zoom mode and the rainy picnic.

rainy day at the whyte house.

hardly stopped the kids from playing.

it was so nice out,

and the swing set stays pretty dry since the trees block it,

so the kids went out to play.

and so did i.

in my class,

eric had shown us a shot of a crowd,

along with movement happening between the crowd.

the blurred effect was majorly cool.

so i got to practice my 'zoom mode'.

the rain started to pick up during lunch time.

so, i brought out a blanket

and we ate lunch under the covered patio.

i'm a firm believer that everyone should have a covered patio.

the kids dined on their fave rainy day food...

"long noodles" aka ramen.

haha.

the boy eats like...

well, a boy.

when emily was 1,

she use to laugh and laugh at her mama eating "long noodles",

slirping them up.

now she enjoys doing it herself.

nothing like a picnic.

germany,

the bowls have been deemed the "long noodle bowls".

i never put them in anything else but those bowls. :)

 

justin has been busy packing and shopping for his trip next weekend.

while he's busy,

i have time to get photos put together to print for him to take on his trip.

when he went to bahrain,

i sent a note for him to read each day during his 19 day stay.

i don't know if he'll have a photo for each day,

but he will at least have a note and some photos to open each day.

since he doesn't really look at the blog,

it makes it easier to surprise him! :)

we've been trying to do more family things.

fireworks last night.

fireworks on sunday with my sister.

i'm sure a date to china star will come up, too.

justin loves chinese and emily has been hounding me to go.

we have a free movie day with the officers coming up,

so we are taking the kids to see toy story 3.

emily below--this is the "but i want more noodles" hand sticking out.

the kids enjoy looking at themselves in the camera.