Heart Ornaments....

These are my favorite ornaments. I think its because #1, my grandma gave them to me and #2 the way they catch the light and sparkle. Unfortunately many were broken this year due to the CED incident and my two year old throwing them at the fireplace :(

Big Boy birthday pics...

These are from my nephews birthday. I wish I had time to keep playing around with photoshop, but one must sleep at least a little bit. I was playing with some actions I forgot about (downloaded from the Pioneer Woman blog). Let me know what you think. I used her "Vintage" action and adjusted according to my taste, and then did the same with her "Boost" action.

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I'll post more later...just throwing these up while I had the chance (which is seldom these days).

(Still catching up....) Pics from FMG

These are taken at "my little piece of heaven" as I like to call it and think of it. I have a membership there and we try to go every week or so. Its amazingly beautiful. There are so many things to do and see there: Sculpture parks, waterfalls, indoor tropical forest, outdoor amphitheater, huge children's garden complete with tree house, just to name a few things. Anyhow...many, many of my weekly pics are from here. Here's a few:












A cool sculpture by Jaume Plensa

Looking a little ghostlike from another view...






An awesome harvest moon that night. Pic doesn't do it justice...

Fall pics....just in time for winter....

I took these exactly a month ago, actually when I took the pic from the last post but I just never get around to posting these ones. I was also trying to take pics of my nephews for my sis, so I didn't get as many of my kids as I'd hoped. They were all a little too rambunctious that day.



































Kaedon was not incredibly cooperative.

Yeah I'm a looser with this blog so far....

Just not getting enough time these days to take enough pics let alone post them. But I will keep trying.

Here's one I took yesterday out the car window actually and finally had time to play and download to the computer today.


I ran a watercolor filter on this one, but you really can't tell that much of a difference unless you look click on it to enlarge it. I wish it came out sharper but alas, I was driving. I'm finding that I like the watercolor look for that predicament, then the sharpness isn't necessary and actually adds to the artsy look sometimes.

Sunset pics from our vacation this past weekend:

These are a few sunset pics over Lime Lake from Saturday morning. I was leaving the cabin with the kids to head out in search of the cabin/family in our group of friends serving breakfast and when we opened the door, both kids said "Wow". It was pretty sweet. I of course grabbed my camera and send the kids on their way.







More pics to come....

From last week:

I just loved the sweet feel of these with the subtle presence of my daughter in the window...


I wish I could have really captured how cute this little tree house/fort was though.