Today

2.23.2011

Paul called me while he was on his way to work to tell me to check out the sunset.

“It’s bright orange. You have to get out of the subdivision to see it but it’s really cool. You’ll have to hurry though.”

So…

"KIDS HURRY UP AND GET IN THE CAR WE GOTTA GO SHAYNE GRAB MY CAMERA IT’S ON MY DESK LET’S GO LET’S GO LET’S GO I DON’T CARE WHICH SHOES YOU GRAB LET’S GO I’M LEAVING IN 30 SECONDS.”

I don’t think I took a breath during that whole rant to my kids. They thought we were on a wild goose chase. They giggled.

So racing to the nearest point where I could see the sunset and get a good shot…not easy. But…I got that picture. And a few more that I can’t wait to show you but that one is the one for my photo challenge. The other ones I was really wanting to make my challenge but this one is special to me.

Why?

Paul called and told me about it. He knows I love sunsets. And any pretty scenery. But sunsets…ah…gorgeous end of the day beautiful sunsets.

He also called me to ask if I managed to catch any great pics. A couple I tell him. I didn’t have on the right lens so I had to make do with what was on the camera. But…still. So pretty right?

And my eldest sweetest darling asked me with a grin on her face… “Can we do that again sometime?”

Absolutely.

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2/18/2011aka 49/365

This purse has a story. Coming to a blog near you…soon!

2/19/2011 aka 50/365

My beautiful twin  came over to see me. We ran a few errands and then she got all dolled up to go out. Ain’t she purdy? Two reasons I say yes. 1. She is pretty. 2. She looks like me. HA! Just kidding. She does look like me but she is prettier.

2/20/2011aka 51/365

‘Cause I can’t seem to resist showing pictures of him. Ain’t he BEAUTIFUL?!?!? {Yes. His hair does that on its own.}

2/21/2011 aka 52/365

Little devil child of mine. With big blue eyes. That says “I wuv you Momma” and “PWEASE!” Melts me every time. Almost.

2/22/2011 aka 53/365

Guess who didn’t want me to take her picture. So she made that face. And I took her picture anyways. And I told her I was going to put it on my blog. So here it is.

2.17.2011

Hey guys…do you wanna go outside and play?

That would be a big fat yes.

Holy guacamole I’m behind!

Okay…Some things have been publishing that I set to auto-publish on certain dates and times. BUT I haven’t been posting my daily challenge. BUT have I been taking the photos for the daily challenge.

Yes. Yes I have. Also—from here on out I will just post the dates of the pictures rather than the (blank) out of 365. It’s just easier for me. Unless I get up and post it the (blank) out of 365 way. Sigh.

I am going to do the pictures in this post for the challenge. I have so much more to add about what all has been going on around here though. Those details will be separate.

41/365—2.10.2011

My little bumble bee. She had her first grade musical and did fantastic. She even had a speaking line. I was so proud of how well she did. What do you think of her costume? {more to come in a separate post}

42/365—2.11.2011

He is such a dork. And I love him.

43/365—2.12.2011

She always wakes up happy. And she asked for a sippy cup for breakfast. Which she never does. And I don’t know the last time she had one. And…I miss her being little so I let her have it for this morning.

44/365—2.13.2011

She hates the flash on the new little camera. And Stormy is such a stinker, trying to give Shayne bunny ears. And asking if I caught that on camera.

45/365—2.14.2011

Valentine’s Day. My lovely valentines.{more to come on this too!}

46/365—2.15.2011

Because this is how my darling looks when someone takes something away from her.

47/365—2.16.2011

Isn't’ he beautiful?

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CAUGHT UP.

Again.

Until next time. Which is tomorrow.

Okay…have a few more posts to write. Some about some of the things that have been going on.

Stay tuned!

40/365

No-Connor wasn’t closing his eyes. He was looking down at Sage. Can you see his hands in that picture?

The one you can see was getting ready to do a wrap around.

