If You Give A Mom A Camera...

If you give a mom a camera, and a directive each day of a photo take, she just may do it.

And on day 5 when she is asked to shoot a reflection in a body of water, she is going to walk outside to the puddle on the sidewalk. And she is going to take way more pictures than needed to make sure she gets the shot that she wants. 

Then her daughter will walk out to see what she is doing. And then the mom will try to capture the reflection of her daughter in the sidewalk puddle. 

And her daughter, of course will be in an adorable outfit, and saying "cheese" like she does whenever she see's a camera (or the iPhone, ha!) and the mom will just have to take a picture of her.

Then her mom, while uploading her daily shot to Flickr, just may look at little closer at the picture, and think of her daughter just one year ago. Which may cause her to look back to her older pictures. Which will find her to find a picture of her little girl taken almost one year ago to date. (Jan 10, 2009)

Which, will cause the mom to get all nostalgic about her BABY GROWING UP. Which means that the mom may feel the need to take more pictures tomorrow...

The Daily Shoot Challenge

This year something I'm going to challenge myself to do is the  The Daily Shoot. Everyday we will get a prompt for a picture idea or theme. You can blog about it and tweet about it after. The challenge is to help you become a better photographer and better with your camera. Between that and my photoshop classes, watch out!

Yesterday, Jan. 1 2010 was all about "looking out a window". I found the challenge a little late in the day, so snapped a quick view from where I was sitting right then

Today's challenge was to take a shot consumed in the color yellow. It totally popped out to me when I opened the "Airbourne" I'm taking to help kick this sinus issue..

I may not post all of them here, or I may do a weekly re-cap. Not sure yet. But please feel free to check out my Flickr set anytime here...

Twenty-Ten

Happy New Year! We've made it another decade. 

Looking back at the block of ten years, this one was INSANE. I got married, got a dog, had 2 beautiful (yet very, very loud) children... the list goes on. 

This year's NYE kid-friendly party was "Ugly Sweater" theme. Last year we kicked it old school with a "Mad Men" party and discovered how much fun it is to dress up for NYE, so we did it again. While I thought we could wander into our local Walmart the day after Xmas and have an abundance of sweaters to choose from at 50% off, that was SO not the case. Yet, we did manage to "tacky it up" and don some great outfits.

Since this was billed as the "tackiest party of the year I will throw" we wanted to tack it up... KFC in the bucket. Plastic snowmen and Christmas Doilies helped us out greatly. 

When asked what they could bring, I told our friends to "bring something tacky". Our good friend Marcy fit the bill perfectly when she showed up with this:

Not to mention that Marcy's husband had THE SWEATER of the night, wearing the famous Leg Lamp on his chest:

(sorry, the pic didn't come out better)

We even broke out the karaoke machine and sang along to (current?) hits such as "love shack" and "sweet home Alabama". Around 10:30 JUST before the kids totally melted down, we did a toast to the upcoming year. Hey, they didn't know the difference.