You Capture: FUN!

The girls were out of school for spring break last week. Unfortunately, it rained most of the week. We played some board games and card games:

Oh and I got a new cell phone...which is fun for mommy! All these pictures are taken with my new phone. I'm trying to get used to it. It has some fun new features built into the camera, though. This one is fun:

This weekend we went to Exploration Place for the GPS Geocaching exhibit. The girls had a lot of fun. There was an indoor and outdoor part of the exhibit:

Usually I try to take my YouCapture pictures with my SLR but I didn't have it with me and I was playing with my new phone a lot so...cell phone pictures it is. :)

YouCapture: Still Life

The theme this week was Still Life. I'm still doing my 366days of photos project and here are a couple still life photos...





Reading a book in the waiting room at the doctor's office:

This is a ceramic tea set the girls got for Christmas...they loved painting it. Here was the finished product:

And this is how we practice Ashlyn's spelling words:

YouCapture: Color

I am all about organizing my house lately. Especially since finding pinterest...it has just gotten me in the mood to organize. I had to get a new external hard drive on amazon.com the other day and I ran across this gift wrap organizer and thought it would be handy to have. Mom and I got a lot of gift wrap stuff on clearance after Christmas and it was mostly just thrown on a shelf above my washer and dryer...and it kept falling off. So...voila! Now it stays in the bag!

Anyway...I was taking some pictures for my 366days project and I thought all the wrapping paper and bows made for good "color" photos.

(Disclaimer: This isn't a review...and I bought the bag myself).

You Capture: Top 10 of 2011

You Capture is a weekly blog meme centered around photography. It's one of my favorite to participate in. This week's theme is top photos of 2011. Since I'm just getting back to blogging I think this is a perfect one right now.





So here are the photos I chose for my top 10 of 2011:

My grandparents' dog, Gizmo:


Visiting our friend's ducks:


Feeding the chickens:


My niece at her first birthday party:


My beautiful girls:


My dad blowing bubbles with my niece during (a very HOT) family fun day:


I love these eyes:


I hate that my baby looks so grown up:


Aubry is the natural athlete:


And this is just absolutely adorable:


It was so hard to choose just ten. Some of them I chose just because I thought they looked like good photographs...most of them I chose because the people in them are just darn cute. :)