I'm Gonna Go Ahead and Say It...

Editor's Note: I moved this post to my other blog as I determined it was more appropriate to post my rant on Dugger-Family-Haters on that blog instead of here. Thanks! :)

In A Yellow House ~ Work & Play

The In A Yellow House Photo Challenges are still being hosted by Ashley over at Ramblings & Photos. I loved this challenge because it really did "challenge" me. I really had to think about this one. So what did I end up with? This:

It's the wall in my kitchen, right next to my fridge, where my daughters lovingly scrawled in crayon. They did this months ago... possibly a year ago! I love it for so many reasons. Creative, I thought, of them to use the wall for a canvas. Creative, I thought, of them to 'match' the abstracts I have hanging in our kitchen. (I hung all my old college paintings in our kitchen.) I love the childness of it, the use of colors on the bright green background, the fact that someone randomly & miraculously drew a cursive L towards the bottom (do you see that too?). Of course, we had to discipline them when it happened - but now it serves as a reminder to them that drawing on Mommy's wall is a "No-No". And they tell me that often! :)

So how does this tie into this week's theme?? Work & Play??

Work for Mommy*. Play for Kids.

(*Well, I guess it would be work if I ever tried cleaning it up!!*)

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TMMAPC ~ Pets!

It's my first time entering the "Two Moms Made A Photo Challenge" (TMMAPC) Photo Challenge! This week their theme is Pets! My picture is an oldie ~ I had to pull it out of the archives because it's just so cute! (Well, I think so!) Our twins just as they were starting to stand and hold up on stuff... with my in-laws 18 year old (not exaggerating!) yorkie - who also wears diapers.

Three in Diapers:

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the paper mama Photo Challenge ~ Excitement!

Photo Challenges are so fun and I really like the ones from Chelsey at the paper mama! This week the theme is Excitement! Here is my photo. Grandma & Grandpa surprised the girls with a playhouse ~ I knew ahead of time so I had my camera ready! :)

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Shoot~N~Tell Photo Challenge!! Free Week!!!

I started reading this blog only a few days ago, I'll admit! But I really enjoy it! AND the author, Natalie, has started doing photo challenges! I'm super excited!! The name of the challenge is "Shoot~N~Tell", so sort of like the old "Show and Tell" when we were kids.

I'm excited for two reasons: I love a good photo challenge AND this is the perfect opportunity to post a picture of my baby. She was born December 30, 2009 so she is eight months old now. I have only entered pictures of our twins so far in the other photo challenges I've entered. It only seemed fair (and appropriate for Shoot~N~Tell) to share pictures of my youngest. I was so excited I actually jumped out of my seat, grabbed my camera and took some pictures of her! Her big sisters are at school so we have free time to do these sort of things together. To be impulsive. Then when I went to upload them, I found some super cute shots of her from Tuesday. It was her big sisters' first day at school so we had taken "sister pictures" on our doorstep. I even snapped a few of my little ham all by herself. These are cuter than the ones I got just now anyways, so I decided to post the pics from Tuesday instead! Without further ado... my Shoot~N~Tell is My Baby.

I told you she was a ham.

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