Moondance Jam or bust...

Holy cow I think I heard crickets when I logged into my blog today.  It has been awhile.  We have been a little busy lately.  Lots of running.  We shipped the kids off to my parents on the 13th and Shane and I got to enjoy some good adult fun, relaxing and alone time last weekend at Moondance Jam.  We figured we haven't been there in 11 or 12 years.  It has grown tremendously since were there last.  We had a lot of fun, but managed to behave ourselves.  I loved the people watching.  You pretty much saw all sorts there.  My absolute favorite concert was the very last, Stone Temple Pilots on Saturday night.  I didn't get any semi-decent pictures to share.  Probably because I was rocking out too much.  lol  They were awesome.  We experienced all sorts of weather from cold and needed to turn the heat on at night, rainy, misty to hot and humid.  The hot days we just sat under the awning in the shade and enjoyed the breeze.  The worst was the morning we packed up to leave.  Even tho it wasn't super hot that morning the humidity was miserable.  Well here are a few from the weekend.  Excuse the crappy cell phone pictures. 



Our first night there.  We just skipped the lawn chairs that night. 




3 Doors Down or 3 Doors Back as my father in law called them.  lol  This was my second favorite concert. 




Some of the fun campground contest participants. 






A little Gene Simmons.  Even tho I am not a big KISS fan it was a fun concert. 

 

Here are a few of the boys this week.  I was testing out a couple of my new lenses that I got over the last few weeks.  Here is Tyler looking not so happy. 




This was with my 35mm 2.0

 



With the 85mm 1.8

 

Well I was all alone this weekend as I had to work.  Shane took the kids up to Thief River Fall to a family reunion on Saturday and then the kids are spending the week at their Grandma Robin and Grandpa Larry's.  Apparently Tyler wowed the crowd at the reunion with a little rendition of his armpit fart song and dance.  I am still waiting for Traci to upload it to facebook for me.  He makes me so proud.  lol  I enjoyed my alone time, but I am missing everyone now.  It will be nice to actually have Shane home this week while they are gone.  I am not sure if I could handle being by myself any longer.  Shane has finished up his project up in Grand Rapids and will be working around home this week.  Too bad it is a week the boys are gone.  Maybe we will have a "date" or two.  It will be weird having it quiet in the house for the week.  I already miss the boys, but I am sure the week will fly by quickly as it does every year that they go.  I started to tackle painting our guest room (aka Tyler's room that he not stayed in for about 6 months) from red to white.  I will have to see how Tyler reacts when he gets home.  Even tho we have talked about it he didn't want me to paint "his" room.  He kept telling me he would move back into it in a few days for months and never did.  My plan is to have it double as a studio.  It is just a pain to move everything around in my living room to do a photoshoot.  I was actually surprised how well the primer covered it.  But man, I hate painting old textured plaster walls.  I will be happy when that is done.  Well hopefully I won't let weeks go by without an update on life. 

Photoshoot failure

I had all of these visions for a cool golden hour photoshoot with the boys, but it was an epic failure.  I love the hazy look, orange-yellow colors and sunflare that one can get shooting at sunset.  I guess what can one expect from a 3 and 5 year old.  I am all about lifestyle (candid) shots with kids, but it is nice to get a couple of them looking at the camera.  I will have to try again later with a little bit less expectations and maybe we will have better success.  Well lets just say Collin was probably being a typical 3 year old, maybe no nap was part of the culprit.  He is really getting in that "trying" stage.  Whatever you ask him to do he does the complete opposite and laughs.  He has been such a stinker the last month and I am thinking it is time to crack down.  I will take any advice.  Usually Collin is the cooperative one and a ham, while Tyler goofs around for pictures.  But it wasn't the case this time.  I told the boys that if they are good and cooperate that they get to pick out some candy at the store afterwards.  Tyler was even getting mad at Collin because of the threat of no treat for him.  There was one time that Tyler even yelled at Collin (as Collin kept leaning on Tyler instead of standing nice next to him) to just stand nice and take a one good picture so they can go pick their treat.   Lets just say Tyler got to pick out a teat and Collin went without.  I was surprised that Collin wasn't too upset. 

There was an airplane flying over so the boys thought they would be airplanes too. 

Here Tyler was getting upset with his brother.  Collin kept leaning into him.  

Finally one dang shot of them looking at me and this is the ONLY one.

Once again little stinker laying on his brother instead of sitting next to him nice.  

Well we are sitting but wouldn't look.  Just looking away and laughing.  

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 Just having the boys get rid of a few weeds for me.

Hot summer days

Well we did have a couple hot days a week ago and finally broke out the slip n slide and sprinkler.  Maybe this week we will have to do the same or hit the lake.  

Onamia Days

Boy I am sure falling behind blogging lately.  Life has been super busy for me the last few weeks, especially with Shane gone a lot with work.  I have had 2 family photo sessions to edit, a garage sale and a busy Onamia Days weekend the first weekend in June.  It was nice to have a nice weekend home with nothing planned to do this weekend.  Just house work, paper work and a couple hours of fishing this weekend.  Here are a few pictures from our busy Onamia Days weekend.

Here is Tyler in the kiddie parade.  Poor Collin was feeling under the weather so he wasn't up for riding in the gator.

Tyler with his buds Ethan and Will doing the coin hunt.  

I totally got my but kick in the sack race.  Flip-flops aren't made for hopping in.  Ethan and his mom Lisa beat us bad.  

The fun house was totally Collin's favorite.  I think he went on it 3 or 4 times in a row.  

Here he comes down the slide.  

Collin was totally pouting the whole ride because I let the guy put him on the ride instead of me doing it, hence the evil eye.  

Tyler and Michael on the roller coaster.  

Tyler and a couple of daycare buddies waiting for the big parade to start.  

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Loading up on the goods.  

Tyler and the usual ear plug as the noisy fire trucks go by.  One never knows when they will sound the sirens.  

Had to take a pic of my fellow coworkers and my next door neighbors holding the banner.  

Tyler watching Kasidie waving the flags in the marching band.  

Collin and his usual scrunched up nose look.  

And again...

Life with boys...

usually consists of mud, dirt, sand, worm, leaches, minnow, bugs and frogs.  Oh, don't forget the bruises, scrapes, and jumping off or climbing on things they shouldn't.  I often wonder what it would be like to have girls?   I am not sure dolls and barbies would be quiet as interesting.

Someone bit the big one.  

He wasn't so sure of wiping out in the puddle.  

Someone is so wet he had droopy drawers.  

Caught 4 frogs/toads by 8AM.  

Nothing like frog hunting right away in the AM.  Still in his jammies.