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Field Trip Sunday

I’ll be out of town some this week to care for my niece so that my sister can go back to work. My niece had back surgery one week ago and is recovering slowly at home. It was a major surgery for a 14 year old but we are hoping this will impact her life positively for years to come.

So, today we covered a day of school with a field trip. Since my hubbie is taking off 3 days and will have school with the kids I thought having a cushion of a day, already counted, would help. We had a great time except our 8 year old was bitten by a pig. On the arm. Hard.

It’s really been bothering him since we got home and mean old momma, me, can’t help but get the giggles everytime he says something because….well…he was bitten by a pig. A PIG! Earlier this evening I got so tickled I couldn’t stop laughing and he got so mad at me.

What was his arm doing in a mama sow’s pen any way?

With that said here are a few unedited photos from today. We had so much fun. I got my settings just right on a couple shots and was so pleased. It’s amazing how good photos are when the light is right and so are your settings.

I also was gifted with a very early Christmas present from my darling hubbie and am swapping my XTi for a 40D!! AGH! I’m so excited!!! It should be here this Friday or Monday of next week. Pray it comes in time for next Saturday’s Championship Football Game! We won one and lost one this weekend. My 9 year old was so disappointed his team lost. And it was exciting to see our 8 year old’s team beat an unbelievable good team.

I just remembered I shot most everything in RAW format so I have a little editing to do. Will post the "good ones" tomorrow!

(and maybe one of the pig too!)

Ah, hum. Excuse that last (giggle) comment!

Baby girl…..

And her friend Dakota…

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Posted: October 26, 2008 by Julie |Category: Homeschooling | Tags:

My first OFFICIAL photo session

A family we go to church with asked me to take some photos of them this week. What began as a great day ended up as a cloudy evening. Although we did shoot that day we’re planning another day with a blue sky! Here’s one of my favorites from the shoot. The horse had just nuzzled the child in the photo and dad was laughing. The horses were really fun.

IN HIM,

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Posted: October 25, 2008 by Julie |Category: Photography and Tips | Tags:

Football antics

This is what the others do while the boys play football. Baby girl is the one in the dress.
Happy Friday!

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Posted: October 24, 2008 by Julie |Category: Football | Photography and Tips | Tags:

The Birthday Boy

The much awaited, anticipated birthday finally arrived. Our youngest son shares his birthday with my sister and my great aunt (just trying to keep it all in the family)!

Here’s a couple shots from his day!

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Posted: October 23, 2008 by Julie |Category: Our Family, Our Lives | Tags:

Name that bug!

My hubbie found this utterly disgusting but really cool looking bug/grub at the wood pile. What is IT?

You could see it’s muscles and goo inside of it’s skin as it scooted in the caterpillar/grub kinda way. It was creapy!! First one with the answer gets a bag of yummy chocolate worms mailed to their house!
IN HIM,

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Posted: October 19, 2008 by Julie |Category: Homeschooling | Tags:

The Apple Orchard

This time of year always brings about a home school trip to the Apple Orchard. We had a great time yesterday. The weather was cloudy and it drizzled but it was cool and PERFECT for wandering through the orchard picking Fujis, Mutzus, Granny Smiths, and the likes. I’ll post more pictures as I get them processed. But here’s one of my dear friend and her youngest.

In Him,

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Posted: October 18, 2008 by Julie |Category: Homeschooling | Tags:

Photos…Raw and Unprocessed and our Field Trip

In attempt to “get over” my desire to post process until I’m cross-eyed I am posting pictures from today’s field trip and last night’s visit from Papa Bill.
Enjoy…

Walking up to the falls….

Trying to get a little cool spray from the waterfall. It was an incredibly warm day.

Another family who was there snapped a picture of us! Baby girl was NOT happy about having her photo taken…

Later she perked up a little…
“Rosie” came along for the trip too…

Baby girl washing a little boo-boo off in the cool water…

“Mom, my toe is still bleeding!”

“I’m going back to the water!”

Here’s a few from last night when Papa Bill joined us at football practice.

I did fool around with this one a little because it was dark but I loved Baby girl’s expression when I called her name.

In Him,

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Posted: October 10, 2008 by Julie |Category: Homeschooling | Our Family, Our Lives | Tags:

My poor blog

Yep, my poor blog is all but ignored with the busy schedule of homeschooling (have I mentioned the dreaded lesson plans?), football, Spanish and guitar. In fact, we leave for guitar in about 10 minutes.

But I wanted to stop in and say hello. I keep thinking I’m going to take photos of our school room, of the neat things we are using, and the kids just learning away but alas, the thought comes and goes…..and goes….and goes.

I’ve also allowed myself to become quite overwhelmed with the entire post processing part of photography. I need to get back to just taking photos and not worrying about the other part.

Football season is just about over. We’re cranking out our 40th day of homeschooling tomorrow and my father-in-law is coming for a visit tonight. We’re all excited to see him. I think the kids enjoy having company as much as their parents.

Any who…..
We’re here, just busy!
IN HIM,

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Posted: October 9, 2008 by Julie |Category: Homeschooling | Tags:

FIREPROOF

Is your marriage Fireproof?
That is the topic in the new Christian movie Fireproof
(click to watch the trailer)

I hope to see it this week. It’s by the same people who producing Facing the Giants, a spectacular move that celebrates life, our Father, and the source of our Strength.

Let me know if anyone has seen it. I’m so excited to go!!

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Posted: September 29, 2008 by Julie |Category: Other Happenings | Tags:

A little Football….

It’s amazing how busy school has made our lives. I’m continually working on lesson plans to try to stay ahead of the game. But I’ve found if I work to far out I forget what I had planned that day. That is unless I have it all written down. And even then I sometimes wonder "Why did I write this?"

On brighter notes…our oldest son had a great game Tuesday night. Our 8 year old had one on Monday but I didn’t get to go to that game. I was home with the littler ones. Here’s a couple shots from "Lightening’s" game.

The hand-off (that’s him, #5 getting ready to run the ball)

Running the ball….

It’s really amazing to watch him do what he LOVES to do!

Hope you have a great weekend.
IN HIM…