dear summer and fall...

Dear Summer,
I hate to say this. but I'm so glad you're almost over. I didn't enjoy you this year. well really, I'm not a huge fan of yours. you make it incredibly difficult to take outside portraits, with that big bright yellow thing stuck right in the middle of sky. but I suppose its not entirely your fault. I'll make a deal with you. if you aren't as hot next year, as you were this year, I shall not complain about you.

Dear Fall,
Thank you for arriving just in time! I think I would have done something horrible nice to Summer if you didn't show up soon. Today was lovely. thank you very much. now if you'd be so kind to keep it that way, I'd much appreciate it.

love,
me.

Falling?

^^ Not my best, I'll probably be re-shooting the second picture soon^^

Thoughts?

Happy {One day late} 9th Birthday Abi!

Yesterday was Abi's (My little sister) 9th birthday. She's been counting down since... July 16th 2010 ;-) Anyway. I'm very sorry this is a day late!

Happy Happy 9th Birthday Abi!

I love you! ♥

[Below are some pictures of her I took in the pool yesterday, she's so cute!]

[Some of you might have noticed, I'm changing my blog around, I'm scheduling some posts, and then going to continue working on my blog template. I'll have an explanation post soon!]

-Anna

And a "Happy Birthday!" to Willow, one of my awesome friends, her birthday was yesterday also. Happy Birthday Willow! Have fun tomorrow =)

July 4th {Part Two}

I decided not to post as many pictures as I planned in this post.

Enjoy and please tell me what you think of them!

{Anna}

4th of July {Part One}

I took *so* many pictures July 4th weekend, I decided to split them up into two posts. {Note : I didn't watermark the firework pictures, only because I took so many of them I didn't have time to watermark them all. Please do not use any of my photos without my permission. Thank you very much!} Please tell me which you like best, and I will be post the second post in a few days.

{Mom and Micah}

{Elijah}

{My parents}

{And I had to throw in some Bokeh photos}

{Anna}

Lots of pictures because I'm celebrating.

If you go to this photo on my flickr, you'll find out my camera was not working properly for a while. Why it wasn't working properly : My mom and I called Canon customer service to ask about the problems with my camera. The man we talked with suggested getting a new card for it. So my mom bought a new CF card for me. (Thank you, mom!) The card I bought with my camera wasn't formatting correctly, and would randomly say "Corrupted Data" when I went to look through my pictures. Something was very wrong with that camera card.. Here are some of the photo's I took today.

I was trying to get a picture of Aaron's amazing green/brown eyes, but he wasn't cooperating, this was the only picture I got of him. He looks very sleepy.

(I like the Bokeh in the right corner)

Most of these pictures, well, all of these pictures (Except for the one of Aaron) are one's of Micah. He was playing in the freezing little pool today.

This is one of my favorites. I wish it wasn't as blurry, but it works.

Silly.

He wouldn't look directly at me...

Bleh. I wish he didn't like water so much.

He was laughing because he splashed me and got my camera wet. (Yikes)

Here he is looking at the turtle Abi found.

I love his eyes. I love taking pictures of eyes.

And my favorite, though it didn't turn out as well as I had hoped.

(Look at the Bokeh!)

That is all for now. I'll probably be posting more photo's than I usually do. I am contemplating turning this blog into a photography blog, and leaving it at that.

-Anna

Don't forget to check out Emma's bloggiversary , the first giveaway ends June 7th

Reactions when a wasp is in the house

I'm slowly writing up a long post with pictures and other random things. But its taking a while. So I thought I'd write a blog post with some random reactions and weird saying my family says. At my new house, it seems we are infested with wasps. Usually on warm days if you look out the window, you'll see my older brother running past with a stick and a can of wasp spray, yelling. He enjoys its, and everyone watching enjoys it also. Usually we get at least one wasp in the house a day. Unless its raining or the weather is cold. (Today we had a wasp in the house, and its cold today!) So, I thought I'd share the reactions of all my family members when there is a wasp in the house.

Dad : "Joshua can get it."

Mom : "Where is the wasp spray? Is it in the.."

Joshua : "Somebody bring me a broom! And a cardboard box!"

Rachel : "I'll go in my room."

Abi : "(She's usually the first to notice one. She got stung by one last summer, so she's terrified of them.) Rachel come on! (They usually both go and hide)"

Elijah : "**laughs** I got the fly swatter! (Elijah loves killing bugs, typical little boy.)

Aaron : "**continues to do whatever he was doing before."

Micah : "Anna!" (He says my name "Nana!")

And MY reaction.. Usually I don't care, or I'll run for my shoe.

All the boys enjoy killing the wasps. And Joshua wants to make a smoke bomb to throw in the attic. (Careful, my brother really does make bombs/smoke bombs. )

Joshua : "*talking to me* What's it like being the most annoying person in the entire universe?"

Me : "Annoying." (He says I'm annoying! Sheesh.)

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Me : "I miss living in Germany, don't you?"

Joshua : "*nods* I miss living in Germany."

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Me : "The murder wasn't accidental."

Kyleigh (One of my sisters, er.. Friends. She could pass for my sister though)

: "Of course not! It was accidentally on purpose!"

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Aaron : "I just teasing myself."

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Aaron : "Its floofy."

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Micah can't talk much yet, but here is a little "sample" of his conversations with himself. (He talks to himself on the phone)

"Hiiieee. Momee? Dadee!! Nana! Bop. Hiieee. Bop. Nana!!!"

We've taught Micah some sign language. He can say "Please, More and Thank You." I've tried getting him to do it on video, but of course, he'll only do it when you don't ask him to.

So here is my very random post, just because I wanted to post something. And couldn't really think of anything else to post. Besides pictures, and I think I've posted way too many picture posts over the last few weeks. But I do have to leave you with one picture.

(He's forever trying to steal my camera!)