Project 365 ~ 204

finished off a wonderful quiet day at home with a fire and smores.

Project 365 ~ 183

while camping we found a big rope swing in the woods. Chicken decided she was an aerialist in training.

Project 365 ~ 175

Chicken was getting dizzy on the tire swing with new friends at the park!

Project 365 ~ 128

Sisters. It's wonderful when they play together without the squealing, the arguing, the bossing. The rain went away and the sun even poked out for a few minutes. Just long enough to roll happily in the grass and give smushy wet raspberries.

Project 365 ~ 062

I'm not crazy. I'm not. I swear. But I DID have ten kids at my house this morning. Yes, TEN, and yes I was the only grown up. But in all honesty they are some of the greatest kids in the world, AND Phinneas and Ferb was on, as you can see by the glazed over look in all their eyes.


I'm not crazy about the capture. It really looks like just a snapshot to me. If anyone has any tips on how I could have gotten this image to come out looking more photographic than snapshot I'd love to hear your input. I know there is a lot of "stuff" in the background (I kind of thought about using it for my L2L about the 'big mess') so I took out the saturation and darkened it a bit, in hopes that it would bring out the children. I had a vision of them all running to the school through this ditch (always empty) that leads to the campus, and while it possibly would have happened if I just happened to bring my camera, I KNOW orchestrating 10 kids into the image in my minds eye was NOT going likely. I stuck with this solely on the basis of the blog being for the captured memories of each day this year, and let me tell you, this is a memory!

Project 365 ~ 046

Sickies.



















Chicken stayed home from school today. I didn't believe her when she got up and said she needed to go back to bed. When the thermometer reached 101, however, I changed my tune! So she spent a relaxing morning on the couch watching Blue's Clues with Bitty and some corny made-for-tv movies.

Project 365 ~ 041

Installment number 3 in the series of Silhouettes.
























Chicken - my seven year old. Gotta love her!

Project 365 ~ 036

There are two pictures today. Why? Because I couldn't just pick one! This project was started on the idea that I would take a picture to capture a memory for every day. Well, today I captured two. And here they are. First a precious moment of two sisters cuddled close on the chair peering at the screen of the iPod as their little gingerbread man makes a break for it.

And second is an example of WHY we had to switch to an online version of a chore chart...

Project 365 ~ 021 L2L

Today's Entry is another Challenge completion (hopefully!) This one is for Literature to Life or L2L, a once a month challenge from Mommytography where we are given a quote and the challenge is to compose a photograph that captures the essence of that quote.


This months quote is:
"Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured."

~Luci Swindoll