Mitchel Senior Pictures

After a 2 year hiatus I am finally finding a tiny sliver of time to do something that resembles journaling...or at the very least creating a digital record of this crazy time in our lives.

As we are still wrapping our heads around the fact that we have a senior, there is also the realities that do not wait for parents to make any kind of peace with this.
There are college applications, tours, and visits. There are tests...so many tests and assessments these kids go through.
There are fundraisers and memorabilia they need to generate and order. The list really just keeps going. All the while we are trying to take in every moment we have with our son before he spreads his wings and leaves the nest.

Going out and taking some senior pictures were a fun and sobering adventure. We just drove around town and found some great backdrops that highlight Mitchel.

It was awfully bright out this day...part of the fun of taking the pictures was trying to encourage Mitch not to squint. Here were some of my favorite blooper-style pictures....

...and back to the actual photos that were taken.

This one was Mitchel's favorite that he wanted to submit to his year book. As a mother I was freaking out cause his hair was not perfect, but he loved it.

Bubble Run August 2017

To change it up from the usual Color Run, we signed up for the Bubble Run again. Both the Bubble and Color Runs are nice 5k family friendly runs that get the kids moving and make for great memories.

We arrived early. We were meeting some of Brent's coworkers. There were a lot of fun little things they had, as far as swag goes. One of the most fun was a giant chair the kids got to climb up on. They also had a booth where they were using some airbrush kind of art to label hats for people. We were able to pick out the color we wanted and tell the guy what we wanted written on the hats.

We made our way through the line and the waves started going while we were getting our hats brushed. We each got a hat and then headed to the starting line. I put my phone in its waterproof case so I was ready to take some pictures and videos to capture the fun.

We prepared Emmett with a clear shower curtain I bought from the dollar store and attached it to the stroller. Plus we grabbed him some swim goggles. Bubble runs can be very sticky wet business.

The first color of bubbles we came to was pink. Elysia had never done any runs before, she wasn't sure what to expect.

Next up was some green bubbles. We made our way into the bubbles, by this time Emmett was starting to get tired...

And we did it! Another run under our belts.

To celebrate they had giant blowers around a stage that sprayed out bubbles. We danced in the bubbles and waited for the crowd to die down before we tried leaving...

We got to the cars and dried off. Our clothes and shoes were wet and squishy. We were prepared though. So after slipping on dry clothes we headed out to lunch.