What you also can’t see is that after he did that, she was on a warpath. Her target…was Connor.

I can hope that the boy learns that the 2-year-old diva will not put up with anyone messing with her.

He is included in that.

Oh—and just because I love to share pictures…

36/365 (2/5/2011) 37/365 (2/6/2011) 38/365 (2/8/2011)

36/365: He so has my heart in his smile.

37/365: She is such a devil. But…she’s my little devil and I love her.

38/365:

Recognize her?

I know she isn’t on the blog as much as the other ones. The other ones are around me a lot more. That’s the advantage and disadvantage of her being in school. And being 9. And having friends.

sigh.

I love her. She makes me so proud.

And Thank God for the cell phone images. I was almost gonna have to post a picture of Paul’s finger—that appears to be healing. Maybe if I can get a picture that isn’t too gory, I will share. In the meantime though…I won’t.

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34/365:

35/365:

Sage was talking to Cooper.

Yes—she was wearing a diaper. She decided she was cold after stripping off her jammies.

Silly, silly girl.

33/365 and a special cake or two!

33/365 (2/2/2011):

AKA Stormy’s birthday. And her Grandpa’s.

So we went out to dinner to celebrate two very special birthdays. Paul in his bandaged and hopefully healing finger. The roads had been plowed. It was now just bitterly cold.

I made a chocolate cake covered with buttercream frosting and chocolate syrup and cherries. Sounds good right? It was.So I heard. I actually, amazingly didn’t eat any.

Did this cake have candles?

Yes. Yes it did. You see, my father-in-law turned 65. So I had a left-over 6 candle. And a left-over 2 candle. And three single candles. So…add a few of them up. Voila. 65 for Ron.

Stormy wanted cupcakes. So we put 7 candles on one cupcake. “Magic” candles. Yep. Stormy loved that they kept re-lighting. So did Ron for three that were on his cake. Ahem.

So a very happy birthday to my sweet Stormy and her wonderful, loved more than he knows, Grandpa.

Until next year birthday buddies!

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Every time I say I’m not going to get behind…I get behind again. So my sincere apologies in that department. I could use that excuse of “I’m too busy,” but…don’t get me started on that. I could go on and on about the things we make time for.

So…what is the 29/365 photo challenge?

I messed up. I didn’t take any pictures. Does it count if I had someone take a picture of me and Cooper? Well…it’s my blog. My rules. My challenge. So…yes siree Bob it does count!

It was taken with a Crackberry Blackberry camera phone. Excuse the quality. I still love the picture though.

30/365

The one I am showing for this is from Paul’s cell phone. Yes, Paul took it. I LOVE IT. And I took about 140 pictures at home on the same day. Around the same time Paul was on an adventure with Connor. A buying a purse for Mom adventure. I will tell you more about that soon!

In the meantime…isn’t this picture really good?!?

Well, I think so.

 

31/365

Some real father-son bonding time going on.

Do you ever look at the backgrounds in pictures? I do. I like to see what everyone else has going on in their normal lives. In that photo you can see…Funyuns. MMMMmmmmmm….I love Funyuns. So do my kids. Stormy calls them “Fungyuns.” No, I don’t know why.There is Tide on the table. That bottle was empty and needed to go out with the recycling. But after slamming my face into Paul’s car and my butt on the driveway, that bottle didn’t make it out in time for recycling pick-up. There are a couple of sippy cups. A huge package of juice bottles. And so much more in the background. I could’ve cropped this picture but…I didn’t. That is really how my life looks a lot of the time. For example, right now my kitchen is…picked up. Only because we baked a few dozen muffins and had to clean up the mess. Now my dining room AKA office is a mess.

That was an awfully long pull-away from the blog post right?

On with it Debbie.

