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So, my goal has always been to keep these monthly home video compilations to around 5 minutes or less. It’s been a challenge, but mostly I’ve kept to around the 5-6 minute mark (with my longest video [so far] being just over 7 minutes long).
Well, July’s video is just shy of 14 minutes long (that’s nearly 3 times the length I’ve been trying to keep things at).
This left me scratching my head: why do I have SO MUCH MORE content of us doing daily life in July over every other month?
And then I realized: every other month, we’ve traveled a lot to ride roller coasters (and some months – like June – we were away more than we were at home). I keep all of our “adventuring” videos separate (or else these monthly highlight videos would be CRAZY long).
But want to hear the crazy news? We did not travel to ride any roller coasters in the month of July. (If your brain is exploding, mine is too.)
After traveling (seemingly nonstop) from the end of April thru June, we realized that we needed a break. I had 2 weddings & a few portrait sessions at the beginning of July – which kept us home for the first half of the month – and the last half of the month – we just stayed home. Which simply means: I have triple the amount of home videos from the month of July.
Just because we didn’t “travel” to ride roller coasters, doesn’t mean that we didn’t get our fair share of Kennywood visits in. Outside of our “normal” Kennywood evening trips, we also spent a day at Kennywood with my Mom & sisters, and another day with my Mom & my niece.
(0:01) Speaking of Kennywood – we ALWAYS visit Kennywood on the 4th of July to watch fireworks & this year we had a MAJOR fail as we pulled up to the park & the parking lot was empty. This left us scrambling & “watching” fireworks as we drove home (and we could see a few from our backyard that our neighbors were setting off).
(2:20) We got the most AMAZING bubble guns (these things are INCREDIBLE) and the kids have had a BLAST with them – seriously, just go buy them right now: HERE
(4:16) We spent a little time at my family’s lake house in Deep Creek Lake, Maryland.
(6:38) Leander got a big boy haircut!!
(7:58) We visited Round Hill Park with the cousins.
(10:37) Leander’s newest favorite game is to play TICKLE CRABS (from Bluey – a show on Disney+)
Just in case you missed what I’m doing – I decided that I wanted to create a curated “home video” for our family every month (remember those old “home movies” our families used to create? with the giant video recorders that an entire VHS tape fit in?) Those videos were fantastic, but if you’ve ever sat down to watch one (does anyone even own a VHS player anymore?) you very quickly realize that you do a lot of “fast-forwarding”.
So, my goal, is to take all the little videos I take of our family over the course of a month & create a short (my goal is less than 5 minutes long!) video of my favorite snippets.
Enjoy a little peek into what our July looked like!
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