Headband Jax

While these aren't the best pictures, I had to share them.

For whatever reason, Jaxon asked for this headband to be placed on his head ... for a couple of days in a row! He really liked it, and we thought it was cute and funny!

I really liked the look on his face in this picture. Reminds me of "Harold & the Purple Crayon"

In this one, I couldn't get him to look at me ... "Blue's Clues" was playing on TV! LOL

Blessings!

Hummingbird

We have had an interesting couple of weeks. Jaxon has begun the process of teething his molars! So we have a cranky baby, and for a couple of days he lost his appetite and had a high fever. For those couple of days we stayed home and hung out in our PJ's all day.

The two of us walked outside for some fresh air (well we actually needed to throw away a loaded & stinky diaper). As we walked through the gate I heard some very loud humming and noticed there were hummingbirds all around in the tree. Flitting from here to there and getting some nectar from the flowers. Then I noticed that there was some repetitive humming sounds and looked around and noticed that there was a hummingbird stuck in a spider web!!!!

I couldn't believe that there was a web strong enough to hold a hummingbird! But there he was, struggling to free himself, much like a fly or bee, but much larger. I was so sad and had to see if I could free him.

I looked around and found a long sturdy stick on the ground, picked it up and attempted to break the web. I thought surly it would be easy to do, I would just break the web and the bird would be able to fly away. With Jaxon on my hip I went to work on attacking this web.

Much to my surprise it was a much stickier web than I first thought. So sticky that my stick was getting stuck in it as well! I was so afraid I was going to harm this fragile bird as I was tugging on the web to free him and my stick!

After some time, I was able to free one wing, then I was able to break the hummingbird away from the web, but he was still stuck to it on my stick. So I walked him over to my porch so I would be able to set him down on the banister as I worked at twisting the web off of him and onto my stick. With in a matter of seconds he was able to break away from the web and the stick and flew off!!!

I was so happy and so relieved! The picture I have added isn't of the bird I freed, but I thought it would be nice to have an image added to this blog.

Blessings!

52 Week Project 39

Wow, these weeks seem to be going by faster and faster, the closer to the end of the year we get!

I've made two trips to Costco in the last week! So ... that meant it was time to clean out my pantry. Of course with a 1 year old in the home, that means that I will not be doing this alone!!! LOL Jaxon became my little helper. It was actually quite fun!

Here are a couple of pictures of his helping me.

ISO 640 ~ 52mm ~ 1/50 ~ 2.8 ~ PP in LR

ISO 640 ~ 24mm ~ 1/40 ~ 3.2 ~ PP in LR

Blessings!!!

52 Week Project 38

Okay, well I have kind of cheated this week.

I wanted to use these pictures a couple of weeks ago, but didn't, and haven't used my camera this week. So, I am using them this week.

The first one was taken on Jaxon's first birthday. It was the only good one I got of him. He was quite uncooperative. :o( The second one was taken the next day ... LOL ... can you tell he was still not wanting to have his picture taken?!?!?! :D

ISO 400 ~ 51mm ~ 1/100 ~ 2.8 ~ PP in LR

ISO 100 ~ 24mm ~ 1/200 ~ 2.8 ~ PP in LR

Blessings!!!

52 Week Project 37

I wanted to play with my camera and instead of asking the kids I thought I would turn to our dog, Kacey.

She is a funny girl. She was sitting still and all, but wouldn't look up at me. I noticed that she was staring straight at her ball, which was on the ground in front of her. She refused to look away. So ... to get her to at least pick up her head, I set her ball up on the banister! LOL She still wouldn't look at me, but at least now her face was in view! ;o)

ISO 200 ~ 43mm ~ 1/160 ~ 2.8 ~ PP in LR

Blessings!!!

52 Week Project 36

It was a week of birthday's this week.

Josh was on the 7th, Shelby was on the 8th, and Jaxon was on the 9th.

Technically Jax's picture wasn't from this week - we took it on Saturday last week - but I wanted to put it up. Josh's picture was taken this week on his birthday. My sister in law was kind enough to make him a birthday cake & my mom made some AWESOME spaghetti sauce for a great spaghetti dinner in honor of Josh's birthday. We had a wonderful time!

Thanks everyone who helped make it possible!

ISO 800 ~ 24mm ~ 1/30 ~ 2.8 ~ PP in LR

ISO 200 ~ 34mm ~ 1/60 ~ 4.0 ~ PP in LR

Blessings!!!

52 Week Project 35

Okay - so I am a day late. But here are some pictures from last week. My mom took us to Balboa park to visit the Ruben H. Fleet Museum and we detoured to the Museum of Man. It was a wonderful Thursday in Balboa Park!!!

I didn't really tweak any of the photos ... I just wanted to share them with you.

It was so much fun to watch all of the kids play and learn! Jax was even able to get in on the fun! He discovered the passing his arm through the mist cause a 'difference'!

This one was plain fun! Not to mention that I have stood at this same wall doing the same thing as a little girl! It was great to see all of the colors at one time! The kids were troopers as well - they held their position as still as they could so I could get this one with out the flash! ;o)

This one is one of my favorites. Not only did I

have fun doing this myself ... before the kids came over ... I love how the mist looks like a jelly fish.

Another fun one. As you can see this is modeling the earths magnetism. It was fun to drop the iron dust onto the globe and watch it stick.

Well that is a glimpse into our day. We had so much fun and look forward to many more fun filled days at Balboa Park! ;o)

Blessings!