You Capture ~ Technology

This week over at I Should Be Folding Laundry the You Capture theme is Technology. I knew the perfect picture. You see our church has a theme that is going through this whole year and it is "God is big enough". One way I spread this them and remind my friends when they are going through a rough time is by texting it to them. So here is a picture of my phone with those wonderful words on it.

You Capture ~ Silence

I didn't have to look far to capture this weeks "assignment". This week there were actually two themes to chose from. Either Halloween or Silence. I chose Silence. My first thought was church but then I thought of music. I know, I know...silence in music? Yes! For me there is a peace and a silence to music. Here is my capture...

See what I mean? If you'd like to see more captures just click on the button above.  So...what do you think of when you think of silence?

You Capture ~ Animals

This weeks theme/assignment for You Capture is animals. Since we went to the Ft Worth Zoo for a field trip last week I thought I take some photos there. They do have a lot of animals to choose from right? I know, I know...stop trying to be funny. The first animals you come across there are the flamingos. What we all found very interesting was that the ducks that were there were acting just like the flamingos. Don't believe me? Take a look:

See what I mean?  All of the ducks in this area were doing the same thing the flamingos were.  To see more photos click on the link above.

You Capture ~ Your Choice

I am hanging my head in shame as I completely forgot to put up my "You Capture" shot for this week.  This week assignment was our own choice and I still forgot.  Gee!  It's been such a busy week this week that I honestly forgot to even use my camera.  It sits here on my desk just waiting for me to pick it up.  And by the looks of my desk right now it's even amazing that I know where it is on here.  I really do need to clean this desk up!  Guess you all know what I'll be doing tomorrow.  So knowing that I haven't even picked up my camera I'm going to use two pictures that I took last week.  I didn't "clean" the photos up any and that's okay.  I might one day but for now here they are.  They are of Sam working his Rubik's Cube.  Right after I took these pictures he got it to where one side is completely finished and the touching 4 sides have two rows completed.  He's so close to figuring it out and I enjoy watching him work on it.

You Capture ~ Signs

Awhile back I participated in "You Capture" which is hosted by a wonderful lady named Beth over at I Should Be Folding Laundry. I loved waiting for her themes and going out with my camera to capture the pictures to share with you here. She doesn't want you to use pictures that you have already taken. Instead she wants us to get our cameras and head on out and find something to capture! I love that and it was what started me going with my photography. I still take lots of pictures but I just don't seem to take these challenges anymore. I'm now going to jump back in there and do just that. Capture!

This weeks theme is "Signs". There are so many different ways we could go with this theme and I'm looking forward to seeing what others out there are going to do with it as well.  It's been pouring rain here all day so I didn't get to go out as I would have liked so I went with the sign that I hold in my hands every day, twice a day for work.  You see I'm a Crossing Guard and hold a stop sign every day.  If you'd like to see what others have come up with please click on the button above.

You Capture - Feel

This last Thursday was Sam's last day of school as a 3rd grader. He is now officially considered a 4th grader. It's hard for me to believe! He's growing up so fast. To help him celebrate the end of the school year I took him to Hawaiian Falls for some water fun! We have season passes that we got as a Christmas present last year from my parents and I tell you already that we will get more out of these season passes than any other passes we've ever had. We went again today too and had a great time. Being season pass holders we even get in early to be able to have our pick of a place to park our stuff. Which we took advantage of today.

This weeks assignment for "You Capture" was FEEL. I had a hard time all week trying to think of a picture that I could take that would describe FEEL. Then today and this past Thursday I captured Sam enjoying the sun and water. Can you feel the sun and water? I know that we sure did! As usual you can click on a picture to make it bigger.

You feel the excitement that he had going down the water slide all by himself.

Sam sure could feel the sun in his eyes as I called his name to try to see how much longer he was going to do the lazy river.

I can feel my heart go "pitter-patter" every time I look at that sweet face.
You could also feel my heart go "pitter-patter" when I see him do stunts.

Sam had fun feeling the water splash all over him.

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You Capture - Family

The theme for You Capture this week was Family. My first thought was to take a picture of our family. But you know me...I like to think outside the box. I then remembered this past Christmas when my parents gave their three grand kids and my sister and I a notebook containing a lot of our family history. Our family history is very important to us and we even have a published book! Here are some of the pictures that I took while it was all being presented to us.