32/365 (2/1/2011)

If you have turned on the TV or listened to the radio or any other news source out there, you know that almost the entire country is getting hit with a huge winter storm. Yep. I live in the mid-west. We are getting hit with that storm system. We are actually in a blizzard warning. School was cancelled today. And if I had to place a bet, I would say that it will be cancelled again tomorrow. Today I have no plans to go anywhere. We are supposed to do a few special things tomorrow but…they may have to be postponed. We’ll see how much snow we get.

27/365 & 28/365

27/365:

My little brother came out to my house to hang out with me for awhile. He is a super great man. He survived all the mean things I used to do and say. We used to make him the dog when we played house…and he didn’t care. He was just happy to be included. I have more to say about this brother of mine. Another day though. For now….here is a picture of him that I like.

28/365:

Here is a picture I love.

Pretty obvious why I guess.

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24/365:

When Sage is really tired she falls asleep in the car when we take Connor to school. You see he goes to school in the afternoon. Right after lunch. Which at our house also means…NAPTIME. Heavenly, blissful, wonderful nap time. Sometimes Sage is cranky when we are getting ready to leave because she is exhausted at this point. There are some tricks I use to make her happy. Sometimes she even falls asleep in the car. Which only stinks that I have to wake her up when we get home five-minutes later. Anywhoo…one of my tricks is to let her wear whatever she wants on her feet as long as we don’t have anywhere else to go. The things she chooses never ceases to make me smile.

 

25/365:

My little snow devil.

We went outside to play in the white cold messy stuff because the temperature was actually decent. You know, it’s amazing how 38 degrees can feel warm after single digit temperatures. I will share more pictures from this fun outside afternoon in another post.

26/365

I have a few photos I want to share from today. Just because.

I dressed Sage in this super cute outfit. Which she knows is BUE!! I mean blue. But in Sage-speak, BUE is blue.

I haven’t had too many pictures of one of darlings on here recently so here is a quick one I snapped as she was walking to the door.

My mini-me also stopped for a quick picture. She really is beautiful. I can’t believe her 7th birthday is right around the corner.

Someone learned how to blow spit bubbles. And because he’s so darn cute…here’s a picture of it!

My two sons. How weird it is for me to type that. I am still amazed that I have two sons. These two sons of mine look so much alike, it’s crazy! They both furrow their little eyebrows. See:

 

Connor always looks like he’s in pain when I take pictures of him. Cooper almost always smiles right before I take a picture and right after.

 

 

Now—I am caught up on the photo challenge on the blog. I am going to try to do better about posting these on the right day. No promises though. I have laundry challenge daily. As a matter of fact…I forgot to switch laundry loads earlier.

First I have books to read. Faces to kiss. Prayers to say. Hugs to give. Lights to be turned off. Then laundry. Or sleep. Or laundry. Oh—the suspense is killing me. What will I choose?!?

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1/21/2011

Sage found the sucker my photo lab puts in all their boxes. I swear I don’t let her have that much candy. She always is so happy when I finally give her some that she hams it up for the camera!

 

1/22/365

Stormy came downstairs with this on:

How appropriate.

1/23/365

This was taken early afternoon. We are having one of those lazy Sundays. They don’t happen very often.

20/365 Anyone know what yesterday was?

 

 

Yep. It was the 20th of January. Which also means my sweet 5th born child turned 3 months old.

He weighs around 14.5 pounds now I think. He wears size 1 diapers. Or the size 1-2 from Pampers (which I love!). He sleeps for seven hours at night usually. He still gets hiccups all the time. He loves when people talk to him. He nurses like a champ but really doesn’t care for his bottles, even though they have the same milk he gets from me. It just isn’t the same I guess. He coos a lot. He still naps in his little seat during the day. He likes having his hair washed. He makes me smile.

Okay…back to the photos. Which ones do you like? I used to not like black and whites very much. Now I am so drawn to them. I still love color, don’t get me wrong. How could I not love the bluest of blue eyes in photos? But there is just something about the black and whites.

So what do you think? Black and whites? Color? Both?

Again… I agree!