Weeks 24, 25, & 26

My Kids and I

Last time at the lake for the summer! :(





Emery Sandwich!

Weeks 21, 22, and 23

My Kids and I

I'm having a really hard time keeping up with this, but I'm determined. I still have last week and this week's to download and post to be caught up. Hopefully one of these days I will be caught up again!





And Trevor must have took 20 pictures and this was the most in focus one...lol.

Weeks 18, 19, and 20

My Kids and I

Week 16 and 17

My Kids and I

Playing catch-up! These snapshots were all just taken with my p&s camera.

Two pictures taken one right after the other - do you see that look in his eyes in that first picture??? You can just see the wheels spinning...lol.

Week 15

My Kids and I

Week 14

My Kids and I

Week 13

My Kids and I

Week 12

My Kids and I

Week 10 and Week 11

My Kids and I

I forgot to post last weeks. I was just trying to do something a little different. I am holding Emery and Teagun is standing next to me.



And this one I totally messed up. I just set my camera down and had Teagun come over to give me a kiss to see if we were even going to be in the frame (taken with a remote) and then I went and checked it - looked good - so changed the settings and what do you know...he wouldn't come give me another kiss! So this is it!

Some Mother's Day Random Shots

I hope everyone enjoyed Mother's Day yesterday. We went and had a nice dinner with my mother-in-law. Here are some pictures we took.

Week 9's submission for My Kids and I



Playing around with a more aged/textured look.



Teagun and his grandma









No individual pictures with Teagun - I was lucky to get the one of the three of us. I actually had to sort of trick him and tell him we were going looking for bugs and then made a big circle in the yard so we were facing the camera! Mean mom! :)

Week 8

My Kids and I

Week 7

My Kids and I

Week 6

My Kids and I

Week 5

My Kids and I

Week 4

My Kids and I

Gotta love those baby thighs!

Week 3

My Kids and I

Me and My Kids - Week 2

My Kids and I - Week 1

On a photography message board I frequent, we are challenging ourselves to get in front of the camera since we are normally the ones behind the camera. The challenge is to get in front of the camera at least once a week for 52 weeks with your kids. This was my first week's picture. I LOVE the challenge already! So much fun!

Happy Mother's Day!!!

A quick post to wish all the Mother's out that a very special Happy Mother's Day! I hope everyone has a fabulous day!!!

The Price of Children

I just received this email and thought I would share it for all you with children yourself:

The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 for a middle income family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn't even touch college tuition. But $160,140 isn't so bad if you break it down. It translates into:
* $8,896.66 a year,
* $741.38 a month, or
* $171.08 a week.
* That's a mere $24.24 a day!
* Just over a dollar an hour.

Still, you might think the best financial advice is don't have children if you want to be "rich." Actually, it is just the opposite.

What do you get for your $160,140?
* Naming rights. First, middle, and last!
* Glimpses of God every day.
* Giggles under the covers every night.
* More love than your heart can hold.
* Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.
* Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies.
* A hand to hold, usually covered with jelly or chocolate.
* A partner for blowing bubbles, flying kites
* Someone to laugh yourself silly with, no matter what the boss said or how your stocks performed that day.

For $160,140, you never have to grow up. You get to:
* finger-paint,
* carve pumpkins,
* play hide-and-seek,
* catch lightning bugs, and
* never stop believing in Santa Claus.

You have an excuse to:
* keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh,
* watching Saturday morning cartoons,
* going to Disney movies, and
* wishing on stars.
* You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers under refrigerator magnets and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas, handprints set in clay for Mother's Day, and cards with backward letters for Father's Day.

For $160,140, there is no greater bang for your buck. You get to be a
hero just for:
* retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof,
* taking the training wheels off a bike,
* removing a splinter,
* filling a wading pool,
* coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs, and coaching a baseball team that never wins but always gets treated to ice cream regardless.

You get a front row seat to history to witness the:
* first step,
* first word,
* first bra,
* first date, and
* first time behind the wheel.

You get to be immortal. You get another branch added to your family tree, and if you're lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren and great grandchildren. You get an education in psychology, nursing, criminal justice, communications, and human sexuality that no college can match. In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there under God. You have all the power to heal a boo-boo, scare away the monsters under the bed, patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever, and love them without limits. So one day they will, like you, love without counting the cost. That is quite a deal for the price!!!!!!!

Love & enjoy your children & grandchildren!!!!!!!