Monday, March 28, 2011

Slice of Life

I Heart Faces is having another contest - this one title "Slice of Life" - meant to be a picture that is not posed and just a part of life.

This picture is during Cayden's 6 month photo shoot - his Daddy showed up after work and Cayden was delighted to see him...  We have many posed shots that turned out but I love how this casual shot shows Cayden's love for his Daddy (and his Mommy adoration of him)!


Check out the contest here:



The Crew!

Dad's crew has been working at the farm for around 2 months now and I really enjoy seeing my brothers and dad regularly!  (and I think they really like the baking:) If I don't bring anything for a few days I hear comments like "some cinnamon buns would sure taste good hey, Chris?", "how about that apple cake last week... that sure hit the spot hey?!" .... so I try to spoil them regularly!

Anyhow they are here renovating the farm for robots!  Pretty soon there will be no more 2:30 am shifts for my wonderful hubby!!  They are down a few hands at the farm but it is pretty hard to find someone who just wants to work till May... so Ben has been working a lot lately and looks forward to the robots being here... (pretty soon we can say "next month"!!!)


Cathrine comes on Mondays to help me with my printing work... this was last Monday - one stroller and 2 babies so we doubled them up!  Cayden was really good about having his heavy cousin sitting on his knee! 

My big brother, Chris!  Don't want to get sappy on you but I love you! :)
[oh, he is embarrassed now!]

Derek and Cayden! 

"I can do it better than you Daddy! - but Opa does it best!"

  
Gord - enjoy the cinnamon buns? 
     Muscle brother Steve  - I love you too! 

Ron - he REALLY loves the baking - always wanting seconds!!


 It is a special day for this special uncle today!!  Happy 50th birthday Uncle John! We wish you a blessed year ahead of you and that all may go well! 

 I guess I better get on making some birthday cake :)

Last week Tuesday Taycin came to see her Daddy too (and I was babysitting Cayden) so we had the 3 cousins together! 
 
I LOVE this picture of Taycin :)  Such a sweetheart!
And our little boofie... she LOVES animals!  She sticks her hands out for the calf to suck on and then starts giggling!  The joy of being able to raise her on a farm... 

And for the record - she has two more teeth (after much hard work I must say!) - So her 2 tooth grin, that mommy loves, is short lived...

Monday, March 21, 2011

SPRING! ... It's here!

Spring has really arrived!  The other day I was having one of those days where you feel like you are not accomplishing anything and you don't feel very good about it - so I dressed Ranen in her outdoor gear and headed out on a walk armed with my camera!  There is so much beauty in new life...

We sure enjoyed our walk and both came home looking like this!

And then to top it off Daddy spoiled us on Saturday with a family bike ride!  It was so beautiful out - like we are talking plus 15 and sunny!! (today we are back to cloud cover...)

Hope you had as good a weekend as us! xo

Monday, March 14, 2011

I Heart Faces

So, I heart faces is the site that I wanted to enter some contests on...  We`ll see how it goes!  This contest is based on sun flare so I have chosen to enter this picture...
My sweet niece, Taycin!

I Heart Faces - Photo Challenges & Photography Tutorials

Friday, March 11, 2011

Comments

I figured it out...  A few people had said they tried to comment but could not - now you should be able to!

Just select Anonymous and then write your comment (and write your name under the comment!)  This should work :)

Gotta run and bring this out to the farm!

Ben has been keeping rather busy at the farm and my Dad, Chris and Steve (as well as the rest of the crew) are renovating at the farm for the new robot milkers that should be operating in May... And they LOVE it when I show up at lunch time...

Have a good day! ... the rain is apparently coming!

Just one picture of our little boofie!

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Happy Birthday Dad!

My wonderful dad turns 49 today....

He is a man we truly admire - a man who has taught us the value of family time, love, dedication, attention and so much more! 
A few more pictures...
And now with his grandchildren he shows so much love (and a little pride!)...

We love you Dad!  And wish you all the best today!

xo

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

... A Start!

I have been thinking about this for a while...  and finally I have done it!  Seeing I have a difficult time writing emails/faxes/letters/etc to anyone I decided I would start a blog to keep everyone updated!  I've decided to title the blog Treasuring Our Moments... 

There are a few reasons I decided to blog:
1)  Quite a few family members live in distant places (like Rosedale and the like:) ) so we want to keep you updated!
2)  There is this crazy photography site that puts on contests that I really want to enter and I need to have a blog in order to do that!!
3)  I really want to share some of my photography and get some feedback....
4)  I need something to do in my 'spare' time (which I have SO, so much of!! - or in other words - I don't want to fold my laundry which has been hanging on the rack for 4 days!)

Anyhow here are a few recent pictures of Ranen's favorite activities:

When I came in from hanging my laundry (another story in itself)... my girl attacking my printer!

Pulling faces in the mirror!

Watching Daddy spread manure...

Daddy just drove by...  Ranen sure is a daddy's girl!

Gardening with mom...

Going for walks... and seeing the horses!

The laundry:  (trying to save energy around here but apparently the dryer will need to run twice as long now!)

Will end with a few snapshots that show a glimmer of spring!

Don't know how often I will get to blogging but I hope at least once a week...  (we'll see how this goes!)