Admire

It's hard to not admire this view. 

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Sunshine

Early sunset as seen from a hot air balloon (yep, it is another hot air balloon picture -- but this one was even taken on the right day of the photo a day prompt for sunshine).

Listening To ...

What household with kids is NOT listening to this on a daily basis (yes, I know there are some that aren't...)?!

Though, as a little plug -- I do LOVE our Sonos speakers.

Torn

They are doing road construction on a road not too far from us. On the way back home from swimming a pothole was hit and the tire was "torn."

Old School

Not sure that this really counts as old school, but hey, why not?

Having an outdoor tea party with the girls, with a visit from Rapunzel. ;-)

Grape soda pop in a glass bottle. 

Look Up

Looking up into the hot air balloon while in flight. 

The sky and top of the balloon while looking up and out of the balloon.

Up into the balloon with flames. 

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Interior

We finally got to go on our hot air balloon ride! It was such a beautiful night, and the ride was so relaxing!

Here is the interior of the balloon as it is being filled with air.

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Gold

Gold and silver fixtures are throughout the house -- from faucet handles to towel bars to toilet paper holders. We have slowly begun to replace them with plain silver ones instead. 

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Sharp

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Alive

Head thrown back with abandon.

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I've Never ...

I have never been stand-up paddle boarding. It seems like with all of the lakes and places that rent the boards around here that I should be able to get out and do this with relative ease ... hopefully soon!

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First

S has been wanting to use scissors for quite awhile now after seeing her big sister use them. We hadn't felt that she was ready yet, even with children's scissors. The other day I decided she could finally start practicing the motion, and try cutting some paper. Here is her first time using scissors (and let me tell you - if you need some fringe detail on anything - she is your girl!):

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View

We had lunch with friends at a restaurant on the lake and this was our view.

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On The Table

We got four large logs from one of our neighbors when they had a tree removed. We are going to make them into side tables for a fire pit. I was out washing them down a little before coating with some polyurethane. The surrounding trees casted some leafy shadows on the tables, and you can see one of my necessities this summer: a ThermaCell mosquito repellant lantern.

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Stars

I would love to be able to take pictures of the stars. We once ordered binoculars so we could dip our toes into star/planet watching, but we were sent a camera attachment that works with your camera and a telescope to take pictures of the sky instead. I was tempted to keep it (or actually order one), but I wanted to see how much we used the binoculars first so we sent it back and haven't ordered one.

These stars were a little easier to capture:

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Match

We have driven by this scoop shoppe many times. We never had a chance to stop, and once we were gone it was out of sight, out of mind. I finally remembered on a hot day that we should check it out. So, after a great day of park playing we headed over to Snoqualmie Ice Cream Scoop Shoppe. They have quite an extensive menu of different flavors of ice cream, shakes, and gourmet sundaes.

They also had games for people to play. We played the memory version of the I Spy game while we finished our ice cream. I already can't wait to go back (I may be drooling writing this post)!

A match! Two yellow mice.

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Something That Begins With "K"

We were heading to the park after eating brunch with some friends, and we stopped to have a seat near the water. Opportunity presented itself, and here we have a little kiss.

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Red and White

Red and White, how hard can that be? Apparently, quite hard. It seems that many days I took photos of something red and white, but not intentionally. And those same photos I already was planning for one of the other days, and I didn't really want to double-up. Then I started to overthink it. So, just to get day one in the books, here is my Red and White picture:

This was a yummy dessert pizza that I made for a Fourth of July party. Thankfully we are being flexible with when we are taking the photos as I certainly did not have one on the actual first of the month!

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July 2014 Photo Challenge

School's out, summer is officially here, and I am ready to do another photo challenge. The chosen list is from FatMumSlim. Posts for the first couple days to come soon. 

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