Photo Challenge: Excitement

This weeks challenge is excitement.  I had to stop and think about this one because with so much going on and so many firsts there is a lot of excitement in our house.  But I have to say that I chose O has my subject matter for this challenge.

This is O's first fish.  He came home talking about it, he was so excited.  Now this is a big deal in a family that lives on the water.  The boy could not stop talking about this fish. 

The Paper Mama photo challenge - Flower

 So I went back into my files to find this one.  It is not the one I had in mind but I kind of like it.  Look how little O was.  He has always been a good helper.

The Paper Mama photo challenge: Orange

   Ok when I first saw this challenge a couple of weeks ago I though great O's favorite color is orange this will be no problem finding a picture.  O has so many things that are orange, from his clothing to a chair.  So these last couple of weeks I have made a point to take pictures when I see him in orange or around something orange.  I did not go out of my way to take the pictures, they are just pictures or our daily lives and what was going on at that very minute. 
    Well I don't think I expected to sit down on this rainy day to look for an orange picture and to find so many that I liked.

Here is the first one that I as of the other week I was going to use:

It is O and our neighbor.  They play ball or power wheels every night after dinner.  Then we make snow cones and they stand in our front yard and eat them.  I thought it was great that they both were wearing orange.

Then I thought I would use this picture instead:

This is one of O's favorite shirts and he is telling me about it.  Well he is telling the entire neighborhood about it.  This is so my little boy I thought it would be good.  Well until I found this one:

I love little cloth diaper butts and this one happen to be orange.  I also thought that I have not used a lot of pictures of Little B.  But this was not the one.  I decided on this one:

I love the fat rollie pollie legs and the chubby cheeks. This picture just shows all the chubby my Little B has and I love it!  So this is the one, even though it is not where I started ,and I do love all my orange pictures, this is the one I am entering.

Before/After blog hop

  Starting this blog has been a learning experience. But it has also reminded me of some of the things that I enjoy doing that I have not done in a while, such as photography.  I have not been into editing and taking pictures since my second year of undergrad.  It has made me really look at the world around me for more inspiration and to see things from different points of view. 
     This blog has allowed me to meet many different people from all over the world.  It has allowed me to learn things that I don't think I would have learned if I had not started this.  In this short period of time I have grown as a person and this blog has been part of that growth.

So one of my new things I enjoy working on is editing pictures.  I am not going to say that I am good at it, but I can say it is fun.

Little B on one of our trips down town this week for ice cream.

Before:

After:

Yellow House Photo challenge - On the Road

  I have been getting into photo challenges.  I just seem to find them fun and I find myself loving takeing pictures and lots of them.  I have also been playing around with editing them.  All of this I have not done in years.  Well I have been taking lots of pictures since O was born but not editing them and then sharing, so this has been fun.  Here is my pick for "On the Road"

He is talking on his old cell phone to I am not sure who. 

Shutter love Tuesday- Vacations

     This year we hit the beach. I don't love the beach but my husband does so the last couple of years the beach has been I place to vacation.  Now he does compromise and we have rented a place that is farther down the beach away from some of the crowds so it has been fun.  So a picture of both boys sitting on top of O's sand castle.

I will have to say that I do love the pictures at the beach.  The boys had a great time which is what made my trip.

Paper Mama Photo challenge

  The paper mama is one of the blogs that I follow and love reading and looking at her great pictures.  In high school and even in college I loved taking photography classes and took some great pictures.  But I never got a digital camera that I like and as time went on all I have is my point and shot.  Discovering photo challenges has been fun and has made me want a new camera but that is not going to happen any time soon.  So editing my pictures has become one of the new things I am going to work on.  Then I will enter away just for fun.  Here is this weeks entry for water.

Want to join in on the photo fun?  Stop by The paper mama

Before and After blog hops

I am going to try and do some blog hopping. Now in this process I have found many cool sites and my newest one has the before and After blog hop. So he we go.

Before:

After:

Don't forget to check out my first review and giveaway for Zoodles. It is a great site for anyone with little ones. 
And some other of my favorite sites to read:

Buddies

This weeks photo challenge over at The paper Mama is buddies.

     It was just yesterday that I was writing about my two boys and how they are learning to play together.  Little B is just getting to the point that he is interested in toys and this has been so much fun for O because he can not interact with him and I think he loves it.  I hope they will be buddies as the grow up, they have a good start. 

     We have a night time routine that we follow nightly and fitting Little B in has been pretty easy.  One thing that I did not expect to be part of our routine is something we call "Two Boys in a Bed".  It is simply that.  Right be for hugs, kisses and lights out O climbs in his bed and we lay Little B in bed with him.  Then we just talk or I sing silly, made up songs about two boys in a bed to them.  The best part, they both seem to love it.  Little B does not cry he just lays there and smiles, and looks around.  I find that he looks at O a lot more now.  O just loves it.  He will kiss and hug Little B and sing with me.  It is great. I can't wait to take more pictures of my two boys showing how they are best buddies.

Trendy Treehouse Shutter love Tuesday

I follow a blog that had a link to this photo blog and it just looked fun.  I love taking pictures and back in the day I had a really good camera to take pictures with, but I now I just deal with what I have and do the best I can.  This week the theme is faces.  I had to dig way back into O's pictures to find this one.  When I saw the theme for the week I had two pictures in mind.  I went with this one.

It is one of my favorites!

Th Paper Mamma Phot Challenge

This weeks challenge is Action.

I took this picture at the beach just last month.  O and his daddy had just finish digging a big hole.  He was running to go jump into it.  This kept him occupied for about 20 minutes then the hole became a place to drive his trucks. 

Check all the photos out:

Sweet sleeping funny face

One of the  blogs I follow as started a sweet sleeping face hop so that we can look at all of the sweet sleeping faces.  As a mom of a 3 month old sleep is important and what I want my child to do, well I would like my three year old to sleep also and at the same time as the 3 month old, but once they are alseep they are just so sweet.  So I chose to share this picture of B sleeping in his swing.  It is not so much his face that makes me laugh as it is his hair.

He is just one month old here and for the time being the swing was the place he like to sleep.

If you would like to joint and share some sweet sleeping faces here is the link.