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favorite verse

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after church on sundays, we all take naps and then have family time.  tonight the kids wanted to watch madagascar 3 and eat popcorn.  they were oblivious that i was even taking their picture. 

greyson was whining today when i said he couldn't go to his grandma's house, so his "punishment" was to write his name 10 times.  i don't know about you, but whiny kids really bug me.  maybe it's because i'm a teacher and hear it all. the. time.  i (we) may be old fashioned but when we say no, we want our kids to respect that without the extra fuss and begging. :)

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i finally took my christmas tree down today.  i had to bring the ladder in to get the ornaments from the top of the tree.  miss kenna had to climb just like her big brother. 

i'm taking a pse class right now and am learning how to better utilize the program to post process my pictures.  i tried one of the things we were taught this week.  i never realized there was so much in turning a picture to black and white.  feedback is welcome!

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today i took my big camera to school and shot some pics of my third graders for a bulletin board i'm working on.  however, i didn't think it would be a good idea to put those pictures on the internet so i decided to take a quick one with my camera phone to show you how i spent my friday night after the kids went to bed...

 

why, meal planning of course! 

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i read an article today on clickinmoms that talked about intentionally taking a picture out of focus.  the author suggested to put the focus on manual and play around with it.  i didn't take it that far, but that post did inspire this picture.  i took this in my bathroom mirror and had it so the background was in focus.  nothing noteworthy here, but fun to play around with nonetheless.

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kenna is constantly taking of her socks and hiding them somewhere.  i found one of her socks half way under the couch.  what a little stinker. :)

someday i'll miss this!

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what's a girl gonna do when she's tired, cold, and in NEED of chocolate? make raspberry hot chocolate of course. :)

side note:  i typically like to take pictures of people, but i really enjoyed taking pictures of my cup from different angles to see how the light impacted the photograph and how changing the angle really made a huge difference in the pictures.