Here is my Dad holding just a portion of our family tree. This is just following the males on my Dad's side of the family.

My Dad had Sam read the front of his notebook out loud because his is completely different than the others. For those of you that don't know or haven't figured it out...Sam is adopted. Sam now loves to learn more about his family history.

Here you see my sister, her two girls, and her husband. You can see all the individual notebooks as we follow along with my Dad.

Here my line of the family.

This one is a picture of my great grandfathers birthplace in Midland, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.

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PhotoHunt-Plastic & You Capture-Sweet

This weeks theme for PhotoHunt was plastic. I immediately thought of a picture that I took last summer at Hawaiian Falls. Here is a picture of some of the water slides. If you'd like to see more photos on this theme click on the PhotoHunt button above.

The theme for You Capture this week was Sweet. I actually had a hard time with this one until I walked out my front door yesterday morning. Our flowers were in bloom and I thought to myself that these would make great photos for this weeks assignment! I couldn't settle on just one photo so I chose some of my favorites out of the almost 60 pictures I took. If you would like to see more You Capture photos just click the You Capture button above.

You Capture - Joy

Here in Texas this week is the dreaded TAKS testing at schools. Sam this past weekend and on Monday was just terrified about taking his Math TAKS test on Tuesday. He even cried to sleep Monday night and begged me not to take him to school on Tuesday. Once I reminded him that it wouldn't do any good to miss it because he would just have to take it later in a make-up test day he resigned to go ahead and go. I prayed and prayed and prayed for him all day long. Once he came home he was all smiles! I couldn't believe it. The teachers had taken a few kids from each class that they thought would do better testing with just 4 kids each in a room and having lots of breaks to help them with their testing. Sam was one of those kids picked! I was thrilled to hear that. Sam himself said that it made it so much better and that he felt that he did a good job. He already passed the Reading TAKS test last month and now we're just in the waiting period now to find out how he did with this one. To help him celebrate that he was done taking it (or at least I hope he's done taking it--if they don't pass they have to re-take it) we took him out to dinner and then I took him to the park afterwards. It was just after 8:00 at night and the sun was setting behind a cloudy sky. But it made for such great pictures. While he was swinging I sat down on the ground really close and captured him as he swung by. Then it was off to the jungle gym area where he had fun jumping off of them. You can see the pure joy in his face as he played. So I decided to use these photos for this weeks You Capture picture. If you'd like to see more head on over there! Or better yet...post your picture of Joy! We'd love to see them.

In this last photo Sam was jumping off of a rock climbing wall and I got this great photo!

You Capture - Letters

This weeks assignment on You Capture was 'Letters'. For a person that loves to read the first thing that popped into my head was books.

Sam loves to go to the library. This time he couldn't wait until we got home to start reading. He sat right down at the table this week in the library and started reading. When it was time to go he carried his books out to the car and started reading again. Love that boy!

Most of these books here belonged to my Grandfather. He was a Methodist pastor and I cherish these books.

I'm sure everyone has one of these. Maybe not a library card but a card none the less hanging on your key chain that has words/letters on it.

This is my current reading stack. Again...lots of words/letters.......Then I thought, nah, that's to obvious.

How about the signs we see all over the place.

Nope, to obvious again.

Maybe a cross stitch that I have sitting next to some books on a bookshelf that has words/letters on it?

Still, to obvious.

How about on the items that we wear?

Here you can see the letters ck on the side of my friends sunglasses. Thanks Rachel!

How about the obscure?

Here are some tiles on the table at Chili's. If you look hard enough you can see the letter 'e' on the first one and the letter 'x' in the second one.

Nope...these are all still there out in the open for everyone to see.

How about the fact that we can recycle our letters?

Not to mention that there are letters all over the outside of it.

Nope. I wanted to think more outside the box this week.

Here is a picture of some hand bells that I play quite often. In fact several times I week I'm practicing with them. Yes, they have letters on them.

But it's not these that I really wanted to share with you this week.

It's this....music notes. Did you know that each music note is actually a letter. So every time you listen to music, any kind of music, you're listening to letters also. How cool is that!

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