Bittersweet, That's Life

Finally back from my vacation which was sweet and came home to this in the sink which is obviously not. Just kind of sealed the reality was back in full swing.

I will do a make up for the more challenge as well cus I had it taken just no internet to post it. I call this "More Rum" or well in her case more lollipops.

WINNERS: More

Good morning! I hope you all had wonderful weekends full of fun and happiness. I know I did. I'm pretty sure a lot of you did, too, because we didn't have very many people vote, but that's okay.

Most fun goes to Katy with her birthday cake. She was the hands-down winner for this category!

The votes for best overall were pretty spread out, but Mindy won this category with her beautiful newborn photo.

Congrats ladies! Stick around for a tutorial later in the day!

VOTING: More

Good morning, and welcome to today's edition of VOTING! Great submissions by everyone. I'm tempted to choose "yummiest" as a voting category today because we had a lot of food-related submissions, but it leaves too many people out of the running. Here's what we've got instead:

Most fun
Best overall
Shoutouts


AprilF and Teryn won the last challenge, so let's give everyone else a chance this time. Get your votes in by midnight, and have a fabulous Memorial Day!

More: Can't wait to have more

I'm noticing a trend. There's been lots of food this challenge. I've got more (no pun intended).

Saturday was my husband's birthday. He hates that I do anything for it, but I made a special cake anyway. It turned out that he was actually really looking forward to eating it, and once he did, he couldn't wait to have more. Between the two of us other friends, the cake is already gone, but it was pretty yummy.

I actually am really not satisfied with this picture as a picture. I didn't really like much of anything I took this time, but this is pretty good (and fun) of my husband, who hates having his picture taken.

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(Oh, and here's the recipe if you want it...I don't like cake at all, and I like chocolate cake even less, but this was excellent: Root Beer Float Cake)

One More Day

Some days I wish that being a 'Mom' as a job didn't entail cleaning, errands, chores, things to do other than just playing with my kids, but unfortunately life doesn't happen like that. Life is messy, time is always running out, and good intentions often fall by the way side.

This challenge really got me thinking. If I could have more of something, what would it be? The words to the Diamond Rio song, 'One More Day' came to mind.
I think the one thing that I truly would want more of, is more time with my sweet family. .

This picture is taken at sunset just as a storm was rolling in. .
One more day in the books.

More Time with my girls

It's only 9:00 on the west coast so I hope that I am in time for posting. We have been so busy all weekend and I didn't get out and do some photography like I wanted to but I knew my girls were coming for Sunday dinner tonight. I always want to spent more time with them so my photo shoot was all about them. They are all grown up now and live away from home so I love having as much time as I can with them. Missing from this picture is our oldest daughter who lives in Hawaii.

More photos in one

I decided to use this challenge to learn to do something that I have wanted to do for a long time: panoramas. This is two photos stiched together with Arcsoft Panorama software. It was so easy to do, I can't believe I didn't try it sooner!

22 mm, F 16, 1/60 sec, ISO 200

For choose your challenge, I did a challenge that I missed earlier: vintage. This is my friend's antique dresser that has been repainted red. I love the colors and the drawer pulls. I can't decide if this photo would be better with more of the pulls in focus or not.

50 mm, F 4.8, 1/50 sec, ISO 200

CC please.

More water

Everything in my yard needs more water than I seem to be able to give. It's ok though because the warm weather is worth the work. We got a nice spring shower today so I didn't have to water anything except my neighbors flowers that are under their car port (they are away on vacation).

This picture is of the water spewing out the the faucet outside in my flower bed. I love the colors and the look of the water. I played with it a lot in photoshop in filter galleries and I can't remember exactly what I did. I know I sharpened it and added contrast.

More Old Stuff

I love old farm equipment. You probably already know this. Today we visited with some great friends of ours and they live on a huge farm full of cool old stuff. It was a great day.

f/1.8, 1/1000, ISO 200

More Sand Please!

Give me more Beaches to relax on!

set-(f5.6, ISO 100)

P.S.-Border, Sig, Crop.

~More than meets the eye~

I love these old places that you pull up to hesitantly..hoping not to disturb anyone, hop out of the car..camera in hand and slowly look into the broken windows...and find......treasure!!! I find such joy in finding these little forgotten momentos of the past...I always wonder why anyone would leave stuff like this behind.

I want s'mores!

Like every other family in the valley, we decided to go camping for Memorial Day weekend... and it was worth all the work (and coming home early because my kiddos had the pukes!) because of this:

Perfectly toasted, golden mello perfection! My hubby is a genius when it comes to s'mores! And I want MORE s'mores!

I loved the fire in this shot! Edited in Photoshop with the Vintage action (that's right, I finally took the time to figure out actions, and I'm in L-O-V-E!)

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***Update*** I've just noticed that when you click on other people's pictures they get bigger, but mine DON'T! Any ideas why and how to fix it?!? Thanks!

Heaven Help Me

I want MORE babies!! Maybe I better not do these newborn photo shoots anymore...

My friend just adopted a beautiful baby boy, and they couldn't be happier! They got the call on Monday evening, and he was born Wednesday morning. 5 lbs. 14 oz., and sweeter than sweet!

More Popcorn, Please

50mm, f/4.5, 1/60, ISO100

4 kids with only 2 popcorn holders results in a hearing a chorus of "Mo-Mo" with an occasional "Peeese"

one MORE year!

I was Thrilled about today's challenge word! We threw Ava's 2nd Birthday Pool Party Bonanza today and I was SURE it would be full of MORE, MORE, MORE situations.... and I was right! More ice cream, More cupcakes, More presents, More FUN- I was in "MORE-Utopia"!!!

But this was the picture I decided on... just the simple cake shot (with WAY MORE candles than a two year old requires). This little personal cake for Ava-Lou was "more" than she wanted, only a couple of dainty-ish bites taken out- but then again, she was probably full from the three candles she ate. Completely. Gobbled. Down.

More, Please!

More candid than otherwise...and, really, there was no 'please' involved; this face and the accompanying grunt were definitely a demand. My favorite thing, other than her expression, is her fist clenched in the corner. She was ready for her turn at the milkshake!

Winners and a new challenge

Good morning everyone, and happy Memorial Day weekend!!

The votes are in, and AprilF won best bokeh hands down with her stacked rocks.

Best overall goes to Teryn, with her waterfall in motion.

Great job ladies!

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I am also bringing you your new challenge today. The word is MORE. Have fun with it, and please post challenges by tomorrow night!