April 11 A Girl

Today Ashlea finally did her oral book report. She did pretty well, no "ummmm" or freezing up. She has to get used to looking up though. Something to stride for.



By the way, that's MY sweater she's wearing! The girl isn't 11 yet!

Day 10, April 10

I had the chance to wander the house before the kids got home and took a couple of diffrent shots with the animals. Today's picture is Venus sun bathing. Notice you can actually make out the squares in the window screen.

Day 9

I wandered the house to find a good shot. I'm uploading the 2 most promising to my photobucket and will then force myself to choose one. It's between our kitten Aphrodite or #3's teddy bear shoved behind her headboard looking all cute. Hmmmm. Let's see, the kitten (10 months) has pet eye and the bear doesn't. What to do, what to do?


Ok, I TRIED to take the picture without the flash and the light in the bathroom where she was sitting just sucks so much that she looked golden and you totally missed her pretty coloring. The option of "redeye" make THIS happen. *sigh* My pets constantly look possessed.



I've been kicking a killer headache around all day. The kids just don't grasp, "please don't scream, my head hurts so much I'm nauseous." The snots.

Easter 4/8

#3 and #4 outside in spite of the chill - in the 30s! - blowing bubbles. I like the light and the action. I was tempted to crop it down for the best view as I would if I were printing it out but I decided since this challenge is about learning to take a better picture to leave it as it was.

Sporty Saturday

A lot went on for us on Saturday. Basketball for #2, a party for #3, a visit to my parent's for #4 so he didn't have to stay home with #1.... I attended the basketball game to be there for Don and #2. My MIL, FIL and BIL were all there as well. I know that Don and #2 both were glad they came.
The boys are a 7th grade team and because of a mix up by the man in charge of the 3 BSV Chaos teams he only had 1 of the 2 teams registered to play in the tourney. There was some shuffling done and the red team (#2's) was accommodated by being slotted to play against 2 8th grade teams. They held their own in the first game and did very well all things considered. They only lost by 6. However the 2nd game was a spanking for the poor kids.
Even though I could have chosen to go with a picture of the egg dying for today's picture I chose this one. It's blurry and whatnot. I am very frustrated with my basketball shots. I want to learn to do a better job with them (any suggestions would be welcome!) and I want to use this picture as my baseline.

Best dishes 4/6

Here are my beautiful best dishes, rose colored glass because I never did see the sense in china that I would be afraid to use because I might break it. They were packed for 9 years before they found a home in our first home 4 years ago. And we have used them once. *sigh*

SNOW! 4/5

They told us it would happen and it did.

This is a bush by my front door.