Mmmmm...

My birthday dinner grilled to perfection by my sweetie. <3

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOPE!!!!

BLUE

I've been painting. Not sure I love the color, but Rey picked it and I guess he gets to make a FEW choices around here! LOL

ooops

I really did take a few shots yesterday, even in though it was hot, but I'm not feeling very well and I fell asleep last night early and slept all night! This is Katy, another client.

Vegetable garden...

These are from my garden! :-) The big, beefy, dark red one was my dinner- the ones we picked today will need a few days to ripen in the window. I fully expect to eat tomatoes until my mouth is sore!!

I babysat for my friend today, this is where I kept her child most of the day...



(disclaimer: JUST KIDDING! He went in there of his own free will!)

Birthday girl and a kitten...

Seashells from the seashore...

I am soooo uninspired- still waiting for my lens and not really wanting to take pictures of much in the meantime. Tonight I was actually off to bed, had kissed the kids goodnight and everything, when I realized I hadn't taken a picture today! So, I wandered aimlessly around my house, hoping something would catch my eye. I took a few boring shots, some of the kids (of course) and then settled on the bowl of shells from Dauphin Island that sits by the sink in the bathroom.

rainy day

Just plain neighborly...

One of the great things about my 'neighborhood' is that most of my neighbors have gardens and they love to share. Our tomatoes from our garden are almost ready but in the meantime we have cucumbers- which I've always thought taste like summer!!

Barn

Isn't that a word? I'm too tired to look. I didn't get the shot I kept seeing in my head each day as I pass this, but I do like the light that was coming through on the trees!

Pointe shoes...

Kya got her first pointe shoes a few weeks ago. The shoes don't come with the ribbons or elastics attached so we had to do it ourselves. Kya's dance teacher feels that if the girls are mature enough for pointe shoes then they are also mature enough to sew on their own ribbons. This is part of the reason that it's taken so long- it took a few tries for us to get it right. But tonight we did it- mostly she did it, with a little support and encouragement. :-)

Y'know, I just couldn't come up with the words to describe this picture! LOL

Birthday dinner...

I was honestly having a hard time taking pictures today. I ordered a jazzy new lens yesterday and every shot I thought of I wanted to save for the new lens, lol. So, today you get another 'day in the life' shot. Last Saturday was Robbie's birthday, my dad's is Tuesday, my mom's Thursday, and mine next Saturday. Tonight we had dinner with my parents to celebrate them all. :)

This picture demonstrates why I'm excited to be getting a new lens this week (happy birthday to me!!!). I had to have a very shallow depth of field in the dark room to prevent blur. Even with a tripod any movement from the people being photographed would have created blur. So, I have some people in slight bokeh instead of blur. My new lens will be better in low light because it has a larger aperture and will also help with blur caused by me thanks to the Image Stabilization.

Argh!

So, I pull into my clients driveway this morning and see the most beautiful sight! A Doe and her two fawns. I grab the camera and followed them around the house, but immediately knew I had made a terrible mistake. I had my 35mm lens on, no zoom to it at all, so I just shot a ton and prayed. As I suspected, the pics aren't very crisp when cropped (which I had to do), but we live and learn, right? I wasn't about to pass up the opportunity to post a shot of them though, they were so beautiful! Next time I'll have the right lens on...but how to predict something as random as this? No clue.

A day at home...

Record heat kept us in the house for the most part today. Thankfully we have plenty of fun things to do, including making up our own games with flash cards.

Ugh

I don't know if it's the heat or what, but I feel ill and I'm off to lay down. I'm dedicated though and I did actually use the camera for about 2 seconds today to take a shot of some curriculum I'm trying to sell. So, that's what you get!

Ideas please!!!

So, Karen and I were getting together pretty regularly and having fun with 'Disney Days'. We'd pick a movie as our theme and plan decorations and food to go with that theme. It made for some great pictures and was fun for a while but the same old stuff gets boring after a while. So, we thought we'd ditch Disney Days for a while but we still want to get together and give Kya and Savannah the chance to play (and for us to gab, lol). We thought it might be fun to have 'Picture Day' instead and try to find some places where we can meet up to take pictures and the girls can also play. We get together at parks and pools on a regular basis with our homeschool group so I'd like some ideas for cheap (FREE is best) places to take the kids that will also offer some fun photo ops. Lets hear it folks- we need LOTS of ideas!!

Since Hope got to post a picture from last night that I took, I get to do the same! This shot captures how we are most of the time! LOL! Thank you for taking it Hope!

Mothers and daughters...

Okay, I admit it... Karen took the top picture of Kya and I together- but she used my camera! You get two today because while I don't generally like having my picture taken (that's why I'm the photographer) I love this shot of us together. Thanks Karen. <3

The second picture is all mine. S, taking her turn to share her blessing with each girl as her daughter looks on and takes it all in.