January 30th

The sun did shine today, yay!!
Of course I was stuck at work the whole time...so i took some photos there :D

Pretty happy flowers to cheer everyone up!!

January 29th

If the sun would EVER shine here again I would be oh-so-happy.

Just a few simple photos I took a few minutes ago.
Not feeling inspired to take photos lately, sure hope that goes away ;)

One cooperative boy:

One not so cooperative:

Ha ha, he was running away and shutting the door in my face!!

January 28th

Been working a lot these past few days, and since work is so unbelievably slow I have been sneaking in some scrapping ;)
In the last 2 days I have made 5 altered board books and 4 layouts :D

January 27th

January 26th

January 25th

Dylan is in Kindergarten and brought home his VERY first report card today!
I just wanted to share some of the best words a momma can get:



close up:


I am having a proud momma moment now :D :D :D

January 24th

Busy day today for the little guy, so after we went out to dinner this was where he ended up :) A night quite different from the one we had last night ;)

January 24th

Sigh, the perfect words for my sweet little guy ;)

January 22nd

Fun on the fridge :D

January 21st

Missed a few days there due to one sick boy.
I thought he was better and then wham....it got worse.

So todays words:



Words I look at everyday.
Words I am inspired to live by.
Words and poster by the talented Ali Edwards

January 18th

Today he is feeling much better, you can see it in his eyes :)
Thanks for all your kind words yesterday!

January 17th

Sorry about yesterdays post, the photo was there and then it disappeared....not sure why...but it is there now :)

Today I spent the day taking care of one sick little boy and only took a quick photo to remember how much I hate to see this sad face:




(played around real quick in picasa with the photo to give it a different look)

January 16th

I am still learning, thanks so much for all your tips and ideas :)

No matter how much I learn I think I will always have a place in my heart for photos like this:



The ones that you can barely get because your kids are too fast, or won't hold still for you ;) The simple ones that make you happy to have captured a moment in a day in your life :D

January 15th

original photo:


pp photo (thanks to Anita)

January 14th

I just downloaded pse6, and still have sooooooo much to learn
Ideas and tips or links to great sites would be greatly appreciated :)

sooc:

auto levels, saturation and crop:

January 13th

some days just make you feel like this:

January 12th

Of course my main focus for this blog and 2008....
to learn more about photography and my camera :)

January 11th

Another focus for 2008:


Need to really take a good look at what I am putting into my body on a daily basis.
Make healthier decisions, and eat less.

January 10th

Another focus for 2008:



reading more with my boys, and doing more to teach Dylan to read on his own.

January 9th

Spent the day creating today :)



Feels so good to just play with paper and glue!

I plan on making it more of a "focus" for 2008.
Just creating and having fun!!

January 8th

just a quick one for today:


I really do have two boys, just one that cooperates more when it comes to photos ;)

January 7th

January 6

Yummmmmmmmm pudding :)

I tried today work on capturing catch lights today.
Any tricks to getting them indoors when it is dark out?

January 5th

Captain Drew:

January 4th

January 3rd

Color

or Black & White

either way this photo melts my heart :)

January 2nd

The upstairs hallway.
Full of memories from years gone by....

January 1st

The year of the dog......

2008

A new place for 2008 to store my photos for each and EVERY day.