I ♥ Faces - "We ♥ Tooshies"

Another photo challenge....this picture has already been up on my blog before, but I love it for the We ♥ Tooshies theme. How can you take pictures of bowling without getting a lot of tooshies in the shots?



How many haven't used this position at some point when bowling? Classic kid stance!
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I ♥ Faces - Sun Flare

I have been following I ♥ Faces for quite a while, but have never had the nerve to enter their contests. Well, I decided to bite the bullet and give it a shot! (excuse the pun! ~ that actually wasn't intentional)
This picture was taken in September on one of the last really warm evenings. I was actually trying to capture a silhouette, but managed to get a bit of sun flare. I love the calmness of the picture....considering 2 seconds before Abby had been flailing her arms and chasing seagulls! But when I look at this picture, it is exactly what the beach is to me....dipping your feet in the chilly water, squishing the wet sand between your toes and listening to the calming sounds of the water lapping up onto the shore....ahhhh



This is definately a technique I want to play with some more...
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a last look at the nice weather...miss you already!

Now that most of the pictures I am going to take over the next few months will contain snugly sweaters, hats, and scarves, I thought I would post a couple of pictures reminiscent of the warmer weather! Although I am totally grateful for the extended, slightly warmer weather we have had this fall, and dare I say, I am actually looking forward to a bit of snow, I already miss the days of tank tops and bare feet......hurry back!

...and the costumes

Finally, the Halloween costumes! We tried to go out in the afternoon to take some really good pictures, but when we got to the location, the girls said it was too cold and refused to give me 5 minutes....which is kind of funny because later that night trick or treating, it was freezing! And they had no problem going all the way around the block! They both promised me that they would dress up again and we could go out to take more pictures, but I think now that Halloween is done...it's done! Now we are onto Christmas Wish Lists. So this is the best I've got!







I think Emma may have been born in the wrong decade! She was totally 'digging' the hippie costume! And the 'whatever' attitude Abigail was able to pull off...man, am I ever in trouble with that girl! (But people knew she was dressed up as Avril Lavigne!)

more halloween

The girls had a black and orange day at school, and they were told to be creative, so I put elastic on the fabric pumpkins I made and they wore them as hats! How's that for creative?

there's just something about these pictures

I was playing around with the settings of my camera the other day and asked Abby to just sit there while I took a bunch of pictures so I could compare them. She started making faces at me because she was a little cold and bored. I just love these two.



...especially this one

the beginning of the halloween pictures...

It's Halloween time, and we try to go all out with the activities and costumes at this house. The girls and I made this gingerbread haunted house last week with at least$30 worth of candy! Now they can't wait to break it apart and eat it ALL!!! I have a feeling that the girls are going to be bouncing off the walls all weekend! This is just the beginning of the Halloween pictures. There are lots more to come over the next couple of days.....

to the pumpkin patch we go....

There is a place really close to where we live that has made picking a pumpkin to carve an event! So we have headed out to the farm with friends the last couple of years. They have a cemetery set up with funny sayings on the headstones, a zip line for the kids, a corn maze, pumpkin sling shot and a wagon ride out to the pumpkin patch to get your pumpkins. Between the other 2 families we were with and us, there were 8 kids and 6 adults...so we had a LOT of pumpkins to carry back!





Can you tell Emma is getting a little tired of me putting the camera in her face all the time?




I think the pumpkin sling shot was the favourite! There is a target in the water that you have to try to hit...if you manage to hit it, you get a candy apple. Both girls tried it! (Notice the tongue sticking out a bit with each of the girls!) But it is definitely a Dad favourite!




This is the target you have to try to hit. You can see the little splash behind it were Pierre's pumpkin landed.


It was a fun afternoon!

apple picking tradition

Apple picking has turned into a tradition in the Fall. It has been entertaining (and a little sad) looking at the pictures from years past....my, my, my, the girls have changed so much. We go to Carluke Orchard, pick some apples, I take LOTS of pictures, we buy some home baked goodies, and go home to bake with the apples. This year we only made a few apple crisps, but they were so good! It's a tradition we look forward to every October.

some creative stuff

I realize I haven't posted in a while....I have been playing with some creative shots.....my brother Kevin levitating!





...and actually have been taking some pictures for people other than myself! There will more of the girls again really soon!