Last week of the photo challenge

So, here we are, at the last week of the photo challenge over at Fabulously Flawed. And since one of my resolutions is to be a better blogger, I'm participating this week. I didn't even cheat and use old photos. Not that I've done that before.

So, what are we on? 

TransportationDaily RoutineNight timeLight Self Portrait 

 1. Transportation.

This is our car. Lover's car has been in the shop for the past 2 years. No, I'm not joking. We finally have it up for sale, once it's finally fixed and running. Thank God that Lover has a few co-workers that live in our neighborhood, so I'm able to have the car most days. Am the the only one who doesn't end up with a clean car after I go to one of those self wash places? It looks dirtier than it did before I "washed" it.

2. Daily Routine

I'm using a picture of Ava as my daily routine, since my day revolves around her. If she's in a good mood, then a lot of stuff gets done. If she's not and wants to snuggle, well, the chores can wait.

3. Night Time

I suck and has no peekture.

4. Light

I am in love with these lamps. I won a giveaway for a $50 gift card to Target, and I picked up two of these bad boys. I want to raise them up a bit though, just need to find someone with a chainsaw so I can get a slice of tree to put under it. I don't know if that makes sense. Anywho. In the background you can see a sneak peek of the wall that I almost died while painting. 

5. Self portrait. 

Yeah, I refuse to post a pic of how I look right now. I've been sick for about 2 weeks now. Congested, runny nose, cough, achy, my head feels fat. And I've been hiding in sweat pants and a hat so I don't have to do my hair. So I couldn't in good conscience subject you to a pic of that. It's probably burn your eyes. So here is a pic of my dog. Since, well, I feel like dog doo right now. Doesn't he look pitiful? He was begging to get in my lap. He's convinced that if he's not in my lap during a car ride that he'll fall over and die.

So there ya go. Go check out Lesley's blog, I heart her. You will too.

Photo Challenge Monday

So, I'm a horrible bloggy buddy. My buddy Lesley told me about her photo challenge, and gave me plenty of notice to prep, and I totally spaced on doing it last week. Bad Jen! I totally blame it on Blogger/Google reader, her posts were getting eaten.

16. Animals

Since I already posted a pic of my dog when this challenge first started, I thought I'd go a different way on this one. We took the girls to the pond yesterday and fed the birds. Ava LOVED it. She kept clapping and pointing at them. Melted my little heart!

17. Memories

Now, one thing you won't catch me doing on this blog is bitching or trash talking my ex. Not my style, I think it's tacky. But you need a bit of back story to understand my complete and utter joy when I found these pics this morning. When I left my ex, it was in a rush, and I didn't get a chance to take any of the pictures of my girls with me (darn you, digital age when everything is on the computer!) and he's never emailed them to me. And now that we are on speaking terms, he told me that his computer crashed and he can't recover any pictures. :( So I have very few pictures of my oldest from ages 2.5 and under, and even less photos of my middle daughter from ages 1 and younger. So you can imagine my surprise this morning when I found these pics hidden in the recesses of my email! I had emailed them to my now husband when we were still just dating, and somehow still had them attached to the email when he replied. So grateful to have found these. So yes, I didn't take these this week, but I did find them, so that should count, right Lesley?


18. Something New

Okay, I know I'm not the only one who hasn't heard of a cookie party? My friend Megan hosted one on Saturday. You can go to her blog and read more about the party here, but basically you bake 4 dozen cookies, bring them, and everyone trades. Gives you a ton of homemade cookies, without all the work. Did I mention that I won the prestige of "Best Cookie", for looks and taste? You'll have to go to her blog and see what I made. Spend time looking around her blog, she does so much stuff, it's unbelievable. Furniture refinishing, painting, etc. Did I mention that we've been friends for 16 years? Yowzas. Yes, I'm a bit red in the pic. I may or may not have had 4 glasses of her cranberry margaritas. Oops. 

19. Best Friend. 

Sounds totally cliche, but it's my husband. Anyone who can take on my two kiddos, give me one more perfect one, and love me despite all my faults? Yeah, those are totally best friend qualities. Plus he's hot.

