warner park

Wishing My Photo Outtakes Were This Darn Cute

November 8, 2010 By Blonde Mom 10 Comments

Yesterday was absolutely gorgeous so we headed to Warner Park here in Nashville for a quick picnic and then I began operation Quest for the Great Christmas Card Photo.

Inbetween overdramatic declarations of “I DON’T WANT HER THAT CLOSE TO ME” and peace out signs, the hubby snagged a beauty that I converted to black and white, but I want it to be a surprise so you all will just have to wait until December.

After we wrapped up the photos, or, rather, when the girls finally got tired of posing and my requests to smile, say Sponge Bob, and act like they really do love each other, we decided to go geocaching.

What’s that, you say?

Head on over to TravelingMom.com for my regular Monday post as the Nashville TravelingMom. If a blonde with no sense of direction and an extremely limited sense of Grizzly Adams can geocache with her family, so CAN YOU. Just wear cute hiking boots and jeans and watch out for poison ivy.

Filed Under: My Girls, Parenting 10 Comments

The Big Chill

February 1, 2010 By Blonde Mom 31 Comments

Harpeth Snowfall

Look really closely. See the tiny pink speck? That’s Miss C. And to the left you can see the hubby shooting some video. Miss A is somewhere to the left of me refusing to put on her hat.

Warner Park Snow

Yesterday afternoon after such riveting cabin fever inspired activities as Speed Toilet Cleaning! and Power Recliner Napping! and Marathon Phineas and Ferb Watching! and Precision Hot Chocolate Slurping! the hubby had a fantastic idea. We 4-wheeled it over to Edwin Warner Park to go for a crunchy snow walk. We ended up watching the girls sled, really sled, for the first time on the big hill that overlooks Steeplechase. There’s nothing quite as simultaneously fun and frightening as watching your children in their own luge competition.

We also shot some great video, although after the hubby handed the video camera over to me I somehow managed to film a good 20 minutes from the linty depths of my dad’s 1960s buffalo plaid Woolrich coat which I only sport when it’s truly cold. What can I say? I’m no Martin Scorcese.

It was a lovely way to end a rare snowy weekend here in Nashville.

p.s. I’ve got a great giveaway this week for a Sony Pocket Reader on my product review blog (speaking of cabin fever activities…this is an amazing device for all you bibliophiles. It’s like a portable electronic library! If you travel frequently and you love to read, this is something you must check out. And also? It comes in pink.)