This or That Thursday–Hawk & Train

This morning we were on our way to a fieldtrip and I saw this bird sitting on a realtor sign on Burbank. I assume it is a type of hawk. I had my camera next to me in the front seat and the light cycle was taking a long time so I was able to change to my longer lens to zoom in more.

While we were waiting for our fieldtrip to start, a train drove by and I was able to capture it. It wasn't till I uploaded the pictures that I realized that I captured the engineer waving at us.

This or That Thursday - Micah with hat, Cole's book about God

See I can't even get these up on Thursday and I don't necessarily like the quality of either of them. I hate taking pictures inside my house. I never can seem to get the settings right. But I thought they were cute enough to share.

Micah was playing with these tangram shapes during school time and she put the bucket on her head. Of course, anytime I go to take her picture she wants me to take 3 of them, because she's 3 of course!

When I was putting my camera up, Cole climbed onto to the bucket of books and grabbed this book "to read". He just looked so cute. It was a little blurry so I thought that the sepia made it look a little better.

This or That Thursday - Cole & Chalk

I want to try to do more with my photography than I did last year. I became such a slacker! But I don't know how many opportunities I'm going to get with a new baby on the way. Deb has an opportunity to share any type of photos on Thursday called "This or That Thursday". I love Deb's photos and thought this was something that I could participate in when I had the chance.

So here's my picture for today. Cole writing with chalk on a Thursday afteroon. He's the baby right now, but not for much longer. So it's great to capture these photos. They grow so fast, don't they!

MCP Project 12-1 ~ Resolution

My resolution is to read through the Bible in a year. I took a similar picture of this same thing last year for a scavenger hunt. I got further along last year than I did in 2010, but I still never made it all the way through. My kids took my Bible outside one day and lost my paper that had where I was in my reading and I couldn't remember.

MCP Project 12

Since we ended the Mommytography 365 project last year, my photography has been on the back burner.  I didn’t think I could do a 365 project this year with a new baby coming in February.  I thought about doing a 52 week project, but still didn’t know if I could keep up with that with a new baby, homeschooling, church activities, etc.  However, this year MCP is doing a Project 12 which allows the participant to take a month to take a photo or multiple photos based on the theme. I figure I should be able to keep up with this.

Beach Photography 2011

I've been lazy and haven't been practicing with my camera. So it felt like it was a lot harder to get good shots. However, these are decent considering who I have to work with!

Group shot of the cousins

Group shots of my kids...from the front

from the back

Some of Elliott

One of Micah...she didn't want to cooperate when taking the group shots, but she wanted me to take a picture of only her. I thought this one was appropriate with the sign.

2011~365-79 thru 365-85

Elliott enjoying a bomb pop at Cole's birthday party

Cole with cake face at his birthday party

Cole hanging out with his new backpack from Aunt Sara

Levi with barbecue face at the 4th of July picnic
Micah enjoying a Dr. Pepper at the 4th of July picnic

Luke & Cameron enjoying ice pops at the 4th of July picnic

Miriam eating watermelon at the 4th of July picnic