I was fooling around with "filters" and came up with a colored pencil image. Cool, huh?
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Happy New Year
I was bustling about the house this morning thinking about it being the end of the year with tomorrow bringing a clean slate like the whiteness of the snow that was glistening out the window. My thoughts ran wild with ideas of what I would be doing in the new year since my job at Patches and Pieces had ended so abruptly. I sat down at the computer and routinely clicked on the family blog to see if there were any reports of Christmas activities. Words in a blog--simple and direct--brought me out of my stupor and changed the direction of my jumbled thoughts. "Well, I don't know if you knew, but I was in a rollover on Monday morning!" I sat bolt upright and read it three times. Without thinking, I scrolled down the page, enjoying the images of two beautiful granddaughters, then stopped. The next image was simply a cute little hand with a marble balanced on a finger trying to get it placed between two small toes. The tears made a trail down my cheeks and splashed on the keyboard. I said a silent prayer, "Thank you, Heavenly Father, for letting Michael keep his mommy". Taylor, you have truly been a bright spot in our family with your contagious enthusiasm and I don't know what we would ever do without you. As a matter of fact, what would I ever do without the whole bunch of you? You are all the joy in my life and nothing else really matters. I can only ask that those guardian angels will continue to watch over each and every one of you throughout the coming year. Happy New Year to all of you. Mom
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Roll-over
Well I'm not sure if all of you have heard yet, but I rolled my jeep on Monday morning. No, Michael was not with me. Fortunately I had just dropped him off at the sitters house and was heading to work. Yes, I'm fine. I hit my head and have a bump. My arm is sore and bruised and I got a few cuts on my hand from all the glass. Now I know the next question is, "What??? How did you do that??" I was getting on the freeway at 400 south. I was going a little too fast and my back tires spun out and I always hit the breaks. I know you aren't supposed to, but it is just a reflex. So, I was whipped around and went over the edge. I hit a tree, and then rolled. It all happened so fast, one second I'm spinning and the next I'm sitting at the bottom of the hill. A very nice gentleman came running over to me to make sure I was ok, and he called the police. I immediately called Brendon, and since I was about half a mile from his work, he got there pretty fast. Well I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm ok. I just need a new vehicle now. :) Thank you all for your concern!!! I was very lucky!!
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Lyssy Lou in our Golden Delicious Apple Tree
Isn't it about time somebody else posted a picture besides me? How about some Christmas pictures. Come on, come on!
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Rookie Photographer
Tonight was the first time I acted as the official Grapevine basketball photographer. I've included my favorite of the bunch. Prior to tonights game, Grapevine followed a distinct trend. If Jared scored 10 or more points, Grapevine won. If Jared scored less than 10 points, Grapevine lost. Their record before tonights game was 7 wins, 3 losses. Tonight, the trend was broken. Despite Jared's 10 points, Grapevine lost. We played a good team. Jared played well. I took pictures of the varsity game. I have about 6 that are usable for the end of season banquet. At this rate, I'll have to take pictures at every home game. Hopefully, I'll get better.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Velveteen
This image was enhanced using the plug-in to Photoshop called Eye Candy sold by Sheyrose Meyer (See post below)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
This is the right one
http://sheyerosemeyerphotography.com Click on opening page, then click on photoblog
Sorry. Just go to: http://sheyrosemeyerphotography.com Click on the opening page then click on photoblog. This girl lives in Australia
A surprise
I'm just going to say that if you visit this blog you will be in for a surprise:
http://sheyeosemeyerphotography.com/blog/2009/11/an-afternoon-with-mary/
http://sheyeosemeyerphotography.com/blog/2009/11/an-afternoon-with-mary/
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Fairy Wings and Other Things
Yesterday was Kennedy's birthday party. We went with a fairy theme and I must say, I think I had as much fun as the girls did. I decorated our front room (luckily there is no furniture yet) with flowers and garlands and a muslin canopy to make things look festive. It was hard to take a picture of it but here is one corner. (It looked better in real life. This picture doesn't do it justice.)
As the guests arrived we started off making our own fairies out of wooden clothespins, coffee filters and markers. 
Then we went on a treasure hunt. Thanks to mom all the clues were clever and I think it was the highlight of the party. Of course, the best thing about a treasure hunt is the treasure at the end. What did these little fairies find?
Then we went on a treasure hunt. Thanks to mom all the clues were clever and I think it was the highlight of the party. Of course, the best thing about a treasure hunt is the treasure at the end. What did these little fairies find?
