May 30 2010 - Day 150

Jon bought sweet little Aurora over for a visit today. I love this picture of her sleeping in this fun chair I purchased at Home Sense. I plan to take a picture of her each month in it.

Happy One Month Birthday sweetie!

May 29 2010 - Day 149

Rain rain go away. It has been such a rainy month. This is a dandelion stem. I love the reflection of the bird feeder in the water drops

May 28 2010 - Day 148

I hate being sick :( I know a good thing to cheer me up though. This is THEE BEST chocolate cake ever.

See the secret recipe in the background? splashes of secret ingredient on the well loved paper? :D It is SO moist, and so decadent, and even not TOO sweet, very cocoa-y :D

I had a difficult time making it, even though it's not a difficult recipe, must be my groggy head... here's a little excerpt from an email I sent to a friend about the experience ;)

Clearly I am not all better.... I was making THE chocolate cake this morning, poured it into the pan, threw it into the oven and started to clean up... all of a sudden I shrieked, grabbed the oven mitts, pulled the cake out, poured it OUT of the pan into the mixing bowl and proceeded to add the 1.5 cups of sugar called for in the recipe. LOL! Thank HEAVENS it was only in the oven for about a minute.... It didn't come out of the pan very well once it was baked either as some of the marg that I buttered the pan with had melted off into the batter... BUT I prevailed... BUT then I started icing it while it was too warm and the icing started dripping off the cake... really, it was pretty darn funny... I scrapped the extra icing off the plate, let it cool (at this point it looked like the lunar surface) and finished icing it. Still looks a little odd, but I think it will taste good... I can't believe I didn't burn it too....

May 27 2010 - Day 147

Apparently it's bee week :) Trying out my macro lens. These guys are fast! I took about 60 shots, and this is the clearest. Love all the pollen on his legs.

May 26 2010 - Day 146

Popped out for a bit of fresh (rainy) air today. Caught this little bumble gathering some pollen :)

May 25 2010 - Day 145

Just playing with some textures and overlays in Photoshop today. I almost pulled out this rosebush a few years ago, and now it's almost climbing over the top of our shed.

May 24 2010 - Day 144

I was practicing with my macro lens. This is a brooch that Bruce got made of our family crest. It says 'Boldly and Vigorously' :) I'm getting sick, and not feeling that way today...

May 23 2010 - Day 143

April showers bring... May showers for my flowers. At least we don't have to water too often.

May 22 2010 - Day 142

With all the earlier good weather we had, our fruit trees are doing really well. If it would just get warmer out, we may have an early crop. I love apricots, and you can't beat fresh from your own tree.

May 21 2010 - Day 141

Okay, thought I'd TRY to step away from the baby... and I found a baby robin :D A robin built a nest in our Photenia bush right outside dh's den window. It was hard to get this picture with all the leaves in the way. I did use my looooooooong lens so as not to disturb this cute little babe too much. He (she?) definitely has an eye on me!

May 20 2010 - Day 140

What a difference having a granddaughter makes! I think I just may be developing a liking for PINK! Can you believe it? :)

May 19 2010 - Day 139

Okay, cheating a little here :) This was actually taken a few days ago, but seriously, could I find anything cuter to take a picture of? :D

I love her so much. My sweet little granddaughter, totally in a milk induced coma, lol!

May 18 2010 - Day 138

I'm making a little 8x8" scrapbook of my grandbaby :) I finally started it today. This is the first page, minus her name and stats on the bottom striped part.

It feels so good to play with paper again.

May 17 2010 - Day 137

Oh no it's the 'grammarazzi!'

I guess little Miss A had enough of grammie taking her picture. I only took 35... or so... today ; )

She's SO cute I can't help myself.

May 16 2010 - Day 136

Once again Penny stole the show today. One of her new favorite places to sleep is right in front of the TV. Here she is listening to a little soft rock... Looks like I caught her mid yawn. Sorry girl, is our choice of music boring you?

May 15 2010 - day 135

Wow what a gorgeous few days it's been. Our Pin Oaks that we planted in the back yard are finally leafing out :) They look so gorgeous against the blue sky.

May 14 2010 - Day 134

I think I've discovered a new species of 'hummingbird'!

It looks suspiciously like a Red Finch ;) It certainly loves hanging out drinking hummingbird food.

I 'almost' caught all of him leaping off the feeder in this photo.

May 13 2010 - Day 133

I went to a friends Stamping Up party tonight and we made this FUN sproingy card. This is just a quick snapshot from the side. How fun is that? And it was pretty easy too! :D Bonus!

May 12 2010 - Day 132

Is this not THE cutest little chair you've ever seen? It's child size (as you can see by Jack posing beside it) It will be great for taking portraits, and also perfect for a certain little girl ;)

May 11 2010 - Day 131

I need to get Miss A over for another photo shoot :) For now I'm just playing. I was trying some different things with my off camera flash, and thought this was interesting.

May 10 2010 - Day 130

Proud Grandpa. Sweet Baby. Touching moment.

May 09 2010 - Day 129

Perfect.

May 08 2010 - Day 128

Is there ANYTHING cuter than baby feet? I don't think so! :)

May 07 2010 - Day 127

Yay! I got to visit with Miss A today. It's so good to see mommy, daddy and baby all looking so well.

I managed to get a few pictures. Hope to get more soon! :D Look at those sweet smooshy lips.

May 06 2010 - Day 126

ahhhhh.... sigh. So beautiful and so peaceful.

May 05 2010 - Day 125

This sunrise photo was actually taken on April 30th. I took it after I got back from the hospital after seeing my amazing daughter in law give birth to my granddaughter. Life is such a miracle.

May 04 2010 - Day 124

Another picture of my sweet smelling roses. Trying some fun overlay textures on this one :)

May 03 2010 - Day 123

Bruce got me a beautiful bunch of roses on my birthday/our anniversary. I finally got around to taking a picture of them today with all the 'baby' things happening :)

Thanks sweetie!

May 02 2010 - Day 122

Love this picture of 'my little boy' with his daughter :)

May 01 2010 - Day 121

I never realized how wonderful it would be to be a grandma :) It is an amazing feeling. Love you little miss A :D