Day 5: Breakfast Today

I was eating breakfast when Chris walked in the room and said, "Did you remember to take a picture of that?"  Oh crap!  Well I hadn't feed the little one yet, so you get to see her for breakfast today.  She didn't want me to feed her, she wanted to feed herself.  She is getting so independent these days. 

I took a whole bunch of pictures but I couldn't get the lighting right.  I'm not thrilled with the lighting on this, the flash is so harsh, but I love her grumpy morning face.  And by the way, she's 10 months old now!

Day 4: Clouds

So I realize I should have posted clouds 2 days ago but I've been having a small problem on that.  I headed outside first thing Saturday morning and realized there wasn't a single cloud in the sky.  Rowen and I stood there for the longest time searching the sky but there wasn't a single trace of anything white.  So I continued about my day checking the sky in search of clouds.  Now I think I'm the only person around complaining about having two perfectly beautiful days with no clouds in sight, but it made it rather difficult when you are suppose to be photographing clouds. 
That changed this morning.  When I went outside I realized that while there might not be any clouds in the sky there were plenty on the ground.  So I figured fog worked just as well for clouds. 
I took a couple.  I think they look beautiful.

Day 3: Hands

These are my most favorite hands in all the world.  Even better when they are holding onto each other.

I love this picture.  It makes my heart melt.

Day 2: Your favorite shoes

These are my favorite new summer shoes.  I adore sandals.  What I love even more is putting those feet up while I watch my beautiful children play.

Oh, and good news.  I found my camera!  Can't wait to share all of my Easter pics with you finally.

Day 1: Self Portrait

Self Portrait

Yeah, I took two...

30 Day Photo Fun

A friend of mine posted about this on her facebook last night.  I was so excited about it I decided I would bust out the camera and play along.  Until I realized I can't find my camera!  I know I took it with me to the IL's over Easter (to meet my lovely new niece) but I haven't seen it since.  I really need a new camera, so maybe this is what it will take to talk my dear husband into letting me spend large amounts of money on something I already have.  Anyways, I'm rambling.  The point of this was to say I am going to play along anyway.  It will only be cell phone pics but I'll post them here daily for you all to see.  And maybe this will help me get used to blogging and I'll show up more frequently after the 30 days is done.
If anyone else wants to join in the fun the original blog post is actually from A Feathered Nest and featured here: http://projectsforyournest.blogspot.com/2011/05/photo-fun-in-june-come-join-party.html
Come play with us!

Big changes

So I really need to get better at this whole blogging thing. I have lots of things I want to get on here and write about I just haven't found the time.  Life continues to get in the way.  I'm trying to get our house ready to put on the market so we can prepare for the big move.  The big move location has changed to.  So much to update on!
We'll start with the move.  We were suppose to be moving to NYC and I was pretty excited about it, after having a brief panic attack when I was told that is where we were going.  I have several friends there and I figured this would be an amazing experience and something I would love for the kids to look back on. But my husband was not so very quietly freaking out.  My husband would have really been a fish out of water.  He is such a farm boy and to throw him in the "concrete jungle" might have killed him. Seriously.  So he was more than thrilled when they decided to move his plane out of NYC and base him back in Chicago.  So it looks like the big move will now be to the windy city. 
I have been trying to get the house all ready to put on the market.  I'm a bit of a perfectionist and I want everything to look perfect before we even call the realtor.  Its hard to have a perfect house with two kids.  Even harder to paint when you have a mobile baby.  So not much has been accomplished. 
We live on a street that is full of almost identical houses.  I hate it.  But its good for figuring out how much you can get for your house when you decide to sell.  The house behind us sold within a month for a great price.  I was really excited and started working hard on getting everything done and told Chris to call the realtor.  Then we noticed the moving van at the next door neighbors house.  Turns out they had already bought another house.  They got to the realtor before we did and priced their house to sell.  They ask $20,000 less then the house behind us sold for.  Luckily it sold within the week but now we are nervous that we won't be able to get what we need since they sold so cheap.  I swear I'm renting from here on out.  I don't need this stress!
More updates later... I hear the little one screaming from her crib!

Hope everyone is enjoying the beginning of their summer as much as we are!