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Apples, apples, apples.

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I didn't have a chance to take any type of fabulous photo today- just some snapshots into our everyday life...

Today I am thankful for being able to stay home with these two hunks of love and march around in pjs (or diapers) and play loud, obnoxious instruments like recorders and tambourines :)

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Change is coming. I can see it and I can feel it.

In just a few weeks this tree/bush will look like this:

(photo taken last fall -2009-)

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Not the best photo but love his concentration as he tries to get his socks and shoes on because this is quite tricky you know ;)

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[chocolate] milk, does a body good :)

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When I think of Summer I can think of many times like this.

My parents backyard.

Kids running around, digging up mulch, pulling up the grass, swimming in the pool for hours,

 popsicles, sticky fingers, bbqs, laughing, crying, hiding, playing catch and chase,

 fighting, more laughing, looking for worms, twirling.

Fun.

Summer.

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Rainy day activities.

365-should i start back at 2?

Ok, seriously. I'm not a lover of photographing flowers. Please, don't get me wrong- I love them, appreciate them, even appreciate photos of them- it's just not my preference for shooting. But on a day like this [where it was raining and gloomy and a lazy Sunday afternoon kind of day] I made the best of it :) And hey, something about it still does remind me of summer.
And while I realize that I mentioned not blabbing for every single one of these, I decided I wanted to explain this one and since it's my blog I can ;)

dare I say, 365??

Ok, I know- my 365 project has been quite the ordeal, or maybe not. To say the least I have not been consistent- it's been interrupted, on some sort of hiatus, or just plain non-existent. I could come up with a zillion excuses but i'll spare you.
But I'm back at it. My friend Leah and I decided that we'd both give it a shot. And while I'm disappointed that I hadn't kept up with it to begin with, I won't whine about it and just get back on the wagon [again]. I still have several months until the year is up and maybe I won't feel like a complete failure if I can make it through until then (since it was[is] one of my goals for 2010).
This time I'm coming at it with some sort of plan/structure. Figure it'll help keep me focused and perhaps it'll be a better gage at my progress. Since I just got back from vacation and am seriously mourning the end of summer (sob, sob) this week i'm going to focus on things that remind me of Summer and everything that has made it special and memorable this year.
Here we go again :)

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I was trying to organize toys & art stuff this morning and came across a notebook full of Braden's drawings and artsy stuff. I was struggling with the thought of whether or not I should keep the notebook or toss it. My first instinct is to toss it because afterall he has dozens of notebooks lying around, I have kept several different things that he's made/drawn/painted stored away in a cute little art box we made together, and he'll have many more to come in his life and will I really keep all of them for momentos?? But then my sappy thoughts come flooding through- he's getting so big, it's one of the first notebooks he had full of drawings (this was one of the things that he got as a gift when baby brother Carter was born), he'll want to see it one day, i'll want to see it again one day... So the solution that I came up with was to take a couple of pictures of different pages from the book. I could keep the memory without clutter. I thought it was a happy medium :)

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So, it's been a couple of days since I've posted. Probably because it's been a couple of days since I've taken photos. I guess you can say I've been in a bit of a funk, a photo funk. Yesterday afternoon I had a couple of hours without Braden -thanks Grandma!- so I decided to take a drive to a park that I had been wanting to scope out for "spots" and see what I could find. I had pulled out of the driveway and was a couple of miles from the house when I realized that I had forgotten to grab my battery that had been charging. I have two other batteries, one was dead and the other one had been really low the last couple of times I had used it [of course!]. I was so annoyed but decided I didn't feel like turning around and would just keep driving.

I got to the park and was pretty much feeling like I had wasted my time, afterall I'd probably be able to take one photo before my camera died and I had little man [Carter] with me so it wasn't like I could just park and walk- it was freezing. I drove around the park a couple of times, pulled over a couple of times and finally felt/saw a bit of inspiration. My first couple of shots were totally not great but I just decided to pull over and really look. It was amazing what I saw when I changed my attitude! I didn't get any amazing shots and my camera died when I finally got into a little bit of a groove but I felt a bit refreshed AND I even got to get shots with my zoom lens that I rarely ever use. So i'd like to say that i'll be back up with my 365 tomorrow or better yet that I started back up today but I'm just not sure.

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So here's the story with this. I was cleaning the bathroom when I glanced out the window and caught this beautiful sun setting sky with hues of purple all around. By the time I grabbed my camera and stuck my head out of my two story bedroom window- the view wasn't quite the same. But, here's a slim glimpse of what is looked like- doesn't it give it justice at all..but still.

By the way, this was taken yesterday but I didn't have a chance to post.

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Self Portrait

Ok, so let me just tell you. I had like 45 minutes to myself this morning and a really long list of things I wanted to accomplish during that time (95% of those things did not happen). I thought i'd give this a shot. I need to be better about this. I am totally not comfortable in front of the camera. But I am on this journey of sorts- this is the year to really learn about me- amongst other things. I figure if I want to photograph others and want them to feel comfortable in front of the camera, I probably should too huh?