Friday, May 27, 2011

Happy Birthday, Tyler

May 18, 2011

18 years ago today, my husband had a son.  One of my favorite pictures of them together.

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H A P P Y
B I R T H D A Y
T Y L E R

One of the most beautiful places

May 17, 2011


I could seriously wake up every morning and have a smile on my face all day long if I woke up and saw this out my window...there are some really lucky people out there - and if you ever get a lazy Sunday - Middleburg, VA is a beautiful place to visit.


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Motorcycle Man

May 16, 2011

Getting ready for the big Memorial Day ride this upcoming holiday weekend.  He's super excited.



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Abi - Animal whisperer

May 15, 2011






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...a great time was had by all.  I could just follow her around all day...and she'd humor me with a smile.

Poor Tom Turkey's Status

May 14, 2011

From our observation - still single.




The peacock's toes

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...but not lonely.  Many friends throughout the farm.  This is one of my favorite places - you can get right up close to the animals...and it was empty once again - we had it all to ourselves.

Nutcracker

May 13, 2011

Well, unfortunately, I've been locked out of my blog for awhile.  There was a problem with the site when I went back to try and catch up on my blogs - because this daily post is kind of hard to keep up with now that I have to share a computer with a three year old, a seven year old, a husband and work!  I have much catching up to do - but many, MANY things to share.  We have been having a wonderful Spring.  This day, I share one of my daughter at her Nutcracker performance.  She is such a talented ballerina.

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...and so pretty...

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Poor Tom Turkey

May 11, 2011

I am so looking forward to the photo adventure we are going on this weekend that I am seem to be wanting to save all my posts for that!  Last year, around this time, Auggie had a Girl Scout activity out in Middleburg, VA.  Abi and I spent the day out there discovering what was around and about in Middleburg.  You could easily fall in love with the place.  We got lost a couple times found a run down carriage house, some great fields to run in and we found this fabulous farm.  I guess it's more popular in the fall when they have a huge corn maize for the kids.  There was this sad old turkey there that kept gobbling for his mate that had been eaten by some wild animal the week before...they said all they found were feathers.  He was very approachable and we got pretty close...but he just kept gobbling away.  Turkey's don't typically mate for life, but these two seemed to be the only two around.



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Hopefully Abi will put up with me as we travel around!

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Project J.

May 10, 2011

Now that I've been able to catch up on on my pre-Mother's Day posts (which I had to hold back on because of the surprise element I was trying to capture with the mom's) - this is the latest photography project I'm working on.  I'll call it Project J.  That shouldn't give to much info - but enough to keep your interest captured.  Mine surely was.

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Catching up...

May 9, 2011

Almost caught up.  I don't know how I let myself get this far behind!  I hope you've enjoyed catching up on the latest blogs.  Lots going on here - on a daily basis.  Trying to get loose ends tied up and wrap up plans for the rest of Spring and the Summer.  Anxious to get to all the things that warmer days bring; fish fry's, farm visits and the end of school.  It will be nice not to have to rush in the mornings for awhile...unless its to get somewhere pretty and fun!

The garden is almost ready to plant:

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The kids each picked something to plant and watch grow.  We have

Pinwheel Mix Zinnia's, 
Crackerjack Marigold's, 
Sweet Corn; peaches and cream hybrid (a bi-colored favorite), 
Star of Yelta Morning Glory, 
long, thin cayenne pepper (hot), 
Melting Sugar Snow Peas (which are doing REALLY well), 
Giant Morning Glory's and 
red cherry, large fruited tomatoes...

and more seeds SOMEWHERE!

Our dream is to one day live on a farm.  The kids think I can handle all the work.

Mother's Day

May 8, 2011

Because it's the Mother's Day post - you all know how I hate to post pictures of myself...would much rather be behind the camera!!!  For my girls;

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They Grow up So Fast

May 7, 2011

More from our Calvert Cliff's adventure...





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Exploring

May 6, 2011

Through the eyes of a three year old - everything is new.




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Seth

May 5, 2011








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SETH

Silly
Energy
Tireless
Happy

Lissete

May 4, 2011





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It really should be a crime to be this cute.

Nathallie Anne

May 3, 2011

The newest addition to our playtime group...and a bit from our attempted Old Time Photo Shoot...which we will have to attempt again this summer because it was really fun.




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