I Heart Faces Week 8-entry

This is my I Heart Faces entry for Week 8....Messy Faces.

This was taken a year ago with a point and shoot. It fits the week's theme perfectly and I just love this pic of my then, 4 year-old son Matthew.

Hannah turns 10!

My firstborn turned 10 years old yesterday. We celebrated tonight.

She got some money from her grandparents for an iPod and some music to load onto it. We got her an electric razor.

Instead of a cake, she requested "dirt cups". I concocted some flower pots layered with chocolate cake, thin mint ice cream, and topped with crushed fudge filled oreos. Oh, and a gummy worm or two mixed in. They weren't the most attractive things to eat, but they tasted good:)

Happy Birthday Sweetheart!

Fix-It Friday #4

This Silly Girl is the Fix It Friday challenge pic this week. This is the SOOC shot.

I edited it using Picnik.

Step #1

I used the blemish remover to remove the scratch on her forehead. (I do this on my kids too.)

Step #2

I changed to a sepia tone, using a dark cream color.

Step #3

I added a vignette around the edges. I adjusted so it wasn't so sharp and overpowering.

Step #4

I sharpened it a tad to bring out her eyes.

I Heart Faces week 7-Adult entry

This is my entry for the "Adult" category.

I recently enlisted my Father to teach my kids about gun safety. I love this photo. I snapped it as we were talking......

I Heart Faces week 7-Kids entry

This is my entry for week 7 of the I Heart Faces photo contest in the "Kids" category.

This week's theme is B & W.

Come join the fun and leave me a comment so that I can make sure and see your photo!

Fun Saturday

Today we set out to do some geocaches. We haven't been geocaching since I was 5 months pregnant with Hailey, so about 2 years.

The first one was a quick snag at a bowling alley near our house. It was in a magnetic key holder on a lightpole in the parking lot.

Our second one was at a residence. It was hidden in one of their bushes near the sidewalk. We snagged a travel bug there as well. We intend on moving him a little West in a couple of weeks.

Third cache was at an old cemetary. We had to jump the fence because there was too much snow to go through the gate. We couldn't find it. Too much snow. ::snort::

Fourth cache was on a hiking trail. We pulled up to the trailhead and decided that there was too much snow to hike the 1/2 mile. But, Hannah spotted a moose! I stalked him for about 20 mins or so. He was up on a ridge so I wasn't too close. I did have a funny moment though where he started kindof running and so I started running back to the car. Turns out he was running with, not towards me. I was having images of being slapped around and knocked over by a moose though as I was running. (g) I'm sure I provided some entertainment for Michael and the kids:)

After we quit harassing the moose we were headed home and spotted some deer going down into a valley. We pulled over and I was able to get a couple of pictures. We could see where they were going into a residential area on the other side of the valley so we drove over there and stalked them some more....

Some of the people lay out corn for the deer. We got to see about 10 of them just strolling through the neighborhood eating dinner.

It was a fun day.

Swagbucks

Have you heard of Swagbucks?
Moneysavingmom has mentioned it on her blog a few times and I finally decided to join today. Basically it's a search engine that you use when surfing the web. They reward you with swagbucks and then you redeem them for merchandise or giftcards. I figured I might as well earn something for all the surfing that I do!
You can sign up here if you're interested.

Meet.

Sony.

Michael completely spoiled me for our anniversary. I have been wanting a nice

camera for a few years now but it was just never a priority. I started saving birthday/Christmas money for it this last Christmas but hadn't gotten too far yet. Well, Circut City is going out of business and liquidating and our anniversary was coming....Michael decided that he needed to get me my camera. I protested a little (really!), but he had his mind made up. I had a chance to break it in last week on our roadtrip. And I must say, I'm in love.....:)

I heart faces

I came across this blog today and thought it'd be fun to participate!

This week's theme is Wonder.

If you want to participate visit I Heart Faces.

Rub-a-dub-dub

Some pics of Hailey in the tub!

Hailey got a haircut.

I finally got tired of Hailey's hair being in her face. I'd put it up in hairbands but she was constantly pulling them out so I decided to finally cut it today.

Before

After
What do you think?
P.S. She's not unhappy about her hair. She was tired of me taking her picture.

Yearly dental visit

Last week the kids visited the dentist. Our new dentist has an ocean theme to the whole office.

A pirate ship for the kids to play on in the waiting room.

Saltwater aquariums in the hallway.

The boys patiently waiting for the dentist to come look at their teeth.

Hailey, cautiously taking it all in.

Enjoying her new toothbrush on the way home.

Some pics from our trip

Hailey promptly got sleepy and took a nap once we hit the road.

We took a potty break somewhere on Snoqualmie pass. These were the gnomes across the street from the potty. Someday I'll own a gnome and park him next to my front door.

The Seattle skyline at sunset.

Safeco Field. Home of the Seattle Mariners. I couldn't get a good enough shot of Qwest Field home of the Seahawks. Hubby will be bummed.