Success, Love, Late, and Reflection

I've been MIA for the past week, but I did do the assignments, I just haven't been able to post them. We went on a mini vacation to Idaho to visit family, and to let the kids play in the snow.(since we don't see much of it here in AZ) Here are my photos.

SUCCESS:

Here is Kennedy holding up the only SUCCESS of the day. My father-in-law took us ice fishing, this was the only fish caught that day. Although they did catch 12 the day before. 

LOVE:

My husband must LOVE me because this is what he got me for valentines day. Chewie is his name, and he's a yorkie. 

LATE:

The main reason for me being LATE, is the vacation we just had, and boy was it fun, and enjoyable. This was the first time we had been skiing, and snowboarding in 8 years. And the kids even got in on the action, and got to go to ski school!

REFLECTION:

My daughter Jocelyn. She was playing with the mirror after I did her hair for church. She gave me some really funny and goofy faces, but I liked how she looked so innocent in this picture. It makes me reflect on what I was taught, and what I'm teaching my children. 

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Reflection and Late

I was running out of time for the reflection challenge (I'm not sure why that bothered me since I always post anyway--see below) so I just took a quick picture with my point and shoot. I love how the reflection in the puddle makes it look like the sky is coming out of the ground. I don't love the composition, but I think if I had more time, I could have gotten in closer, blurred out the debris, and made this a really cool shot.

This one is LATE. Ha-Ha. It is also the remnant of a very late night. Um, no further explanation necessary.

1/6 sec. F10

Also, I just figured out the CC thing. Please always feel free to give me constructive criticism. The whole reason I'm playing is to improve. :) CC

Late again....

Late. That is me. Ever since I had kids I am late to everything! Late to church, late to school, late to work, late for my patience to arrive, I'm now a late night owl, late to clean, heck... even late to post! ...... I never seem to be on top of it anymore! It's driving me nuts.
Someday they will invent something for me to be early.

I am always late to put dinner on too. It seems like I wait until the last minute to start dinner and feed the family. It is a guarantee that there will be at least 3 melt downs by children before dinner is completed. Today I am at least doing some of the prep work for my fajitas before it's too late to start. Hope that effort pays off :)

Mixed Up topics for Late

For some reason I was thinking all day that Lost was the topic. I have memory issues since I started having seizures so excuse my brain! So here is both Lost and Late.
We drove to the coast with just the city name we needed to go to and followed signs the rest of the way no map. I was thinking that would get me lost and inspire some kind of picture.
We ended up at the Santa Cruz boardwalk and beach. The kids just loved it which gave me tons of pictures. I have been thinking about tv and movies lately so here is my version of Lost, Cast Away and Survivor I guess.
For the actual assignment of Late I will do the same thing from the beach. My kids have never been to the ocean before so it was a thrill for us. My son is a little daredevil. We got his pants rolled up and his shoes and socks off and he just ran right for the water. It was fun and great till a big wave came and came up the shore further than he expected. I think the fast rushing water made him lose his equilibrium. I ran as soon as I saw the tide but I was too late, he fell. Oddly enough one experience isnt enough for my son so here is the second attempt and this time I wasnt late!

Late Night Ritual

Alright, so ever since I bought my little girl the book "Fancy Nancy" (Best little girl books in the world!) and the new Tinkerbell movie, she is OBSESSED with being one or the other. (I had a friend of mine make her this cute little skirt.) So every night, (And it is usually late by the time I am done working and can spend time with her) she asks to either read Fancy Nancy, or watch Tinkerbell. And as if it isn't late enough when those things are done, afterwards she HAS to dress up like the Character. Tonight it was Fancy Nancy. So I asked her if she'd let me take pictures of her since I was dressing her up. She agreed...kind of. She found it rather restricting to not be able to "Fly around" how she wanted to. I said "Pose for me" and this is the pose I got...and then she was off flying. And this dear child of mine is STILL awake wanting to play and it's 10:30 at night. Thus the reason we call it the "late night ritual"

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Better Late....than Never

A year ago next month, my Grandma Martin passed away. As my parents and other aunt and uncles were cleaning out her home, they came across something that they didn't even know existed. She had been keeping a journal of her life. They had no idea that she had been doing this for them. They went and had copies made for themselves, and all of her grandchildren. It has been so fun to read everything she had kept for so long. I decided that as a parent, that my wife and I should keep a journal as well, so that our posterity, after we are long gone, then they will know what our lives were like. I thought that getting my Grandmothers journal was the neatest thing. So, I guess it really is better late than never to start something that will last from generation to generation.

Late: Real time

Actual time on the clock on my computer.

It's Late

It's late, Hubby's in bed, and where am I?


Taking pictures.

