365 Project week 4

My favorite picture so far this year :)

Proof that Taz is not invincible.

Paninni's! YUM!

A rare quiet moment.

School assembly. If you look really close to the right of the teacher, you can see a single strand of Ava's hair.

365 Project, week 3

01-15 "Light painting" fun

01-16 Marble fun

01-17 My deepest apologies to you Packer fans! Poor Taz loves this purple hat, now he calls it his Vikings hat. (I don't think the Vikings would approve)

01-18 Yes, this is a different day, he just wears this sweatshirt every day. At least he lost the hat!!

01-20 Chicken Pot Pie IX, baby

01-21 God's stained glass ice art on our window. This means it's very cold outside.

365 Project, week 2

1-08 Sushi girl! That's a Philly roll, with bonafide raw salmon among its ingredients. Papa is proud.

1-09 Max
1-10 Yuka and kids - Yuka lived with us for 8 months and we just moved her to her University. She is terribly missed!
01-12 Taz' tea
1-13 Snow
1-14 The boy knows how to eat.

365 Project, week 1

I am a student of photography. I love the art of it, and the challenge of it. It's harder than you think!! :)
I have been inspired in 2011 by Jenny Rigney to complete something called the "365 project", which is a challenge to take a picture every single day, even when there is nothing to photograph. :) It inspires photographers to think outside the box and be creative. I can tell already that this project is going to improve my skills. I'm excited!

Each week, on Saturday, I plan to post the previous week's photos.

I'm uncharacteristically not feeling chatty this morning, and I can hear Mocha Man steaming the milk for my latte, so without further ado:

1-01 New Year's day Wii
1-02 Homemade meatballs!!!

1-03 Taking down the Christmas tree!

1-04 My friend Sarah's gorgeous daughter, Abby.

1-05 Drummin'

1-06 Flute

1-07 - Absolutely nothing to photograph. We spent the day insulating our attic, hence the dust mask. :) Out of commitment to this project, I took this creepy picture of myself, and out of lack of any other picture taken that day, I am posting this. Mark my words that I will never do another self-portrait out of desparation again. I will photograph my shoe rack or something instead. :)

It's beginning to look a lot like...

The clues:

SNOWBALL FIGHTS!

Don't even think about it, Mocha Man.

Adapted from the words of Mouse, "The best kind of (first ever!) snowball fight is the one you share with a friend"

Finished off with some Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread, and it's the perfect day.

Even if it's still November.

I Heart Faces - Got to Wear Shades!

I've been inspired as of late by the famed i heart faces website, and they have a weekly photo challenge. This is my first entry, after a few months of lurking, I'm taking the plunge and participating! Got to wear shades, here's Taz, aka MiniMatt!




Be sure to check out iheartfaces. If you like photography, you'll leave inspired!

A Tale of Two Fishies

Once upon a time, a coffee-loving family and their Colorado-inhabiting cousins went on a trek to a beautiful mountain lake.
Fishing poles were employed and everyone participated (all except the Wonder Mommies, who were otherwise employed with resting and falling in the lake trying to get the photograph above). Don't worry, no cameras were harmed in the making of this blog post.

There was some of this:


And quite a bit of this:
And, yeah, there was a little bit of this:

But there were quite a few of these:

AND, they caught 2 of THESE:

A great time was had by all, and rumor has it that before the coffee-loving family lives happily ever after, they might just go do it again.

We're pruny

The beginning of the summer marked 3 weeks of 8:30 am swimming lessons for the girls. Lessons that paid off immeasurably, as I now have one bonafide swimmer and one thinks-she-can swimmer. The latter brand of swimmer is actually a frightening sight indeed... more dangerous than the I-can't-I'm-too-scared brand.

The first time we swam here in Colorado, being new-branded-swimmers, the following took place:

"I can swim in the deep end, Mommy, watch! WATCH!!!" Cough, sputter, sputter, choke, under the water.

SPLASH! Rescue. GASP, return to breathing.

"I've got you, sweetie, it's ok... Are you ok? You may NOT go in the deep end anymore without a noodle or kick board, ok?"

"But WHY? I can SWIM!"

Uh-huh.

Swimming has been the most frequent activity here in the mountains. The pool is indoors, and at precisely 3:00pm every afternoon, when it starts to storm, we head inside and hit the pool.

They're jumping

They're splashing

Corene is even learning how to crawl on top of the water! This was a jump-while-you're-twisting trick, just looks hilarious.


Wonder Daddy time

What, you haven't seen any pictures of me? You think I hate cold water and am not Wonder Mommy? Well, you're right. This is my favorite place. This is the view from the hot tub!


Aaaaaaahhhhhh.