Today has been a pretty rough day for my little boy Landon. He has been a royal pain in the ____ and I’m so ready for it to be his bedtime. It’s days like these that make me appreciate the good days. He woke up from his nap pissed off. Nothing made him happy, he was just angry. He wouldn’t eat his lunch really and didn’t want to play with his toys. He just walked around whining which was fun. I tried holding him but...

I was just having a conversation with my mother today about her philosophy, “My house, My rules.” I have had the privilege of being on both sides of that fence. As a kid growing up in her house, I dealt with having to live by her rules as most of us have while living with our parents. Some rules I agreed with and others I didn’t, but it didn’t matter if I agreed or not because I was living in her house with her...

I googled how to make animated GIF in photoshop using images and found a lot of different tutorials, most of which didn’t explain to me exactly what I was looking for. I grabbed bits and pieces of their information and stumbled through my first attempt at making an animated GIF using a series of photos. Here is a detailed tutorial on how to make an animated GIF using Photoshop. I used some screen shots because I love screenshots. If...

I decided I wanted to learn how to make an animated GIF today. I’ll post a tutorial in the very near future so you can see how I made this little GIF. I quickly grabbed my camera and shot a series of photos of my legs and feet walking in my house. It’s nothing fancy but I just needed some quick photos for my first animated GIF. I made it in Photoshop CS4. There are lots of free animated GIF-making software available online but...

I had a few more photos in my “July 2011″ folder on my desktop. I tried really hard during the month of July to photograph people and things every single day. I did a pretty good job, taking thousands of photos and being very picky about which ones to keep. As I mentioned quite a few times in other posts, I’m still trying to eliminate duplicates and multitudes of photos that are just not worth keeping from my hard drives....

My morning started out a little rough today so I threw in the towel (by 8am) and decided to spend the day finding stuff to photograph and then edit. This is what I came up...

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I grew up with music. Playing music, singing music, reading music, learning music, listening to music, thinking music, dreaming about music, seeing music, experiencing music, and loving music. When I was 5 years old I came home from kindergarten, sat down at my piano and picked out “Alouette” after singing it in Music class at school. My mother made a phone call to a wonderful woman in our church Sister Rodman and signed me up...

I love photography! It even cheers me up when I get sad. One of the fun ways I’ve found that makes me almost instantly happy is taking pictures of things I like. Even things I normally don’t care about like cans of soup, taking pictures and editing those pictures is always fun for me and brightens my day instantly! These are a few random photos I shot this morning.  

When I was a kid I used to love bath time! I would gather my toys and jump in the bath and slip into another world of water and imagination. Being a kid was so much fun. A child’s imagination is incredible really. Sometimes I’ll hear my children talking to each other and playing characters from a movie they just watched. My brother and I would watch a Disney movie or a kids’ show and then after it was over, we’d go...