wooooow. 

I do not think Aaron and Elijah are capable of being serious in a photo

                                                     
                                                         he's "all cited for Christmas'

                                                           
                             Rachel : "mawahaha. *starts laughing like crazy* lets make weird faces."

 
                                          he's all "super duper cited for Christmas"
       

                                                      I have the best siblings ever.

I love shooting during golden hour, but nobody ever wants to pose for me or do hair flips. Rachel wanted to yesterday, so I took a few pictures of her, but they ended up turning into"oh, lets make faces and stomp on ant hills and have fire ants crawl up our feet" pictures. [by the way, I'm in the middle of redesigning my blog, so if things look weird...]

:P accidental shot

            aha. ignore my expression. I was trying to mimic Jack Sparrow and failed miserably.

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.

Puppies!

Meet our two new puppies. Our two nameless puppies.

Well what do you think? The brown one is mine, she is the littlest. And my mom picked out the spotted one. (I'm glad she did) And now I need name suggestions. They are both girls =) I'm thinking of naming mine Cappuccino, but not sure yet..? What do you think I should name them?

-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

Random post. Only because..

I couldn't think of anything else to post.I don't usually like doing tags, but this one looked kind of fun.. So I think I'll do that. Here goes a random tag...

8 books I've read recently:
I can't remember all of them.. I've been reading a lot lately.

8 Songs or Albums I listen to all the time:
1. You love me anyway (Sidewalk Prophets)
2. Sea of Faces (Kutless)
3. The Words I would say (Sidewalk Prophets)
4. 10,000 Miles (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
5. Halley came to Jackson (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
6. Take me in (Kutless)
7. Promise of a lifetime (Kutless)
8. What Faith can Do (Kutless)

(I love a ton of other songs, those are just some I listen to.)

8 Things I love:
1. Jesus Christ
2. My Bible
3. My parents and my siblings
4. Writing!
5. Friends
6. Books
7. Photography and Cameras.
8. Milk Chocolate

8 new recipes I want to try and make by the end of the year:
1. Uh.
2. Not sure.
3. Just a recipe?
4. Something Chocolate
5. Pizza!.
6. Who said I liked to cook?
7. Cookies?
8. Cinnamon rolls.


8 Favorite online hangouts:
1. Gmail chat
2. Google Buzz
3. Zee Chocolate Box
4. ......
5 .........
6. ....
7......
8. I don't "hangout" much on the internet..


8 Projects I need to work on:
1. Reading my bible
2. Earning Money for a Camera I want
3. Working on my math better
4. Getting a better school schedule
5. Improving my relationship with my sisters
6. The Piano, I need to get better
7. Get together a slideshow of my photography
8. Learn the violin.

8 random things about yourself:

1. I'm 5.6 ish.

2. I fence a lot

3. I love Oatmeal Chocolate chip cookies

4 . I love writing pages and pages of letters

5. I re-read the letters I get from my pen pals constantly

6 . I ♥ History

7. Math isn't my favourite subject in school

8. I love BBC series ♥

8 Movies you've seen recently or watching

1. Wives and Daughters (BBC)

2. North and South (BBC)

3. Little Dorrit (BBC)

4. Fiddler on the Roof

5. Men of Honor (I have brothers!)

6. The Rock

7. Lord of the Rings

8. Pirates of the Caribbean (The first one)

8 of your favourite foods

1. Does Chocolate count?

2. Potato soup

3. Chicken salad

4. Flat bread Pizza

5. White Chili

6. Chocolate cake

7. Chocolate Chip Oatmeal cookies

8. Tortilla soup

8 people I think should do this tag:
Well.. If you want to do it, go ahead!

Well.. Thats about it. I'll do a better post soon. (When I can think more)

God bless!

"Oh lets go fly a kite! Up through the atmosphere where the air is clear!"

I so enjoy picking random titles. But I suppose later on in the post the title won't be so random. It just seems really random now. But you shall see.

(He's just so cute!)

A warning. This will be a pretty long post, I have a lot to talk about. Lets start with my new template. I've been working on my template for a few days. It wasn't cooperating at first. But I think I have it now.

(My little "Ladybug")

I'm still changing a few things around, but it should be complete soon, and then I'm going to leave it alone until Summer. That's my plan anyway. I'm thinking about having a giveaway. I have two polls on the sidebar, if you would kindly do those, I would much appreciate it. I think I'll need a few more readers before I do the giveaway, because it wouldn't be any fun if just 5-6 people entered. And that wouldn't be much fun.

