Day 14 {homework}

Today I had to finish up my homework assignment for my class and get it into my teacher.   I had to try to get a image with more than one person in it and left this one to do till today.  But since the only other person in the house was Ty I improvised and used Hooch as well.

 I had fun doing these assignments it gave me a great chance to just point and shoot at whatever my little heart desired. One of the assignments was to take a low key, high key and high contrast image.   I had fun with this one since it was a bit more challenging for me.   I admit I totally stole Shannon's idea for my high contrast image though.....Thanks!   So here are those images...I won't bore you with all the rest of my boring shots of things around my house!

Day 13 {Potato?}

Today I spent the day chasing Ty from one room to the next.  Its seems every time I turned my back he was finding something else to get in to.  My cupboards seemed to be a big fascination for him today.   I think it may be time for some more childlocks :)

And then I tried to make potato soup.  I turned my back to go grab a knife to peel with and when I came back to the table found this.  The piece he bit spit out onto the table!  Didn't stop him from playing with the potatoes though, 10 minutes later I went into the bathroom and came back to every single one of my peeled potatoes all over the kitchen floor.   It was just one of those days :)

Day 12 {what is that smell?}

Today I spent the day with my camera glued to my hip.  I have a whole bunch of pictures to take for my photography class, I will not share them all here since they are a whole lot of random pictures of weird stuff.  I will however share one I caught on camera this morning.  I was doing dishes and Ty somehow managed to find him self a milk crate and use it as a stool to reach the sink.  He was trying to be helpful, but just kept pushing me out of the way to stick his hands in the sink and  say "hot" when he put his hands in the water.  Well it took quite a while but I did manage to get the dishes done.









After I was done the dishes I noticed a strange smell in the kitchen still.  After searching everywhere for the cause of it I finally opened the oven and discovered that Bill had left a broiler pan filled with grease and two hamburgers still on it in there!  EWWWW  So after disposing of the hamburgers and washing the pan the kitchen started smelling a little better :)  After that I went to get a nice cup of coffee and ended up having to use a travel mug with no lid.  ALL of my mugs seem to have disappeared!  I looked all around the house and can't find any of them .  Then I look in the cupboard and discovered I only have 2 glasses ( not plastic kids cups) left!  I swear three weeks ago I had about 15 of them!  I'm not really sure where all my cups have gone but I have a sneaking suspicion that Tyler and a garbage can may be involved.

So out I go to the grocery store and while I was there I bought myself 2 new coffee mugs because I was not really liking drinking my coffee out of a travel mug with no lid!    Aren't they pretty?  And BIG too!

Oh I also bought a new febreeze candle and some Air wick refills to help with the kitchen smell and oven cleaner  :)

Day 11 {almost missed it}

Today was a busy day and I almost missed out on taking a picture.  I went to my first photography class tonight and when I got home at 9:30 realized I had yet to pick up my camera.  So as I was walking across the kitchen floor with my camera I stepped on a piece of glass.  OUCH!  And when I ask my husband for a band aid he complains he will miss the last few minutes of survivor man if he gets up.........seriously?  Wife bleeding?  Who cares if Survivor man is on!  So here is a picture of my bleeding foot....no not a bad cut but I DID need a band aid!  LOL

This is what happens when I go to class at night and Bill is in charge of dinner.  These are my mason jars all filled with old grease from the deep fryer since Bill made french fries for dinner.  They look pretty but now what do I do with them?

Day 10 {Black paper}

Today I decided to try out my black seamless paper that has been sitting in the box since Christmas.  I had not tried it yet since I got it in the 9 foot roll and its HUGE,  especially in my tiny little living room. So after moving around furniture and standing a love seat up on end I managed to set it up, although I was pressed up against the wall to take the pictures.


This was quite a challenge for me and I was having problems figuring out where to set the lights and how to get the black paper to look black ( which didn't happen and I ended up correcting in PS)  I was also once again over exposing everything and finally packed away my speedlight and cranked my ISO after a few adjustments I managed to get a few shots.  Not the greatest but I will keep practicing, though it may not be often with that paper since its so BIG!

Day 9 {practice time}

Xander spent most of the day today practicing his guitar.  I really need to get him a chord book so he can practice on his own when Bill isn't home. Would have been easier if he was interested in piano so I could help him but nope...had to be gutiar.   He was so proud of himself when he got lines on his fingers from practicing his G chord! 

While he was practicing Dylan was playing superman.......but soon fell asleep on the couch. How he managed to fall asleep in this position I'm not sure.

Day 8 {Dentist}

Dylan had to go to the dentist today to get a cavity filled. He ended up having to have a small root canal done since the cavity was so deep.  He was a trooper and handled it so well including the freezing needle :)   The appointment was in the morning and he was going to go back to school for the rest of the day but after talking to his teacher I decided to take him home.  His mouth was still frozen and he was starting to bite the side of it and I didn't want him chomping on it at school.

Here are a few of him at the dentist office today sporting his cool sunglasses and bib!  LOL   And YES Bill I did take my camera to the dentist office!

 All done :)