Jumping Pix

While my daughter was home for her visit we spent some time in Fort Worth with a few of her friends. Jumping pix are fun to capture, sometimes can be a challenge. Here are just a couple of the better ones, the girls got some good air, I was impressed.

I love this one. This is a real working clock at the main entry at the Botanical Gardens. They change the flowers out for the seasons. These are shades of purple pansies.

Star Magnolias

Here it is Mid Feb. and here in Texas we have blooms already...at least until the next freeze!

The Star Magnolias at the Botanical Gardens were beautiful. Small delicate blooms in shades of pink and white, gorgeous...

Long Time No Post....

I've been a bad blogger as of late....

Last week my daughter was in from Kansas for a short visit. We had such a great time. These are just a few pix from one of our days in Fort Worth while she was here. On this day we visited the Botanical Gardens in Fort Worth, one of our favorite spots. We took along Sara, one of Kimmy's friends.

Even in the winter the Botanical Gardens are beautiful. I was surprised to see a few things in bloom already.

We always take some bread to feed the fish and turtles at the pond.

This little guy wanted in on some of that bread too. When I turned around he was setting about 3 feet from me on the ground just looking up at me...

So I had to share.

Sara is expecting in May, she is starting to get the belly bump. In a few months we will do a maternity shoot.

Cowboy's New Stadium

The Cowboy's new stadium is nearly done. My husband and I have been watching the progress of the new one for some time now. It will be completed this summer. Here are a few pix I took a few weeks ago. I will clear up this, we may have lived in Texas now for over 20 years but we still are Chicago Bear Fans! The only time we have seen the Cowboy's play in person was several years ago when they played....you guessed it.....the Bears! That being said, this stadium really is awesome.

Sentimental Painting

Here is a picture of a painting my son in California painted and sent me for Christmas. I knew what it was before I finished tearing the bubble wrap off of it. It is very sentimental to me. I had taken a picture years ago of a shed at sunset on my parents farm and this is Jeremy's take on it. I love it and will cherish it always. I miss when we go back to Illinois not being able to walk around the farm...I think I will always miss it. This is the picture I took.

I got this digital ornament from my stepkids, so neat it holds 60 images and can be directly hooked in to the computer with a USB cord or can run off batteries to hang on the tree. Really a cool gift!

2008 ....gone in a flash!

As I was going through the images of this past year I thought about how important photographs are. How they represent a moment of our life. A life that is not posed and perfect, but a snapshot of who we really are...at that very moment.

I love to capture the emotions and moments that in an instant are gone....and when we look back on the images we see more than just who or what the image is of....but to really see that moment, and what it represents in our life. Not just the smiles but that little pout on a child's face, a tear of happiness on the cheek of a new bride or that soft little curl of hair on a babies neck. These and so many more are the things I don't want to forget...these images are our memories. Proof that we were here........

Miss Pebbles

I read somewhere that cats sleep up to 20 hours a day. What a life! I found Pebbs sleeping on my bed the other day and I thought how cute she looked. I grabbed my camera and clicked off a few pix, she didn't make a move....not a twitch. It would be nice to sleep so soundly.

The last two images was processed with an action called "polaroid transfer"

A Late Christmas...

New Years Day was also the day we opened gifts with our grand daughter Bailey. They came in for a visit and arrived New Years Eve. Here are just a few pix of that evening.

This is Megan and Chris, while in Illinois for Thanksgiving, Bailey and I went out and took some pix.....I surprised her parents with a storyboard of four of the pix we took. I loved how it turned out and have to print one for us. Now I have to work on Ethan and Grace so I can have storyboards of all the grand kids.

Peeps

My Peeps!

Thanks Kimmy, they were delicious!

Can't wait for the Easter Peeps!

Radar Dog

This has been a tough year for Radar. He is nearly 10 now and last summer his behavior began changing in odd ways. I asked the vet if dogs get senile. We learned in a since they do. We put Radar on a medicine the vet recommended and within two weeks many of the odd behaviors were nearly gone. Radars hips have been an issue and as of late we have been catching him on the sofa in the living room. He was never really one to get on the furniture but I know how bad his hips bother him and what a comfort he must feel on the soft sofa. I really don't have the heart to get on him for this. I think he knows I'm a softy on this issue.

Radar has really gotten gray (white) over the past few years.

He is such a sweet dog.

He looks to comfortable to make him move...
I laughed when I came upon this shot, he yawned just as I snapped the pix.
He looks like a mad dog without the foaming mouth.

Behind on Blogging......

I'm behind on blogging, I since New Years Day I really haven't even taking many pix....one here and there.....I need to take care of that!
Here are a few pix from New Years Day. My daughter Kimmy tried to get a kick ball game rounded up but just couldn't find enough players whose head wouldn't explode when they kicked the ball...haha. Chris and I took Bailey out to watch the game, but ended up kicking some balls around since 6 people don't make a good match for a game. We had fun anyway and the weather was beautiful for January 1.

Happy New Years - 2009!

New Years Eve 2008

Papa and Bailey playing Wii Baseball

Another New Years together

Wouldn't have it any other way (pix from Kimmy)

Kimmy & Bailey - Party Time (pix from Kimmy)

Playing Apples to Apples

Sara and Kimmy (pix from Kimmy)

Sara and Dax (first new years as a married couple)

Oh and Baby Andress will make an appearance sometime in May.

(pix from Kimmy)

Megan - She won't likely forget the next morning too soon.

May this next year bring us all a lot of happiness and peace.