a roadtrip getaway

We had a little getaway to celebrate Chris’ 30th birthday. I love the break from day to day, but packing for 6…yuck. I was in a b&w mood while editing these….

Chris enjoyed a little time with his other girl…check out those top two teeth!

She enjoys snuggling with her dad. She does not enjoy being restricted or confined in any way.

Our getaway included an indoor waterpark. 4 kids ages 6 and under at an indoor waterpark. Highly stressful, but worth every bit of the stress. They LOVED it!

Photo Tip: These are all shot with my point & shoot. I took them all on automatic, but turned the flash off and selected “high ISO”. If you are using a point & shoot in a dark environment and don’t want to use your flash, adjust the ISO to a high setting. It will make your pictures more pixelated, but you won’t have the ‘flashed out’ look.

This picture makes me laugh because it reminds me of the faces people give us a lot when we are out and about with the kids. Their faces are usually saying, “Wow…those kids keep going and going and going. How many are there?” There’s 4. Yes, they are all little, but there are ONLY four.

We stopped by some caves on our way home. The boys did a little hiking. It was a spur of the moment stop.

Since it was spur of the moment I was not prepared to hike with FireCracker…so we did a little photoshoot at the base of the rocks. (that is not poison ivy)

I think the rocks and background almost look fake in these….like one of those backdrops you can choose from at a portrait studio.

This is my favorite shot from the trip. I didn’t get a lot of great ones in the water because…well I had 4 small children I didn’t want to drown. Even though this is blurry (the result of holding my camera out to the side and trying to guess the shot), I love that it captures my relationship with her right now….holding her hand as she is taking steps in independence.

We told him it was still a long time in the car before we got home. My feelings expressed in a 4 year old.

I don’t do well in cars for longer than 30 minutes. I get restless, grumpy and bored. I get sick from reading, can’t do anything on my computer, can’t make anything and I am stuck sitting down for a long period of time. I don’t do well in cars. I don’t do well on roadtrips. Ryan introduced me to hipstamatic a couple of days before the fam and I were stuck in the car for 5+ hours. I was entertained until the iPhone battery died.

After the battery died I got out my camera. Chris said, “I know it is bad when you are reverting to taking landscape pictures.” I told him I was capturing the beauty of big blue Oklahoma skies so next time he wants to go a scenic route I can tell him to get out my computer.

Oklahoma skies are amazing – love the wide open spaces and deep blues.

Happy Monday!

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