Fall Festival @ Eastin's school

Just a few pictures from Eastin's Fall Festival last night

Eastin got two holes in one on Putt Putt and was loving life.

I hope everyone has a great weekend. Fall is definitely in the air here.

Her first broken bone!

Eastin was riding her razor scooter, you know the kind, with two wheels like a skateboard and handlebars (no motor), she was speeding down our driveway which has quite an incline, whips it around the front of my truck and turned too quickly and ended up in the hosepipe. She has a spiral break which will require her to be in a cast for atleast 7 weeks. She has been in a full leg cast for 2 weeks and goes this coming week and hopefully they will change it out to one that is under her knee. Our stairs in the house have been quite a challenge to say the least ~ and oh.. bathtime.. not fun, but thank goodness when they switched out her cast last week, they gave her a waterproof one. ahhhhhh....

sunday afternoon on Lake Hartwell

We decided to take a quick ride to see how much the lake has gone down.
The shoreline is growing while the lake is getting lower and lower.

I love the shot of the sailboat ~ honestly it was stressful being out on the lake.

we would go from 90 feet to 6 feet in a matter of seconds in some places.

There are docks, pontoons and jet skis sitting on dirt everywhere.

What amazes me is the ocean runners blowing down the lake wide open!

The pontoon we were on had a fish finder and oh my goodness!!

Time to head out with our poles and bait.

It would be so much fun :)

New pictures of Eastin! from sweet to rock star sassy 7 year old

love my 50mm!!

sooooooo... we have new neighbors, we haven't gotten to know them yet but I bet they were wondering what the heck their neighbor (being me) was doing today all in the flower bed. Actually I was shooting flowers and a cool a$$ spider, which Russ says is a writing spider but let me tell you ~ he is wicked!! I'll post pictures of him (or her) soon.

So.. about my 50mm.. 1st of all.. we won't tell Russ what I paid for it, some things are better kept secret... but I love how wide open the aperature can go. This pic was taken in aperature priority mode at 1.8. It is shown above taken sotc and cropping was the only editing I did! amazing.. love love love this lens!

Girls just wanna have fun!

Eastin and her cousin loved playing with halloween make-up this past weekend. Of course High School Musical 2 music was blasting and the girls had the best time just being girls! They danced and giggled

I asked Elle what she was and she said a zombie debil rockstar

(she cannot pronounce the letter "v" yet).

Fall is here....

or so the calendar says. The leaves on our dogwood trees are changing from their bright vibrant green summer color but sadly I think it is from lack of rain and not because of the chill in the air.

It is still hot as heck and ohhhhhhh the humidity.. When I go outside to take pictures, I have to take my camera out a good 5 minutes before I'm ready to start snapping so it can defog.

Cat in the Hat quilt

my blog well describes my mood lately....

blah blah blah, that is how I've been feeling for about 10 days now, I don't know if it is the change in weather, the fact that I turned 40, (yes four-teeeeee) last week or what, but I haven't been motivated to do anything that I should be doing, instead I've been doing only things I want to do. I'm entitled to do that occasionally right??

I was chatting with one of my friends and she told me that her brother and sister-in-law are decorating their nursery in Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat. Knowing I had the perfect fabrics stashed back, I thought I would make a quilt and send as a surprise gift to their baby shower this weekend.

It was fun to make, Dr. Seuss is so whimsical. A perfect theme for a baby's room!

Congrats Missy & Jeff :)

and Beth.. If you read this before you go.. no spilling the beans to your Mom!!

it's a boy!

I just found out today that my nephew and his wife are expecting a baby boy!

Congrats Billie & Jon!!!

never the same again

sea oats

I've put it off forever and a day ~

I really want to learn PhotoShop.

But I open the program up, and get overwhelmed and close it.

I'm using Picture It and am so comfortable with it, but would love love love to be comfortable with PhotoShop. If there is anyone close by that can teach an old dog new tricks :) Please help me.

Daisy chains

I remember finding daisies in the school yard and picking the petals off one by one, "he loves me", "he loves me not".... then I remember the girls getting together and making chains of daisies and we would wear them around our head, we would make bracelets and necklaces out of them too.

the tiniest frog

how amazing is this itty bitty frog??

Fruit Loops or Flowers??

oh yummmmmmmmm.... Fruit Loops....

how bad is it that I look at flowers and crave cereal??

boys will be boys

caught in the act!
watching "boats" go by..
ummmm.... yeah...
right