Chris and the Camera

The other day we were all outside riding a couple of our horses. I had my camera with me and while I was brushing down one of the horses I gave the camera to Chris to hold on to. Later that night I put my card in the computer to check out the pictures I had taken..........and.............there was about 100 extra pictures of that Chris had taken. Most of them were of his face. LOL! Here are a few of them...........please ignore the ucky crusty nose he has..........there's no stopping that with him............

Chris also took some pictures that weren't too bad. Here are a few of these ones......

Easter 2009 Pictures

Like every Easter morning.........sometime between scrambling to get ready for church and actually leaving for church I remembered to grab my camera and line the kids up for our yearly Easter picture. I love dressing all the kids up in new clothes for Easter. I always look for cute dresses for the girls and shirts for the boys late in the summer when all that kind of stuff is on clearance. Then I put them all together in a closet and hope I don't forget where I put them. By doing this I can actually afford to have everybody wear new clothes at the same time. The girls' dresses I bought for $6 a piece and the boys' shirts were.......get this.........$1 each!!!! So the grand total for the kids' Easter clothes cost me $15 dollars! Can't beat that! The day before Easter the girls couldn't wait any longer to put on their new dresses. So I let them put them on for a little while. Then they wanted me to take pictures with the dresses on. So we had a good time playing "photo shoot". Here are some of the pictures I got..........

I think this one is probably my favorite. There's just something about it that I think is so cute.

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.....

......and it MARCH 31!!!!!!

We are in the middle of a huge snowstorm right now. The kids got out of school at 11:00 yesterday and didn't have it today. And I'm guessing it'll be cancelled again tomorrow. I would also guess that we have gotten at least a foot of snow so far and it's still snowing. UGH!!!!

Here are some pictures of the kids and me playing outside. It was kind of fun.....even though we SHOULD NOT have snow right now!!!

StinkerBell

I have so many pictures that I want to share here. I have some great ones that I took on the first day of spring of the kids playing in the mud. But...............I don't know the time right now to do that. Soon.......

So.......for right now I will post one of my favorite pictures I've taken recently. It makes me giggle. It's one of those that I'll have to keep and show her boyfriend years from now. I love it!

More Deer Pictures

As of a couple days ago "our" deer were still hanging around. In fact when Dave came home on Monday the whole herd was nestled down right on the south side of the trees surrounding our house. He came in to get my camera and went out to see if he could get a picture of them. Here's what he got............(pretty cool huh?)...................

Here are a couple more pictures that I took on my way to town last weekend. I am loving watching these guys! It is fascinating to see them all together. We have been snowed into the farm for a couple of days so I'm hoping the deer are still here when we finally get to go to town.

Our Newest Neighbors

For the last several days there has been a huge herd of deer in the fields surrounding our house. It has been very cool to watch them! I've been carrying my camera around hoping to catch them. Yesterday they were really close but so was the fog. This afternoon I looked out the window and...........they were walking along my driveway!!! So I grabbed my camera, threw on a coat and ran out the door......too bad I forgot to get my gloves.........I just about froze my fingers off! Here are some of the pictures I took. They were all taken from my driveway, which is about 1/2 mile long. I would get in my van, drive a little ways, jump out and shoot some pictures, then drive a little ways more.

Mom's Birthday

So....today would have been my Mom's birthday. It makes me miss her. I figured I write a quick thing here on my blog in memory of her. Several years ago I stopped by her house and was visiting with her. She told me that it had been a hard day for her and that it was her Dad's birthday. Her dad unexpectedly passed away when Mom was in her early 20's. And this day I stopped by was around 45 years later. At the time I didn't think too much about what Mom was going through. I felt bad that she felt bad and we talked about him for a little while. Today......that conversation is precious to me. I know that the feelings I'm having today, on her birthday, were feelings that she went through and struggled with. And........somehow.......that makes me feel somewhat better. I won't write too much about her today.........I'll save that for another time..........but know that she was an amazing lady. Now, that doesn't mean she was perfect........I have many memories of her.......well........not being perfect..........she lived her life in a way that what you saw was what she was. Anyway.........enough of my ramblings about this.

This was taken a couple years before she passed away at a Mother's Day Tea.

This is one of my favorite pictures. I was in college and home for Christmas break. Before bed one night, we started dancing. It was a fun time.

Here is one of my Grandma, Mom and me. I love this picture. I sure do wish though that Mom's eyes were open. Oh well.....

Here are the 4 of us.