Photography Challenge Week #2

Week #2 of our photography challenge is What Makes You Smile? 

Since last week Miles seemed to take front and center of my self portrait, I decided I needed to find something else to photograph.  While there are several things that make me smile, husband, family, friends, I thought those would be too easy.  So I thought all day about it yesterday and on my home from work I heard the new Rascal Flatts song on the radio.  A light bulb went off!  I LOVE Rascal Flatts.  I can remember the first time I heard Praying for Daylight, I was a sophomore in high school and had just gotten my drivers license (this does age me) and I've been in love ever since!

So this week's photo is of my Rascal Flatts Cd's (this is by no means my entire collection :)) 

Ryan and I went to CMA Fest in June and got to see Rascal Flatts, very fun!!

On a side note, a friend of mine from high school had a sweet baby boy yesterday.  Right after he was delivered they found some severe heart defects and had to rush him to the children's hospital.  You can read more about it here.   It makes my heart smile how many people have wrapped them in love and prayers already, but they could really use your prayers. 

Photography Challenge: Week 1

My friend LB from A Step In The Journey  created a Photography Challenge to do every week.  I decided to join in on the fun!  Ryan got me a Canon for Christmas right before we got married.  While I have taken great pictures with it, none of them have been because of talent, it's just a nice camera with a great zoom.  I've been meaning to learn more about my camera for a while now and thought this would be the perfect opportunity.

Week 1 is a self portrait, so here is what I came up with.  I set up the self timer and of course, Miles just couldn't resist, he had to be front and center!

Getting a little dusty

A few months ago Ryan and I found a great china hutch at goodwill for $25.  It was a steal! There were several people in the store asking about it after we had already purchased it.  We felt pretty good about it and were super excited about it!  We figured a little sanding, a little touch up and maybe some stain or new paint and it would be good to go!  We were WRONG!! This has been the never ending project.  We worked on it a few weekends ago for hours and it felt like we had not done anything!

Mrs Pace sent over a few photos from our work day...

Since the process is moving so slooooow, I figured I would bring a few pieces home with me to work on to hopefully speed up the process.  With this new beauty,

I got to work for a little while this afternoon and I thought I would share what Miles thought of the process.

 

It took me about 45 minutes, but I think I made a lot of progress, plus a huge mess.



Things I'm Loving...

There are a few things recently that I found that I just love, so I thought I would share!

First off, I love that my in laws are giving us fresh fruit and veggies every week.  I have had a fresh tomato on my sandwich every day for a week!  So yummy!

And since I have been cutting up so many tomatoes, I love my Pampered Chef tomato knife!

Yesterday I did a little shopping before our Bachelorette "party" and was able to save 48%!  I love that!  I think I actually made out a little better than that too because I got a few things for free!  One of the things I picked up on a whim, I love!  Someone is going to have to take them away from me!

On our trip to Amelia Island over Fourth of July weekend, we stopped in St. Simons on the way back.  We went to visit a coffee shop our friends, The Preston's knew about.  While there we were able to taste and purchase some of the Free Trade coffee.  We bought the coffee in whole beans, so I had to order a new coffee grinder and it finally came last night.  This morning I had a wonderful cup of Peruvian coffee.  So delicious!  Which is why it is placed on my list of things I love.

Another fun thing I'm loving right now,

I have always loved Hobby Lobby for their inexpensive home goods and the amount of crafting items, but when we moved, that meant we moved away from the Hobby Lobby.  I have been desperate to get to one so I can start of some fun projects!  I finally made the trek to the closest one last week and spent an hour and a half in there!  It was wonderful, the only thing that would have made it better was a glass of iced coffee!

I also love the Harry Potter comes out on Friday!  I will probably wait a few days for the rush to die down and then go see it.  I am a little sad that this is the last movie, but still excited! 

Happy Hump Day!  Looking forward to the weekend!