Holly's Challenge Day #2 (Saturday)

This morning Holly and I went out scouting places for the engagement photos tonight and stumbled upon some pictures for today's challenge.  Here are my 9.

Memory Lane in Mead Park

Good for photos, not good for eating!

I just like this memorial for some reason.

she took me backdrop hunting!

cool moss covered log

Also cool for photo taking, bad for eating.

that's where we were.  I love that place.  A gem in Corry!

No idea what this is but thought it looked cool.  I love the wispy leaves.

The decline of fall. 

*Please remember all of these are uneditted.  I'm borrowing Aaron's computer while he sleeps.*

Challenge: Day #1 (Friday)

All of these photos are unedited as I'm on Aaron's computer without any editing software. Here are my 9 photos.  Some I really like, some are just ok! 

M holding her toes!

R looking at my ring.

We had pizza for dinner.

And wet corgis for dessert. . .j/k, I love them though and they thought they should have gotten pizza.

Duncan looks so different wet!

Court had to play with her mom's hair.

We bought soda

3 kinds of soda

Sunday Stills

This week I just did not have time to do a new photo for the Sunday Stills challenge.  So here are two older ones from the first time I used photoshop!

 

Macro Monday, Raspberries

I work as a nanny for a family and I love it.  One of my favorite things to do with the girls, was to go outside and pick some of these yummy raspberries.  Unfortunately their season is pretty much over in Western PA.  I just like this photo because of the variations in colors and you can see some of the unripe white berries also.

As always, please provide feedback. I heard about this from my great friend Holly.  I hope you don't mind me posting my very amateur photos.

Friday's Entry: Family Bonding

We all had gathered on the couch at Holly's to watch her open her birthday gift.  And then Aaron and Court decided Holly wasn't allowed to leave so they smooshed her, then Holly called Conner for reinforcements.  Eventually she was able to break free. 

And then this happened. . .
Aaron started smooshing Court and not letting her get up.

And then this happened. . . He is blessed to have a sister who loves him.  I just really like this one for some reason.

2 Weeks Ago

Holly took me out to take some pictures with her camera.  Here is what I came up with after playing with photoshop.

 

 

Pictures from Holly's camera

While at the barn this last weekend Holly made me use her camera that I was afraid of. I started off trying to take pictures of this kitty. I failed very often because Kitty loved to me to pet him/her. Everytime I would stoop down to take the picture he/she would come to me.
Probably my favorite of the bunch. I just love this picture. Not sure how I captured it but I like the way the flag has sunlight on it. I like the shadow of the wreath. And I like how the flag in the bottom left is what is in focus.
This stripy kitty is so cute! I love him. Holly was able to get him to look over his shoulder like this for me because she was distracting him with hay.
Love the look on stripy's face when Hammy (black one) was attacking him.
I love this one, they would go from loving each other to fighting within seconds.
I like how Hammy is hugging his brother but don't like how brother is out of focus.
Kitties, Holly and Court had distracted them by waving some hay in front of their faces. I like how both kitties are in focus but the background is out of focus.
Moss of the roof of the barn. I like the contrast of colors, wish I could have taken a better picture though.

Campfire stories

Yesterday was a great day. Aaron called into work and found out that he had to go to work for an undetermined amount of time for his first real day on the job. While Aaron was at work I got to hang out with his mom and Courtney. We had a great day together we made some lunch together (well they made it and I washed up the dishes.) Then we looked at scrapbooking websites and some AMAZING photos that some of Holly's friends have put up on Blogger. I'm just amazed with some people's photography skills. They are always able to take the most excellent pictures. Then Holly, Court and I went to the barn. Holly has made it her goal to make me not afraid of her uberduper super spancy scary camera. It has a lens longer than my arm (ok not really but you get the idea.) I took the camera around while they fed the horses at the barn and I was getting more comfortable using it finally although I'm still a bit afraid of breaking it. I hope some of the pictures that I took turned out well. Then when it was time for Court to ride Mojo, I went to pick up Aaron and head off to hang out with my family. Being inspired by all of the wonderful artwork, here are some pictures that I was able to take on my camera that day. Let me know what you think. If you would like to see all of the pictures from this weekend I am going to attempt to put them up on Facebook soon.

Me playing around taking pictures of my eye because I thought it looked really cool that day.
Can't tell if I like the top or bottom picture better. It is the same barbed wire wreath at the barn, just taken standing in two different places.
I'm a big kittah, honest.

Dad being extra gentle with Peaches, she was hurting very badly and is going to the vet on Tuesday.
He's so handsome!
Like the look of the fire in this one. . .
but the bubbliness of the wood in this one.
Aaron and Brandon, fireside.

Holly's Birthday

While waiting for everyone to get there I took a picture of the Peanut Bucket!

There's the Birthday Girl and daughter checking out our reflections in the light bulb! I love these two!

So happy together!. . . until the hair started to tickle Court!