(Oh golly gee! A giraffe! (Elijah) )

If you get what I mean. Last weekend here in Oklahoma it was pretty chilly. But this weekend, well I should say Saturday. Was absolutely lovely. Its Sunday now, and the temperature is 38 and sunny. I ran outside barefoot to grab something from the car. (I had to go through the backyard, around the house and out the gate, because I couldn't go through the front door, the floor was wet.) And it doesn't feel much like 38.

(The cutest little Mickey Mouse I've ever seen! (Aaron) )

Loverly day again! Last weekend we got a bit of snow, not even an inch though. It snowed all day Monday, but the ground was too warm, and the snow melted immediately when it touched the ground. Twas terribly sad.. Sunday I made Hot Chocolate and Sweet Potato cookies, and we watched a snow movie, it had just started snowing them, it was nice.

(Abi and Micah being silly :D )

But no snow now. If you look out the window you wouldn't be able to tell it was January. *grumbles* January is suppose to be snowy! Not sunny! I'll stop complaining about the weather though. I've been wanting to write long random letters in my red ink pen lately. (Too weird!) So in the last week I've sent four letters all written in a lovely red ink.

(Micah smiling behind the counter!)

But I'm crazy that way. I like writing letters. Looong letters are fun also. The biggest letter I've ever written is 14 pages long. O.o I have TWO new pages on my blog! (I deleted two though to make space for my two new ones) : Adventures of Chicken (Where you can go and read all about my little Doodad)

(Micah in a box. He dumped all the toys out of it first)

and : The Author (Which is basically an "About Me" page, just a little different though). And now I have some pictures to show you. (Besides the ones you've randomly been seeing!) (Some of these pictures will explain the title) Alright, here we go!

"Ohhhh let's go fly a kite up to the highest height! Lets go fly a kite and send it soaring up through the atmosphere up where the air is clear! Oh, lets go fly a kite!"

"Once you send it flying up there, all at once your lighter than the air!"

"You can dance on the breeze over Alpses and trees with your fist holding tight to the string of your kite!"

"Oooh lets go flight a kite! Up to the highest heights!"

"Lets go fly a kite and send it soaring up through the atmosphere up where the air is clear!"

"Oh lets go fly a kite!"

I think as you can see by the pictures, Micah and I had a very fun time "flying through the air". It was hysterical watching his little face and listening to him squeal!

God bless!

Just the way I dance.

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Aren't I the confusing one? I think only one of my friends will be able to read the title, without using a translator. I really like German. A lot. I got a tiny little English to German, German to English dictionary at the bookstore the other day, its very helpful, I like it a lot. Speaking of Languages, my mom has started me on Latin. I'm not so sure I like it yet, its interesting and I think today it made some sense.... Why oh why does this always happen to me? Every time I sit down to write a blog post (When I have time!) I can never ever think of something to say. I guess this shall be a very random blog post, because I have lots of random facts/information to share.

Let's start with Black Mint Gum. Yeah. Black Mint Gum. Its good, but the black part of the gum looks weird. Its just sort of weird chewing a black piece of soft mint tasting stuff. Random...

I'm currently working on two short stories for a children's magazine. I'm also edited one of my short stories I had written a few months back. One of the short stories is actually about writing. Maybe I'll post it after I get it all written. I should probably post a chapter or two of my NaNo novel. Though it isn't done yet. Its January, back to writing!

I've started a photography blog. I had one before, but I didn't like it, and it wouldn't let me post pictures because of the template. You can now find my photography blog here. I'm sorry if the template is kind of a mess, I'm working on it soon though!

Well, this isn't as long as I wanted it to be, but it will have to work for right now. I'll try and get on tomorrow and write a real blog post! Oh, by the way, do you like my new template? I still haven't gotten it all set up, but I'm working on it!

God bless!

A post for Emma.

If I remember correctly Emma, I told you a little bit about Cheezer in one of my letter's to you. I think I said, once you got the letter, I'd blog about Cheezer, and show you a picture of him! Well, here is Cheezer. (I actually have 3 Cheezer's.... But the one below is the favourite in my family)

(He's waving)
(He thinks he's shy, but he's really not)
(He's getting comfortable)
And that's Cheezer. He likes getting pictures taken of himself ;)

Gott segne und frohe Weihnachten!