Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
Yesterday Susan showed up with an AWESOME Christmas present for Maxwell. I’m just going to let you watch it all unfold from the pictures…
Completely awesome, right?! They’re John Deere boots and I love them…and so does Maxwell!! They are easily going to become the favorite footwear around here!!
Thanks Susan! You’re the BEST!
D’oh!
Only 4 days until Christmas and I haven’t sent my list to Santa yet! Why do I put this off until the last minute every year?
Yesterday Susan and Maxwell took a field trip to the Bass Pro Shop. That place is like a funland for little kids! There’s even an aquarium inside! Their real purpose in visiting was to see Santa again and remind him of one last thing that Maxwell wants on Christmas morning.
This visit went just about as good as visit #1 and visit #2! This face might be my favorite ever though….
Look at that pouty lip!! Don’t worry, Susan rescued him right after the photo was snapped and not too many tears were shed. Oh…I could just eat that little boy up.
In other news (I say that a lot, don’t I?), it’s time to clean off the iphone…
See you tomorrow!
Are you on Pinterest? I am and it’s a huge time suck. I can just keep scrolling and scrolling and the next thing I know, it’s an hour later. But, the good thing about Pinterest if that you can find some really cool things there. Case in point – this tip for how to take a picture that makes your tree looks like it’s GLOWING!
Tip here – Glowing Tree
I followed the directions and it totally worked!
So cool, right?
And one with my little buddy in front…
Here is what they said, “Turn off your flash, along with all the other lights in your house, crank up your ISO, use your tripod, and meter on the light from the tree. ”
I don’t have a tripod so I just stabilized my elbows on the table and snapped away. The result? A beautiful glowing crooked tree!
Are you on Pinterest? I’d love to follow you. Follow me!
Here’s what we did this weekend as captured by my iphone…
On Friday we watched the giant Alagasco truck outside of our house…
For a little boy who loves trucks, it was pretty awesome! For a driving mom whose driveway was blocked, not so awesome.
A little later, Maxwell fell climbed into his toy box…
After getting turned right side up, he was happy as could be in there!
That night, we had the Alagasco truck move so we could get out of the driveway and go to Home Depot to get a Christmas Tree! Maxwell surveyed the trees…
and quickly found one that he thought was juuuust the right size!
But then Robert gave him another vantage point…
and he found one that really was just right!
Proof that I was there too…
When we got home, we went and surveyed the damage that the Alagasco crew was doing to our street. What we found was this giant hole in the ground right next to our driveway…
Lovely.
Robert then worked hard to get the tree on the stand and up in the house…
I then worked hard to get it all decorated…
Isn’t she a beaut? A crooked beaut, yes. That’s what you get for buying your tree at Home Depot. But, considering we paid $60 less for our tree this year than we did last year, I’ll take a little crookedness!
Saturday was GORGEOUS so we headed to the park to play…
and enjoyed the temps in the high 60’s!
That night we went over to some friend’s house for a Christmas Light Display Extravanganza! After hanging out for a bit…
we then walked down the street to their neighbor’s house that puts on the biggest Christmas light display I’ve ever seen. Well, the 2nd biggest. I’m from Arkansas and lived through the Jennings Osborne red light years. This was still impressive though. They do a whole Christmas movie montage before flipping the switch. We didn’t see much of the montage though because Maxwell got a little cranky-pants and we had to go next door and push him around a driveway on some girl’s pink tricycle that we found.
The movie montage ends with Clark Griswold getting ready to light up his house in Christmas Vacation. Right before he plugs it in, the movie goes off and this guy flips his switch…and the whole place GLOWS! It was pretty cool…these pics don’t even remotely do it justice.
Maxwell was clearly enthralled…
While he’s not showing it in that picture, he really did have fun. Mostly just running around trying to get lost in the crowd but, hey, he thought it was a blast!
On Sunday Maxwell got to go to church in his awesome new nubuck Jumping Jack shoes!
The cuteness is too much. And, yes, I know his pants are a little high water there. The better to see his shoes, right?!
Believe it or not, I even took more pictures this weekend with my real camera. Those to come this week! Hope you all had as great a weekend as we did!