20. Seasonal. 

Our Christmas tree. Would you be able to guess that we have a toddler in the house?

Boom. Mission complete.

Photo Challenge, week 2

So. Yeah. Lesley's photo challenge came out on Monday, but you'll have to forgive my laziness lack of time, since I'm just now getting around to it. 





So I told ya last week that we'd be doing 5 at a time. You don't have to do all 5, which relieves some of the pressure. 

You should do it. All the cool kids are. 

Day 6 Books

I've been reading a lot of children's books lately. Ava has just recently discovered a love of books. She always wants to be read to. She'll crawl over to you and try and hand you a book, and God help you if you don't take it from her quickly enough, or she'll hit you with it. Ever been clocked in the ankle with a cardboard book? No bueno. 

Day 7 Something Funny

The Cam Wow app on the iPhone. It's awesome. My girlfriend Christy had it, I've never heard of it. It's pretty cool, you can see in the screen what your pic will look like (depending on the place on the screen, things either bloat or pucker). Seriously, I was laughing so hard I could barely take the pic). I texted the pic to my husband and said "My my, aren't you a lucky man?"

Day 8 Favorite Color

Yeah, I'm lame and don't have a pic of this, but I'll share anyway. Favorite colors are turquoise and red. Favorite colors to wear are dark gray and black. Exciting, right? Seems like I always gravitate towards gray and black when I'm buying new clothes. 



Day 9 Inspiring person

That would be my momma. She's one of those "would give you the shirt off of her back" type of people. She's awesome. Growing up we didn't get along AT ALL. But as I've grown up, and she's relaxed, she's my best friend now. Always willing to drive over to watch the girls, come help me clean or do housework, stuff like that. She's good people. 

Day 10 Nature

I guess this counts as nature. This was taken on my oldest daughter's field trip on Thursday. We went to the Dallas Heritage Village. You got to see what life was like in the early 1900's. Looking at the beds and shoes, people were so much smaller back then. It was really neat to see the clothes and pictures, and it was fun to walk around. Well, it was fun when I wasn't threatening to strangle my child because she kept running off, and I had 5 other kids to keep track of. Butthead. 

So there you have it, folks. 

Photo Challenge, Days 1-something

Remember how I told you that my bloggy buddy Lesley is doing a photo challenge? Somehow I missed her post on Monday. Stoopid Google Reader. 

The first challenge? Days 1-5.

 

Today you can link up one, all or a few of the following:

1. Favorite food

2. Smile

3. Happiness

4. Leaves

5. Morning sky

Day Uno, favorite food. 

That would be Sea Salt and Vinegar chips. Most specifically, the Miss Vickie's brand. Lays (NOT the kettle cooked ones, bleh) come in a close second. I got hooked on these when Ava was in the NICU all of those long months. But I love these so much that I can't buy them. I'll go through an entire big bag in one sitting. My Heaven involves Sea Salt & Vinegar chips, and Cherry Cokes. 

Day Two - Smile

This smile completely brightens my day. I know all parents love their kids, but after seeing all we've been thru with Ava, with her 7 surgeries, I'm just so much more thankful every time I see her smile. 

Day Three. Happiness. 

I'm going to be generic and say my family. But it's more than that. I, of course, love my husband, and he treats me like no one ever has before. But he's such an awesome daddy to my three girls. My two older girls are from a previous marriage, but he treats them like his own. There is no difference to him between my older two and Ava. There is no "step" children and "real" children. I know he'd walk through fire for every single one of those girls. 

Day four, leaves

The great thing about this challenge? You can interpret it any way you want. Like this pic, it's not exactly a picture of leaves. But there are leaves in the pic. This is my front yard as it sat yesterday. My dad and mom have been kicking butt on getting it done. Hubby and my father in law also got in on the action. I'm so excited to see it finished, and it's such a wonderful feeling to know that all of these people are working so hard, for free, to make your home beautiful. 

Day 5, Morning Sky. 

Yeah, I don't have anything. :( I'll be better prepared next week. 

So there you have it. Go check out Lesley's blog, cause she's awesome.