Fun Friday Foto - Boss' Day

Working for myself, I was feeling kinda jipped on the whole Boss' Day thing. Until I remembered that as a Christian, I don't actually just work for myself, do I?

Fun Friday Foto - Fill the Frame

I decided to fill the frame today with one of my favorite fall treats...caramel apples. They are better with Granny Smith apples but this is all we have right now so it will have to do for the picture. YUM!

And a full picture of the yumminess...

Fun Friday Foto - Lines

As usual, I interpreted it like I wanted ;o) Here are some toys...standing in lines.

Fun Friday Foto - Doors

I was doing a photo shoot this past weekend and saw this awesome door on the way back to the car. I ran over and took a picture for my FFF this week. Even though I am basking in the sun in sunny FL as we speak, I set this to post before I left so I wouldn't miss it :)

Fun Friday Foto - Shine

This morning, Tricky T was sitting at the table, eating breakfast and the sun was shining right in his eyes. Sometimes it is just blinding to sit there in the morning, but today, with the clouds overhead, it was perfect to light my FFF picture for me.

The LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you;

Numbers 6:25

Fun Friday Foto - Square

Fun Friday Foto - Friday the 13th

I am not feeling overly creative today (obviously). But I keep missing these FFFs and didn't want to just skip it again. So here it is....Friday the 13th, homeschool style ;o)

We finished up our first week of school with a fun reunion/yearbook signing at the park with our homeschool community from last year and an awesome meeting of the new families that will be participating this year. I am looking forward to starting our weekly classes again with them soon!

Fun Friday Foto - Shooting the Details

So many details I could have captured but my mind went to the kids. They are growing up so fast. I measured them today and they had each grown an inch since December! I wanted to see how our hands measured up so laid them all out together on the picnic table. Then I went looking for a verse that would relate so I could get some "notes" back into this blog ;) We spend a lot of time training our physical selves but need to not forget that our main goal is training our spiritual selves. I wish T had been home...I might have to redo this tonight with his hand in there too so we have the whole family!

Fun Friday Foto - Different point of view

Check it out...I'm posting my Friday photo ON Friday! Today's challenge was to shoot from a different point of view. There are lots of ways you could do this but I chose to take a picture from my kids' point of view. The first picture is me snapping a pic of them swinging. The next is me swinging and taking a picture of Tricky T standing where I stood to take the pictures of them.

Oh, I also started another blog yesterday. I know, I know...but I just had too much free time and needed to fill it with something fun ;) This one is not photography related though. If you want to check it out, you can click here. Let me know what you think!

Fun Friday Foto: Catch Up Post...again

Ok...so I obviously didn't get to ANY of my Fun Friday Fotos in May :( But I don't want to be a quitter so I knocked them all out today ;) The first was a Mother's Day one but I am counting the other Mother's Day pics as that and not going to try to recreate anything - haha. So that brings us to...

May 14th - Food
I found these Snapea Crisps at Whole Foods and love them! I tried to convince the kids that they are just green Cheetos...but only P will eat them. Oh well, worth a shot. I just eat them like chips and not on a salad. Yum.

May 24 - Bokeh
I love taking Bokeh pics. It's one of my favorite things to do. This one I was laying on the couch and took a picture of C holding a glass cross above me and blocking the ceiling fan. Turned out kinda cool :)

And May 28 - Abstract
It is harder for me to think abstractly. I am more of a concrete girl (love me a Freckles frozen Concrete too!). I think this will work. I had to play in Photoshop to make it look like I wanted but this is P's bear's belly...she didn't recognize the pic so maybe I made it TOO abstract ;)

Tomorrow starts June's Fun Friday Fotos and I hope to stay on time with those! I might even get a note in there...or maybe not ;)

Fun Friday Foto: Catch Up Post

Like I said, I have been a total blog slacker. So today is catch up day. I have missed pretty much all of the Fun Friday Fotos for the month of April but hope to do better in May. So here are a few that I missed.

Fun Friday Foto: Movement

Fun Friday Foto: Nature (hoping to have lots of strawberries in the backyard soon!)

Fun Friday Foto: Texture (hope this counts...the storm rolling in kinda looks like a texture)

OK, I think that catches me up. Now bring on MAY!

