Spring is in the air...

This week's theme is spring....so I went outside and took a picture of the gorgeous azaleas that are in full bloom in my neighbors yard......these only bloom for a few weeks each year (in late march/april) and they are a sure sign that spring is here...
(I'm not the best at taking pics of anything other than people so hopefully this isn't too awful).

On another note...this is only my 18th post for my POTD this year...BUT...last year I only did 17...so no matter what, even if I don't post again until 2009 (OMG that sounds so far away)....I did better than in 2007 and that was my goal..lol

A Beautiful Day...

I had the best time today taking pics for somebody I work with and her 2 boys (one is her son and one is her little brother)....Today's post is of her little brother....I'm not really on theme other than one horizontal pic and one vertical....

It was such a beautiful day here today...mid
60s and sunny...

Thanks in advance for any comments....:)

ETA: I should mention that I took this 2nd picture against a wall that I see everyday when I leave work..it's got all this cool, peeling paint on it (as you can see) and it's on a building that faces our parking lot...I've always thought it would be cool to take pics at and I got my chance today...fun..all I did was lighten it up just a tad and put a slight vignette on it and that was it...otherwise it's SOOC!

Guess what I was playing tonight?

This week's theme is horizontal vs vertical.....it was a rough day today so the fact that I even took a picture today is impressive :)... I love looking at everyone else's blogs and it's more fun when I've participated too....so here ya go....

oh and for those of you who don't know ...this is a guitar from Guitar Hero....

Word of the Day: Jump

So there's no words in this pic but I think it's so cute (although come to think of it...are we on the next week's theme now? I never know which day I'm supposed to change since we post the night before...well anyways..we'll just go with this)..

I actually got to do one of my four shoots that were scheduled for this weekend...the weather was super nasty yesterday and at the last minute this a.m., my other gal had to cancel, but that's ok....we got some fun shots at this maternity/child/family session....this little guy was quick so I just kept snappin and I was pleasantly surprised to see this pic...it's one of my favorites....I'll post more from my session soon....


Oh and just for the heck of it...here's one more of my favorites from today :)

Dinner!

I was supposed to have 2 shoots today but Mother Nature had other plans....it was in the 30s and rainy...yuck! This is the coldest it ever gets here, so nobody was feeling adventurous enough to go out for pics (I wasn't either)....so I got to stay in my jammies until noon and pea....and then went to Costco w/my parents and grabbed some lunch and got Turbo Tax...came home and did the taxes...then cleaned house and now at 8pm I'm finally getting some dinner...and that is why my pic of the day for today is so lame...haha...but I'm looking forward to diggin into my yummy sandwich while I look at other blogs and comment (my hubby and son ate oysters at the neighbors which I had no desire to do so I stayed home and cleaned)....I was bummed about having to reschedule my sessions but it sure was a nice lazy day...

Hopefully we'll have decent weather tomorrow so I can do my family and maternity shoots...keep your fingers crossed..

Thank you all for the comments the past couple of days...I've been working hard to get to all of your blogs as well :)

Word of the Day: Pal

Don't you just love when you have a crappy day (I mean week) and you come home and an unexpected surprise greets you in the mailbox? One of my really good friends who I haven't seen/talked to much lately (although I've been thinking about her a lot - if she's reading this).....sent me a card because she had heard through my sister that I was having a rough time. A lot of times I'm the one to do nice things for other people...send cards etc...so it's really nice to get thought of sometimes and get a surprise :) I'm super excited for the last weekend in February because my sister and my friend Rebecca (card sender) and I are going on a scrapbook retreat in Myrtle Beach with close to 100 other women...we go every year and it is a total blast....
So here's a pic of the card that made my day - please excuse the mess behind it...for some reason I thought the mess in my office wouldn't show up in the picture..haha

Have a great weekend everyone!

Word of the Day: Fun

Ok I'm back w/the POTD...finally...I've had a lot of things going on and the theme last week wasn't all that exciting to me so I didn't even pick my camera up....

I stayed home from work today (sick) but I also got to hang out with my little man....we had so much fun.....I snapped this pic this afternoon because these stuffed animals were all laying in the living room and I've seen pics like this before and thought it would be fun to get one of T....

Tonight we went to Chuck E Cheese for a little bit and had some more fun....I'm looking forward to this weekend....we're going to play games (which we've been doing a lot lately - just the 3 of us) and hopefully we'll have a movie night......and I have 4 photo shoots!! 1 family, 1 maternity, 1 mommy and me and 1 couple...fun!