Lil Venable Fam: September 2011

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Mabry Mill 2011

Every fall we venture to Mabry Mill for some pictures...I always love the pictures we get. I stress out every year...getting ready, picking outfits out, getting out the door-but we always get awesome pictures. We don't have a photographer take them, we just take Kevin's trusty tripod and let the camera do the work. Somehow everyone ends up looking at the camera, even without a crazy person jumping around behind it.
Here is an outtake...

We stop at the same spot on the way up and every year we always comment that we should stop at the place after this one-it has a cool rail fence and nice overlook. Maybe we'll remember next year.

Then comes the mill shots...we normally go in October but looking ahead Kevin realized that we would be busy most weekends...eh hem football. So we went in September. Turned out to be a rainy Saturday and it was PERFECT! Nearly no one was there so we took our time with pictures and didn't have to worry about folks in the background. September might be the new plan!
All this started with Sidney Kate, so naturally I wanted to remake all her first shots with ECV.
ECV at 5 months.

SKV at 5 1/2 months...ish
*I can see them looking more alike as ECV grows...and yes, I threw this one in there just to depress everyone - time as flown by!

SKV LOVES her little sister-loves!

Super hard to get ECV to look at us after the above shots...she was intriqued by the leaves, ground and...well, everything but us. :)

Hilarious! I should have a caption writing contest for this...feel free to leave a comment with your caption. :)

Awww...I know you're thinking it...awwww!

Thank you random passerby-you rock!

I haven't done anything to this picture but it looks like a 70s tinted shot. :)

SKV 18 months and 3 1/2 years...well almost 1/2

The end...till next year!

Monday, September 26, 2011

5 Months!

5 Months and happy y'all!

State @ Wake

If we thought the first game had a little heat...we were scorched come game 2! The day started out with lots of kids meal toys from Liz-that kept the crowd occupied for...minutes. :)

Marty played ball with SKV on the hill for a bit-well, as long as her attention span would last. He's good like that. He's also good if you need someone to be a backup parent-we won't talk about the number of times he's found my child or kept an eye on her when we were distracted. (Thanks Marty!)

One excited girl for another ballgame...that is, before the heat wave zapped her energy.

Riley and SKV-that had mega fun together.

At some point she was putting her arm around Riley and Kevin was joking with her that she shouldn't be doing that...here is a picture of her quickly putting her arm in her lap when Kevin turned around.

I caught the hug in action this time.

It was so terribly hot during the 1st half that I was sure SKV was going to pass out-she was wanting to lay on me and kept saying "I'm sleepy." By halftime something changed, probably the lemon icy we shared...but the kids got pumped up and did great the rest of the game.

Morning What?

This is just about too funny..."Who's the morning person?"

Every time SKV moved ECV would just look at her-as if to say, "Wake up already! I want to play!" As soon as SKV woke up she cuddled over to ECV. So sweet!

Embree Claire's 1st Football Game!

Wolfpack in the house!!! (We're not actually sure if they are in the house this year...have you seen them play?)
Keeping our first game tradition-we took a family picture before the first game. Embree Claire has the idea down...just look at the camera. :)

It was a super hot day but she was a great sport, took a brief nap during the tailgating part and an even shorter one during the game...one that I don't know counted.

Papa and Gran Mary with 2 out of 4 grans.

That's one happy baby!

Another duplicate shot...see SKV's first game shot below.
Embree Claire's 1st Game-2011

As much as I love the Peanut Shell at times-both games were just too hot for it to last too long.
Sidney Kate's 1st Game-2008

Look how much this child has grown in 3 years! But let's not talk about it...she cheered like she had a purpose! She was hollering "Let's go NC State Wolfpack" when everyone else was wondering why they even came to the game. She was really excited to be there. She had her Howl Towel flying and her Wolfpack fingers going. She's quite the trooper!

This is the look of "Can you believe they are playing like this?!"

Things got so bad she figured she'd just so to sleep...for like seconds! Maybe 10-15 minutes...she did great too! Smiled at everyone and played the content baby!