WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!

A small milestone but...

This is post #201!!!

What a difference

a year makes.

Wordless Wednesday

This makes me smile

This is the sidebar on my computer desktop:

I put this on up not long after we got the computer...

... this one showed up a few months later...

... and this one a few weeks ago...

Love it! Just love it. Absolutely love it.

This is what happens when...

... the boys get ahold of the camera:

OSM.

Still more fun

... with Picasa!!! OMGoodness! If you love to tweek pictures and make collages out of them, this is for you! And it is soooooooo easy!

Check it out:

These are pictures that the boys and I took sitting outside their counseling office... We were just having fun making faces, passing the time (not getting into trouble!). Then I got to have fun making them into something else fun, not just more pictures that we took and will never use!

New "Toy"

In trying to figure out one thing, someone suggested Picasa as a way to manage photos and do fun things with them... OH. MY. GOODNESS. This is FUN!!!

This is just one of the collages that I have created... all with just a few clicks! SOOOOOO EASY!!!

By the way, these are a few pictures that I have taken in and around my parents house with their new camera... Still major camera envy.

Wordless Wednesday

4-18-10

We had an amazing day... I needed it as much as my boys did!

We went to church... I didn't wear my boot for the first time in months. I FELT beautiful. I received many hugs filled with love. Lots of people commented on my red hair, my handsome boys and how happy my boys are.

After a few stops, we were on our way to the beach!

C & J went straight for the ocean
Isaac wanted NOTHING to do with it

So he threw sand at the birds and stayed right near me yelling that the ocean was going to get us...

I had fun taking pictures of everyone... ~~THERE IS~~

When they got too cold for jumping in the ocean, they started building a dam in the creek that ran to the ocean. They all got REALLY into it!

It was a fabulous day, filled with laughter, joy, happiness and all things wonderful! Thank you to all for the birthday wishes! This was the best birthday yet!

Beautiful Day for Soccer

Cool dude, strolling along the side-lines..Action shot... he was more interested in playing in the mud most of the time though!!!

It was a fabuloso day for being out in the sun, watching a soccer game, enjoying the laughter...

J and the Molar

I will be the first to admit, I do not have any love for dentists. Since I was little, I have had a fear of them and what they do in that chair... I have struggled not to project that fear onto my boys.

Several months ago, I finally bit the bullet and made appointments with a dentist not far from us. He specifically works with kids, so I was semi-comfortable with him. Both C & J had cleanings and x-rays and such. C only had one cavity (YAY!!), but J had 4, with several other spots to watch. I was so impressed with him - he was gentle, explaining everything to the boys, making the whole experience a learning time instead of scary.

Last week, J had his first filling for the worst of the cavities. Well, it was worse than anyone thought. After 2 shots of Novocaine and one inside the tooth (yes, INSIDE), the dentist said that he couldn't save the tooth and had to pull it. It was a baby tooth and the only worry was that it would cause bite and crowding issues. J was not very happy. Not nessecarily because of the pain, but cause he wasn't feeling much by this point, but because he was loosing the tooth. This was the molar that came out of J's mouth:

Yes. It is a large tooth. VERY LARGE. The Tooth Fairy paid one paper dollar, one dollar in quarters and one gold dollar for it - and J still kept the tooth!!!

Cheezy subject

Some pics I took at the park yesterday...

didn't have C or J with me,

so it was just Isaac as my subject!

Peeking over the top of the rock wall

Checking out the bugs in the center of the tree
Going through...

... to smile at mom!

and ended up getting a great shot (if I do say so) of me!
wanting to take a pic like mom did
old trees, falling apart... I could have spent hours there just taking pictures! I was there with a friend of mine and her boy and we both decided that we had to go back there with all our kids, just to take nice pictures!!! I can't wait!

I love it when...

- I have friends that give me a hug because they know I could use one

- my boys are playing well together

- I can dance in the morning

- I can smile... and I am not forcing it!

- I feel like I have gotten something done during the day

- I hear C reading to I... and I didn't ask him to

- I can blast Michael Buble and we all dance

- the sun is shining... even if it is for a minute

- I feel beautiful


I just LOVE that!

Basket Slough

Several weeks ago, the boys and I took a drive to a nearby Wildlife Preserve called Basket Slough. The reasons for going many: it was beautiful outside; it is one of the many things that we needed to check off in Christian's Cub Scout book; we can make another stop at their Great-Grandparents' who live just a few minutes away from there; it is just a cool nearby place to go and see some amazing animals. I have been meaning to post pictures about it since and I figured I had better do it before I forget!

This is a picture of a bald eagle eating a duck. There was a couple there before us that actually saw it swoop down and pluck it out of the water. I took this through the big telescope that is there for people to use... Looking out at the ducks... The moon and clouds
and the moon through the telescope (no cropping or photo fixing)

We had a lot of fun... it ended up being cold and we got back home WAY later than we should have, but it was very cool and we WILL be going back!