Feeling Fall

FALL....Here are some random pics of my decorations in and outside my house.


Make sure to stop by all the other You Capture participants this week. I am especially enjoying fall this year!

You Capture. 4th of July and Food

If you can believe it, I chose not to photograph any food for the challenge this week. All of my shots are from the 4th of July parade. My youngest has been sick since the 3rd but we were lucky enough to get to the parade.

My 3 favorite guys enjoying the parade.

This is such a neat shot. One of my favorites! If you look closely at the reflection in the bumper of the fire truck, you can see both of my boys covering their ears as the siren is being blared as it drives by!! I love it.

Be sure to head over to Beth's for the other You Capture participants.

You Capture. Photographer's Choice.

This week's challenge for You Capture is a photo of your choice. I chose this picture of my youngest, Brady, after he fell asleep during our bike ride last weekend. He was pretty tuckered out after not having a nap for the second day in a row due to our camping trip. He was also up very late the night before trying to fall asleep in the tent. He managed to sleep like this while we took a 6 mile bike ride. His head kept hitting my back and I really have no idea how he slept?!

Check out the other "Photographer's Choice" selections at Beth's.

Happy 4th of July to everyone!!

You Capture. Emotion

When I saw that the challenge for this week was emotion I immediately wanted to capture my almost 3 year old having a meltdown and throwing a tantrum. Which has been happening quite frequently at our house as of late.

But every time we are in the midst of an all out meltdown I forget to take a picture. I guess that is the farthest thing from my mind at the time! Maybe I will get one sometime today and add it?! But hopefully there won't be any tantrums today....Yeah....right.

Here is a picture of my oldest son, Brock. We went to the zoo a couple of weeks ago (I guess I cheated because it was in my archives) and I wanted to ride the sky glider. He was not in the mood and thought that it looked scary. We had to bribe him with riding the train afterward. He reluctantly agreed and had a blast. This picture shows his emotions of excitement, happiness and pride of his accomplishment. I think that we will be riding the sky glider every time we go to the zoo from here on out.

Be sure to check out Beth's site for everyone's You Caputure shots!

You Capture. Nature

I took all these nature pictures while we were out for a bike ride with the kids tonight. Sorry there are so many. I had a hard time deciding which ones I liked the best.

Make sure to head over to Beth's to see how everyone else captured 'nature' this week.

You Capture. Feel.

Check out how all the others captured 'Feel' at Beth's. There are some really good ones!

You Capture. Family

Obviously this is not my family. But a family nonetheless! I captured this "family" out and about earlier this week! I tried to get closer but didn't want to get hissed at.

I probably should have made a better attempt to get a picture of my family but all of my guys have been sick around here. In fact at least one of us has been under the weather at one time for the past 2+ weeks. I didn't want to cheat and dig into my archives or more to the point - I hate having my picture taken.

Don't forget to head over to Beth's and check out everyone's You Capture for Family this week.

You Capture. Sweet

I participated in another You Capture Challenge. The theme for this week was to capture something 'Sweet'.

Beth is the creator of this fun event and her pictures are always awesome. Her "sweet" pictures today do not disappoint either. You have to check them out and also see everyone's pictures. There are some really good ones and always are.

This is a French Brownie I made a couple of weeks ago doing a catch-up for TWD. They were delicious and sweet. Especially with vanilla ice cream. You can find the recipe HERE.

My last picture is of my youngest son, Brady. He was sharing his popcorn with his rubber duckie today at snack.


Does that get any sweeter?

You Capture. Colors

Since I want to improve my photography skills (if I really even have any?), I thought that this would be fun. Completely un-food related too!

I love reading Beth's blog. She hosts a weekly photography challenge and I thought that I would join in on the fun this week. She did a post earlier this week about Picassa and I have been trying and tinkering around with it. You can really do some fun stuff. So here are some fun pics that I took this morning capturing color.

Check out how others captured color and join in on the fun.

This is quite the mess....but very colorful indeed.

I will really miss these when spring is over.