a post, from Rachel!

This wasn't my idea. Anna wanted me to make a post. I really don't know what to say. Actually Anna forced me to. She didn't shove me in the chair and say "Make a post" she just told me to please make a post so you see I was really the one who made the decision. Now do you see what I mean? It's really confusing. Okay, back to I don't know what to say. I had a blog, but the site that it was on changed. So I don't have one now. It was called Always Little. A friend made the template for me and that was deleted. I was so sad when I saw it. And all of my posts were deleted. I think you get the picture. Micah, one of my little brothers, is so cute! He's the cutest baby ever! He has curly blond hair and the bluest eyes and the cutest smile. I need to go. Bye!

and that concludes Rachel's post..

[i have decided. If I can't figure out what to post about, I will force ask one my siblings or parents to write a blog post for me]

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.

aye, that be my family.

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.

Once again. Anna posts. About?

I sit here staring at my blog, and I can't figure out what to post. I hate it when this happens. I want to post something, but what? And so I'll leave you to be baffled by my brothers magic skills in this video of his. He's. so. cool. >.<

-Anna

-And I forgot to mention, I finally got most of my pages up.

What do to when its 100+ degrees outside

Start to make no-bake cookies, but realize you have no oatmeal.

So you're stuck with a pan of melted butter and four cups of sugar.

Via

Filling up half a dozen water bowls [Half a dozen times a day]

for your puppies, because they like to play in the water and tip the bowls over.

Via

Stare at popcorn and try to decide what the kernels look like [Besides popcorn]

Via

Write. [Or do what I did and...] Sit in the closest and stare at a piece of blank paper.

Via

Sit in a chair with one of your younger brothers and make weird faces at the camera.

{Mine}

Make weird faces at the camera, while you're suppose to be doing a serious photo shoot

{Mine}

And recently we started reading the bible in the mornings with the little kids. The three older kids have to have one of the three younger kids as their "Bible Buddies" I get fought over a lot ;-) But its been very enjoyable, and I look forward toward it every morning. Its cute seeing the little kids pray =)

Via

And one more.

Don't look at the sun. [I decided not to post a picture, because like I said, don't look at the sun]

What are *you* doing in the 100+ degree heat? [Assuming where you live, the weather is like that ;-)]

-Anna

*note : all but two of these pictures I found randomly on Google. I do not read any of the websites from which they came.

Falling?

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

Thoughts?

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}

Aaron and Elijah

facepalm

Facepalm is a colloquial term referring to the physical gesture of striking one's own face in a display of exasperation. It is similar in function to a sigh. In Internet discussions, the term is used as an expression of [...] disgust or general woe. (via Wikipedia)
See also: facedesk - The act of planting one's face into a desk at high speeds, usually due to frustration. (via urbandictionary.com)

Olivia explains over here, what a facepalm is. And I thought a "Facepalm"

would be very appropriate, for the picture I'm about to post.

Operation Jelly Donuts

Well. I don't have much to explain in this post.. Other than.. The picture's explain everything. Except the title. The title means nothing. Its just to catch your eye. (If it does.) I mean, the title would be boring if I just said "Funny Pictures". Aaron put some of Abi's socks on the other day, and Abi didn't want him to wear her's. So I told him I had some really cool one's for him to wear. He was thrilled. Then of course Elijah wanted some, so I got some more out. And how did Micah get into some? Well.. I'm not exactly sure. He just ran out into the kitchen with them on. Doodad that he is ♥

Micah was laughing at the other boys while they made faces.
And I had to die over this picture.
So. Operation Jelly Donuts is complete.

-Anna