31/365 Something Missing

Hmmm wonder what it could be? lol Well our sink broke the other day underneath and rather than replace just the pipes I decided to replace the whole sink because the old one had a lot of little cracks in it. My dad is coming over today to install the new sink and I thought I would help out by getting the old sink out (I like to surprise him - even though he hates when I touch plumbing!) I'm really good at dismantling things but not so good about putting things together!

30/365 The games we play

I am a rehab director in a nursing home and today I was passing the great room to see about 5 residents playing the Wii. I smiled to myself thinking that not 6 months ago none of them knew what to do, and here they were bowling better than me! Then I ran out to my car to get my little point and shoot so I could share this with all of you! Many of the residents get around with assistance like this lady here in her power wheelchair. I love that they have embraced this technology and that at any age we can love to play games!

29/365 Healthy (make your own #2)

Well this isn't really ONE photograph (and I know it's a scrapbook and not a photo) but a collage of sorts from the last 7 months. I've been on weight watchers and I needed to see for myself the changes that I've been going through so I made this scrapbook page. These are photos that I never want to take again so I'm posting them here so I'll remember where I was and that I can achieve a goal and that I am a stronger healthier person for doing so. To date I've lost 33 pounds, my goal is 14 more.

28/365 Navigational Aids

Ok so maybe not the most accurate but how cute was this?? Adam, my 6 year old, drew us a map to get into the city the other night. So now all of you can get to the city from my house! You just pass the church then the field with the stones all in it (later to find out he means cemetary), go through the tunnel, under the brown water and then you are in the city! Easy as that. I kinda cheated as I used this photo for the photo challenge this week in the contests/challenge posts (shhhh..don't tell anyone!)

27/365 Eyes

I love taking pictures of Sean his face is so expressive and he does not pose for the shots. I try and catch him when he isn't looking and it always amazes me the reactions I get. We went for dinner the other night and I just took this while we were waiting for our food...I LOVE his eyes and I LOVE his ears (ok he will hate them when he is older but for now - how cute are they??) Anyway I was just very pleased with the way his eyes just stood out on this shot - so here they are my babies blue eyes.

26/365 Corner

Yep..this is MY corner. After 8 years in this house I finally took a corner of our basement over for myself. I moved a refrigerator out of the way (by myself!) - put together the desk (on my own) and got everything to where I was finally happy! Then a month later we were hit with an unexpected obscene amount of rain and we got about 9 inches of water in our basement and lost a LOT of stuff - most of our furniture, our doors, most of the kids toys and alas my scrapbooking area :( It took us a year to remodel we put in new carpet, walls, french drains, and painting - lots of painting! I even learned how to install floor moldings. The kids, however, are still afraid to keep their toys down here. So here it is my corner just the way I like it. I recently moved my wide format printer within reach to my desk so I can print from my laptop and I am happy again :)

25/365 Advertisement

We went into NYC yesterday to take the boys to see the Lion King. I was prepared to take many great shots of the city, but not prepared for how cold it was!! We were rushing a bit so I didn't get the shots that I wanted, anyway...in looking through my pictures I kept going back to this shot of Times Square. It is amazing how many ads are on buildings, cars, bus stops, everywhere! This is the first year that they are keeping the New Year's eve ball up you can see it just slightly.