Guess what? I Heart Faces is having a special Pets category this week, and I just happened to spend the day with a couple of cute dogs (and their families). So I have a pet entry! I love puppies!
PS–the day was amazing! We saw trains, ran, walked, ate, played, and got thoroughly tired out.

The kitchen floor may need to be scrubbed.The ceiling fans may need to be dusted.The bathtub may need to be scoured.The mirrors may need to be wiped.The carpet may need to be vacuumed.The laundry may need to be folded.
But AJ needs to go to the park, and I need to relax.So I am tackling something that MAY just be more important today.

But, if I DO decide to do some cleaning I’ve got some GREAT eco-friendly cleaners, and I’m giving a $25 giftcard to the Eco-Store so that YOU can have …

I promised you a peek into my crazy life, and the exciting things going on in our house right now. I honestly feel like I had more news, but right now this is all I can think of. Hmmm….Maybe the stresses are once again overshadowing the good things.
* On Friday, I posted my 500th post here (that doesn’t count all of the posts on my other blogs) and I decided to celebrate with a week full of giveaways. On Mondays, I typically post some new recipes, so I decided …

This week’s theme at I Heart Faces was a little harder than usual for me to narrow down. I feel like I SEE pouts all the time, but they aren’t as easy for me to capture with my camera. Maybe that’s because a pouty child usually avoids the camera at all costs, hiding their face, holding their hands up in front of the lens, yelling, sticking their tongue out, etc. So I suppose I should consider myself lucky to have caught this all-too-common pout on “film,” right?
This is AJ, picking …

Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live.~Mahatma Ghandi

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.~Bill Watterson
Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.~Ralph Marston
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.~Margaret Fairless Barber
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate …

I just thought I’d pop in and say howdy. It’s been another busy day.
Come to find out, my last post, In The News, was in fact my 500th post. Strange that it jumped from 498 to 500….but oh well. Whatever! For those of you who have asked, you can check the number of posts you have written under your dashboard (up in the top right hand corner). How many posts have YOU written?
To celebrate my 500th post, I am going to be doing a giveaway a day starting on Monday!! …

#1: So, for those of you who didn’t catch my morning’s post, I drove down to my sister’s house spontaneously this morning to be interviewed by the Washington DC ABC News team about my (our) experience yesterday trying to get tickets for the White House Easter Egg Roll. While my sister and I were on the phone this morning, ABC called her regarding a Craigslist post that she had put up with an offer to trade a professional photo shoot for Easter Egg Roll tickets. They are doing a piece …

BIG NEWS: I had a lot of things planned for today….BIG things! This is my 498th post…so my 500th post is SO close! There are SO many exciting things I have to share with you guys. BUT, I am going to be gone all day at my sister’s house where we are going to be INTERVIEWED on TV about our failed efforts to secure tickets to the White House Easter Egg Roll yesterday. We both spent about 12 hours each refreshing and refreshing til our fingers hurt. With no luck. …

Last week, I started a series of posts about how to pose people in your photos. Whether you are taking pictures of one person or a large group, you can get more pleasing results if you keep a few posing secrets in mind. Today we’ll focus on the shoulders and head.
Tip #1: Angle your subject’s shoulders slightly rather than having them even or squared in the frame, especially when you are taking close-ups (from the chest, up). In general, when you angle the shoulders, you give your shot balance and …

Today’s I Heart Faces Fix-It is this cute little blonde haired, blue eyed girl:
Here are my edits, using Lightroom presets and a little exposure tweeking: