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You Capture: Fun

Jun 112010

This week Elle was out riding bikes with a neighbor. This is the first summer the kids have had neighborhood friends. It is so nice to hear them running back and forth from each others houses. We lived in the country with no close neighbors, save the grandparents, for the first four years of Elle’s life. Now she is a big five and a half year old running with the gang!

Still she has her sense of style as noted in this picture. Notice how the camo pants set off the purple and pink just so, with her summer dress blowing in the wind. At least she is wearing shoes now, even if they are rain boots!

Check out more You Capture at I Should Be Folding Laundry. Next weeks theme is Water. I should get some good shots at King’s Island this weekend.

Photo Credit: Mandy W. 2010

You Capture: Spring

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May 062010

Hubby getting rid of the winter-damaged limbs.

Spring makes for great photo opportunities. Every day is full of like and color, even if it is rainy colors. We have had such a great time getting back outside again. The kids are happier, more content and love to run, run, run. How great is that? I have even played a few rounds of tether-ball recently. you have no idea how much energy that game takes until you play it.

For more You Capture check out I should Be Folding Laundry . Happy Spring everyone!

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Elle climbing a tree. She doesn't need help this year!

Enu with some barn kittens the kids found.

You Capture: A Moment

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Mar 252010

IMGP59972 This week Meg is in her second children’s theater production. They are preforming Suessical Musical and it looks to be a really great production! They have all worked hard, and I must say that Meg is going to be the best Hairdresser Who there every was!

Taking some pictures of her, I realized that it will only be a few more years of her needing me to put on her makeup. Granted this is stage makeup and quite heavy, but soon enough she will be putting makeup on daily and fussing over such things. IMGP5996 IMGP59801 I feel like I got a glimpse into the future the moment she asked to put on her mascara by herself. Ten isn’t that old is it? I still have time? Right?!

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Photo Credits: Mandy W.

You Capture: Real Life

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Nov 132009

This weeks “You Capture” theme is Real Life. I was trying to decide between two pictures. One was of a sticky eyeball toy that I found on one of my baseboards, because it didn’t phase me at all to see it there. Only in a house full of four kids would an eyeball looking at you not cause panic. The picture showed to much floor board dirt though…. The other photo was this one:

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One of these days I’ll catch up with my own laundry and not just the kids’ and Hubby’s! Next weeks challenge is Sunrise/Sunset. I wonder if that means I have to get up early? The neighbors will know I’m crazy now when they see me outside in my pajamas taking pictures.

Photo Mandy W. 2009

You Capture: Nail Polish is Therapy

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Nov 062009

Yesterday was a hard day for my Mita. Everyone has hard days of course, but some of us have a not-so-happy past that likes to rear it’s ugly head on especially bad days. These hard days are becoming fewer and farther in between, but still are HARD.

My Mita like sparkly things, chap-stick, lipgloss and glitter. She is a girly-girl for sure. I ‘ve never been accused of being a girly-girl I must say. When she was upset I rocked her, hugged her, told her how much we loved her. All of that did make an impact and she did relax and go off to play with her sisters. She was going to be okay.

Then, I let her use my nail polish. The girls were giving Hubby and I a spa treatment. It sounds nice, and is very sweet, but it ends up being pure torture with nail brushes, cold hands and ice cold wet wash rags. We endure it because watching all four of them work so hard together to make us happy is priceless and something so beautiful to watch.

Mita came alive with the nail polish, she was smiling happy, huggy and lovey. It clearly made her happy. I started to re-think my “age-appropriate” colors and just marveled at how much a bit of polish could bring out the best in her. I let them all paint their nails and paint my toe-nails and went to bed thinking I should buy more girly things for my Mita.

Then I woke up and saw glittering lip gloss all over the hall closet door. It reminded me why I limit such beauty products. So we are not going to turn our home into a sparkly, make over house as I dreamed of last night. But I did let them go to school with painted nails that look less than perfect and are not age-appropriate. Oh well! The smiles are worth it!

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Here is my You Capture this week. I Should Be Folding Laundry had a Photographer’s Choice this week, I thought I’d show you these beautifully painted nails for my photo!

Photo Credit Mandy W. 2009

You Capture: Autumn

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Oct 292009

Each week the blog “I Should Be Folding Laundry” hosts a different topic for us to capture in photos. This week’s theme is Autumn, and have I got a few pictures to share! Granted I am not a professional photographer like FireMom, but I still like pictures!