots of random pictures of him. And I cannot delete my child!



Kyle informed me last night that he wanted an elephant as a pet. This was after seeing the oreo cookie straw commercial. I said where will he sleep and what will he eat. He told me he can sleep in the den and I would have to get him some carrots.

Then last night, Kyle went and got in the bed with Kaitlyn because he got mad at me and John. He sometimes will go in there with her because she claims she is scared and can hear noises outside her window. This is just her attempt for us to let her not have to sleep in her bed. Kyle will go and lay down with her until she falls asleep and then come back in the den with us. This has happened a couple of times. This morning they were both still in her bed so I took a picture, I think this will be my POTD.

I can see!

I took Kaitlyn to the eye doctor last week. I kept telling her it wouldn't hurt, then he had to dialate her eyes and put those drops in them. She didn't like that at all. She picked out some glasses and yesterday I went to pick them up. She put them on and said WOW, I can see. She stood back and was reading everything.

Egg hunt

We went to our church egg hunt yesterday. We have the egg hunt a week late every year due to Lads to Leaders and a ton of the kids being in Nashville for that. That event is on Easter every year.

We thought it was going to rain us out but the rain held off. The people did not deliver the giant blow up slide that they had ordered but we still had the egg hunt, hot dogs and chips, and played some games.

Brother/Sister -- they have such a love/hate relationship!



Then they hunted eggs. Kaitlyn found an area in the flower beds where no one else was and Kyle ran fast and picked up a ton out in the field.







Kyle and Jackson (they are becoming the next Jen/Wendy and have to have their picture taken at every event!)



After eating, the kids (and some adults) played a couple of games. First we started with the egg toss. Dedra and I were partners and she threw it to me real high and I didn't catch it. Kyle and Jackson were partners and Jackson threw it to Kyle when he wasn't looking so that was the end for them. Kaitlyn and Chase were partners (against Chase's will, HA!) and they made it through a couple of rounds.



Then the kids played the egg relay. Kyle's team did really good. They actually listened to the instructions and walked real slow and were careful to not drop the egg. Between the 6 of them (all age 6 and under) they only dropped the egg 2-3 times and never dropped between exchanges.







But Kaitlyn's team won (I think, it is hard to watch all of the teams).

Taylor Kate's down on the farm party

Today Kyle was invited to Taylor Kate's birthday party. She had her party at a little petting farm in Millington.



Kyle fed and pet the goats.







He rode a horse (really a pony) and they went on a hayride.







Then he chased a rooster. He almost caught it a couple of times and once it tried to peck at him. I thought he would leave it alone after that but he didn't. Wendy even got in on the action for a minute.







And here is Kyle and some other friends. Ashley was also there so of course there were a couple of pictures of her.











Sorry for the long post but I took 60 pictures (and it wasn't even my kids party!). It was hard picking the good ones to post. I have started uploading a lot more pictures to facebook just so I can upload them all. Guess I will have to do that later, plus I like to tag people in them.

One last one:



Thanks to Taylor for the invite, it was a great party Jenn.