Dustin and Erin Watson

To make you smile

A few pictures that I've taken over the past couple days that I thought were funny or cute.

We didn't do much for Memorial Day. We just enjoyed a day together as a family! That evening we had Jaron and Beth's family over for dinner, swimming, and playing with sparklers!

I just had to throw this picture in here. Max was so excited to be sitting with the big kids!

The kids had so much fun playing with the sparklers! Kate and Maddock got into it right away. Jaylee was afraid at first, but she warmed up to it towards the end. I had fun taking these pictures, but just could not figure out how to take those fun light painting pictures. Anyone know the settings to do that? Anyway, I like how these turned out, even if they are really blurry.

Happy Memorial Day!

"Arts and Craps"

I've mentioned before that I've been having to come up with creative ways to keep Kate entertained during the day. Every day (mostly) we have time set aside to do arts and crafts. Which Kate pronounces as "arts and craps" and I haven't corrected her yet. Here's a few things we've done lately.

We got together with Maddock and Jaylee and made some shirts!

We painted our faces!

Even Mommy got in on the fun!

One day I tried to keep Max entertained with a crayon and paper,

while Kate painted with her hands and feet!

Arts and crafts is Kate's favorite part of the day!

I'd have to say it's mine too.

I love my iPhone

If you thought I took a lot of pictures before, I'm about to make you even more sick of me :) We haven't even scratched the surface into another medium of photography. My iPhone! I have been using my iPhone camera a lot lately. It's small and easy, and lets face it, I always have it with me. It's perfect for quick snapshots, and with apps like Snapseed, Camera+, VSCO cam, and the oh-so-addicting Instagram, it's really fun to get creative with it as well. Also I got a fun little toy for Mother's Day, the Olloclip! It's a 3-in-1 wide angle, fisheye, and macro lens that snaps right onto your iPhone. So fun! I may be a tad obsessed.

So today I thought I would finally try to get some pictures off of my phone and into my blog. All of these are pretty recent, taken within the last month or two.

Even Batman needs to eat lunch, Max will eat anything off of the floor, Max in the doorway, and a couple pics of my with each child.

Swimming in the pool, Dr. Kate doing her "research", the Pirate Princess and Max, playing with our new iPad (which I already broke but that's a story for another day), me and my cute kids, Kate "catching fairies".

The best way to watch "TB", Kate trying to stop Max from going outside, Daddy and Max at sunset, Max getting into the laundry, eating goldfish crackers, and a picture I took of the eclipse!

Kate brushing her teeth, a carrot covered smile, Kate taking a rare nap, Max and Daddy napping, Kate and Max waiting at the window, and Max crawling into his room.

Kate helping me vacuum, Kate and Max waiting for daddy to get home, Max napping, another one of Kate napping, playing "princess" with the curtains, Max playing peekaboo.

Kate and Max playing in their favorite spot -under the desk, Kate riding the carousel at the Superstition Mall, and some shots with my olloclip!

The iPhone of course will never replace my real camera, but you can expect posts like these every once in awhile!

Wordless Wednesday

Beating the heat

It's offically summer here, which means it is soooo hot outside! For me that means I need to put extra effort into entertaining Kate during the day. When it's too hot to play outside, and we don't have a car to go anywhere anyway, we've got to get creative. Yesterday I introduced Kate to how much fun a simple paper bag can be. We made puppets! And Kate sure got a kick out of it! I helped her make most of them, but the one that looks like a scary dictator, she made herself.