I Heart Faces Giveaway

Over at I Heart Faces they are having a digital SLR lens giveaway. This lens is amazing go on over and check it out and see for yourself.

1st photo shoot

The PE teacher where I work is pregnant, 35 weeks, and before school let out I talked to her about doing some pregnancy shots. Tonight was the night. Here are a few of my favorites.

I cannot even begin to tell you how nervous I was. These pictures were taken in the development she lives in so I was not familiar with what was good for backgrounds and what not so it was interesting.

Things to remember before next time.
*take a list of picture ideas
*know the location of where you are shooting.

I am sure the list will grow just can't think of anything else at the moment.

Please comment if you read this and let me know what you think.

Awesome giveaway...

One of the blogs that I frequent regularly is having an awesome giveaway...it is beautiful.

Go check it out and enter the giveaway if you like and if not enter anyway and give it to me. :)

Sometimes ya just gotta...

JUMP!!!

The boys were cleaning up the playroom and needed a break.
It was too hot outside and they were outside at baseball camp this morning.
I have been wanting to take jumping pictures for a while now.
They had fun
released some energy
and did I mention have fun.

Racing Weekend

It was an early Saturday morning

the track opened at 7 a.m.
We arrived about 7:30 a.m.
after breakfast at the hotel.

Resting before the race begins.

Playing with the cars.
Everyone who walked by commented on the # of cars he had to play with
if only they knew it was about a 1/4 (if that!) of what we really have.

Go #26!
He was the only one in his group so

Eric changed the plate and

he raced with the
older racers.

Overall he did well and finished 5th out of 7.

Daddy watching the race.

wall art

So after yesterdays post with a sneak peek I wanted to share the completed project with you.

As you can see Tyler's choice of yellow paint on his canvas proved not to be successful. Today we went back to Michael's and he picked blue and orange. The top part of the play room's walls are blue and I wanted to make sure that the blue would work and actually show up on the blue wall, so we bought a back up color of orange (just in case). Thankfully we didn't need the orange because it really wouldn't have matched his brother's redish color that he chose.

Here is Tyler doing a repaint of his canvas. Tyler and I were so excited to see that the yellow actually showed through when we put his prints on it. So a different spin on this project would be to paint one color and then another on top so you don't have just white showing through.

The boys are asleep and I just finished their paintings by adding their names. I will have dh hang them on the wall for me this weekend. Then maybe another picture will come. :0) I want to add one more thing and that is the date on the back with a Sharpie.

I used my Cricut "All Mixed Up" font and cut out their names at 2 1/2".

Interested in creating this project??? Go here and click on the link from that site for more detailed instructions.

Materials:
paint
16X20 prestretched canvas
foam brush

Photo Hunt 170: Rocks

Here is a picture of my oldest son and rocks at Swallow Falls State Park in Maryland taken during our vacation there in June.

Wanna play along with the photo hunts go here.