{Rainbow}

Like I said before some of the word prompts I wasn’t sure where I was going to find a picture that worked, rainbow was one of the ones I wasn’t sure about…. It then hit me that a lot of baby toys were rainbow colored and I ran I found one of the munchkins’ favorite toy, a train with many learning stuff attached to it and it also ended up being rainbow central.

{Fluffy}

I thought I would end up taking a picture of my big fluffy cat for this one but while out on the walk I saw a bunch of bumblebees doing their thing around the flowers…. I had one of those moments that brought me back to what my child brain use to think about and one of those things where how I would think that bumblebees looked so soft and fluffy….. I knew then and there I just had to get one of those lil fellows to pose and smile for me;-)

{Letters}

Not even sure if there is the right word to describe my oldest munchkin’s love for trains….. So on the walk as we were looping back up I noticed a lot of people standing on the platform I knew a train must be coming soon since the local community didn’t tend to just stand around on our train platforms just because they thought it was fun so I whipped the kids over for them to catch not just one train but two trains coming by and stopping. I think this was my oldest munchkin’s dream come true we had driven past the tracks and trains a lot but never have I taken them down to stand on the platform and watch them come and go.  He liked it so much he asked to see more and there happened to be another stop a little bit ahead so we walked up to that train stop and he was able to watch two more trains come and go. Anyways while we were doing all this I was able to get this shot of letters!

{Metal}

Another shot I got during the train excitement!  Metal was another one that I really wasn’t getting any inspiration on what to do with it I knew I had to take a walk to find something interesting……….I was excited when I got this one home and saw that there was metal all over the place from the benches to the tracks and even the chain link fence in the background. It was a metal wonderland;-)

{Trees}

Found this lovely row of trees on a small Catholic Church’s property! I’ve always liked that Church because my grandparents are Catholic so it reminds me of them and my Grandpa use to always joke about having people naming their son Henry and their daughters Henrietta well this small lil Catholic Church happens to be named “St.Henry’s” so in two ways it makes me think of that set of grandparents. Grandpa will never know it since he is no longer with us but if I end up having another baby boy some where down the road his middle name will be Henry after my man’s Grandpa, but I think something inside me knows my Grandpa would have gotten a smile out of the fact that one of his grandkids took his advice and used the name Henry even if it is a middle name.

Haha well I guess I was little more rambling this time talking about my pictures I really had such a blast walking around town with my munchkins I tend to get more talkative when I’m excited! I hope everyone enjoys looking at them as much as I enjoyed taking them!

You can check out other people’s findings over at Ashley’s where others are linking up to….. Maybe you should consider doing a little “hunting” yourself and link up with her next week!

To walk among the pansies is truly a delight, there is something so deep and rich about those small flowers.  Today I spotted a patch of them that were what first came to mind a “Gothic Pansy” they were just such a beautiful deep black. They gave me such a thrill to see them I have a soft spot for the Gothic look (a different story for another time).  I ended up going past them but couldn’t get them out of my mind so after goings down the street a ways I whipped back around and I knew I had to capture those lovely gothic flowers in a picture.  I thought it was ironic that when some people hear the word “Gothic” they think of dark and death, that there happened to be a lot of dead worms right on the out skirts of those “Gothic Pansies” honestly there were more dead worms there then I think I’ve ever seen in one place.  To me a lot of Gothic looking items from jewelry to buildings to even the “Goths” in school can have such an amazing look to them there is a beauty about them. The picture doesn’t quiet catch how deep they looked in real life but I hope it captured it enough to give you a taste of their loveliness.

{Sidewalk}

Loved how the flowers were growing perfectly over the curb of the sidewalk.

{Inspiring}

Thankful for those people that sacrifice their time and possibly their lives to protect others.

{Time}

Got all 3 munchkins clothes picked out and piled neatly time for them to wake up and have a fun day of playing.

{Close-up}

Passing a ladybug from daddy to son.

{Mirror}

Was at a friends house watching most of her munchkins and my own saw these lovely flowers sitting next to her mirror in one of their bathrooms and knew I found my mirror shot for this week.

{Shadow}

Out on a mini walk with my lil man loved the shadows from the sunset.

{Keys}

Daddy multi-tasking.

{Smile}

I was so EXCITED to be taking this super cute couple’s pictures seriously the giggles and smiles were in abundance with their puppy love.

{Unedited (SOOC)}

Our lil cheese ball!

{Fish}

One of our babies’ favorite afternoon snack!