WINGS!!! Who doesn't like wearing wings at a fairy party? I even sported some.
After the excitement of the hunt we had a bite to eat. You know, fairy food: strawberries, blueberries, mini muffins, cherry Sprite and a fairy's favorite. . . .red Jell-O! How do I know fairies like red Jell-O? I read the kids a book while they were eating called, "Alice the Fairy". As we read about Alice we discovered she is a temporary fairy who wants to learn how to change her bath water into . . . .red Jell-O!
After our little feast we made "fairy dust" (glitter, sprinkles and birdseed). Attached was a poem that read:
Make a wish, turn around, throw your fairy dust on the ground. Wait a day you will find only sprinkles left behind. The idea being that the "fairies" would be attracted by the shimmery sprinkles and eat the birdseed. Hope it works! One little girl said, "Mrs. Kelsey, are there REALLY fairies?"
What's a birthday party without a game of "bula bula"? I know we always played that game at my parties. The item we hid was, you guessed it, a fairy.
Kennedy had fun opening her presents but she got an extra surprise in one of the gifts. Kennedy pulled a box out of a gift bag. The fairies in the circle around her leaned in to see what the gift was. Just then a great big wolf spider crawled out of the box and the girls all gasped and stepped back as Kennedy threw the box on the ground! We had to call on the daddy fairy at that point! I don't know why none of us thought to use our magic wand!
Friday, November 13, 2009
Snow in Beaver
We had another snow storm last night, not much this time, only three or four inches. I decided about noon to take a ride up to Ponderosa and see what it looked like. It was beautiful, and so peaceful. I guess we should take time to smell the roses (and play in the snow)
Monday, November 9, 2009
Costumes
We've had computer problems ever since everyone left after the beach week. It's been fun to catch up since I got it back. I was going to post about our beach trip but that's all old news now.
Our kids had a great Halloween. Chris had to leave out of town that morning but I took them to the ward's Trunk or Treat that morning. Kennedy has been obsessed with Harry Potter and dressed like Hermione Granger. She even memorized a few "spells" to compliment her costume. Tristan wanted to "wear a white sheet and be a ghost". Easy enough, however, I really did make his costume out of an old white sheet and I wasn't sure it would make it through all the festivities (preschool parade, county party, trunk or treat, and trick or treating). It was pretty dirty by the time he took it off Saturday night. Jack got what I could find-- a dragon costume. Of course, Kennedy thought it all evolved around her and was trying to convince Tristan that his name was Peeves and Jack that his name was Norbert (Hagrid's dragon).
There were some pretty amazing costumes (children and adult) at our ward party. I had not dressed up. Later that night we went to a party hosted by one of our good friends. At 4:00 in the afternoon I decided that I would dress up after all (we had to leave for the party in an hour). I thought it would be appropriate to dress like a black widow since Chris was not with me. I cut out a red hourglass from some fabric and glued it onto an old black tee shirt and wore black pants. I put on lots of make up and ratted up my hair and put plastic spiders in it. I should have had someone take my picture but I was too busy getting food for my kids and making sure they didn't run off.
Kennedy turns 6 next week, I can't believe it. It seems like yesterday that she was my only child and still a baby. Time flies. We are having a fairy party for her on Saturday. I have had so much fun planning it. I hope it will be magical for her. The past three years we have had her party elsewhere and she really wanted to have a party at home this year. I hope it turns out. I'll keep you "posted".
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Siennah Bear
I'm stopped in Beaver at Grandma and Grandpa's for a few minutes and Grandma had to show me this picture of Siennah she's been working on and asked if I would put it on the blog. I lub it!!Merrill's parents
This weekend we had company coming from two directions--one was Rachel from BYU and the other was Vera and Jennie from Las Vegas. At first I was rather dismayed that they would all be here at the same time because I wanted to have Rachel all to myself. However, I think it was a good thing. It gave Rachel a chance to get to know some of her Lowe relatives. You know how bubbly Jennie is and she's a non-stop talker. We had a good time wile they were here. It just went too fast and I wanted to spend more time with Rachel. Vera and Jennie went out to see Beatrice at Long Term Care and they came back with a picture of Merrill's mom and dad on their wedding day. We had never seen this picture so we scanned it onto our computer and here it is. A picture of your grandparents/great-grandparents/great-great-grandparents. I was glad to get it.
Friday, November 6, 2009
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