Signs around Campus

Today we are capturing signs.  Yesterday I took my time to slowly walk home and take pictures of this campus I have spent the last two and a half years at.  Here are some fun signs I found around Vanderbilt.

That's the chairman of my department

Imagine that ... I found a lot of 'V' around Vandy

and here is my favorite sign:

did you miss that?  It said:

LOL!

Audrey

My precious Audrey

Baby Love

The above picture is entered

Happiness is my baby's eyes and the joys and wonders that fill them.

A is for Audrey

Snapshot

Audrey learning to clap -- a snapshot of my day

Happiness is watching my baby learn and enjoy the little things in life.

can you just stay little forever?

Week 1

Day 1

9/1/10

Today was the first day to my last weeks at Vanderbilt.

Day 2

9/2/10

Tiny little flowers outside our apartment

Day 3

9/3/10

I call these 'Parking Lot Fairs'.  Leah got to ride 3 rides and had a wonderful time.

Day 4

9/4/10

The return of college football, and Auburn showed up scoring 52 points!

Day 5

9/5/10

Leah coloring in the sun with her markers.

Day 6

9/6/10

We had a play date with my best friend and her kids.  Audrey (9 months) is in the skirt, Isiah (3 months) is in the blue, and Kensley (3 months) is eating her dress.

Day 7

9/7/10

Good morning sky

I think this week, I'll try to pick pictures with faces in them, lol.

Coloring on a Sunday

I took a lot of pictures this weekend ... and editing already sounds like a nightmare.  Maybe that's why all my photos seem (to me) to just have a very basic edit on them.  Sometimes I think they lack that *punch* or something different, special and unique; something more than just the way the photo is taken.  So, I'm going to try something different.  I'm going to convince myself that I don't have to churn out all my photos in one day, and take my time and play with my favorites ... well, because I can!

SOCC:

It's not a big edit, but I think it gives the picture a bit of something extra ... what do you think?

Lazy Day Saturdays

I love looking at other blogs.  I love the inspiration that comes from stalking enjoying other people's work.  I love the will that I have to go out and use the inspiration, to tweak it into my style.  So, I'm going to share it with you, because I also love people who share their latest inspirations for me to be inspired by as well!

Hence week one of Lazy Day Saturdays.  Lazy -- because I don't have to blog, I'm lazily copying sharing other people's work with you!

Enjoy

{Divas and dreams Photography}

You have to go read her post The Naked Truth.

{WhileWondering}

Etsy shop from Daily Cupcake

{Dropped Stitches}

Note cards ... this and more found here at her Etsy store
Erin just started taking pictures for her note cards, and I think they are wonderful!  I hope to one day be able to sell my photos as prints or cards!

{Studio JRU}

I love how she takes Bible verses and displays them as beautiful wall art!

Hope you enjoyed my latest stolen inspirations

Is this something you would like to do too?  Let me know ... I'll add a linky next week...

If you were featured, would you like a button?

A Balancing Act

There are some new photo challenges popping up in Bloggyland ... and they want to know about me ... with pictures.  So, I'll share some of my deep thoughts that I usually only bother the followers on my other blog about, lol.

(i went over 3 pictures ... sorry ... sometimes I'm a rule-breaker)

Now that I'm a mom, I have to balance doing stuff that I enjoy with my kids.  I enjoy fantasy football.  It has always been something that my husband and I could do together, starting off when we were dating.  We joined our church league last year, and this year had a live draft.  While everyone else made fun of other people's picks, planned who to take next, and focused on football ... I had to split my focus between football and my two darling girls.

'Christy it's your turn to pick ... you have 2 minutes.'  What!  I don't even know what the last 5 picks were because I was chasing a baby around a non-baby-proofed house.

Everybody else studied their picks ... while I made a bottle for the baby

and then ran around the house trying to make sure my 3 year old wasn't breaking anything while playing with the other kids there (all 7 and older)

Pets

and then for the last half hour or so, I gave my cherished camera to Leah so she would stop whining about wanting to go home.  She took this picture ... I love it!  to me ... this is the balancing act that mother's go through ... this is me ... balancing mommyhood and fantasy football

sporting my Tennessee Titans jersey!

I had fun ... you know ... the kind of fun where you want to go home and have a beer to relax from the fun

(yes I shared this before ... but it's from that night and fits, lol)

Perspectives

I'm average to short when it comes to height (5' 3") so I'm used to looking up at pretty much everything.  So as a challenge, I decided to look down while hanging out with my girls and taking pictures.  Here's what I got ...

 

... the above picture is entered here ... oh, and we have a sandbox; hence the sandy feet, I'm not just dirty, lol