{Yellow}

Yellow stripes

{Something That Makes Me Smile}

Silly Girl

{Antique}

The wedding rings to the right was Grandma’s

{Splash}

Clean Fresh Fruit

{In The Sun}

Flowers drinking in the sun.

Chile Egg Puff
10 Eggs
½ C. Flour
1 t. Baking Powder
½ t. salt
1lb. jack cheese (shred)
½ C. Butter (Melted)
1 pt. Cottage Cheese
2 Cans (4oz) Diced Green Chiles

Beat eggs until lemon colored. Add flour, baking powder, salt, cottage cheese, jack cheese and melted butter, blend.  Stir in chiles. Pour mixture into well buttered 9” x 13” baking dish.  Bake at 350 for 35 minutes.

This is me. I know that doesn’t say much about who I am or anything. Be rest assured I’m getting to that part. I always feel a little shy about saying that I am creative cause well I was never one to sit there and make my own patterns up(For some reason in my mind that means I’m not as creative as the next person). I actually really enjoy finding other people’s patterns and ideas, then trying them out see if I can meet the challenge of making it sometimes I will be done after one time of doing the pattern, other times I’ll love it and try it in different ways.  My favorite I think would be knitting(though its always hard to choose a favorite way of being creative)….. But I love to crochet, make note cards, scrapbook, take pictures and try new crafts…… ohhh and of course sewing! I also enjoy writing in different fonts(with my hand not with the computer) and see cool new ways of writing things I have a strange love of using different colors of ink when using a pen.  Isaac helped me discover that I love to cook and try different creative ways of cooking and actually understanding cooking for more then just a recipe. Things I would like to try more of is jewelry making, drawing, writing and seriously it would be sweet to work with revamping furniture/woodwork in very cool exciting ways. I have to admit I would really love to make my own patterns specially for knitting not really sure how to learn about that but we’ll see. So here is my problem I’m not totally overly skilled in any of these areas mainly because I like doing all of them and I would like to be a little more talented in at least some of them. So why do I like so many crafts? Am I just not committed to focusing on one thing and becoming extremely talented in that area and make it my “niche”? Honestly I ask myself that same question and normally my mind just says  “Just like Grandma”.

There are moments in life that happen in a split second that change your life forever…… One of those moments happened in January….. I’m mainly writing this cause I don’t want to forget what happened as time gets farther away the feelings from then are starting only to feel like being numb all over and a chill running up my back…….. Some of the people reading this would guess I am talking about giving birth to our 3^rd child and yes that was a moment that felt longer then a split second that changed my life forever…… it was actually about 10-20 minutes after giving birth to Jackson that I am talking about………

The nurses had just taken Jackson off to do the normal check the baby, weight and all that good stuff. Isaac, Mom and I were sitting there looking at each other the excitement of having the new baby was over flowing in the room.  We had a phone call literally minutes before Jackson was pushed out of me I knew it was one of our friends from YWAM I had been a little bit confused at why Isaac was on the phone right before I was going to push Jackson out so of course naturally I remembered back and decided to ask him what our friend had to say. “It wasn’t good news…..Do you really want me to tell you?” There was a bit more conversation that I really don’t remember but the only words I do remember from Isaac’s lips were “there was an accident…. HP died.” The first thing out of my mouth was “are you joking?” my whole body and mind went numb all over just like in books.  Never in my life had I ever felt the deepest form of happiness and horrific pain at the same time. It was beyond the weirdest thing to have the overwhelming excitement of giving birth completely mixed with the loss of one of the most wonderful people that have ever been created.  I’m not being dramatic she really was that FANTASTIC!!! It’s been about 5 months since that day happened and people are still writing on her facebook on regular bases of how much they love and miss her….  I wasn’t as close to Heather as many of my YWAM friends were and my heart hurts for those friends. With how hard it has been for me I almost went into full depression from the second Isaac told me, I can’t even imagine what they are all going through.  It’s hard to explain what it is like being a YWAMer basically from the moment you step foot onto your YWAM base you forever have a 3^rd family so to lose a YWAMer was like losing a sister.

There has been so many times in the last 5 months that I have thought of HP and wanted to write something about her I will admit this isn’t my best writing but I just wanted to always have something written about this moment in life. Might I also add DON’T JUDGE Isaac for telling me right after giving birth to Jackson there was no perfect time to tell me something like that, he was really scared someone else might actually slip and tell me and he knew that I needed to find out from him.  The quote at the top of this is the last thing that HP put on her facebook it was her farewell message to all of us.  A plain and simple reminder that is needed on a regular bases!

Today June 15 is H’s birthday! “Happy Birthday HP!!!!! We love and miss you and talk about you all the time.”