My Life

Our Year In Photos: Month 1 Week 2

This weeks assignment is to take a photo of your immediate family.

This may not seem like such a difficult task, but it IS.

Sunday seems to be the only day that we are all together without some interruption.  Even though it's not the most creative shot, it's us together, and we don't have nearly enough of those.  So I'll happily take it, grainy and all.

We bribed the kids with cinnamon rolls, I corraled them on to the couch, we intervened in a couple of spats in a two minute time span, got all the settings right on my camera, then the sun went behind a cloud, boo!  My battery ran out in my keyless remote, so I had to use the trusty self timer.  I had two frames, that's all they'd give me.

I love each one of them.  I'm lucky they are a part of my life.

2/52: Cold

I am such a wimp.  I sleep with a heater, must have my hoodie on during the day while inside the house, will grab any pair of socks when my feet get cold, including the husbands, have multiple blankets on my bed and we don't even live where it's really cold.

Next week, I'll figure out how to link to all the other fabulous photographers that are taking this challenge.  Spent the afternoon editing, and my brain needs a break:)

Enjoy the long weekend.

Photo Challenges

Planning to participate in 3 challenges this year.

As much as I LOVE the photo a day, I'm a little burnt out, and frankly it's not super challenging.

So, I am going to do a year of weekly photos with a theme.  I'm following along with some wonderful photographer friends. 

Week One is: Newness

Here's my take:

I seriously cannot stand wearing my jeans.  It's a new year, new fitness goals.  I plan to move more and eat less and fit more comforably in those jeans....soon.  Workouts at least 3 times a week.  Daily green smoothies back in the mix.  Hopefully a new and improved me will emerge.  I want to feel healthier and stronger and tone up a bit. 

Second challenge I copied from Jenn.  Such a perfect, wonderful idea.  I fell instantly in love and knew that it was something that would challenge me to still record my family and our everyday life without feeling the burden of shooting something every.single.day.

So the first prompt was in the car.

This is after the garage sale on Saturday.  I love that I got Kade with his blanket.  And that you can see the bite marks in the door from when Kyle was little.  Everyday details that got in there.  I couldn't choose just one.  So here's the set

They are so cooperative!

Finally one on top of the car.  Brandon found a very interesting dinosaur book that was donated for the garage sale and paused to look at it while climbing on top of the car.  It is a daily thing for him to be ON the car. 

Lastly, I will be posting a collaborative photo project with Kristin and Lesli once a month.  Super excited about that.  We have one word a month to convey in one photo, then we will collage them together to show our various takes on it.  Coming soon.  Next Friday to be exact :)

Success

I love when my family gets together and works hard on a project.  Feels super good.  We all have learned to be hard workers from our parents.  And they still get right in there with us.  There is always work to be done.  It was nice to also involve our children in serving.

Many, many thanks to all the individuals who donated awesome things, the people who came and helped work the sale and those of you who purchased items.  It was fun to visit with those we know and bargain with people.  I've never actually worked a garage sale, it was pretty fun seeing all the funds coming in.  Made all the hard work worth it.

We took pictures because we were sure Russell and Caitlyn would never believe the amount of "stuff" that we collected.  Quite overwhelming and so very generous of people to give.  So many thanks from our family to you.

My parents are in Boise today to see little Ruby and hand deliver the love :)

 

 

 

It's this Weekend!

Thanks for all the donations!  It's going to be awesome:)