Saturday Snapshots

Run! Miss Nelson's got the camera Is hosting a linky party as well as a give away.

I love using the camera to capture my boys as well as my students.  I use the camera in my classroom to document student progress as well as pictures of them through out the school year that I put together in a slide show for the parents on our promotion day.  Photography you can say is a hobby of mine.  My own boys sometimes run when I have the camera out trying to capture them in a snapshot.

 This picture represents my family walking in the Alzheimer's Memory walk for the last 5 years.  This August 24th will be our 6th year in participating and walking in memory of our family members who passed with the disease.

 My boys and I took a small road trip to the panhandle of Oklahoma.  We were on our way back from my sister's house and stopped by a few stops to check them off our list.  We are traveling to all the locations from a book I purchased about weird places in Oklahoma. So I told my sons we will be checking out these places and reading about them as we do. 

 Of Coarse at stop had to be Beaver, Oklahoma. (Our last name is Beavers).  But Beaver Dunes are known for UFO sitings.  Each time we visit a location from the book we take a picture with the book on that particular locations page.

 My youngest son just ran up this dune and back down. He wanted me to take a picture of him crawling in the sand like he was stranded in the desert LOL (picture isnt included)

 On the drive back we saw many things you don't see in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  The above picture is a working windmill in the middle of NO WHERE.

 These produce wind power.  There are tons of them in the panhandle.

 Then we have these mountains that just pop up here and there.

 My sons and I got to see several planes visit the Tulsa area.  This plane of coarse has a beaver for their logo and was originally a company  from Tulsa.

 This is a World War II B-52.  This is the second working B-52 that came to Oklahoma.  I got to see both and get to see the insides as well.  It was really cool to see a piece of history.

 Another thing that Beaver, Oklahoma is know for is this large beaver.  They host a cow chip throwing contest every year.  This is the largest beaver.  (For those of you who don't know what a cow chip is....well it is dried cow poop that can be used for fertilizer)

 This was a school in the middle of the No Man Land.  It burnt down.I can't remember what caused it.

So many of the snapshots I take mark things we have done, where we have been, and to just capture it in a picture forever.