I Love Faces - Joy Theme

For the category "Joy" I picked out a couple of pictures from my vacation at Lake Anna in Virginia with some of my close friends and their familes. This first pictures is my adult entry. I just love how tubing behind the boat brings out the kid in all of us. The joy(or maybe fear) definitely shows on Kathy and Tonya's faces as the tube seems to leap off the water and tries to fly.

The second picture is my buddy Justin. He's 10 and this was his first time getting up on his training skiis. You can just see the joy in his face to know he did it. By the end of the week he was an old pro going in and out of the wake.

Brrr! It's Cold Outside...

I was in Illinois last week and one evening it was 34 below zero and that didn't include the wind chill. Wow! I don't think I have ever been so cold. I'm glad to be back in Virginia but it's still been very cold for this area but nothing like up north. My friend Adrienne and sister in law Andrea both posted pictures of icicles so I decided to join in the fun and post this picture that I took when I was in Ohio for a visit.

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I heart Faces - Week 2

My entry for the kids division is my niece Jubilee. She is such a little cuttlebug.

For the Adult Division I decided to use a picture of my friend Rachelle and her 13 yr. old niece who was here visiting from Ohio for a few weeks.

All my pictures so far are Straight Out of the Camera but I can't wait to start the photo class I'm taking tomorrow night. I'm hoping to learn some basic photoshop techniques among other things.

Christmas Morning 2008

All is quiet around the Christmas Tree after everyone went to bed on Christmas Eve.

The quiet wouldn't last long though. On Christmas morning we all got up early. My sister's family with her 6 kids were staying at Mom's house and they had church later that morning that is why some of them are dressed up. They don't usually wear suits and ties to open gifts. My brother's family just brought their kids over in their PJ's. This is the boys opening a gift.

Jared with a gift he just opened from Aunt Cori.
Chad and Jubilee with Curious George.
Jesse with his new sled from Grandma and Grandpa.
Laura Lee and Family singing a song, "The Twelve Day of Christmas with a Large Family" She very creatively let us know that number 7 is on the way and due around Labor Day.

Here is the video of the Plattner's sings The 12 Days of Christmas with a large family. Enjoy!

I Heart Faces

My friend Angie just started up a new photography blog "I faces". Each week there is a photo contest for Kids faces and Adult faces. For the kids face I'm putting a picture of my oldest nephew Jesse. What a ham!

For the adult post I'm putting a picture of my cousin Angie. She asked me to take some photos at her wedding in addition to what the photographer was taking. I was lucky to be in the dressing room with her and got some great shots of her as she was getting ready. She was a gorgeous bride.