Theme: “Light”

I was pretty excited to go out and find a cool way to incorporate the “light” theme into my picture for the week. We went to the beach…didn’t find my inspiration there. Went to the park at a gorgeous time of day….nope. My daughter picked flowers in a field with the sun setting behind her…still not a shot I loved in the bunch. Then we went on a family walk and came across this tunnel. I immediately knew how I wanted to set up this shot. I wanted them to be heading into the light together, off to have an adventure. It just so happened that my 5 year old brought along a kiddie camera and that just adds to the shot for me. He’s going to capture their grand adventures! I wanted them to be looking into the tunnel, but when they looked at each other, I took the shot and ended up loving it more than what I had planned.

This may be cheesy, (I’m pretty sure we’ve established that I’m cheesy) but I look at it and think about how glad I am that these boys are so close in age (18 months apart). I’m so glad that they’ll be facing life together. I hope that, as it looks to me in the picture, they’ll often look at each other as the best buds they are and say, “Ready? Let’s do this.”

This week’s theme is “Color”.My current color is pink. And purple. I had two boys first and spent 4 and a half years being a mom to just boys. Trains, trucks, cars, blue, blue, and more blue. Then my daughter came along and some pink was introduced into our world. But she was so content to play with her brothers’ things, so we didn’t worry about getting girly, frilly stuff for a long time. And THEN, her baby sister arrived 6 months ago. We acquired more pink and more purple and embraced the flowers and baby dolls. (Still haven’t embraced the princess crowns but I’m sure we’ll get there.) Now that my two boys are in school for several hours a day, I am fully in girl world at home, with my two sweets. My older daughter likes for me to do her hair. My youngest likes to cuddle. We watch Tangled at least weekly. We dance along with Dora on the Wii. We make up songs and sing them in fake opera voices.  I. am. loving. it.

This week’s theme was “Pieces of Me”. I thought long and hard….and then waited until the last minute to take a picture for the week. I was heading to bed and saw my husband in his usual spot, on our bed, watching an uplifting video. At the end of a long day, he likes to unwind by getting his spirituality on. 😉 I wish this photo could better capture this amazing man’s heart. I decided he was the perfect subject for the theme “Pieces of Me” because he is the biggest piece of my heart. He gave me 4 other giant pieces of my heart: our 4 kids. And he knows and loves all the pieces that make me me. Well….maybe not all of them…maybe he doesn’t love that I love Downton Abbey. And maybe he doesn’t love that I hate to iron. But he loves MOST of me! 😉 And he understands me oh so well. When we’re driving around town and he catches me just staring out the window, he says, “Yes, you’re right, the light is amazing in that spot.” Totally teasing me, but still…he gets me and my obsession with all things photography related. So when I asked if he could just stay still for a minute so I could take his picture, he got it.

I love this man.

(Week 1 will be posted later. Dropped the ball on that one!)

This year I decided to participate in a Project 52 – One photo per week for the year. Last week’s theme was “Fresh”. I chose my cute girls as my subjects because they’re home with me during the day and it was down to the wire and I needed to submit a picture. I wanted to show off my 5 month’s old first pig tails, next to her 2.5 year old sister’s long ones. I would have loved to execute it better, but it was hard enough to get them both looking in the right direction at the same time without help. So it’s not quite the vision I had, but I will still love it forever! My caption was “Fresh piggies next to her sister’s seasoned ones.”

I was SO excited to see that it got featured yesterday as “Eye Candy” over at My Four Hens Photography! What a fun way to start this off this project. 🙂

This week’s theme is “Time”.

Here’s my brother and his lovely wife and their beautiful chunk of a baby girl.

This is their first baby, my first niece on my side of the family. I am in love with her. I loved seeing them and couldn’t help but reminisce about what it was like when I had my first baby. I remember thinking that time was kind of crawling by and I couldn’t wait for my son to hit the next milestone. “When will he smile at me? When will he babble? Why hasn’t he laughed yet?” 

But then the time flew by. I had my 4th and last baby in August and my mentality is so different with her. As she hits each new milestone, there is such a bittersweet feeling in my heart. Of course I’m thrilled that my healthy baby girl is learning and growing, but at the same time I’m so sad that the time is flying by so quickly.

Anyway, that’s what I think about when I see this picture. Time is going to fly!