Featured Twice.... So Honored!

I am part of a Flickr Group that is participating in a 52 week photography challenge.

 

I have thoroughly enjoyed this challenge, I feel like my skills as a photographer have definitely grown.  I love to ponder the weekly theme, then visualize the shot, then make it happen.

 

I really like when it all turns out. Makes me feel kinda grown up, lol.

 

Anyway... I have been featured as Eye Candy 2 of the last 3 weeks, WOOHOO!

 

Check it out!

 

http://myfourhensphotography.com/photographers/

 

ID is Mom212345

 

 

 

You can also check out my Flickr Page for this group...

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30415084@N08/

 

 

 

All photos are copywrited by Desertbloom Photography

A week in the life...

What a week it's been!

 

First, the election.

I know God's in control and this is all part of His great plan.

It still saddens me to see our country in such a moral decline.

 

Then... the car caught on fire while McGyver was out of town.

It was an electrical issue and fortunately I was able to keep calm and take care of most of the problem, still called 911 though.

Made pumpkin muffins to thank the firemen/women.

 

McGyver came home immediately after hearing about the car. He was in Colorado working on the Little Blue House. He got home Thursday morning, around 3am.

Friday morning, we woke up and he offered to go get coffee.
He came running back upstairs and said

"we've got a puppy!"

 

Huh?

 

So I threw on my bathrobe & came down to find Miss Ruby giving birth to #2. Then #3. Then #4. Poor little doggie! Then #5!

3 boys and 2 girls.

So sweet!

 

 

Friday, our Ely friends came to visit and spend the night.

The 2 older girls were fighting for the State Championship (soccer) here in the desert.

It was our first cold night of the season, and it wasn't only cold, but windy too.

Brrrr!

 

 

The Middle Child...

This is my middle child.

He is such a treat!

 

He plays guitar - classical, electric, and acoustic. He plays clarinet. He writes very tiny and with very little pressure on the pencil. His artwork is very detailed. His room is a mess. He likes coffee. He is going to be an engineer. He was a preemie. He is going to be very tall. He is getting very handsome. Very, very handsome.

And he is a Momma's boy!

 



Around the House....



 

 

A  game of Risk takes up the day...

quilts everywhere...

cups everywhere...

shoes everywhere...

Little Bear's everywhere...

Romney- Ryan Rally

Today we went to the Henderson Pavillion for the
Romney-Ryan Rally!

 

It was our Social Studies / History class field trip, lol.

 

What a neat opportunity to view some of the political hubbub going on these days.

 

Who knows when the kids will have this opportunity again.

 

 

 



And He's on His Way!

 This morning, dark and early, we arose to take Missions Boy to the airport.

 

He and his team of 11 others left for Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

They are currently in the middle of their 13 hr flight from LAX to Seoul, South Korea, then a 4 - 5hr flight to Phnom Penh.

 

I miss him terribly.

 

173 days till he is back in the country, then about another 21 till we get to see him.

 

I can't wait!



Then and Now....

Here's a photo of Missions Boy taken in May 2012...

 

nice clean cut boy, ready for missions...

 

 

 

 

He comes home tomorrow fromTwin Peaks, Ca.

He's been there 3 months, taking intense Bible classes and missions training classes.

This is what he looks like now....

 

 

 

He's not even in the jungle yet!

 

I'm heating up the wax and sharpening the razor, lol!