Elyse's Class Field Trip

Today Elyse's Kindergarten class went on a field trip to the Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center in Buford. I couldn't go because I had to teach, but Granny and Pa met the class there to help out. Here are some pictures Granny took of the trip:

The Last Couple of Months

I haven't been very good about updating our blog this year, but we have actually been doing things. Rather than trying to create individual entries for our various adventures during the last couple of months, I am instead going to post twenty pictures here in this one post, starting with this:

Back in February, Elyse did some "old-timey" portraits with Portraits International. The prints we bought were sepia, but I think I prefer the color versions from the CD:

Jessica took this picture on our back patio in early March:

Elyse got her face painted for Easter:

Jessica and Pa in Granny and Pa's hotel room in Chattanooga on our Spring Break trip:

And now several pictures from that Rock City trip. In the first, right in the middle you can see Elyse and her mommy crossing the swinging bridge:

Jessica took this self portrait (or "selfie" as the kids these days say) at Rock City:

A few days after my 49th birthday, I set up my backdrop and camera and took some self portraits, and also some pictures of Elyse (Jessica didn't want her picture taken, but she helped Elyse with her outfits):

Vines Gardens

The girls didn't have school today, so we went to Vines Gardens to walk around, play, and take pictures:

While we were there, a local art club -- or something like that; I didn't actually ask any of them for an explanation -- was there painting landscapes. There were four painters that we saw; there might have been others in places we didn't see. I only got three of them in pictures, though:

And of course, there were geese:

After we got home and had lunch, the girls went outside with their easels and brushes and paints to paint our backyard!

Zoo Trip with Elyse's Girl Scout Troop

Today Elyse and I went to Zoo Atlanta with her Girl Scout troop:

(This is only half of the troop, and one of them you can barely see. All nine girls did make it.)

The next two pictures were taken while we were waiting for the train:

And finally a couple of pictures of Elyse on the playground: