Week 19 in Pictures

Hello there!  I took an unexpected and unintentional week away from blogging.  I hadn't planned to take time off, it just sort of happened that way.  I was able to get several things accomplished which makes me feel good.  I hate it when things start to pile up around here.

We had lots of activity going on here last week also.  Our kitchen counter top was installed, Doug got new tires on my van, our dining room set came in so we picked it up, and Doug sold his truck.  And that all happened just on Friday!  

Last week I also attended a Tea and a Mother/Daughter luncheon.  I helped a friend with a crafty project, which put me in the mood to dig out my scrapbook stuff and do some scrapping (didn't actually happen though).  Alex went on his first field trip without me (my name didn't get picked in the drawing) and had a really good time.  And I had a photo shoot postponed twice - once because of weather and once because the little boy wasn't feeling well.  :(  We are rescheduled for this week, so here's hoping!

This week will also be pretty busy as we are preparing for our ladies' luncheon coming up this Saturday.  It is going to be fun!  I'm so looking forward to it!  Anyway, on to last week's pictures ...

{Sunday}

I had bought these hydrangeas a few days before and just got around to photographing them.

{Monday}

Rainy day.  So I took advantage and photographed some rain drops.  I love that you can see my purple Lupine flowers in the reflection.  Oh, and we saw a double rainbow today, but I didn't have my camera with me to capture it.  Darn!  I knew I should have grabbed it before we left the house.  :)

{Tuesday}

Alex had been wiggling and wiggling a bottom tooth all morning and it looked really ready to come out.  But he wanted to wait until he was at school to pull it out because the kids get this sweet little treasure box from the nurse when they lose a tooth at school.  Gotta love it when they know what they want and make it happen.  :)

{Wednesday}

Two double rainbows in one week!  Amazing!  The outer one is very faint, but it is definitely there.  And I was glad to have my camera on me this time.

{Thursday}

The reflector set I ordered came today so Keira helped me try it out.  I really need practice with indoor portraits.

{Friday}

As I said, Friday was a crazy, busy day.  The kids didn't have school, which I didn't realize when I scheduled the counter top installation.  It was all good though.  They stayed out of the way of the counter top guys.  And shortly after Doug sold his truck, the store where we ordered our dining room table and chairs from called to tell us they were in.  Thankfully we were able to get one more use out of the truck and go pick the set up.

{Saturday}

Keira and I spent the morning/early afternoon at my mother-in-law's Mother-Daughter banquet.  Then Doug and the boys wanted to go fishing in the evening since Doug got his license today.  I didn't get my license yet, so all I did was take pictures.  Doug caught all the fish, much to Nick's dismay.  Oh, and three Great Blue Herons flew over our heads before I had my camera out and ready.  :(

     

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Week 12 in Pictures

This past week has been nothing short of gorgeous weather wise.  It has felt like summer almost!  Lots of sunshine and temps in the upper 70s and I think we even got into the 80s one day.  What a great way to start spring!  This coming week, however, will snap us back to reality that this is March in Pennsylvania.  We are supposed to have temps in the 40s and 50s and get below freezing a couple nights.  Oh, how I hope everything that is sprouting doesn't die!  I can cover my flowers, but the trees are blooming also.

This last week was overall a good week.  I did lose a set of car/house keys on Thursday and haven't found them yet.  I have a second set, but I'm really hoping the other set turns up soon!  I never (until now) lose my keys, so this is a strange situation for me to be in.

I also got to try out the new dishwasher this week!  Doug finished hooking everything up and asked me to give it a trial run before the counter top gets installed just in case he needs to fix anything.  No need to twist my arm!  I've been anxiously awaiting the dishwasher since we started planning the new kitchen.  I tried it out on Tuesday ... and Wednesday ... and Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  :)  Let's just say soon I'll be wondering how I ever managed without one.  What a time saver!

Anyway, let's take a look at what I photographed this week, shall we?

{Sunday}

As usual, I woke up Sunday morning, opened the blinds to watch the birds enjoying the feeder in the back yard, only to be greeted by this instead ... the top of our feeder, bird seed all over the ground, and the rest of our feeder nowhere in sight.  We suspect the neighborhood black bear decided to have himself a midnight snack.  We did eventually find the rest of the feeder about 20 yards away near another tree.  But obviously it is beyond repair.  Darn bear.

{Monday}

Just a random photo of the bricks that are left from what used to be our chimney.  When we installed a new furnace and a/c a few years ago, we no longer needed a chimney.  But this small portion of it (filled in with cement so no one gets hurt) remains.  The kids like it because they can step up on it and peek in the living room window.

{Tuesday}

Happy first day of spring!  As I said, the weather has been tremendous and the earth is coming alive once again.  These blooms are on our maple tree (the same tree that houses the bird feeder that is no more).  Who would have thought all those gorgeous colors were hiding in there?

     

{Wednesday}


I showed another shot of this pie in my Scavenger Hunt, but this is the pie I made for my husband on his birthday ... coconut cream.  His favorite.  He and the boys enjoyed eating it.  Keira and I don't care for coconut, so we passed.  It is all gone now, so it must have been good.  :)


{Thursday}

I passed this flowering tree on my way back to try to find my keys.  I thought the keys could wait a little while, while I stopped to snap some photos of this gorgeous tree.  And I realize I already did a color bar photo, but I couldn't resist doing it with this photo also.

     

{Friday}

Yeah, and this one too.  :)  I think you'll be seeing a lot more color bar photos now that spring is here and I have interesting, colorful things to photograph once again.  This shrub is in my neighbor's yard, so I get to admire it every day.




{Saturday}


Alex had his last soccer game this morning (indoor soccer - winter league).  Each of the kids got presented with a medal.  His team lost their game (again!) but they had fun.  Alex tells me he wants to play baseball now.  Oh boy!  We'll have to see if we can work that out.


So that was my week.  What was yours like?  I hope you make this next one a great one!

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday 03.04.12

This week's items are Routine, Music, Technology, Show me your style, and Mismatch.

{routine}

Laundry is part of my routine.  Every. single. day.


{music}

When I know I will be sitting at my computer editing pictures, I will often turn on Pandora.  I love that I get to choose what genre of music I want to listen to.


{technology}

We are probably way behind the times as far as technology goes.  Yes, we have a couple laptops and we have a Wii.  And as you can see, we have 3 iPods.  However, we don't have a smart phone or any kind of a reader or iPad.  And as cool as it would be to have any of those things, we're pretty content with what we do have.  Most of the time anyway.  :)


{show me your style}

I'm sure I'm supposed to insert a photo of myself here in some way, but I didn't take the time this week to photograph myself.  Instead I give you this photo of my nephew who just finished basic training for the Marines.  He graduated on Friday and is home for about a week before he heads off to combat training.  And then some more training.  He matured a great deal in the three months he was gone.  And he was very patient with me while I photographed him in the snow.  :)


{mismatch}

Ashley and I had the same idea when it came to this prompt.  Although her photo is much better than mine.  These are my daughter's feet.  No, she doesn't usually have two different socks on, but she was willing to put these on to help me out for this prompt.


Be sure to head over to Ashley's to see more great Scavenger Hunt photos!
And if you'd like to play along for next week, the items to hunt down are:

1. Water
2. Light
3. Chocolate
4. Animal
5. Crowded

Have a great week!

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