Last weekend, we all went for a little hike on the greenbelt. "Somebody" (ahhemm Kathy) ended up calling it a death march, but she's never really been on a real death march :-). Anyway, here are a few of the shots from the weekend hike - it was a beautiful day.
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| From greenbelt1 |
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| From greenbelt2 |
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| From greenbelt2 |
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| From greenbelt2 |
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| From greenbelt2 |
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| From greenbelt2 |
Lately, Kara has been trying to wear Kathy and I's shoes. It's pretty cute because she tries to walk around in them and does a pretty good job. Here she is wearing my shoes. Enjoy! :-)
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| From karas big shoes |
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| From karas big shoes |
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| From karas big shoes |
We got some much needed rain this past weekend which everyone in Austin was very excited to see. For some reason, at our house every time it rains, tons of snails come out of the ground. They are all over the sidewalk and driveway and Kathy even spotted them hanging on the side of the house (tons of them!). Kara had fun with the snails but she liked to squish them despite us trying to save them. Sometimes she was gentle, but you know how that can go.
Grandma Rita came and visited this past week as well. She was only her for an evening, but she of course got Kara a present which she loves. So here she is enjoy a snack on her new Giraffe rug.
In other family news, the pink cast is gone. Kathy was ecstatic about that and now she's only in a brace. I think the wrist has been a bit more sore since being in a brace but Kathy is just happy to be able to move her arm again. A few more weeks in this brace and she should be back to normal.
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| From cast off |
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| From cast off |
Here's Kara's first attempt at washing the Tahoe. She did a pretty good job, she would grab her little rag and rub it on the bumper. It was kind of funny because she would always go back to the same exact spot and put the bubbles on the car and wipe it.
Mom wants to see the new car but apparently a JPEG won't open on the computer at their house.....so here's some pics of the car.
I've only had it for 3 days now but it's been a lot of fun to drive. Somehow I've already managed to put over 100 miles on it and I don't ever drive anywhere!
Kara didn't like it all that much at first, but I think she's getting use to riding in it. I don't know if it was because it was lower to the ground or maybe my seat is closer to her feet - either way, she'll just have to cope because I'm not getting rid of it :-).
If you've kept on FaceBook, you may have seen that I got a new camera a few weeks ago. I upgrade to a digital SLR and have been really happy with it. I still need to purchase Photoshop to I can do touches to the photos but that comes with a hefty price tag ($700). So for now, you'll just get the raw photos but I have to say that even without trying to clean them up, they look pretty good. Here's a few of Kara that I thought you might like.
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| From Drop Box |
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| From Drop Box |
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| From Drop Box |
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| From Drop Box |
I know that some of you aren't using FaceBook still, but I've been posting pictures up there. Luckily I can just link to them from here, so maybe the blog isn't going to be as colorful as it use to be, but the volume of pictures you get to see should be more frequent and higher!
Here's a few from our trip to the north side of Trinidad where we went and watched the big Leatherback turtles come and lay their eggs. We even got to see some of the babies crawl out of the sand and run into the ocean.
There are also some here of the trip to Tobago. The place we stayed at was very nice, quiet, and peaceful. It was a great relaxing trip. Half the time, it seemed like we were the only people in the resort. We enjoyed it so much, we changed our flights and stayed an extra day.
We had really nice time while we were. The trip back was horrible (took us about 18 hours to get home), but we enjoyed the time away!
I know - I'm behind. My Grandma keeps fussing at me because I don't ever update this thing. Who know it was going to be so much work?! I've been trying to render some new videos but my computer has not been cooperating. Maybe after we get back from vacation I can get those videos up and running. In the mean time, birthday pics will have to do! We'll have some beach pics in a few weeks too :-).
Kara's birthday was a lot of fun. We had all of our friends over since she doesn't really have many friends yet. Those birthdays are coming though!! Obviously, the cake was good too :-)
It's hard to believe that a year with Kara has already gone by though. Time flies! My good friend Tim just had a baby not too long ago and she is so small! I remember when Kara was that small. They are also not getting much sleep. Luckily, those days are behind us but there are definitely new challenges ahead!
Sorry it's short, but I've got a lot to finish up. You can track us on FaceBook if you want www.facebook.com/samckinn. I seem to be doing a better job of keeping that udpated because I can do things quickly and I can do it from my phone. If you don't have an account, it's easy to make one, and then make me your friend (samckinn@gmail.com if you're looking for me).
Here's our Kool-aid pitcher in training. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, you can read up on your Kool-aid pitcher man history on wikipedia. We've got more where that came from so I'll try to keep the videos coming. Btw, you can see the HD version of the video on YouTube you want (the smaller size can only fit on the blog right now...I'll have to do some page editing to get a full size video up there).
The Christmas post lasted for nearly 5 months. At this point, I've probably lost my reader following but I know there are a few die hard's out there looking for a new post....so here it is!
A lot has changed in the last few months. Kara is walking and talking. She's throwing temper tantrums and she has 4 teeth! She is picking up on words fast and we'll probably have to start watching what we say pretty soon. Here's a good example:
Kathy - "These gummy works are like crack to me".
Kara - "Crack, Crack, Crack!"
Most of the pictures below are from Easter. It was a nice sunny day (but a rainy morning) and Kara got to do her first Easter egg hunt. The eggs were just laid out for the kids so they didn't have to do much hunting, but Kara managed to find rocks instead of eggs. She had a whole pile of eggs in front of her but she went right for the rock....Kathy says she's going to grow up to be a park ranger because she likes rocks and dirt and being outside so much. Anyway, I hopefully will get back on this posting thing again. I've got some video of Kara saying "Oh Yeah" like the Kool-aid pitcher that I'll try to get up on YouTube.
