The Edwards Family Blog: Yard Sale-ing

I will start with a legal disclaimer: this is going to be a picture intensive post. If you don't like seeing adorable children, stop reading now.

I took Friday off. We did lots of things, but one of them was just to go to the playground. Vivian isn't really into the playground equipment yet, but she does enjoy walking (almost running) as fast as she can from mom. She has plenty of room to explore at the RecPlex in town. Some of the things she did were incredibly cute and caused me to take pictures. I had not planned on taking pictures, so I only had my iphone camera. I am amazed at the quality of these pictures. I did edit them a little, but only as much as the Adobe PS Express App allows. I think this may be my favorite picture of Vivian yet:

Here are a few others:

Of course, I took some of Jack too:

"I believe I can fly!"

After the park we stopped at the Federated Church for a yard sale. It was Uncle Gary that pointed out that Jack has coined a new verb, "Yard-Saling," which of course, is the act of attending yard sales. A few weeks ago we attended a few (Jack's first time) in search of an outdoor playhouse and a bike for Jack. We got lucky and quickly found them. Jack got a few new toys and he was hooked. We are still working out the kinks in his idea of what yard-saling means. He doesn't understand that not every tag sale is going to have cool things for him. Nor does he understand that we do not need to always buy something at a tag sale; we have more than enough "junk" of our own. There wasn't much for him at the church tag sale and before I had to talk him out of leaving with junk, he scored a full-length Scooby Doo DVD for $0.25! We pay more than that to watch them on demand.

Bernie's mom had given Jack $5 for yard sales. It was burning a hole in his pocket so I promised him we would find more tag sales on Saturday. He proclaimed that since he had $5, he was going to buy 5 "stuff." Thus began his lesson in economics and how not everything costs $1 (it sure would be nice though if it did). The first tag sale we went to was at a farm. I got yet another cute Vivian, iphone photo:

Here is Jack ultimately spending $4 on a nerf-like dart gun set, new in the box (boys and guns of any kind are a very bad idea)!

Later, at an other tag sale, Jack tries very hard to find something that is only $1, but he is unsuccessful. Next week, we will work on the art of negotiating.

Nick needs to get his senior pictures done. Let's just say that doing so is not at the top of his priority list. Since I had gotten such great iphone pictures, I thought we could do even better with our Nikon D-SLR (especially since Bernie has taken a few photography classes lately). Everyone complained about going on a field trip as they piled in the car, but seemed happier once we got to the "haunted castle" according to Jack (aka Gillette Castle). Just my luck, it started pouring as soon as we got out of the car.

Even so, we got some very good pictures: