IHeartFaces - Collage

My Collage submission is of the gorgeous flowers we saw this past weekend. I have a new favorite flower and it is Foxglove. Absolutely gorgeous! My son leaned in for a quick smell. Click to enlarge.

iheartfaces - Dramatic B&W

Life is crazy right now. My mom's cancer has progressed and she is dealing with many issues and is in and out of the hospital. That has put this blog on the backburner. It's actually put photography on the backburner. I still love entering the iheartfaces challenges though so I wanted to stop by with this week's photo.

This is my son looking in the front door waiting for me to get boots on his sister. He wanted to play in the snow really bad! Lol! Click to enlarge.

iheartfaces - Bundled Up

Where I live, we have had more than a couple chances to "bundle up" this winter. This winter we had three major snowstorms. All three had 18+ inches of snow. Our last one was the beginning of February and there is still snow laying in the yards. This is after having five days of mid-50-degree weather!

Here is my submission for the iheartfaces Bundled Up Challenge. Click to enlarge.

Jump for Joy - The cutting room floor.

Here are some of the shots I took for the Jump for Joy challenge. All photos can be clicked and enlarged.


Oh right, it's iheartFACES not iheartMICKEYMOUSEUNDERPANTS.


Um, not even close to centered.


I debated between this one and the one of my husband.


The little princess needed her shot at iheartfaces fame.



Hmmmm, this is where burst would have been smart.


P.S. Don't you love that bridge? I can see some future photos being taken with that backdrop.

Momarazzi Monday

I always thought that Momarazzi Monday required "photos that aren't posed, just capturing real-life", to quote myself, but I also think it could be when I force my poor children to not play for 5 minutes so that I can get the photo I want.

Take this puddle for instance. It was from snow that had melted earlier in the day and all my poor kids wanted to do was play in the puddle and what was left from the pitiful snow. However, I could not resist the reflection I saw in the puddle.

1. Hey, your reflections look really cool. Can you guys stay still for a second so I can get a picture?

2. No, I need you to stay still. See the water, it's moving, I need it to be still. Just one more minute I swear.

3. Yay they stood still. But now their reflections look like zombies. Either that or children whose mother was crazy and if they wanted to play they better stay still for just a "second". ;-)

I Heart Faces Weekly Challenge - We ♥ Kisses

This week at iheartfaces the challenge is all about loving kisses! Who doesn't love kisses from their kids? I especially loved when my babies were learning to kiss and gave those open-mouth kisses. So sweet. However, for this week's challenge I chose a picture of my two kids on their first Valentine's Day together. My son loves his sister and even as a baby he was constantly giving her smooches. Clearly, she wasn't always receptive to these gestures of sibling love. Lol.

Momarazzi Monday

This is only the second time in my blog's history that I have done a Momarazzi Monday but it's fun and it's in the name so here is another installment. Momarazzi Monday is when I post photos that aren't posed, just capturing real-life.

Isabelle's first haircut. She did fantastic! I really didn't want to do it but she would get food in her hair and the knots were getting out of hand thus making her cry when it was time to brush.

She kept looking up to see herself so the hairdresser finally gave her a mirror to sit on her lap.

Alex got his hair cut also.

Towards the end she was done sitting still. She wanted down.

Trying to get a shot of her new do. I should have known better than to try and get it while Spongebob was on.

Twelve on the Twelfth

I'll get to my point in a minute but typing the word "twelfth" is really odd. It doesn't even look like a real word. Strange.

Anyway, I was reading The Daily Digi the other day and they were mentioning things that could be done instead of Project 365. I just don't think I could take a picture every day for a year. That is just too much pressure for me right now. However, twelve pictures on the twelfth of every month? Totally doable. So I looked at the 12 of 12 blog (that is no longer updated) and I decided to challenge myself.

This month I just focused on getting the twelve photos. I did ok but could have done better. Next month I'd like to focus on the actual photography part of it. Bettering my photography skills is one of the things I'd like to accomplish this year. Also, these are backwards. The bottom picture is morning and the top is evening. I just don't feel like rearranging them.

So here are my twelve photos from January 12, 2010:

My hubby wearing his sunglasses on his forehead. Cracks me up.


Alex using his corn as a golden tooth. Dinner for the kids was rotisserie chicken and corn.


Isabelle refused to take her coat off to eat dinner. Whatever floats her boat.


My awesome hubby making our dinner. Greek salad with rotisserie chicken. Yum!



Alex waiting in the car while Ben was in the Sears Tire Center pricing tires.
My car had a blowout earlier in the weekend.

Hmmm. Ok, I had a picture of the kids' dentist door on here

but since it listed name, address and phone I decided to take it down.

But it is part of my twelve.

Isabelle after dropping the kids off at school.

My son is allergic to peanuts and I'm just not ready for him to ride the bus to school. We drive him the three minutes to school every morning. The taller boy in the back is my nephew. He lives up the street and sometimes misses the bus. When he does, he hitches a ride with us. Today happened to be one of those days.

School supplies waiting to go in the backpack.

Who doesn't like to bust-a-move after breakfast?? Lol!

My beautiful girly in her "sweet" pajamas.

Dropping a rubber ball down the stairs. My son loves that we live in a split level.

iheartfaces Challenge - Best Face Photo

The iheartfaces Challenge this week is Best Face Photo. They are celebrating their one-year birthday! I have been a part of iheartfaces since August of 2009. I'm so sorry I didn't know about them sooner, I love the site. So without further chitchat I submit my photo for this week. This is a photo of my son on New Year's Eve. I take a photo of my kids on the last day of the year, every year. I decided to do a closeup this year as well. Worked out well for this challenge!Also, his eyes really are that blue. I did not change the color at all. People have always commented on his baby blues since he was, well, a baby! I think they're absolutely stunning. He gets them from his daddy.

Christmas!

Christmas was fun this year. Rushed as always but fun! Here are some momarazzi photos from our holiday.


When my son was four my grandmother bought him a suit for Christmas. He thought it was the best thing ever! This is the third Christmas that she has bought him a suit and he still loves opening the gift and modeling his new clothes! Mr. GQ.


While shopping at Kohl's a few days before Christmas I found this dress for Isabelle and her baby, Mary. Even though the dress was not my all-time favorite, I had to have it because her and her baby would match. They look adorable together!!


Every Christmas Eve the kids get new jammies. Usually they match but the time has come that their sizes no longer jive with matching jammies. So this year they got jammies that represent our trip to Disney. Even though Spongebob isn't necessarily Disney, we did see him at Universal Studios on our vacation.


Since Thanksgiving the only thing Isabelle asked for was a dollhouse. I guess it was good that I had already planned on giving her my dollhouse from my childhood. My grandfather made me this dollhouse for my second birthday. That was 31 years ago!! My husband sanded, painted and put new hardware on this house that my daughter now can call her own. I love that.


Alex's number one wish for Christmas was an electric guitar. Santa came through and brought him one with a built-in amp. It's not too loud, thus making mom and dad very happy!

I Heart Faces Themed Photos

I Heart Faces is one-year-old this month!! To celebrate they are having a special contest. We need to present photos that naturally or electronically shows their I Heart Faces name/logo. I'm all about the computer so I used their logo and ran with it. Below are my five submissions for this awesome week!!

“I am submitting these photos into the I Heart Faces logo photo contest. By entering, I am granting I Heart Faces LLC permission to consider my photo for use in the marketing and promotion of their website.”

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I ♥ Faces Challenge - Hilarious Outtakes

This week at I Heart Faces the theme is Hilarious Outtakes. I have quite a few from this holiday season. Below are three of my favorites and a bit of an explanation! Lol!

On Thanksgiving my family found my grandmother's old wig. We all took turns trying on the wig. This is my husband in the wig getting ready to say something to me. I snapped the picture and this is the result! Lol! I've been told he looks like The Church Lady.

This is my son's attempt at being Rudolph, a red Christmas light up his nose.

My daughter showing off her makeup techniques. She found my mascara and figured out how to open it and swipe it across her pretty little eye.

Check out I Heart Faces for more funny photos!