iheartfaces - Silhouettes

This week at iheartfaces is Silhouettes. This is one of my favorite pictures =) It always makes me think of the line from the song "I Hope You Dance" by Lee Ann Womack. "I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean..." It's amazing how small you feel when you stand beside Gods awe-inspiring creation!

For more wonderful silhouette shots, visit iheartfaces.

Blessings,

Sweet Shot Tuesday 9/9/10

OK, I know this is more than one shot, but I have soooo many amazing shots from our trip to Hawaii that I could probably share them every week for a year and still not get through them all! I mean, come on, I took almost 900 pictures during our week there! So, I'm sure you can understand why it's virtually impossible to pick just one =) Enjoy!



For more "Sweet Shots" visit Darcy at My3Boybarians.

Blessings,

Menu Plan for November 8th

I've gotten behind on this (and blogging in general). My schedule has been thrown off quite a bit for the last few months (I had a massive kidney stone, Hubby was out of town for several weeks and now he is laid off.) So I've just been in "survival" mode and been doing just enough to get us through! Things seem to be "cooling" down a bit now and I'm getting back into a routine. I'm hoping to make this post regular again. So with all of that being said, here is my plan for the week:

Monday - Leftovers

Tuesday - Split pea soup, cheese & bread

Wednesday - Cheese & lentil enchilada casserole, salad

Thursday - Crock-pot chicken, rice & salad

Friday - Meatloaf, potatoes & broccoli

Saturday - Crock-pot BBQ chicken, rice & cauliflower

For more menu plans, check out Organizing Junkie.

Blessings,

Boulders and other ramblings...

I'm way behind in the blog world right now. Not only have I not posted anything in a few weeks, I haven't read any posts either.

I also haven't been taking pictures {gasp!}.

We've gotten a little bit of school done, but not much. Overall, I feel like the last few weeks have just been a big blur. My husband has been working out of town and that's been very hard on me. I don't do well with my hubby being gone. I tend to get depressed.

It also doesn't help that last Tuesday I woke up at some horrible early hour of the morning in excruciating pain. I finally called my mom around 4 and had her take me to the emergency room. My dad came and sat with the older three kids and we took the baby with us. The diagnosis? Kidney stones. They sent me for a CT scan to verify. The scan came back that it wasn't kidney stones, but a kidney BOULDER! The scan showed it to be approximately 8mm (you can pass stones that are 6mm or less). Then after much confusion and many phone calls (and lots of pain pills!) I was scheduled for a procedure to have it taken out. That happened on Friday. I wont go into all the gory details of said procedure, but I will say that they have to leave a stint in for 5-7 days afterward. So, while the boulder is gone, I've still been having some discomfort due to the stint.

Thankfully hubby was home over the weekend, so I got to take it easy. He was very sweet and took care of me :o) He even went grocery shopping for me for the week!

But, alas, he has left again already. And, unless it rains, he wont be home again till Friday evening. I miss him already :-(

I need to get back into a routine, but that may need to wait till I can get this stint out (which I just found out isn't going to happen till Friday, ugg!). I was already planning on taking a short break from ECC to do some other things. We went to the Evergreen Air and Space Museum recently and my kids loved it! So we are going to do a short unit study (and lapbook) on Amelia Earhart. Then I'm going to do my best to put together another short unit study/lapbook on Hawaii.

Why Hawaii, you may ask? Well, that's the exciting part in all of this. Hubby's family is taking us to Hawaii in October!!! The kids are beside themselves with excitement (and in all honesty, so am I!). So, being the homeschool mom that I am, we are going to study up on Hawaii before we go :o)


Well, I think that's pretty much my last few days in a nutshell. Hopefully I will find my energy and motivation here soon. I need to get out of my PJ's, I've been in them for three days! I would appreciate any prayers you could send my way!

Blessings,

Sweet Shot Tuesday 831/10

My dad took the old motor off his boat and it was just sittin' there looking all sad. So I decided to take some pictures and give it an artistic farewell =)



For more Sweet Shots, visit Darcy at my3boybarrians.

Blessings,

iheartfaces - Photojournalism

Earlier this week we (my kids and I) went "on the job" with my husband. He is currently working for my parents, so it was kind of a "blast from the past" since we used to go stay in the hotel with the crew when I was a kid. I took my camera and had fun looking for more "detail" type shots.

This weeks challenge at iheartfaces is photojournalism. Usually they only allow one photo for a challenge, but this week they are allowing a collage with up to 5 photos.



*Edited to add* My parents company resurfaces streets. Rock, oil, sulfate, and water are mixed in a machine on the back of a truck. Then it is spread in a thin layer on the surface of a street to help the street last longer. It is called slurry. To me, these pictures represent the whole process.

For more great photojournalism shots, visit iheartfaces.

Blessings,