Monday, December 5, 2011

Photo Challenge | On Your Feet!

This week's challenge focuses on feet.  I love baby feet.  Especially my babies' feet.  They're cute and so fun to nibble and kiss...AND they don't stink! 

This is a common scene after we put our tree up each year. The girls enjoy playing under the tree much like their dad and I did when we were little kids. I still try to get under the tree. I'm a bit too big to be doing that, but in my head I'm still a little kid and I never want to grow up!

Check out more spectacular photos of feet at i heart faces!

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Photo Challenge | Autumn Splendor

Can you hear the crunching of the leaves as she walks through them?   It's one of my favorite sounds ever.  Besides the laughter of my girls, that is.  :)

Enjoy more photos of autumn splendor over at i heart faces!


Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Photo Challenge | Let Them Be Little

This week's challenge focuses our little ones.  Here is my youngest "reading" about one of her favorite things...animals!



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Monday, October 10, 2011

Photo Challenge | Hands

Over at I Heart Faces they're having a photo challenge about hands.  I have two little girls and I love watching their hands as they discover and make new things.  And I love baby feet (because they don't stink), so when my baby first began discovering her feet, this was so fun to watch.  Especially because she had so many tummy rolls and it was just amazing that she could reach her toes in the first place. 

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Photo Challenge | Water

The girls are enjoying the pool this summer! It's hot here in Texas and the cool water is a welcomed relief!

Check out more water photos from this week's challange: iheartfaces.com

Monday, May 16, 2011

Photo Challenge | May Flowers

This week's photo challenge is flowers! I love flowers, mostly because they mean SPRING! Since this week's challenge is not a contest, we can post more than one photo and they don't need a face!

These first two photos are from my own little Things in a Jar project:


Ah, dandelions! I love 'em/hate 'em! They mean spring, but they're a weed and they make me sneeze!
To see other beautiful photos of flowers, click on over to i heart faces!

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Photo Challenge | Slice of Life

How fun is this week's theme??? I love candid shots, or "slices of life"! Posed pictures are great, but the candid ones seem to capture the real person--their real smile, how they interact with each other, just REAL life!

Having two little girls, I capture a lot of candid shots. I have several of them destroying the bathroom, playing with toys, and generally being cute. But when I was perusing my archives for a shot that jumped out at me, I came across this one of my littlest girl stacking cans. It was great watching how hard she worked to balance each can, watching how she'd hold her tongue or how her lips would twist in concentration.

And what kid hasn't stacked cans? I remember a particular photo of my older brother when he was about two, standing next to a teetering stack of cans. So fun!


She ended up getting that stack to be taller than her!

For more slices of life, check out the iheartfaces website!

Monday, March 14, 2011

Photo Challenge | Sun Flare

I love sun flare! So cool and beautiful...

For the challenge this week, I chose a photo from a bicycle race that I had the opportunity to photograph last summer. This was my first try at any kind of sports photography. I absolutely LOVED it! It was very exciting!


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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

I Heart Faces: "Anything But A Face" Photo Challenge

I enjoy entering the iheartfaces photo challenges. I get nervous when I enter a photo. I want people to see my work, comment on it and like what they see. I want to be mentioned in the Top Ten or as one of Angie and Amy's Favorites (but it's okay if I'm not). I've actually gotten top ten a couple of times. Plus, it's fun to see all the other photos in the challenge and perhaps find new friends while perusing the week's entries.

The photo I chose for this week's challenge is especially important to me. I was invited to join other people on Facebook affected by Type 1 Diabetes to write the word "HOPE" on a hand, shirt, anywhere and then share the photo on Facebook to raise awareness for this disease, to share in the HOPE to find a cure. This is the photo I shared today. My four-year-old little girl has Type 1 Diabetes and it is our hope that a cure can be found very soon.



My daughter was a bit confused as to why I wanted to write on her hand. "But Mom, we're not supposed to write on ourselves!" It was a little difficult for her to understand the meaning of "HOPE", but after explaining that it means to want something and believe it can happen, that we really hope for a cure for diabetes so she won't have to have icky finger sticks and multiple injections each day, my little girl stated she also hoped she could have a puppy. And ice cream for dessert.

It is my HOPE that even if one person sees this photo, they will have an increasing awareness of Type 1 Diabetes.

To see more "Anything But A Face" photos, click here:



And to learn more about Type 1 Diabetes, click here: jdrf.org

Monday, January 24, 2011

I Heart Faces : "Innocent Wonder" Photo Challenge

I saw that I Heart Faces was having a photo challenge called "Innocent Wonder". I immediately thought of this photo of Emily. She was looking out our living room window at a nest that some birds made in a window sill of our neighbor's house. I don't think there were any eggs, just the momma bird waiting for her man to bring her some food.


Please check out the many other beautiful "Innocent Wonder" photos at iheartfaces.com.

PS, I didn't do any editing to her eyes. That's what color they are! They melt my heart, which usually saves her from me getting upset when she does something bad. Her sister's eyes are hazel, almost brown, and I get lost in her eyes, too. I'm a sucker for pretty eyes, I guess!