01.30.2011

This is me trying to make a cute face.  Not so cute, but yet a bit funny.  My kids at school saw it and got a kick out of it anyway.  It was a day like that because they laughed at me as I was trying to read a sad book aloud and had a really hard time with my voice not cracking and tears not falling.  At least they know I'm human. 

01.29.2011

Enough said.

01.28.2011

The art of mothering is to teach
the art of living to children.

~ Elaine Heffner

01.27.2011

Are you wondering why in the world I was taking a picture of a ref?  And even more, why was he smiling at me?  Well...it's Jenna's boyfriend and I really think he was just super excited to see her and then he saw me with a camera and got a little embarrassed.  I rode with Jenna to New Town last night, not to watch basketball, but to watch the cute ref.  That's what she told me, anyway.  He (I guess I could introduce him.  His name is Jeff.) gets to get the distinguished spot of POTD because the only pictures I took were at the game.  :)

01.26.2011

I sold my camera to my friend Shelly and her family.  Although I loved that camera, I had outgrown it.  I wanted to be able to do more with it.  I'm happy to have sold it to Shelly because I am really excited to teacher her girls how to take pictures.  I've always let Emily and Grace take my camera to take pictures because of their interest so I can already see us taking nature walks this summer and taking pictures along the way.  I am by no means an expert, but teaching them will really force me to learn and understand all that has to do with taking great photos.

Oh ya, and now that Shelly has my camera, she wants to start a photo a day project.  She's trying to think of a name for the blog.  Something like "Life is Good, Jr.'s Friend."  Any clever ideas for her???

01.25.2011

I jumped out of bed on Tuesday at about 10:00 realizing that I hadn't taken a picture yet.  I didn't want to miss a day so early in the year (I don't really want to miss a day at all) so I looked around the house for something interesting to photograph.  I tried taking a few pictures of Jeffrey's Buzz Light Year, but the shadows were really bothering me.  Then I remembered this sign.  I've been meaning to put it on my Jetsmama blog for a long time, but keep forgetting to take a picture. 

For months before Jeffrey turned 5, Tyler kept telling Jeff that he would get a bow for this 5th birthday.  After I got a bow for my 31st birthday in June, Jeffrey got even more excited to get his bow in August.  Once he got his bow, he was very careful and protective of it.  One night, we had a bunch of friends coming over with their kids.  Jeffrey was all worked up about the kids touching his bow.  He hid it in my closet, but that wasn't enough to satisfy him.  He brought me a piece of paper and asked me to write STOP on it, so he could write STOP underneath and then taped it to the door so that any kids who were thinking about going into my closet would know to STOP!

01.24.2011

I asked Macy to pose for me for some pictures so that I could practice using different settings on my camera.  I struggle with taking inside pictures in my house because I have red, dark brown, and a golden wheat color for walls.  Often the red seems to reflect too much and make everything too dark and the golden wheat color makes everything look green.  As I was looking at some pictures that I had taken to see what the colors looked like, Macy sat in this position and I snapped a quick picture.  It's my favorite.  I was lucky to have the camera on the right setting as this is SOOC.