Drone photos

 Matthew has been very excited about his new drone. He especially likes that he can take pictures and video. Here is a sampling of his photos.

At the park. Matthew is shown controlling the drone. Grandpa, Grandma, U and Me are also in the photo.

Not all pictures are taken while the drone is flying.

Megan and Artemis

A few shots from the driveway.

Family photo. Matthew requested that we all come out so he could get pictures of everyone.

Jacob, Lauren, Megan and Artemis

Sarah's Senior Pictures

Sarah had her senior pictures taken by a young man in our ward.  He did an excellent job.  We went by a church nearby that had some good spots to take pictures.

Why, hello there...

Matthew wanted to title this one "Look at me.  Love me!"

U picked this pose for her and the photographer liked it so much he said he would use it in the future.

U encouraged her to show her teeth occasionally.  

This was her "Twilight" picture, walking in the olive grove.

"Why yes, I am beautiful."

Sarah throwing some attitude.

Just messing around.

Candid, on the move.

She sure looks happy.

Here U thinks she looks about 25...  Way too old.

Here are some of the other poses:

Worldwide Travel

We've enjoyed watching the chromecast pictures on our tv. The mix of nature with urban is nice and somewhat therapeutic. We have a fun time trying to figure out which city is being shown and think we do a decent job at least knowing what part of the world it's from. It's a nice way to travel the world when we are stuck at home.

Boston. We saw this view on our boat ride across the harbor.

London. So sad we won't be seeing it in person this year.

When Megan saw this, she exclaimed, "It's the only wall in China!" Almost, Megan. Almost. (We still joke about the Taj Mahal being the only building in India.)

This picture came on a few minutes later.

Lodhi Gardens in Delhi.

We think this seahorse looks like the corona seahorse.

Other June happenings

We celebrated Matthew's half birthday. He received a snap circuits kit and is enjoying experimenting with different circuitry.

Sarah went to the temple to do baptisms. One of the Young Men baptized her.

One morning, Matthew got up early and did all his work so that he could go to work with daddy. At least that was Matthew's plan. That didn't work for U, but he arranged things so that Matthew could come have lunch with him, play a game and then help him with a few projects at work that afternoon. Matthew was so excited!

Matthew's drawing on U's whiteboard. It's the Millenium Falcon flying through an asteroid field being chased by TIE Fighters.

Megan wanted a turn at daddy's work, too, so she spent an afternoon there the following week.

U and Megan played Battleship at lunch. Megan placed all her ships in a row and U happened to hit one the very first guess. Pretty impressive to sink all her ships in 18 guesses. And Megan didn't do too bad, sinking two ships and working on a third in 18 guesses.

Picture Megan drew for U's coworker who loves unicorns.

Megan's drawing on U's board: Darth Vader, R2-D2, C3PO and Yoda.

We've been getting a lot of packages so Megan and Matthew got out the dolly to move them.

I'm partial to the green package myself....

Matthew and Megan made U LEGO ties for Father's Day. Yes, he wore them to church. Megan and Matthew are each pointing to the tie they made.

Close up of the ties.

Matthew opened a piece of junk mail we received and started reading it. Lots of practice sounding out long, unfamiliar words.

Megan enjoyed going to Menchies with the gift card she received from her class.

Megan and Matthew made a huge fort that took up the entire family room. After a few days, they scaled it back to this sleeping hut.

U got some game pieces to design games. Megan and Matthew enjoyed playing with the pieces. Matthew also designed his own game, although the rules are somewhat fluid.

Megan and Matthew have enjoyed building with block and dominoes. They especially like using the automatic filters on the camera to take lots of pictures. Matthew said, "When you take it on that setting, it takes photos from a bunch of different angles." (When on the filter setting, the camera takes about five photos with different filters and also zooms in on parts of the pictures).

Here are a few example of these photos as taken by the camera including a couple from the pool.