On October 17th we celebrated Mikaela’s 13th birthday party. Yup, it’s official – she is now a teenager.
Here are a sampling of the better pictures taken at the event.
Archive: November 2014
Lori and Ben pictures
Lori always has this deep down feeling that one of the nefarious purposes of photography is to make her look bad (in other words that she is aphotogenic). I think she looks amazing in these pictures taken recently during our trip to Space Center Houston, so they are well worth posting. I’ve also posted one of these into the Hubcrate/About page. I think Daelynn was the photographer in this case, so kudos to her!
One of my favorite song stanzas is from Casting Crowns song “Angel”:
After all the changing seasons
Have turned to years
The crowns are gone
And the suns have fadedI’d still be here
Holding you
When thanking heaven
For my angel
-Ben
Strangers Among Us
I am way, way behind on my Hubcrate posts (I have a bunch to pull together including Mikaela’s birthday, some from the visit of Cam & Coralie Koch & family, and Brock’s birthday). But in the meantime, here are some pictures that I found on the camera.
And with a bit of down-time with American Thanksgiving, I’ll try and get some of those other posts queued up.
Rorschach test
I was just playing with an Adobe app on my iPad (Adobe Shape CC) which creates vector drawings from pictures taken. So, here is the test – what is going on in the following “inkblot” picture?
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For the past few (18?) years, we have chosen to do a family activity rather than go trick or treating at Halloween. This year, some of the folks at the culdesac we lived on last year invited us over for their Halloween block party. Ben, Lori, Davison and Brock headed over to join in the festivities.
Danaya, Daelynn, Mikaela, and Heidi hosted a Girls’ Night with some friends at our home, which included pizza and ice cream, handing out candy (we’re in a quiet area so not much activity), a fire in the fireplace, and watching a movie.
The boys had fun with their costumes. Davison wore the armor that Rett made for him Christmas 2012 and toted a plastic sword and shield. Brock went all out, getting the girls and Mom to help him create a robot costume.
I didn’t get a picture of Davison in costume, but here are some Brock pictures. Both boys ended up with a whole lot of read “way too much”) candy.
