Sacred

Sacred - dedicated to worship; holy.

I dropped Jack off at piano today (in Cedar Hills) and then drove out to the temple. It was a gorgeous sunny day, so I thought a picture of the temple would be nice for today. Amazingly, the parking lot wasn't full and so I didn't feel too stupid in my jeans and tshirt on the temple grounds taking pictures since there weren't too many people there to witness it. I like how this turned out, intentionally off center so the snowy mountains could be seen better.

My cruise rep called me today with a screamin' deal on a cruise this fall. If I can find decent airfare, I'm going again! Whoo hoo! This one is out of New Orleans to Mexico. I hope I can work it out. The fam wants to take a cruise together to celebrate Mom & Dad's 50th anniversary. We've never cruised with other people before, so this would be a whole new experience. Cross your fingers!

Imagine - to picture or create in the mind.

I wanted to take a picture of Taylor today, since I've done both Jack and Addie, but I wasn't sure what I wanted her to do. We tried a bunch of different stuff, and then when I snapped this one, I knew it was a keeper. She always takes good pictures, but I was really pleased with how this one turned out. I have been trying to get back into a daily exercise habit - without much luck - but am 2 for 2 this week. Last night I did a bunch of arm exercises, and sure felt it today when I was exercising! I like to be a little bit sore, it makes me feel like I am accomplishing something!

This picture doesn't have anything to do with anything, but it is the picture for the day. I'm not sure what to call it, so for now it is called "information." I am gladly accepting suggestions for a better title. We had a good FHE lesson tonight on keeping a journal, then we played Wii for a while. We always have such a good time visiting with Grandma. I got Jack's watch fixed, luckily it only needed a new battery, so hopefully we won't have any more sad pictures of him being punished for being late. Hopefully he has learned his lesson (no, I don't really believe that, either). I even got the laundry finished up today. It is my very least favorite chore, so it almost always takes me until Tuesday to finish what I start on Saturday. Stupid, I know. I just hate the folding and putting away part. And the last load almost always stays in the dryer until next laundry day. I keep telling my kids to just get over it and get the job done - I guess I need to take my own advice!

Triad

TRIAD: A set of three similar things considered as a unit.

I have very cute kids. That is a completely unbiased oppinion. I just have cute kids. Everyone knows it. This was taken when we finally needed a break from our Mythbusters/Monk/Psych/Forensic Files marathon. Of course, I forgot the Cheetos again. I did have my Dr. Pepper, though. So why do I have such a headache? Thank goodness I'm not addicted (wink, wink!). Imagine how much worse my headache would be!

Teamwork & Lonliness

This is today's picture, Teamwork, taken at Jack's first basketball game of the season. He is #41 with his back to the camera. He played a good game today. He was kind of timid in the first half, but more aggressive in the second half. He got off a good shot, but it bounced off the rim and went out. He also made a good block.

This is to replace yesterday's picture, which I was so unhappy with it kept me awake last night. I made him pose for this one, it's not candid, but I wanted to represent the same thing I was trying to capture last night: the feeling that comes with being punished, the lonliness and sadness, and I think I got it in this picture. I am quite pleased with it - even if Jack isn't very happy with having to pose "sadness," I think he likes the picture, too and helped with as I adjusted the shadows, etc. in photoshop and he was the one who suggested making it a black and white image. I think I'll make a copy of it for him to have because I really like the way it turned out.

Taylor showing her stuff at Guitar Hero.

Addie with her Dora workbook.

This is my picture for the day. I'm calling it punishment. Jack chose not to come home on time from a friend's house - AGAIN - and the punishment was no video games or TV for 2 days. Everyone else was playing video games or watching TV, so Jack came to keep me company while I sewed. He kept reminding me that he had never been so bored in all his life. Mission Accomplished!! I don't think he'll be late again, at least not for a little while.

I hit the motherlode at the Walmart $1 fabric bin. I got 2 cute patterns and found great fabric in the $1 bin for a change. I got stuff to make a suit, 2 shirts and a skirt. I was sewing one of the shirts while Jack was "helping" me.

Scrappin'

I got a lot of scrapbooking done today. My computer memory is almost full, so I decided I had better get to it! I moved a lot of old stuff over to CD so I could get it off my computer. I had more pictures on here than I thought I did! So I plopped all the "un-scrapped" pictures onto blank pages and saved them, so now I just need to go back and add all the elements. The website that I get most of my stuff will be posting the January stuff any day now, and whenever they put up new stuff it gets me motivated to scrap. The December stuff was a little disappointing this year, but maybe I can figure out how to change the colors - it's a lot of non-traditional colors that I'm not overly fond of. I did get 3 pages completed, however. I also have scrapped the first 6 pictures of my 365 project, and they are posted on my facebook profile, under "scrapbook" if you want to have a look. I am quite proud of them, I must say.