Potions Day at Hogwarts

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Wordless Wednesday

Ok, I know that on "Wordless Wednesday" the point is to not have to spend any words describing the image, but this photo, I believe, warrants a bit of an explanation. In short I LOVE this image! I have been looking for over a year for an image that would capture my attention enough to replace a painting on the living room wall of the cabin. The painting is of horses running, and while I like horses, I don't care much for the painting, and have wanted to replace it since we bought the place. Anyway, every craft fair we go to, I search through the vendor stalls, seeking out that perfect image to put on the wall, and in this image, I think I may have found it.
Where, you ask?
The long story is that Ron and Kathy went with us to Hawaii, and they took some pictures on their camera. Normally all these photos stay ON the camera because they don't tend to do much with digital images. They used to go get their film developed and come home with a handful of prints, but they just have a hard time with taking in their digi card and doing the same thing. Usually I make a photo book for them, and normally just use my pictures because like I said, they don't do much with theirs... Anyway, I finally shamed Kathy into taking her digi card to Walmart and having them burn all of the files onto a disc, so she could then send me the disc, and I could use some of their photos from Hawaii in the photo book. I received the disc in the mail and it has all sorts of pictures on it. Photos of Hailey as an infant (she is almost 3) Photos from past vacations, all sorts of crazy things, including this image taken by Ron in Yellowstone. Gasp! To me it was like finding a needle in a haystack. Poof. There it is! The image has not been doctored or edited in any way whatsoever. The image file states this was taken March 13, 2011 at 8:53 p.m..... which makes me wonder about the date stamp being accurate, because this seems like an early morning mist to me, but that is beside the point. The point is, that yet again, I wonder about the way I process and use the images I take. Had I not shamed Kathy into giving me a disc of her images, this little ditty may have been lost forever, never to be seen by human eyes again. Which I think is a crying shame, because I think it is beautiful. So beautiful, that I'm going to put it on the wall.

Summer Bucket List 2012 sleep in, Harry Potter

So far the things we can cross off our Summer bucket list are:

Harry Potter Camp

Sleep in

Thanks to the folks at the Happy Family Movement for keeping us motivated!

Summer Bucket List 2012 day 3

Harry Potter Camp + Charlie's Ice Cream + S'mores + Cabin + Night games + Girl Scout camp + Bear Lake + summerfest + Glo sticks + Home made ice cream +  pool + County fair + Parade + theboy + Sleep in + Movie + Sidewalk chalk + marbles + Diet coke/mentos + Fireworks + Windcaves + Yellowstone + Play Sims for 12 hrs straight + See a play + Knit in the hammock

Summer Bucket List 2012 day2

Today's assignment from The Happy Family Movement was to find a way to display your bucket list in a prominent place. The idea is the constant visual reminder will encourage you to do the things you wrote down that you wanted to do. I found an old crayon bucket, dumped out the crayons, wrote my list on craft sticks and put it in the bucket. I then made a cute label, printed it off, and taped it on. I have extra craft sticks just in case JB decides she wants to participate. How are you keeping track of your list?

Summer Bucket List 2012 Day 1

Every year summer flies by and I wonder where it went. This year, summer will fly by, and I will have a photographic record of where it went by joining in on the Summer Bucket List Challenge offered by The Happy Family Movement. I heard about this challenge from the Nifty Natalie Norton, who challenged everyone to put their photos on instagram to document how much fun they had during the break from the drudgery of school life. I read about it and thought, what can it hurt? Between Bill heading out all over the country for months at a time, and JB actively denying she misses her best friend, our house has been fairly grumspy dumpsy lately, and by that I mean for at least the last year. When I told JB about this, and asked her what she wanted to do this summer, she rolled her eyes and said: (Words must be read in the most spiteful, I am better than you cuz your ideas suck, snotty, pre-teenager voice you can muster)
    "You can do whatever, but I'm not going to do it." and "What's the point, we only have 5 weeks of vacation anyway."
Right. So 5 weeks of sitting in the basement staring at the wall. Sounds great. I can hardly wait.
Well JB, in reality, your math skills are as good as your mother's because we have 11 weeks of vacation, and I'm not going to sit around the house watching you mope like the Dumpsy Diva. So, it looks like our family summer bucket list is going to be MY summer bucket list for the time being. Tonight I will make a list of the fun stuff I want to do, and maybe, just maybe, Jb will come along. If not, well, she'll miss one helluvah good time. So what are you gonna do this summer?

Wordless Wednesday