Fun Friday Foto: Shadows

Check it out...I am posting my Fun Friday Foto ON Friday. Woohoo! I actually took these pics yesterday, not having looked at the challenge yet. T was walking on the window sill (on the lower level of the house...no worries) and it looked cool from my desk. Then P jumped in and the rest is history. They were doing fine until the last pic below, when she tried to kiss him (he is STILL anti-kisses). I guess these aren't technically shadows but they sure look like them so I am counting them ;o) I was going to have them redo them today and pose them, but was doing a senior session when the light is right so missed it. More fun to see them as they really were anyway.

Thank you, Jesus....for Easter!

We have been reviewing all about Easter with the kids this week. They have made a cool lapbook and we have read the story from the Bible several times. I hate how commercial both Christmas and Easter are and we are working hard to make sure the kids know what Jesus did for them, us, and everyone. We made these Resurrection Rolls last year and wanted to do it again as a hands-on example of the empty tomb.

It didn't work as well as I remember (surprise, surprise) but the kids loved it and were totally looking for the marshmallow, which is the point - yay.

Once again, I am a day late on my Fun Friday Foto...but the theme is Easter so this counts ;)

Fun Friday Foto: Spring Colors

I have been wanting to try a picture of a water drop for a while but never made time to play (and don't have a macro lens either). I was looking for something with spring colors for our Fun Friday Foto challenge and found this shirt of P's...and decided to try to get a water drop to reflect it. I don't really know what I am doing but had fun trying ;)

It sounds like white could be our "spring color" tomorrow so we are heading out to enjoy the warm weather today!

Fun Friday Foto: A lucky charm

I missed last week's Friday challenge but wasn't going to miss two in a row. Since Princess P is sick and you don't want to see Mr. GunkyEyes again anytime soon, I asked Captain C to help and this week. I asked him if he had a lucky charm and he said:

Fun Friday Foto

This week's Fun Friday Foto challenge was to take a picture of a loved one without them being in it. One of my sisters is here visiting from AL and we decided to do a picture dedicated to our 3rd sister that couldn't be here but wishes she was :) We miss you, KJ, and wish you were here.

Fun Friday Foto: Sweet

Again, I had to think about this Fun Friday Foto. What is sweet? Candy ... sure. Coke ... I vaguely remember how sweet that is ;) The smell of a freshly bathed baby ... don't have any of those anymore :( Which brought me to this. When all three kids get along, now THAT is sweet! I hope they will always remember how sweet it is to have a sibling and that God chose them as a gift to each other.

Fun Friday Foto: A loved one

I had a way too busy for my liking week this week and didn't get take the time to get my Friday challenge done. I woke up this morning to this on my keyboard and knew that it  reflected my favorite loved one. Big T is so thoughtful with little things like this. He has worked late all week and it seems like we have been passing in the sea of basketball, school, church, karate, dinner, cleanup, sleep, etc all week so this sweet reminder of his love this morning makes me really look forward to this weekend when we will actually see each other while it is still light outside.

Fun Friday Foto: The color of love

This week's theme is "The Color of Love". I thought about this for a while and decided on CRIMSON. Big T loves OU. I couldn't care less before we met. I graduated from OBU (Bison, feel free to go with Ka-Rip now, we'll wait....) and just didn't put much thought into the state schools. Big T, on the other hand, is a die hard OU fan from birth (who graduated from OSU, but that is another post all together). I never wore red as a kid...or until we met, really. It clashes with my hair ;) But now, we wash at least one red load of laundry a week around here and the kids first words would have been "Boomer Sooner" if T had anything to say about it (thankfully, I am home with them so give them some balance). So, here is my color of love...for you, honey.

And yes, the boys have lockers in their room. Being homeschooled, they felt they were missing out so we found some super cheap on craigslist and spray painted them and they love them. C likes that he can lock things in there and keep them safe from little hands and T just likes having a place to fill up with all his stuff that he can't stand to throw away.

Fun Friday Foto: Self-Portrait

FOh, how I hate pictures of myself. This blog has truly stretched me and I have gotten more comfortable with pictures of me and the kids...but this JUST me thing is hard! I tired several different things and ended up with the classic picture of myself in the mirror for my self portrait. Boring, I know.