I Love..... Karl

This week's theme is I Love ____ and out of all the people I love,
chose to focus on my husband of 22 years... KARL

He is an awesome husband. He is even enclosing our carport to make a craft room just for ME!


He framed the bay window all by himself - the window didn't come with instructions so he looked online and figured out how to do it himself! Here he is showing off the framing of the bottom of the bay window before he covered it up.


He is such a good dad... he even goes to Disney Princess on Ice and lets his daughter cast a spell on him with a wand he bought her while at the show.


He is very active in the boy scouts with his sons. He got the pin when Austin received his 1st Class last month.


He even spends time with his daughter when she is in the hospital. Karl stayed over night one night when I had a migraine. He did a really good job taking care of Jessica.


I couldn't have ever asked for a better husband. I am so very blessed to have him by my side for 22+ years. He tells me that he loves me and that I'm beautiful every single day.

PINK

This week's theme is PINK... Jessica's and my favorite color! I hope you enjoy the photos!



Jessica riding a horse for the first time! Of course Jess is wearing PINK!



I took this picture of a sunset that I took out of the window of Jessica's hospital room last month. Several doctors and nurses were asking to peek through our windows since we had the best view! Notice the PINK among the many colors in the sunset.



Jessica all dressed up in her PINK princess dress and her PINK crown. She is all ready to go meet the Cinderella and Belle before going to the "Disney Princess on Ice" show.


Cinderella, Jessica and Belle in front of a PINK display advertising the Disney Princess on Ice show. Several girls from our local Tu Nidito group got a private visit with these princesses and then dinner at a Mexican restaurant before going to the show.


And finally, here is my PINK laptop computer bag! The good thing is that part of the proceeds go towards breast cancer research... the bad thing is that the zipper on it broke already! I'm waiting for the store to get more of these bags in so I can exchange it for another one. I don't want a boring black laptop bag... and of course I want to support the breast cancer research whenever possible.


I hope you have enjoyed a few of the pink pictures I posted. If my boys would only wear pink, they could be in this post too. hehe...

PhotoHunters: Practical and Smelly

This week is a 2-fer... a Two fer One Photo Hunters. I didn't get a chance to post the ones I had picked out last week so I am posting this week's and last week's together:

This week's theme is PRACTICAL:

Here is a Practical use for the quilt that Mrs. H and her mother made for Jessica:


Here is the front of the quilt... HARRY POTTER!!! Jess still loves it sooooo much!


A practical way for Jess to get to school and haul her oxygen... and her stuffed monkey whose head is poking out of her purple princess backpack. hehe.. she's so cute!


A practical use for a flowerpot (which I painted)



Last week's theme: SMELLY:


Smelly cow.....


Smelly dope... (no, I'm NOT talking about the officer. haha!)

Music

After a hiatus from doing the weekly Photo Hunters, I am back! My computer's hard drive crashed and I lost some information. We bought a new hard drive and I had to find my photos (which I had backed-up. yay!) and reinstall my favorite photo organizing program (Creative Memories - Memory Manager) and then realized that all the sorting was gone because I hadn't backed it up right. ugh! Then... my daughter started having problems with arrhythmias, etc... but I've decided that I need to do the photo hunters meme because I LOVE IT! So without further adieu, here's my music photos:


Austin and Brandon really liked Grandpa's musical dancing Santa


Austin in orchestra last year (5th grade)


Here is my nephew, Marcus, with his marching band. Marcus plays the baritone. He loves the marching band and what is so amazing is that he is doing it even while battling a cancerous brain tumor. Way to go, Marcus!


Jessica and her date, Phil, went to a special prom for teens who are dealing with serious medical problems. Jessica is in the tiara and cream blouse sitting at the table. Phil is sitting to her left and we know other the girls at the table from our Tu Nidito support group.


Some of the teens dancing at the prom.

Jessica didn't like the music to be so loud so she and Phil went into the room where photos were being taken to talk and enjoy the prom.

Just in case it isn't obvious to everyone... there is music at the prom... hence the prom pictures. hehe

Tiny

This week's theme is TINY.
ooops, that should be tiny.


Jessica caught a tiny snowflake.



Brandon made a tiny snowman



A tiny pirate



This is Grandpa Taylor when he was tiny.



And finally:
We are a tiny bit crazy...
Jessica and I doing our Cousin Itt impressions.

Shadows

This week's theme is shadows. Here are two photos using shadows to create two very different effects. I like them both but as you can clearly see, they are completely different.

This first picture is of my friend Keri's son. This little guy is usually into everything but I was able to get him to hold still for this photo. The highlights on the right side accentuate the shadows on the left.



In this picture I used shadows to accentuate the Christmas lights. In my opinion the shadows in this picture are a little over powering and you don't see the other decorations, but I am an amateur photographer and am experimenting with my camera. By the way, my cat, Charlie, is in the picture. Can you find him?


UPDATE: I lightened the shadows on the picture above - it has a different effect doesn't it? Now you can not only see more of the Christmas decorations but you can see Charlie, the cat better. The lights on the tree aren't nearly as impressive this way though. Congrats to those of you who found Charlie before I lightened the photo.

FAKE

This week's theme is FAKE. Jessica got Davey Jone's treasure chest for her birthday.
Is it the real thing or a FAKE?




It looks like it could be the real thing... I see the heart and Jessica is showing some of the "treasure". (She loves to make bracelets and necklaces)



Now it looks like it could be a fake... I didn't think that Davey Jone's heart glowed!



It may be a FAKE Davey Jones treasure chest with a FAKE heart but it is a REAL CD player!


Thank you Kerri and Summer! Jessica loves her new CD player!

Sweet

I posted two pictures from Jessica's recent birthday party that go well with the theme SWEET. I hope you enjoy them. If you would like to see more pictures of her Pirates of the Caribbean party then keep scrolling down.


Jessica's birthday cake tasted sweet.



Here's the sweet birthday girl with her sweet cake.

Hair

In April of this year I had 10 inches of hair cut off and donated it to Locks of Love. I did so in honor of my nephew, Marcus, who is battling brain cancer (who is doing very well right now, by the way).


At the salon right before the big SNIP!


This is my friend, Lisa, who happens to work at the salon. She is about to cut off my hair.

This is my "after" picture.


Here is the back. All that curl is NATURAL!! Who knew? It hasn't ever been this curly before. Could there be a perk to getting older??? (please let there be SOMETHING good about getting older.) I should add that I have had my hair short most of my life and have always had to have perms to have curly hair. The last time I had a perm was 5 or 6 years ago (if not longer) and that hair has long since been cut off. It's always been wavy but not curly. I like it!