Happy Thanksgiving From Our Family!

My Family Today!  Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Pam

Sun-flares

Many people think that if you take a photo and it ends up with a sun-flare in it you have a poor quality picture.

Did you know that sun-flares are the latest in photography?  And if you happen to get a beautiful sun-flare in a photo it is viewed by other photographers as a true gem?

In fact this week at I Heart Faces the theme was sun-flares!  I didn’t enter the contest, because I didn’t think I had anything to offer.  I’ve been working on some photos and actually trying to add sun-flare to them! 

Today on I Heart Faces they are actually hosting a contest for some really great edits (for Photo-shop) that ADD SUNFLARE to your photos!!  OOOOOOHHHHHH…. so it’s okay to fabricate the sun-flare????  Emphasize the small sun-flares?  I guess so!!

I took this picture last Sunday.  This is Cary and Amy.  They have been in my life in a multitude of ways over the years.

Before:

Nice picture.  Not wild about the color.  Indiana is not real colorful this time of year.  See that tiny spot on Cary’s arm?  A sun-flare!  It was sunny on this day & that gave me an idea!

What do you think of that?

It’s something to keep working on & but I think it is kinda cool!!

Pam

The Man In the Middle

I have a burden on my heart. 

It’s my handsome, smart, clever, 2nd son.

I’ve mentioned he’s struggling.

Last night, watching his first basketball game.

It became quite obvious he’s struggling.

He’s angry.

He’s bitter.

He needs help.

Do I have any choice but to sit back and let him go off? 

His own words on Facebook last night cried out that he knows he’s angry.

Please pray for us to find the help he needs to work through all of this.

He is not the communicator that his brother is.

He has not opened up to Grandpa like his brother has.

He has not dealt with this like his brother.

He’s 15.  15 is hard enough.

Please pray for him.

Pam

Sunshine…

The Sunshine Banquet was last night…

James & Alisen…

Pam

YOUR Gonna Miss This… Moment… Week 60

Yesterday, Kiahna and I had the rare opportunity to drive James’s car…

She asked me, in her own little Kiahna way… (read: whiny why does everyone else get to do that I I don’t)  “why does James get to have a car and we don’t?”

Of course her 5 year old mind didn’t  understand the seating arrangements in a mini van are much more conducive to driving around 5 plus children…  but she seemed happy with the answer that maybe one day it would only be her, Jadon & I left at home and we might get a car then.

Wouldn’t that be strange? 

Think I’ll ever miss driving a mini van?

Maybe.

Pam

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Autumn Beauty… Continues…

I have so many pictures of my own kids that I haven’t even had a chance to edit!  When I was trying to decide which photo to put up for the I heart faces contest I edited a few of them… finally!!

Here are the others I was choosing from…

 

Pam

Haircuts… & headaches…

Leah and I went last night and got haircuts!!  It is always so nice to have a fresh cut!  We both woke up frustrated that it didn’t look this way today!  OH WELL!

If it looks like I have a headache, I do.  It’s a little better now, but I took something for it at 5:30 this morning when I got up to take Zach to basketball practice.

I tried to relax yesterday, I got a massage!  Went to the chiropractor, had dinner in the crock pot & then we went for these hair cuts.

The lady giving me my massage asked if I was stressed out… interesting question… compared to the past 3 years, this year has been a breeze… so am I stressed out?  I am crazy busy!!  Not stressed out.

I think I shared last week that I was taking Jadon to a specialist.  It was a urologist.  He continually is damp when he comes home from school.

The specialist is thinking that it is not a physical problem, at least that is where we are starting, none of his tests show any issues with his kidneys or his bladder.

So, trying to change up some habits.  Helping him to take the time to go to the restroom & empty his bladder.  Helping him with some diet restrictions, like no pop, caffeine, chocolate, citrus.  Giving him stickers for staying on the toilet for 2 minutes so many times a day.

BLAH!

Add to that a water bottle at school so he can drink more water during the day & less in the evenings.

The past 2 days.  At least 3 times damp in his pants.  Changing his clothes at school.  When he comes home.  Scrounging around for something clean to wear when you go through 3 pairs of pants a day!! 

It’s just a little frustrating.

Yesterday he really made some poor choices.  Took some money from Zach’s wallet.  Bought chocolate (which his is not supposed to have) on the bus from a friend of Leah’s (the MS is having a fund raiser), lied to me when he got home. 

And this my friend’s is kindergarten???  Trying not to be concerned. 

Please keep this little guy in your prayers. 

Kiahna and I are going over to play at one of my best friends from school’s house this morning!  She has a daughter Kiahna’s age.  Hoping it goes well!

Pam

I Heart Faces: Autumn Beauty

I have taken so many photos that I LOVE this autumn… when I saw the theme of this week’s contests at I Heart Faces I had to make a choice… a hard choice… Here is the one I chose…

My girls… Autumn Beauty…

Truth be told I have learned the most about photography from this blog, I Heart Faces.  Check them out!! 

And to check out more of my photography, go to my photo blog.

Pam

YOUR Gonna Miss This… Moment… Week 59

It struck me last night that it was Friday and I had not written anything for this carnival.  I was too tired & had no thoughts on what to write about.

This morning my brain was up before my body was ready… & the day is so full of activity and running… I still can’t quite think of anything to write about.

I know it is a long long time until things will even dream of slowing down around here… and by that time I may have been so busy so long, I will be so happy to have a quite house and nothing to do…

Or maybe I will miss it.  I’ll miss running from one even to the next… like today… James already left (thankful he can drive himself) to go cook for a Sunday School fundraiser breakfast that is today… Leah & Lucas both have a friend here… I need to go get the dog at the vet (he has a broken leg from getting hit by something he was chasing on the road, not sure what it was!)… Go to the fundraiser… Make  appt & Take Zach to the chiropractor. Take Lucas’s friend home… Take Lucas to basketball… pick up Lucas from basketball… Take Zach to basketball…Do a photo shoot… Pick Up Zach from Basketball… Shop for our shoebox items… James & Zach go sing at a benefit… oh and James wanted to try to go to the AU game this afternoon…

I am tired… maybe I need to go back to bed… I surely need a list so I don’t forget anyone or anything!!

Maybe in all the chaos of the day today I will find a moment to treasure… the possibility is high… if only I will pause and notice.

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Pack a Shoe Box

A very good idea.

Have you ever done it?

What am I talking about?

The deadline is in One Week.

Better get packing

How to Pack a Shoe Box

National Collection week November 16-23

We are!

Pam