The assignment this week was “pink”. That could mean a lot of things and I like these themes that are so broad. The interpretations are so much fun! Here’s what I came up with.

Playground Pink

I think this turtle ride used to be a bright red once upon a time. But over the years it has been much used and faded to a dull pink. I thought this was a good one to use some focal black and white affects on. The black and white adds to the mood of the picture – a lone turtle, waiting for someone to come and ride it.

Pink Pajamas

Isabella was playing with our lamp and having a helluva time turning it on and off. It worked out well because the lamp provided just the right light source to snap this pic in her favorite jammies!

Pretty Pink

Can’t have a pink picture this week without an homage to Easter. We had Isabella help us color the eggs. She was not that interested in putting the eggs in the dye. She kept saying “Put it back!” So instead she watched while CJ and I colored them. I got all fancy with this marbled one!

There you have it! My pink for the week!

Head on over to I Should be Folding Laundry to see what others did this week. Special love to Beth who hooked me up with a $50 gift card to Anthropologie in a giveaway! Yippee!

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You Capture: Spring

You Capture: Smile

You Capture: Fun

The theme for this week’s You Capture was “Spring”, which was quite easy because it was all around me! For the first time in a while I actually kept this assignment top of mind as Iabout my days. I hope you like the results!

Last Friday evening it was warm enough to take Isabella to the park for some play time. But, being Spring, the temperature quickly dropped as the minutes ticked by. Good thing she had a hooded jacket! She had lots of fun running around and picking up pine cones. I’m so glad we’re able to get outside more and play!

On our way home from the park, we ran across this tree that someone had hung Easter Eggs on. Seeing them all blowing in the breeze actually looked quite pretty! Isabella really liked it!

One of my favorite parts of Spring is seeing all the new life. Buds on trees, green grass poking out of the ground, flowers starting to sprout. Makes me feel happy knowing that warmer months are on the way!

Typical of Spring, there are nice warm days and there are cool rainy days. Well, on one particular day last week, it was raining all day, as evidenced by the row of umbrellas lining our cube farm at work. Can you guess which one is mine?

It wouldn’t be Spring without all the cute little dresses for the girls. Isabella got to put one on Sunday for a wedding . She thought her new little dress shoes were very pretty – and I thought she was!

Well there you have it! Here’s hoping the next few weeks bring more warm days and less chilly ones!

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You Capture: Smile

You Capture: Fun!

You Capture: Vibrance

This week’s You Capture was easy and fun. We have a lot of smiles around our house so it was simply a matter of being ready to capture them!

Samson

Some people say that dogs don’t show emotion but this sure looks like a smile to me. This was taken after a good romp and play in the backyard so he was hot, tired and very happy.

Peek-a-boo!

My favorite smile….Isabella loves to play peek-a-boo! She will hide behind doors, furniture, toys, Samson…whatever she things will obscure her. I was lucky to be there at the right time to capture this precious grin when she opened the window in her playhouse! Seeing this smile everyday makes all life’s troubles fade away.

Owen

Isabella’s boyfriend Owen came over to play on Saturday and really enjoyed eating his cupcake. I tell ya, this boy is well trained when it comes to smiling for the camera. All I had to do was say cheese and he’d break out in a big grin! I think it helps that his mommy is a photographer. Don’t you think he and Isabella make a cute couple?

Tired

This is her “I’m tired and ready to collapse but I have to keep playing” smile. Poor thing was exhausted and practically fell asleep in my arms before I could get her to the bed. It was a good, fun tired though!

I have one more to show…but it’s not nearly as cute as the others. I wanted to represent CJ and me in this series but I ran out of time and didn’t capture any. So, I took a quick self-portrait this morning after finishing the Shred. I’m hot and sweaty, but happy to be done with my workout! 

I kept it small though. No sense in magnifying my glorious sweatiness!

There you have it! If you want to see what others did with the theme this week, head on over to Beth’s!

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You Capture: Fun

You Capture: Vibrance

This week’s assignment, “fun”, seemed hard to find. With the stress of packing and cleaning and worrying about money, fun was far from my mind. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that we did have fun – a lot of it!

On my way home from work on Friday, I grabbed a package of mini-cupcakes. Munchkin, like her mommy, loves sweets and I knew these little cupcakes were the perfect size for her. As you can see, she did enjoy them quite a bit! She also made a big mess, but that’s ok. Sometimes the most fun things are the messiest!

We spent Sunday afternoon working in the yard because it was such a nice day. Isabella LOVES to be outside, which I think is so awesome. She had so much fun walking back and forth on this brick, that she literally did it for about 10 minutes. That’s like an eternity in toddler time!

Playing with toys Monday evening. She has a boat in her hands and a woobie in her mouth. She couldn’t be any happier!

Samson even joined in on the fun!  He gazed on while Isabella climbed in to her wagon. I think he was watching over her though. Sort of. Mostly because he thought she had food in her hand.

See how much fun we had! We got all the toys out and went wild! Though, it wasn’t very much fun cleaning this all up…

There you have it – the pics for this week! Head on over to Beth’s to see what other folks are doing with this theme!

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You Capture: Vibrance

You Capture: Youth

You Capture: Emotions

I will fully admit that I did not think about the You Capture very much this week. I was busy with all kinds of stuff and shooting photos fell by the way side. Fortunately I take a lot of pictures anyway of our daily life so I had a few to choose from. The theme was “vibrance” so I chose to depict it in terms of vibrant colors.

Here is Isabella playing in her wagon. She basically filled her red wagon with blocks and then climbed inside it.

Between her orange shirt, the red wagon and blue wheels, there were lots of bright colors that made this photo stand out to me! Plus I love the look on her face!

In this one, Munchkin decided to take 2 of her juice bottles and put them in her school bus. Then she went about pushing it around the kitchen going “vroom! vroom!”

Again, there is a lot of brightness with the yellow bus and colored juice cups. It’s also a clever way to transport 2 sippie cups!

So there you go. That’s my You Capture for this week! Not too terribly exciting but at least it’s something. I promise I’ll try harder next week!

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