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Well at our house we wouldn't really call her a "baby",

but she's the only baby we have right now.

Plus this is just a classic Micah picture!

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The cake from the C-G's birthday party...

Can you guess whose party it was and what the theme was?

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After the 3-legged races, the kids decided to make their own race of jumping. I couldn't decide on one because I loved that they were in the air and their faces are funny!

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Cameron & Miriam were partners in the 3-legged race for the 3-4 year olds.

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Luke & Katie Faith were partners in the 5-6 year olds 3-legged race at the C-G's birthday party

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Micah has found this chair now and keeps climbing in it.

I took this one and thought it was great...

until I saw this one!

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Micah doing the wrong thing in her new bed. Luke told me I had to come and take a picture.

Then Miriam wanted to get in the picture too!

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A frog that Courtney picked up at the tennis courts...

she wanted to keep it so she took it home in a tennis ball container

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Well with an assignment of balls this week...it's hard to decide what to take a picture of at our house. Having a sports fan husband...we have almost every ball possible.

Tuesday we went to play tennis at the Y with some of our friends. I was hoping to take some action pictures, but we actually played mixed doubles and when we finished it was too dark to take those. But good thing was I got some exercise & worked up a good sweat!

Our practice balls...see how many we need...a good sign that we're not that good :)

Levi getting the balls

I asked Levi what he was holding and he said "BALLS!"

Bring me a ball Levi!

I wanted him to throw it so I could get an action shot, but no luck...

He's too busy drinking his water bottle!

Craig told me to take a picture of this and put it on the blog to ask "who knows what this is"

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She fell asleep in her high chair after supper on Sunday night. I left her in there while Luke & I were doing the dishes because she has a tendency to take things out of the silverware basket. When I came back, this is what I found!

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Here are my fireworks shots finally...like I said before in the Fireworks post on my other blog:
I don't know how well these turned out since we weren't really close to the levee and there were street lights. I used the advice that was on Digital Photography School...I shot in bulb mode, 200 ISO, manual focus, f/5.6.

This one looked more patriotic

One of the coolest fireworks...Cameron said it looked like a butterfly
The ring around this one kind of looks like little hearts

Ball of fire

I like how you can see another firework going up

Part of the finale

More finale

Overall, I think they turned out pretty good considering where we were standing.

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Red, white & blue assignment...which one do you like better?

Of course, I had lots of red, white & blue pictures from this weekend...the best ones are from the Children's Parade.

Win a Tamron SLR Lens

MCP Actions is giving away a zoom SLR lens by Tamron. I would love to win this because I have been longing for a zoom lens to use on field trips and vacations with the kids, but now is the not the best time for me to buy one. It would be awesome to win this lens, because a friend suggested the Tamron lens so this is the one I was leaning towards anyway.

To enter the contest, go here:
http://mcpactions.com/blog/2009/07/08/win-an-slr-lens-brand-new-tamron-lens-%e2%80%93-18-270mm-or-28-300mm/

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I couldn't decide between these 2:

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Self-portrait

Happy Birthday Tate!

Sorry we can't be there to celebrate with you, but hope y'all have a great time at the picnic!

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I loved that this actually came out! I was taking pictures as we approached the "new" bridge on I-10.