Sunday, February 23, 2014

Sunday Snapshot {The River}

Today was another sunny day in sunny southern California. The temperatures weren't too hot... in the upper 70's to low 80's, so we decided to go to the river. Blythe is right on the Colorado River. We didn't stay for long but Rommey did get to spend some time playing in the little pools and shallow flows. During the middle of the summer, the area that she was playing in is all sand and the river is further out. Today there was still lots of sand but the water was closer too. We discovered that this time of year is actually a really great time to go to the river.

Anyhoo... I decided to take my camera along and snap some pictures of Rommey playing. Enjoy.




See in the distance where the sand touches the water? In the summer, everything up to that point is sand. This section is a large beach in the summer. 



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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Sunday Snapshot {Bubbles}

The other day when we went to Walmart, I came across one of those automatic bubble blowers. Rommey LOVES bubbles so I had to get it! She had so much fun playing around with it and chasing the bubbles!





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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Sunday Snapshot {A Typical Weekend in Blythe, CA}

Well, now that we're living in the middle of the desert, where the weather is pretty much always hot, we tend to spend a lot of time playing in the water. Unfortunately, the only adult size water is the Colorado River (which is pretty low right now) or driving 2 hours to Lake Havasu (which we haven't done yet). Fortunately, we have a kiddie pool and a hose so at least Rommey can play in the water and fortunately right now the highs are generally in the 70s or 80s compared to over 100 in the summer so it's not too uncomfortable for us adults right now.

Today she really had fun in the kiddie pool!

There was sliding into the pool....



She also loved taking pails of water out of the pool and watering the "grass."


Once she dumped the water, she HAD to splash in it.


Then her car needed to be washed.


Then she decided she didn't want it in the pool anymore. :-)


She also took a little time to wash her Hot Wheels car. 


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Sunday, February 2, 2014

Sunday Snapshot {A New Camera}

Well, this was an interesting Sunday Snapshot day. I just got my first DSLR camera! It's a basic model... the Nikon D3200. Since this is an older model, the store had it on sale at a great price!

We went to San Diego this weekend and I REALLY wanted to take some beach pictures of Rommey but unfortunately, the camera battery needed to be charged before I could take any pictures and we needed to head back to Blythe. So, my Sunday Snapshot pictures ended up being taken when she was in the bathtub tonight instead.


I'm still playing around with how to use the camera, particularly the Manual, Aperture, Shutter Speed and Program modes but the basic settings are working great for me. :-) Most of these pictures were taken using either the Portrait or Child setting.


To end the evening, Rommey wanted to play with my iPhone for a little bit. 


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