Faith

I was driving home from work the other day and saw this sight. I try to have my camera with me most days and this day I was lucky enough to have it with me.

It's been raining here A LOT!! Farming this fall is having a hard time getting going. It's been frustrating. So when I saw the sun breaking through the clouds I smiled and took a picture.

All you need is a little faith. The rain will stop and things will get done.

Faith.

Sleepovers

Emily wanted to have a sleepover with her new friend on Friday. She made a list of all the "slumber party" things she wanted to do, like eating popcorn and watching movies, pillow fights, and makeovers to name a few.
I had to work Friday and Saturday, but I stopped and got pizza and breaksticks for supper and some other favorite snacks for later. They all played outside with the neighbors until it got dark and then we headed in.

Carter and Al did legos while we watched some movies...

The girls played Webkinz and did makeovers....
He makes a pretty girl don't you think?? Ha! I wonder if this pic will make it out at graduation? I'm sure his sister will remember and use it someday. That's what sisters do isn't it?
While I worked and Al farmed on Saturday, the kids got to play at grandma's house. All in all I think our slumber party was a success. Do you have memories of sleepovers in your childhood?

Beans

We've FINALLY started to make a dent in the bean harvest!! All the rain hasn't really been helping much, I must say...

For whatever reason, I haven't felt much like taking pictures....I think the rain has had an affect on that too...Anyway, with harvest getting going more now, the kids and I went to the field to take Daddy some supper and visit. Of course, I took my camera.
The sun setting was just making everything glow an nice golden color and it sparked my photography.(It doesn't hurt that next year's theme for the Iowa State Fair is The Iowa Family Farm...)

This picture is the start of practice for a picture Al would like to see me take...



This one's because the two times I visited the field this weekend something went wrong and Al told me I jinxed him!! Ha! Really it was a minor fix...

Favorites

I read a blog the other day (I do take time to read blogs just not right mine, sorry) anyway, Pioneer Woman, who challenged us all to upload our favorite portraits to her flickr group. I am not a member of flickr, but the idea appealed to me. I haven't taken much time to browse my pictures lately...I make calendars every year and don't have the faintest idea where to start this year.

I just took a moment to look for a few pictures and some of these I was trying out black and white so there's that. But here are some of my favorites from this last year...portraits only not landscapes. I noticed that there isn't much of me. Maybe I should make that a goal, to figure out how to take a good portrait of myself. I've been thinking I need to set some goals for my photography to push myself. I feel in a rut with most everything these days. Just keeping my head above water you know? Do you have anything new you'd like to learn?

Oh, the pics of Emily and Casey in the cowboy hats are from a year ago when he broke his leg, but they have always been favs of mine and I'd been thinking about that time a lot lately as we are at the 1 year mark right now.







So anyway, if you like my pictures or are inspired to put some of your own up, leave me a comment, I'd love to hear from you and see your favs.