Saturday, January 3, 2009

365 Challenge: January 2nd

When another girl is looking at your husband like this, you know you are in big trouble:
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Here is another one of them, yucking it up (pantsless)
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Thursday, January 1, 2009

365 Challenge, Take Two!

For lots of reasons, I have to restart the 365 Day Photo Challenge.
I found myself kind of muddled and sad during the holiday season, neither here nor there, and definitely not in the mood to document it.
But with my brand spanking new Nikon D60 and hopefully a new attitude for 2009, I am back, and ready to try this again.

So here we go:
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This picture represents what is so unique about our life in California, the little things that I forget to appreciate, like ripe oranges in our yard on New Year's Day. Also, it is a real life sly grin from my little monster, which I cannot capture on film very often.

We have been fighting through a phase where she hates having her picture taken, and since it has been over a year now, I hope to be able to report a change in her attitude by the end of the 365 Challenge!

Friday, November 7, 2008

Becca loves Daddy!!!

She hates cuddling, and she can't stand posing for pictures.
So this, my friends, is a true rarity:
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Becca loves Jordan!!!!

...because when she is in time out, he comes by and makes her smile...
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365 Challenge: November 6th

Potty training is the pits.



Just ask Rebecca:
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365 Challenge: November 5th

I love board games and have been itching to play The Game of Life for a while, so when I saw that Target had it for 12 bucks, I had to have it. I also decided to force my husband to play that very night. Somehow I had forgotten that it takes about half an hour to actually set the board up and how complicated the path of life can be:
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I learned two important lessons:
a) If you are an adult, The Game of Life can be kind of depressing and plunge you into a premature midlife crisis.
b) Kids never pay off

I guess I could add another one:
c) At the point that your husband has accrued so much money that you actually run out of $100,000 bills, it is time to quit, especially if you have a car full of adopted kids who want to go to college.
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Oh yes, one last one:
Life imitates The Game of Life

The Gods Are Working Against Me Here...

Finally, I found time to sit down and upload my pictures of the day from the last couple of days. And of course Photobucket goes down right after I upload them, so there is no way I can update this now. Grr.

Today was a perfectly lovely day where I sat outside in our back yard in the sunshine and enjoyed my new friend Sherry's company. It is a Rebecca and Jordan lovefest whenever we get together, and I am thankful for having found someone here that I get along with so well.

At some point, I told her about that lovely German saying "God punishes the small sins right away", and the rest of the day, we watched it in action. Rebecca tried to pull an orange off the tree although I told her not to, and promptly fell over her foot, and so on and so on.

So I am now sitting here, without an uploaded photo to my name, wondering what little sin I am getting punished for right away ;)