Definitely not my best picture, but I figured it was better to go ahead and post this than to be "late" and not post something until after the deadline. :-)

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My Late Valentine Surprise

My hubby had to work on Valentine's day, so I thought we were keeping it pretty low-key this year... besides, he had already taken me out on a date earlier that week. Boy was I wrong! Todd kidnapped me and took me on a day trip to Jackson Hole for a late Valentine. A whole day with my man (and without my kids)! It was amazing! Good music, good food, and a sleigh ride through the National Elk Reserve. The sky was so blue and it was nice and crisp, but not too cold! A perfect day!

So this picture doesn't actually have anything to do with late, but it was the best one I took today, and I didn't want to be late on the Late Challenge... lame! : )

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Late Night Reading

Lately, I've been having a hard time stopping when I'm reading a good book. So, the other night (while my husband slept beside me), I stayed up until 1:00am lounged against my pillow, a flashlight in hand, reading this novel late into the night. (I chose this picture because I liked the angle and light.) CC

Late for School

This is what our son woke up to this morning, a flat tire..so needless to say he was Late for school. He and his dad got out and fixed it so all is good. Man this was a tough topic but the pictures have been amazing!

Close Call

I really wanted to take this photo at the store... but I never did get there, so I played around with it in my bathroom. When I saw what the newest mission was, this popped into my head immediately. It also made me think of Mindy's Love in the Morning photo... what great inspiration!

When I was experimenting, I played with different depths of field and different angles and with the flash a little bit. My hubby kept insisting I use a tripod, but I was too lazy to get it out. CC.

Always late

I'm late in posting.
I'm late like one of the pictures below.
I'm late in finishing this baby quilt.

I really need to work on this!

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No.. I'm not pregnant! Just to clear it up. Now I'm sure a lot of people thought of this when they heard the word late, I just wanted to post the obvious! So this is for all you ladies out there, who worry about being "late"! Now, you can look at this two ways, it could be a good thing or a bad thing. For me it was a good thing, but right now I think it would be a bad thing! Ok... I changed the background to B&W in Photoshop (I guess I can't do without it after all) I really wanted to make just a few of the bright colors in the picture pop. The color one was nice but there was a lot in this picture and I wanted to make them all kind of go together, well and I like B&W. So here it is, my version of "late".
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Tick Tock... Don't Be Late

I know, I'm totally cheating... first of all, I picked the obvious thing to take a picture of, but I love my clock, and what better word to stick it with? Secondly, I put two pictures on. I can NOT decide... I like the feel of the first one and the lines of the second. So, deal with it. Scroll faster if you don't want to look at two. ;)

I always forget to put CC at the bottom of my posts, but I'm always open to suggestion... so if you see one of my posts without CC, just know I'm ready for the criticism any time... bring it on! :)

For Charlotte, and whoever else cares: first picture: f4.5, 1/13, ISO 200, focal length 38mm, no flash; second picture: f5.3, 1/6, ISO 200, 62mm, no flash

Up Early...Out Late

Here is a picture of the moon this morning, it is 6:55a CST. I am up early and off to work, and the moon is out late. I will probably also be late this morning to work. Oh well...hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Late Night Treat

This is my late night treat. I call it the diet Killer. Home made cookies and my favorite ice cream. I'm telling you this is the BEST treat ever. It's culver's "campfire smores". Chocolate ice cream with ribbons of marshmallow cream, slivers of chocolate and grahm cracker nuggets. That's the key ingredient. Not just chunks, perfect little nuggets that blend in with everything to make the perfect ice cream treat. Now- add the warm cozy blanket and it's heaven.

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A Late Valentine

My darling husband doesn't really believe in Valentine's Day. He feels that, since he's obligated to show affection, it makes it so he wants to less. However, we always do something nice around Valentine's. Today, a total surprise to me, a knock at the door. (Here's my other 'late'...I was still in pj's; in fact, I still am now.) A delivery man handed me this basket of flowers and wished me a good day. From my husband, with love.

Truth be told, I didn't try very hard on this photo. I took a couple different angles, but I'm a little under the weather, so this is what I could get out. At least I wasn't late getting it on here! ;)

CC

Felicia, Late

Daddy's Late
Today was discovery time at the library and this is Allston waiting for his daddy to get home from work. He was late and didn't make it home in time to go, but we took him to the zoo this afternoon to make up for it.
I like the washed out look even if it's not technicaly good.

Challenge: Late

I am pretty excited about this challenge word today....

LATE

Lots of meanings...and I am pretty excited to see what everyone comes up with!

There are lots of newcomers, so WELCOME!! If you are new and haven't done your self-portrait and intro yet, PLEASE DO!!! I know I would love to meet everyone!!

As always, pictures in by midnight on Thursday!!! :)