My Short use of Instagram

Well the photo talk this summer is Instagram. Everyone LOVES Instagram. Sometimes it seems like every blogger but me has a "follow me on Instagram" option. 

So....I decided to give it a try. 

and...

You can make pretty cool photos. Like this one I took, showing how this summer the boys have started working on Origami.  Is that a little weird, or is that what every 6 and 8 yr old boy does first thing on a summer morning? lol

But all together, 

I'm unimpressed. It's so hard to get clear movement shots! I might as well not bother and just use my regular phone camera.....which is also way too slow. 

Eva as Dinohead. 

Really though, I just need an Iphone. From what I've seen, their camera is MUCH FASTER. 

....and if I had one, maybe I could get clear shots of this.

Who needs toys right? 

This is the only picture I have of our outdoor movie theater. 

I threw a huge fit about John buying it, but I'm actually pretty in love with it. 

Nothing like watching a movie in the backyard during the summer!

The Munchkins.  

This was our epic bike trip on the Hiawatha trail with Aunt Suz, Grandpa Bob, Kelli Ann, her daughter and all of us......except for Luke and Grandma Genie, who stayed behind because Luke had hurt his eye playing fuse ball at church that Sunday.....um....random? 

Father's Day Brunch Papa, Nana, Brady, Carinn and Jason

Love this face in the morning.

Racheal and Kiddos came to town. B-day party for Josh. 

The kids have also been really into snakes this summer. They are kind of cool, and we find a lot of them by our yard. 

So there's my Instagram recap for the summer. I'm assuming you won't have one for the fall, unless I get an Iphone some how, which really isn't happening. 

Can't believe we're in the middle of Aug!

--Katie

13th Anniversary!

Wow, am I really blogging on here two times in one week?! Good for me! I have some pics I really like from our anniversary date. I put them on Creatively Living...which means I hook them up to FB, and twitter, and Google + and other places, then I put them on my FB page because I liked them, and wanted to share them with friends/family, and now I'm putting them on another spot! I sort of feel like I'm plastering myself all over the internet. Don't really love that, but oh well.

So anyways, wow was Walla Walla fun this year! This is the 3rd time we've gone there for our anniversary. This time, mom and dad took ALL the kids overnight! We had a great time, ate way too much good food, camped and rode our bikes around the town, checking out all the huge turn-of-the-century houses! It was really, really a great time!

Here are some pics mom took. She edited a couple of them. I just love them. Probably because John and I only have our pictures taken by a kid, or my mom twice a year. lol

This one is by far my favorite. Mom edited it and I really like the coloring....and the pose. 

 I'm going to have to get the better quality copies of this one, since I can't seem to make this "unfuzzy" if it's larger than this size. 

...and one more edited one. 

--Katie