Sun Flare Fun

"Sun Flare" Photo Challenge
This weeks theme at I Heart Faces is Sun Flare, so I couldn't think of anything better than this beautiful picture of Kalyn.

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The theme this week at I Heart Faces is Contemtplative: thoughtful observation; full or deep consideration; dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood; expressing or revealing thoughtfulness;

I love this picture of my sweet friend out in the field by our house.
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The theme this week at I Heart Faces is Crazy, Funny, Silly Faces. Well, I just could not resist this one of Caresse from a few weeks back. I was playing with light and back ground, not really caring about the faces she was making. So she was just messing around and did her famous Pye-Pye face. When I uploaded it and saw the face, I just loved it because it is so fun.

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I Love Faces

The fun theme this week at I Love Faces is Beach. I couldn't resist this fun picture of my brother with Landon. The whole family helped build the sand Ford, but my brother is an engineer and very creative, so it really was his design. After they finished I told Kim to pull his truck up behind the sand truck, and there you have it...this fun picture that I call "what a little truck wants to be when it grows up."

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This week at I Love Faces, the theme is feet. What a fun idea and I have several perfect pictures, but I had to choose my favorite, so here it is....
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This weeks theme at I Love Faces is so fun!!! It is "Lets Hear It For The Boys!"

For my Adult Entry: I chose this picture of two precious young men in Uganda. Their names are Kenny and Tonny. They became "sons" to me while we were in Africa. This picture shows their extremely loving hearts. We were visiting an orphanage and Kenny and Tonny played with and held the little ones the whole time we were there.

For my Kid Entry: How could I pass up my Garett playing near a stream!!

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This week’s theme at I Love Faces is: "My Favorite Face Photo" for the "Blurb Photo Book” Contest.

I am entering this one in the amateur catagory. I just love the feel of this photo with Caresse "set apart" from the background, yet the color of the back ground "sets off" Caresse.

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"I am submitting this photo into the http://www.iheartfaces.com/ Blurb Book photo contest. I am granting I ♥ Faces permission to use my photo in a printed version of a book for commercial use and possibly advertising of a photo book on both the Blurb and I ♥ Faces web sites."

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This week at I Love Faces, the photo challenge is "Laughter"For my kid entry: here is my precious Joeliana...I was tickling her and got this cute picture with my little Canon PowerShot. I love the look in her eyes. Here is my Adult entry: my husband laughs so easily, especially at his children, as he was here.Be sure to visit the other wonderful pictures at I Love Faces and play the fun photo game with us!

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What fun this week at I Love Faces...the theme is Hats.

For my Adult Entry...I love this one of my husband in his favorite place...beautiful Colorado!

And for my Kid Entry...what can you say, little baby girls on a beach and with a precious hat...it just doesn't get any better! This is Kiana when she was a baby...I miss that baby!Visit I Love Faces to see the other wonderful photo's and to play along!

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The picture theme this week at I Love Faces is "reflection".
We have a beautiful greenbelt near our home. We love to visit it to hear the birds and enjoy beautiful nature!
I liked this of the children...the wind turned icy and it began to blow really bad right after this picture (which was taken YESTERDAY - yes, in April!!!!) Boy did we run back to the car.


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Theme: "Self-Portrait"
"For both categories, you must take the photo and you must be holding the camera when you take it (you can’t use a tripod or anything else to hold the camera for you.)" So, you can see from the rules, we were suppose to take pictures of ourselves alone and with our children.

WOW. This was hard and I do not like taking pictures of me OR sewing! None the less, in the name of learning...Here are my entries...

For my kid entry....I couldn't even get all my children in the picture, which was fine, because the other 3 were sleeping for nap time.

For my adult entry....
my favorite place in the world...my home!

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This week at I Love Faces, the themes are Easter/Spring and Amateurs.


For my Easter/Spring entry:
I chose this picture of my sweet friend. I had on purpose place the flowers in front of her and liked the way she seems "lost" in her thoughts and in the flowers.






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The theme this week is friends...what fun!

For my kid entry:

This is my sweet friend with our daughter, Alia. I love the contrast of their eyes!

For my adult entry:

These are my sweet friends and they truly are each other's best friend!!

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The theme this week at I Love Faces is Pouting (kids), and any thing goes (pets).

My kids entry: Poor little Aiden's hands had gotten really cold before I could get gloves on and wrap him up. Finally settled in the sled, he looked at me with tears in his eyes and said "tankoo Mommy".

My pet entry: Steve, Kalyn and I ran out in the freezing snow so that I could get a picture of Bluez. He was really unhappy, so Kalyn picked him up to warm him for a second and he immediately crawling onto her back and began barking at the neighbor dogs. So here is our "fierce" dog!
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I Love Faces - No Flash

At I Love Faces the theme this week is - No Flash

For my adult entry: I took this picture of my mom outside as we were all flying kites and having so much fun. I was determined to not use a flash even though the sun was going, going, gone. There were so many quick motions and I liked the way everything actually blurred except moms excited face.

For my kid entry: we were sitting on our window box in the school room, and Corban came over and lay down on my leg and looked up at me with those beautiful, brown eyes of his. Who could resist that!
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I Love Faces - Green

I had an amazing weekend and hope to write more later, for now ...
here is my picture for this weeks theme at I Love Faces - Green
For the kid entry - I thought this was fun...she looks like an Irish forest nymph.

I Love Faces - Creative Crop

FIRST of all, thank you my sweet friends for leaving your encouraging and precious comments on the hair failure post. Ya'll are wonderful!!!

Here are my pictures for this weeks theme at I Love Faces - Creative Crop

I prefer to use creative cropping in my camera instead of in post precessing if at all possible. There are just so many more options to crop a picture the way I want it and in a way that the environment around the subject is complementing the crop...so

For my kid entry: I used creative cropping for this picture of Kiana because I wanted to show her beautiful long hair. I like how it all came together.

For my adult entry: I used creative cropping for this picture of my husband because I wanted to get the setting sun light in the picture also. And since he is the father of 10, he is looking down quiet a bit...he was talking to Kiana who was patiently sitting and waiting for me.
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I Love Faces - Messy

This week at I Love Faces the theme is - Messy...

For my kid entry: OF COURSE....a baby with food on his face (ha-ha)...still I couldn't resist...Aiden was having so much fun!

And for my adult entry: Dad cleaning fish at the Texas Coast.

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I Love Faces - Black & White

This week at I Love Faces the theme is - Black & White.....

For my adult entry: I love this picture of my dad at the beach...just watching and enjoying his family playing together.


For my kid entry: I had just received my new daughter in Africa...this picture always captures the emotions of so many orphans...scared, hungry, sick ...

Don't worry, she looks like this now..

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I Love Faces - Wonder

This week at I Heart Faces the theme is - WONDER.

For my adult entry: I love this picture because I don't think I will EVER get over the wonder of a baby!

For my kid entry: Oh, the wonder of a baby and a beach!


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