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OK, I don't post on the blog very often...however, I just had a "cute moment" with Bailey and I had to share it! When I was tucking her into bed tonight, she looks at me and says, "Dad...I love picking apples from trees", I thought this was an interesting comment since we don't have any fruit trees and I don't think that she has ever picked apples. She then said, "Dad, can we go apple picking together some time?" I chuckled and said, "Sure, that sounds like fun." She then demonstrated how you pick an apple from a tree and said, "you just twist...and pluck, and THAT's how you do it!" It is truly these small moments that make our life magical!
Posted by Heather at 8:28 PM 2 comments
I am having soooo much fun!!! My parents gave me Photoshop Elements for Christmas. Combine that with my new camera a Canon Rebel XS and I am in heaven. My neighbor is a wiz at both taking great pictures and editing them in photoshop. After one lesson I feel like I am slowly getting the hang of it. I think I will be pestering her with questions for months. I am ready for lesson #2!!Posted by Heather at 9:10 PM 7 comments
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I am a computerless woman! My new computer should be here any day, but for now I only get to check email and such in the evenings when Travis brings home his work computer. I hate not being able to google or look up a thought during the day. I didn't realize how much I do this until access to the internet was gone. So I will post pictures once I get my new computer.
Our FHE topic for this month is Charity and Love. On Monday after talking about love I presented a Love idea to the kids. Each of them would receive 6 "i love you" hearts. They are to use these hearts this week to do something nice like make someones bed, put someone elses shoes away, clean up some toys etc... and then they leave one of their hearts behind. At first I was going to make the hearts out of paper, but I found some really cute 6 inch foam hearts in a pack of 30 at walmart and figured making them out of something sturdier we could reuse them each year. I then used a fine point black pen to write "i love you" on each one. They turned out really cute! It has been so fun to see how excited the kids have gotten over the idea of doing nice things. Today Noah cleaned up Bailey's messy room. He even set up her doll house putting all of the furniture in the right place. He then left his heart displayed in the doll house! Bailey tidied up the boys room and left a heart. Zach made my bed (which really ended up being made already, but he cleared off everything else that was on it and put it in a pile on the floor. Hey...it's the thought that counts!) I love seeing my kids doing nice things for each other!
I also got a new camera!! It is a SLR Canon Rebel. My head is just swirling with new terms. Aperature, shutter speed, IOS....I can't wait until I understand how to use it to it's fullest and take some great pictures! I have always wanted to learn and I am just thrilled that now I have a chance!
I promise to catch up with pictures soon!!
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