Mommin' It Up!

September 7, 2008September 9, 2008

Weekly Winners August 31- September 6

This week we had some big moments in our family. A Labor Day party, Joshua’s first day of preschool, and my 31st birthday. (Thanks for all those lovely comments on the birthday post, BTW.) So, anyways, here are a few of the photos I captured from this week!

Emily’s baby boy, Sammy, gets festive at our Labor Day cookout. Don’t you just want to eat him up??

Joshua heading out the door for his first day of preschool. He looks so big! I want to FREEZE TIME! It’s killing me.

My wonderful hubby got me a new (75mm) lens for my Sony Alpha DSLR-300k for my birthday!! Yay!! What a great present! Here are some of the photos I took in my front yard when I was trying the lens out for the first time.

Sunny leaves on our maple tree:

Stuff growing on the ginormous old tree stump in our yard:

My neighbor’s tomatoes on our side of the fence. Often I will see squirrels running across the fence carrying a big green tomato! It is a funny sight!

Webby log. Weblog?

‘Shrooms

Our trees and our neighbor’s trees reaching out to each other:

That’s all for me this week! For more photographic feats, go visit the Weekly Winners HQ at Sarcastic Mom!

August 24, 2008

Weekly Winners August 17-23…Ok, not really!

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Since I didn’t have time to go through ALL my vacation pictures last week, this week I am posting some more of my favorites from our trip to Virginia. Hope you enjoy!

Super-happy Sophie

Another view from my parent’s porch

A little lady in my dad’s garden

Joshua making a splash at Otter Creek

Fallen Log at Otter Creek

Joshua at Indian Rocks – kudos to my hubby, he took this one!

This is also at Indian Rocks – a tree growing out of a rock! Also taken by my hubs.

That’s the best of the trip. Maybe if you’re really lucky, one day I’ll show you the pics I took of myself and my friends during our crazy-wild games of Boggle and Yahtzee! But this is all you get for now. For more photographic feats, go visit the Weekly Winners HQ at Sarcastic Mom!

August 17, 2008

Weekly Winners August 10-16: Virginia Vacation Two!

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I just got back last night from my vacation to my parents’ house in Virginia (same place I went in June) and I have over 350 pictures to sort through, so here are just a few of my favorite shots from this past week! Hopefully I can share some more with you next week!

I’ll start out with the beauty in nature that surrounds their home.

This is the view from my parents’ porch:

Here is the view from the Buena Vista outlook off the Blue Ridge parkway, less than 5 minutes from my parents:

Otter Creek, just a few more miles down the Blue Ridge Parkway:

Deer eating corn in my parents’ front yard (my dad puts it out for them):

And now, some of the beautiful people that were there!

My parents. They are pretty much the cutest ever. My mom’s reaction when I showed her this picture was “Aww. We love each other!”

My little Sophie enjoying a ride on the porch swing and some cheezy puffs:

Joshua’s own cheezy puff face was pretty adorable too I think!

For some reason, Soph was playing with the tire on our friends’ truck. Then she caught sight of her reflection and showed herself some love!

More pics to come! Hope you enjoyed these. For more great photos, go say hi to Lotus at Sarcastic Mom and check out all the other Weekly Winners participants!